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If
You Thought the Left Behind Series
Told the Real End-Times Story, Think Again!
We’re fascinated with the end-times.
But have millions of us got it all wrong?
Tim LaHaye Response to "The Apocalypse Code"
In his latest book, The Apocalypse Code: Find Out What the Bible Really
Says About the End-Times (Thomas Nelson - Apri1 10, 2007), leading
Christian apologist, and national radio host popularly known as “The Bible
Answer Man”, Hank Hanegraaff says that many
evangelicals do have it wrong.
Take for example, Tim LaHaye co-author of the mega bestselling Left Behind
series. He believes that the good news is that on the
basis of race, Jews have a divine right to the land of Palestine. He
believes that the bad news is, that as a direct result of the crucifixion of
Christ, twenty-first century Jews will soon die in an Armageddon that will make
the Nazi Holocaust pale in comparison. In his book, The Beginnings of
the End, LaHaye writes “The deep significance
of the 1967 Six-Day War is seen in the prospect that at long last Israel can
rebuild its temple. This is not just a national yearning -- but a
prophetic requirement of God’s Word.” LaHaye goes on to underscore
what he considers to be the major dilemma: “The
Muslims’ multimillion-dollar Dome of the Rock is located on the spot where the
temple should be.”
According to Hanegraaff, such inflammatory rhetoric
raises a host of troubling questions, such as:
· Has God indeed given Jerusalem exclusively to the Jews?
· Is ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Jerusalem a biblical axiom and a two-state solution a blasphemous abomination?
· Does the Bible indeed mandate a rebuilt temple on the exact piece of land on which the sacred mosque of the Muslims has stood for centuries?
In The Apocalypse Code, Hanegraaff
answers these questions and more.
Hanegraaff believes that millions of evangelicals
have unwittingly bought into end-time models popularized by Christian Zionists.
Far from offering up another end-time model, The Apocalypse Code
is focused on providing the reader with a proper method for reading the
Bible for all its worth. “In the final analysis,” says Hanegraaff,
“my purpose is not to entice you to embrace a particular model of eschatology,
but to employ a proper method of biblical interpretation.”
After reading this page-turning—yet thought-provoking—book, you’ll
be equipped to interpret the Bible and end-times prophecies using Hanegraaff’s memorable L-I-G-H-T-S acronym:
· Literal Principle – reading the Bible as literature rather than literalistically
· Illumination Principle – exposing the deadly error of pre-trib rapturism
· Grammatical Principle – engaging your “baloney detector”
· Historical Principle – is Scripture written to us, or for us?
· Typology Principle – is land the focus of the Lord, or the Lord the locus of the land?
· Scriptural Synergy – when Scripture is not interpreted in light of Scripture, truth is Left
Behind
Discover why Lee Strobel, author of The Case
for the Real Jesus, calls The Apocalypse Code “provocative and
passionate…a must read.” See why Professor Paul Maier at Western Michigan
University says, “I cannot recommend this book highly enough.”
Hanegraaff not only reveals the code to Revelation, but offers sane answers to some very controversial
questions:
· Are two-thirds of all Jews really headed for an apocalyptic holocaust?
· Whose land is Palestine? Who does the city of Jerusalem belong to?
· Should we worry about an anti-Christ or Mark of the Beast?
· What is the real meaning of 666?
· Why the Rapture and the Tribulation will not be as portrayed by Left Behind.
· Does Christian Zionism foster racism and anti-Semitism?
Just as evangelicalism now universally repudiates the
once-common appeal to Genesis 9:27 in support of slavery of blacks, we must
thoroughly and finally put to rest any thought that the Bible supports the
horrors of racial discrimination wherever, and in whatever form we encounter
it—whether within the borders of the United States or in the hallowed regions
of the Middle East.
“As you read The Apocalypse Code,” says Hanegraaff,
“you may well discover that you hold the key to the problem of terrorism in one
hand and the fuse of Armageddon in the other.”