The doctrine is shared by modern sects such as Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Plymouth Brethren. The books’ premillennialist premise, based on a doctrine originally propounded by the 19th-century English preacher John Nelson Darby from his literalist reading of the Book of Revelation, is the imminent coming of the Last Days, in which the saved elect are taken safely up to heaven while the forces of evil battle for seven years over control of the Earth until the triumph of the returning Christ at the Battle of Armageddon and the institution of a 1,000-year reign of peace and harmony.
In 2002 a poll found 62% of Americans believing in the imminent physical return of Jesus Christ to Earth. The books, with their gloomy vision of the Saved and Unsaved, benefited from the shock to the American psyche caused by the attacks of 9/11 – the ninth in the series came out a month later – and undoubtedly struck a chord with fearful and credulous readers. The Left Behind series, which came out annually between 19, sold at least 70m copies and at the height of its popularity brought its authors $15m (£11m) a year. He was also a significant figure in the foundation of the religious right as a political force in the US, through the creation of organisations such as the Moral Majority in the early 1980s. For the latest secret uncovered by Michael Murphy accelerates the countdown to the time of the end for all mankind.The American Baptist fundamentalist Tim LaHaye, who has died aged 90, was not swept up to heaven in the Rapture, as predicted in the 15 books of the Left Behind series that he co-authored, but he will have had the satisfaction of knowing that they are among the most widely read and profitable works of populist supposed-theology of the last 20 years. His latest discovery is his most amazing-but it will send him hurtling from a life of excavation and revelations to a confrontation with the forces of the greatest evil. Murphy is a field archaeologist who defies danger to fearlessly hunt down and authenticate ancient artifacts from Biblical times. Michael Murphy is a scholar of Biblical prophecy, but not the sedate and tweedy kind. The novels in this new series are even faster-paced thrillers based on prophecies that are not covered in the Left Behind books and that have great relevance to the events of today.īabylon Rising introduces a terrific new hero for our time. Now Tim LaHaye has created a new series that begins with Babylon Rising.
Those novels, with more that 50 million copies sold, presented a unique combination of suspense and substance drawn from his lifelong study of Biblical prophecy. Tim LaHaye created the Left Behind Series, which has become one of the most popular fiction series of all time.
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