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Title: The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation by Barbara R. Rossing ISBN: 0-8133-9156-3 Publisher: Westview Press Pub. Date: 30 March, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Where in the world are our mansions?
Comment: John 14:2 - In my Fathers house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
vs. 3 - And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there ye may be also.
SO, you guys are saying Jesus will come back to earth, and stay here with us. It doesnt seem that way to me. If so , where are all these mansions? And where is God's house?
Rating: 5
Summary: No passage in the Bible uses the word "Rapture."
Comment: In "The Rapture Exposed," theologian Barbara Rossing uses the verb "fabricate" to examine the "Left Behind" series of novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, and brilliantly refute their distortion of God's vision for the world. "The Da Vinci Code," another fabrication masquerading as truth, can easily be de-coded by checking out the Opus Dei and Priory of Sion Hoax sites, or taking a class in "Da Vinci 101," but recruiting people into believing they will be spirited up to heaven "any day now" and citing the Bible as evidence is not even biblical. Jesus himself says in Matt 24:36 that the world's end will come at a day and hour not even the Son knows.
"THE RAPTURE IS A RACKET" proclaims Rossing in her Chapter 1 opening sentence, then continues, "In place of Jesus's blessing of peacemakers, the Rapture voyeuristically glorifies violence and war." LaHaye's fictional output surpasses that of fellow Rapturist Hal Lindsey, whose 1970 "Late Great Planet Earth" saw the Cold War as an indication of end times. Lindsey found the Antichrist first as Soviet, but now as Muslim. Of particular interest is Rossing's Chapter 3: "The Rapture Script of the Middle East."
Rossing points out that no passage in the Bible uses the word "Rapture" -- as LaHaye and Lindsey admit -- and traces this distortion of Christian faith to John Nelson Darby, a 19th century evangelical preacher, who invented "dispensations" -- seven intervals of time that he said were God's grand timetable for world events. Darby's scenarios were based on three verses from Daniel 9:25-27.
Rossing's chapter, "Prophecy and Apocalypse," refutes the Rapturists'claim that John's Book of Revelation (or Apocalypse) gives us God's play-by-play prophetic script for the future. She reminds us that, contrary to the association of the word with disaster, apocalypse means "unveiling," and was a popular form of ancient literature. Visionary journeys, such as the one John describes, were not fortune-telling, but calls to repentence and faithfullness, much like Scrooge's visions of the Past, Present and Future changed his life.
In Rev 19, Rapturists consider an armed Christ returning to earth to do battle as the culmination of his reappearance, but Rossing considers the Chapters 21 and 22 visions of a New Jerusalem far more revealing. The picture of life together in a new world where God comes down to earth to "wipe away every tear," is the spiritual promise of Revelation. She writes, "The New Jerusalem vision is meant to be God's vision by which we live our lives right now.... First we go in to worship, to the throne of God...to see the Lamb's vision of true power and life and salvation. Second, we return back home to the world, with our
vision transformed in a new way, transfigured in light of the Lamb." This is the message of hope referred to in Rossing's subtitle: God comes down to dwell with us, we are not selectively snatched up.
Rating: 5
Summary: Exposing the real message of the Revelation
Comment: The Rapture Exposed by Barbara Rossing exposes some of the falicy in our modern way of thinking about the Revelation. Rossing denounces the Left Behind books as exploiters of this "fictional" way of thinking. She is trying to tell the Christian community that Jesus will not come down and damn all the unfaithfull to hell, but will instead save EVERYONE from damnation. He has already saved us by his death on the cross. Her message is one of hope. Rossing does an excellent job of teaching her theory of the Revelation and the "rapture." I would highly recommend that every Christian read this eye-opening book.
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Title: Rapture Culture: Left Behind in Evangelical America (Left Behind (Hardcover)) by Amy Johnson Frykholm ISBN: 0195159837 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Rapture: The End-Times Error That Leaves the Bible Behind by David B. Currie ISBN: 1928832725 Publisher: Sophia Institute Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Cross in Our Context: Jesus and the Suffering World by Douglas John Hall ISBN: 0800635817 Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Credo by William Sloane Coffin, James Carroll ISBN: 0664227074 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith by Marcus J. Borg ISBN: 0060526769 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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