Glorious Appearing

Glorious Appearing
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Glorious Appearing: The End of Days (Left Behind #12)

Description of Glorious Appearing:

Thousands of years of human history stained by strife, death, and sin come to an end when the King of Glory returns to earth. The satisfying conclusion of the seven years of Tribulation covered by the Left Behind series portrays the return of Jesus Christ to earth in both glory and judgment. At the height of the battle between the forces of evil gathered at Armageddon and the remaining Christian believers at Petra and Jerusalem, nothing seems to be able to stop the Antichrist, Nicolae Carpathia. But God has another plan.

Information on Glorious Appearing from the publisher:

The Antichrist has assembled the armies of the world in the Valley of Megiddo for what he believes will be his ultimate triumph of the ages. With a victory here he would ascend to the throne of God. The Tribulation Force has migrated to the Middle East, most ensconced at Petra with the Jewish Remnant, now more than a million strong. But only one of the four original members of the Force remains alive, and he is near death. Jerusalem is falling to the Global Community's Unity Army, and Tsion ben-Judah has been slain. Few in Petra know of his loss, and both Rayford Steele and Buck Williams are unaccounted for. It's been just over seven years since the Rapture and almost exactly seven years since Antichrist's covenant with Israel. Believers look to the heavens for the Glorious Appearing of Christ, as the world stands on the brink of the end of time.

Description of Tim F. Lahaye, author of Glorious Appearing:

Fast-paced, intense, sometimes cataclysmic events and scenes fill the pages of this ultimate installment of the Left Behind series. This twelfth volume brings the surviving members of the 'Tribulation Force' together one last time in their seven-year struggle against the Antichrist, the False Prophet and, ultimately, Satan.In this, the grandest fictionalization of one man's version of the end times, Tim LaHaye lays the biblical groundwork for the return of Christ and the summary elimination of the evil forces in the last days before the Millennium. Jerry Jenkins deftly brings characters and stories (that readers have followed for a decade) to the end of their battle, having "run...the race" (Hebrews 12:1) to its conclusion. Indeed, much of biblical prophecy is quoted and discussed in these pages, and many difficult eschatological topics are addressed scripturally. Even non-fans will be intrigued at the revelations of scripture, as finally experienced by the characters of the series.While the finality of the series is not as unifyingly singular as C.S. Lewis' The Last Battle (from the classic Narnia series), the authors instead concentrate on the interplay between the friends and family of Rayford Steele as they all come to terms with the reality of victorious existence with a risen and now returned Savior. A fitting way to finalize the journey of both dramatis personae and readers alike.SMM 3/30/4