Are You Rapture Ready?: Signs, Prophecies, Warnings, and Suspicions that the Endtime Is Now | 
 enlarge | Authors: Todd Strandberg, Terry James
Publisher: Dutton Adult
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Product Description
In this essential handbook based on the phenomenally popular Web site, two leading authorities on the prophesied Rapture tell readers how to get ready for the last days on earth.
Where will you be when the great disappearance comes?
In the last few years, the term "Rapture" has become an integral part of our national consciousness, fascinating everyone from businessmen and political leaders to media personalities and cultural icons to true believers. Now a noted writer on prophecy, together with the creator of RaptureReady.com (with over 300,000 visitors a month), share invaluable advice on how to prepare for a future that might strike at any moment.
The analyses, insights, and predictions contained in this indispensable self-help guide date back to the foretelling that began with Nostradamus and the cautionary teachings of the Bible. Framing these prophecies around recent world issues and events, the authors share revelations that include:
* What Rapture is-and how it will greatly impact your life
* How to read the "Rapture Meter"
* Why it's so important for everybody to look busy when Jesus arrives
* The true nature of the "666 Beast"
...and much more
This is the book that powerfully links prophetic facts found in the Bible to the fictional accounts presented in the amazingly popular "Left Behind" novels.
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 What the heck is this crapola? March 12, 2007
Ok, maybe i won't manage to be as funny and original as some of the people that critiqued this book before me but let me tell you this: the rapture is about the biggest slice of balony there is.
People floating up to heaven when the end times come, saved by the Lord while everybody left behind will fry....what a crock!
I think there is some mental illness going on here.
:( The Rapture Rap September 28, 2006
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Back in the late 70s my sister became a born again Christian and told us the "good news"...accept Jesus or we're gonna fry in hell...now up until that point, I really didn't think Jesus had it in for me. I thought we were buddies, but this kind of changed the relationship. Whereas before I thought he was cool, now I was beginning to think he was a little bit controlling. Now I had to believe in him. And y'know what? I got just a little resentful and a little bit rebellious. I mean, if I'm gonna be labeled as bad and as a sinner, I want to do some things to back it up.
This idea that I was constantly displeasing God, that I was constantly being tested, that the end times were always just right around the corner really soured my relationship I had with God and by the time I was 19, I really wanted nothing to do with God so I became a born again atheist...at least for a little while.
And what I realized during that little stint, is that God is Real...more Real than anything else because God is Love and Love is God and Love only knows Reality and True Reality cannot be upset or crippled or thwarted because it is the only thing that is Real. So, no, there is nothing I can do that is going to merit punishment in an afterlife. God created me out of Itself. God loves me as much as God loves Jesus because God created me out of the very same stuff that God created Jesus out of. The only difference between Jesus and the rest of us, is that Jesus knew his Oneness with God, most of us, however, have forgotten.
And it's easy to forget with books like this because these books, these religions, these preachers don't believe in Love as much as they believe in fear, they believe in hell more than Heaven, they believe in sin more than they believe in redemption and y'know why boys and girls? Fear sells. Fear keeps the money rollin' in...fear keeps the parking lots of these fundie churches packed...and it is SAD and DISGRACEFUL...that means, without Grace and I think that God is always Gracing us, always embracing us, always making all things new but how can we let the new in when we're focused on sin, on guilt, on fear?
Jesus the Christ embodied Love. I believe in his simple and eloquent teachings. The stuff that was taught after he left the Earth plane was taught by a guy interested mostly in making a name for himself. Is this what we have come to? People have been predicting the end of the world since the beginning of the world and there will be an end of the world as we know it now and Christ will return to Earth, not outside of ourselves, but within each one of our hearts. We will see everything and every one through Love, through compassion, through the simple and gentle knowing that what we do to others we do to ourselves and what we do to ourselves we do to God because everything is One. There is no sin, but a mistake, and all sin is simply an error thinking and feeling and acting as if you're separate from God and we never are.
Come out of your fear induced nightmare and come to Love...come to God...come to the realization that Heaven is now and stop buying into fear and stop buying books that promote fear. The only reason why I even read this book was because my friend thought I might find it interesting. I found it very, very sad. Jesus came to this life to remind us to live this life abundantly well, to love one another, to remember God in every situation.
At least I have found a good use for this book, however, the thickness of this book is just right to hold up the leg of this coffee table I found at a garage sale. I can use this book until I get a new caster.
Peace and Blessings, everyone and may you allow your thinking to become Love based and God centered.
What if it isn't a convenient time to Rapture? February 22, 2006
3 out of 15 found this review helpful
This book fails to answer a basic question many Christians have: what if it isn't a convenient time to Rapture? For example, everytime I sit on the toilet, I say "Please, God, don't take me now! I've been constipated 6 days, and here on the 7th I'm about to lose 10 pounds, so don't take me flying until I'm done". Other people ask about what happens if the Rapture occurs while they are having "marital interactions" (there is no sin in the marital bed). I can't picture my wife and me floating up to heaven naked and intertwined like pretzyls! I think the book should have given us more tips on how to be ready for Rapture, and whether God will make allowances for sitting on the pot or on our wife's face! We do keep rain coats and umbrellas in all rooms and in the car, in case we are Raptured during a winter storm.
 WONDERFUL, INFORMATIVE, ACCURATE July 18, 2005
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This was a wonderful book! A must read for all ages. Very informative and, after intensive studies on this subject, accurate.
Why wait? November 30, 2003
8 out of 45 found this review helpful
The notion of a rapture is one of a few outraqeous fantasies which seem to resurface every so often throughout history. Funny how "prophecy" can only be applied to postdiction and never to prediction. I can at least respect the naked profit motive behind the Left Behind series. The writing in this book suggest the authors lack the intelligence to possess such ambition. But if you truly believe in the "rapture", why wait? Go find a sturdy tree and a length of rope.
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