Facing the Future (Left Behind: The Kids #4)
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Facing the Future (Left Behind: The Kids #4)

Mass Market Paperback – July 1, 1998

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$5.99
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-0842321969
Dimensions
4.1 x 0.6 x 7 inches
Weight
3.21 ounces

Description

Our four teen heroes--Judd, Vicki, Lionel, and Ryan--are still spooked after the amazing events of The Vanishings (the first book in the Left Behind: The Kids series), when Christ called back millions of his faithful in the blink of an eye, leaving these kids who hadn't accepted Jesus as "instant orphans." Facing the Future continues the cliff-hanging ending of the third book, Through the Flames , where the kids successfully pull off a sting on the man who murdered Lionel's uncle and convert countless others to life with Christ. But they soon realize they have even more to worry about: Bruce thinks he's fingered the great deceiver, the Antichrist, a man named Nicolae Carpathia. The Left Behind kids break out their Bibles to form the Kids Tribulation Force, while Bruce outlines why Carpathia has taken over the instrument of all future evil, the United Nations, and a secret meeting with an eyewitness to evil confirms the kids' worst fears. The Evangelical Christian science fiction series Left Behind: The Kids is a youth-oriented story line based on Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye's bestselling Left Behind . (Ages 9 to 12) --Paul Hughes Since the Rapture. Bruce Barnes has been teaching Judd, Vicki, Lionel, and Ryan about the coming events during the Tribulation. They are sure Christ will return for them, but one question remains: Who is the Antichrist? Bruce thinks he knows. The kids aren't so sure. Until a man who has met the Antichrist shares his nightmarish story. In this new series based on the best-selling book Left Behind. Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye present the Rapture and Tribulation through the eyes of four young friends -- Judd, Vicki, Lionel, and Ryan. As the world falls in around them, they band together to find faith and fight the evil forces that threaten their lives. Jerry B. Jenkins , former Vice President for Publishing and currently Writer-at-Large for the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, is the author of more than 150 books, including the best-selling Left Behind series. Sixteen of his books have reached the New York Times best-seller list (seven in the number one spot) and have also appeared on the USA Today, Publisher's Weekly and Wall Street Journal best-seller lists. Tim LaHaye is an internationally known author, teacher, and expert on Bible prophecy. He is married to Beverly, who is the founder of the largest women's organization in America, Concerned Women for America. The LaHayes live in southern California. Read more

Features & Highlights

  • This series is based on the best-selling adult Left Behind series. Readers will see the Rapture and Tribulation through the eyes of four kids who have been left behind.

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In the shadow of Antichrist

"Facing the Future," by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye, is volume #4 in their "Left Behind: The Kids" series of short novels aimed at young adults. This book, like the previous ones in the series, represents an attempt to turn the apocalyptic beliefs of Christian fundamentalists into fiction. Unfortunately, the result reads like a too obvious evangelical tract.
The book focuses on four kids and their pastor who are living during the "Tribulation," a period after all fundamentalist Christians have been mysteriously taken off the earth. As this volume in the series unfolds, suspicion grows that United Nations leader Nicolae Carpathia is in fact the Antichrist: the prophesied evil one.
Much of this book is unbearably corny, and it even reads at times like a parody of religious fiction. One of the more ridiculous scenes involves a character using a flip chart to explain the biblical Book of Revelations to his followers. The book has a creepy, intolerant tone to it; various non-Christian philosophical paths, for example, are trivialized.
"Facing the Future" is a failure as a work of literary art. And in my case, it also failed as an evangelical tract. But I think the book may have some merit as a window into a Christian fundamentalist worldview.
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Preparing for Battle

This fourth installment in the Left Behind-The Kids series is, in my opinion, the best in the series so far. In this fourth book, the four teens who are living in a post-Rapture world learn details of the coming holocaust of horrible judgments that will strike the planet, as prophecied in Scripture. They also discover who the Antichrist is at the very end of the book. Also at the end, the four teens realize their purpose in living as Christians in a post-Rapture world. They realize they must get the Truth of the Bible's salvation message to the world to as many people as possible before the end comes,when they learn that the world would come to its end in seven years.
Facing the Future picks up where book 3 left off. Judd and Vicki go to Chicago to witnes the arrest of a mass murderer, by whom they had almost been killed. After the arrest, Judd shares his Faith to a group of police officers. All the officers except one laugh it off. The young Homicide cop Archibald Edwards is interested. Later on in the book, good news and bad news come about. The kids witness to the wife of a police officer about the Gospel message and she become a Christian. Archibald Edwards, the cop who is somewhat interested in the Gospel message, is suddenly killed by the murderer LeRoy Banks when he attempts but fails a jailbreak attempt. This book seems to be trying to make a point, which is this: if you've heard the Gospel message, do not wait; do not put off coming to Christ because you may not have tomorrow to live. Do not risk your life and, more importantly, your afterlife by thinking you have all the time in the world, because you do not!
When the kids learn from Biblical prophesy that within the next seven years, the end of the world would come about through war, famine, pestilences, plagues, earthquakes, and cosmic disturbances, they realize their purpose for living as Christians in a world plunged into mass chaos. They also discover who the Antichrist is when a man who has encountered the Antichrist shares his nightmarish story . . .
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Facing The Future

The book I read is in the Left Behind series.It's by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.I read number four in the series. The protaganists are Judd,Vicki,Ryan,and Lionel. The book is Facing The Future. One night at 12:00 people disapeared from where they were all over the world there was mayhem.The best part was when the four kids became friends and then became the young tribulation force.
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Five Stars

love it!
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Four Stars

My daughter enjoyed this book
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set of 40

Trying to complete the set of 40 books so my children can read them all. I am also reading the adult series.

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