Live Life Team
For anyone who has read the famed Left Behind series of books (some 15 of them in all) by Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye, they will be very familiar with the predictions contained in bible prophecy for what the end times will look like. Chief among them is that supposedly God will return to Earth for his believers and will “rapture” them to join him in the heavens. Left Behind is the story of this event, played out with enough fictional and plot details to keep it interesting even for one with no knowledge or belief in prophecy whatsoever.
Left Behind is the story of high flying commercial pilot Ray Steele – a man who never needed to depend upon anyone but himself. It is the story of Buck Williams, too, who is an award winning reporter for a large news weekly – one of the youngest (albeit cockiest) to ever hold such a prestigious job. These are two men who would have never had the time of day for each other. Their world’s were so apart. But when over 100 million people vanish from the face of the Earth, their world’s remarkably collide and they become fast-friends and eventually Christian brothers in search of the truth.
The fact of the matter is that they are both still here on the Earth, while all these others are gone, and they must now find out why – and even more importantly what happened to those other people.
This is a well-told story and while admittedly it is told from a Christian perspective, it is the kind of story that would make us all wonder – what would we do if one day people disappeared from right before our eyes, and we were left here only to wonder why.
