It's going to be better than we ever dreamed. 'The best is yet to come, and I can't wait to get into this marvelous experience. 'It's going to happen to some generation. In a separate interview, in 2007, LaHaye said he hoped the rapture would come during his lifetime. 1 He was a founder of the Council for National Policy, a Conservative. But if you look at the whole population, it's a blessed time,' he said. Timothy Francis LaHaye (Ap July 25, 2016) was an American Baptist evangelical Christian minister who wrote more than 85 books, both fiction and non-fiction, including the Left Behind series of apocalyptic fiction, which he co-authored with Jerry B. At the age of 18, in 1944 during WWII, he enlisted in the US Air Army Force, right after finishing high school. 'If you only look at the people who defy God, it's a negative time. Tim LaHaye was born as Timothy Francis LaHaye in 1926, in Detroit, Michigan. Nicholas Kristof suggested that in scenes showing the death of all non-Christians, the series celebrates ethnic cleansing 'as the height of piety.'īut LaHaye, in an interview with BeliefNet, described his vision of the rapture as 'a time of incredible mercy and grace.' Other critics have objected to what evangelical writer Tyler Wigg Stevenson called the 'macabre giddiness' of the books, which seem at times to revel in the doomsday suffering of the unsaved. The theological underpinnings of the books have been criticized by both evangelical and nonevangelical Christians. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Also see Left Behind: The Kids for the series aimed at young readers, as well as The Young Trib Force series, which combines the kids series and ties it to this one. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Left Behind Subtitle A Novel of the Earth's Last Days Author Tim F. Left Behind Series by Tim LaHaye Left Behind Series 13 primary works 21 total works This is the core series of Left Behind novels for adult readers.

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