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Where In The Bible Will I Find... The 'Left Behind' Books Are Scriptural?
Gary Colley |
The series of books entitled Left Behind is a publishing phenomenon with over 18,000,000 copies already sold. Though the books are correctly marketed as fiction, they are being used by dispensational premillennialists as a spring board to teach their false doctrines of premillennialism. These false teachers advocate a division of the history of the world into seven days of creation. The seventh era is supposed to parallel the 1,000 year reign of Christ on the earth over a literal kingdom over in Jerusalem. The sick superstition of thousands of gullible people has, no doubt, resulted in the large amount of sales. It seems more will read human books, than read the Bible where the Truth can be found (John 8:31-32). The Bible does not teach premillennialism — "dispensational" or otherwise. It does not teach "the rapture," "the great tribulation," "the Premillennial Antichrist," "the battle of Armageddon," etc. These are figments of men's imaginations, who will not correctly study the Bible (2 Tim. 2:15). It does not teach that planes and cars will suddenly be without pilots and drivers, who have left behind "pacemakers, hearing aids, and even fillings out of their teeth." It does teach that all shall be raised at the second coming of Jesus Christ, but not the third (Heb. 9:27-28, Acts 1:11, Jn. 5:28-29). The Bible does not teach a "silent" second coming of the Lord to "rapture His people," but a very noisy second coming of the Lord (I Thess. 4:13-18). It is sad that people will take advantage of men's superstition and ignorance to publish and sell such a book as Left Behind. Many of these types of books have been published in the past, such as Hal Lindsey's book, The Late Great Planet Earth. He predicted the time of the Lord's return, but proved to be a false teacher and false prognosticator. No man knows the day and hour of the Lord's second coming (Matt. 24:36, 42, 44, 50), but "every eye shall see him" (Rev. 1:7). It is bad for men to guess about that which they cannot know, and it is bad for the poor folks who let these false teachers lead them into the destruction of hell. Jesus warned of these deceivers (Matthew 15:13-14). |