Kingdom Come (Left Behind, No. 13)

Kingdom Come: The Final Victory (Left Behind, #13) my review of book 12, not reading any more of this author's work, book 12 and 13 kept losing track of the.
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Kingdom Come Part I

The former members of the Tribulation Force decide to redouble their efforts in their new ministries, and Kenny Williams joins Raymie Steele and Abdullah's two children to form the Millennium Force, dedicated to share the Gospel to unsaved children before they turn a century old. The Two strike up a friendship, before beginning a romantic relationship. Kenny tries to go undercover and infiltrate TOL, but his plans fall through when his older believing friend Abdullah Ababneh mistakenly thinks he is really a member of TOL.

This causes Kenny's life to virtually fall apart, as his girlfriend Ekaterina deserts him, all his friends abandon him, and even his own parents can hardly seem to believe him. Ekaterina soon feels guilty and talks to Kenny, and they discover the real infiltrator from TOL, another teenager named Qasim Marid. Qasim is fired and Kenny is reunited with his girlfriend and his family. Meanwhile, Rayford Steele and his first wife Irene, now in a glorified body, lead a missionary trip to Egypt. Tsion Ben-Judah stands before the Parliament and rebukes the people of that land for continuing to glorify the name of the Egyptian god Ptah in the very name of their country.

They preach the Gospel and lead many to salvation, but Rayford is captured by a pocket of resistance with goals similar to TOL. He experiences firsthand the power of God when an angel descends into the base and rescues him and his fellow prisoners. Rayford also leads a TOL operative named Rehema to salvation. Friends and family gather at COT to celebrate the thousandth birthday of Mac McCullum, and every member of what was once the Tribulation Force makes an appearance.

Rayford, who is now more than 1, years old, requests a picture of the original Tribulation Force, and is shocked to find how old he looks in contrast to his daughter Chloe, son-in-law Cameron and friend Bruce Barnes who are all in glorified bodies. In the final years of the Millennium, the Other Light amasses its armies, a force a thousand times larger than the Global Community Unity Army that were present at the Battle of Armageddon 1, years before.

All the billions of members of TOL gather all the weapons they can to battle against God, surrounding the city of Jerusalem during the final year of the Millennium where Christ reigns, with Lucifer himself leading their charge during the final day when he is released. Jesus then speaks personally to Lucifer, shaming him for his iniquities and evils. At his final words he opens a hole to the Lake of Fire in spacetime itself in which the Beast Nicolae Carpathia and the False Prophet Leon Fortunato , are seen both writhing in agony and screaming "Jesus is Lord!

All the Believers at the End of the Millennium are then taken to Heaven, with the Naturals finally becoming Glorified. The Great White Throne Judgment takes place and all unbelievers are cast into the lake of fire. The earth is destroyed and reduced to particles by fire from Heaven and from inside the Earth itself. After the Great White Throne Judgement, Jesus instantly creates a new earth, and Heaven or New Jerusalem descends down upon it, ushering in a new heaven and a new earth.

All the believers are then welcomed into New Jerusalem and New Earth, destined to reign with Christ for all eternity. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. I think the book would have been "better" if they had focused on how advanced society was going to become over time. Also, after everything that happened in the Tribulation, how do you describe the "natural-born children" afterwards who still choose to reject God? How do you write about that or adequately describe it? Especially since "non-believers" do die during this time, and they die when they reach the centennial mark.

One hundred years of age. Yet, despite all of the miracles and judgments, there will still be people who harden their hearts and refuse to acknowledge Jesus as Lord and Savior. Kinda like Anakin Skywalker's fall from grace. Everybody knows it happened, but everybody has the "story" of how it all went down in their own minds; no movie or book could ever do it justice as a result. The actors had a hard time portraying his rise and subsequent fall in such a way that would please everybody.

Kinda like the last few books in the series - can't please everybody all of the time. He reappears in this book and plays a bit of a big part in it, rescuing Rayford and some other captives in the process. That being the case, I looked up "his" name to see if there was some kind of special meaning to it. Apparently, in Muslim it means "Companion; genial; close friend", which I found pretty cool. An interesting name for an angel.

There were a couple of beautiful moments in it [towards the end], and there were some gems hidden throughout the middle of the story. I have to admit, the description of "the final battle" was so hilarious I was nearly in tears it was so bad and anticlimactic. I do not know if the authors meant it to come across the way it did, but I was laughing pretty hard when I read 'the final battle' and its results.

Even though I will probably never recommend this book to anybody, I am glad that I read it as it completes the series for me unless I decide to go ahead and read the first three books in the series - the three "prequel" stories. Nov 16, F. Atchley rated it liked it Shelves: It was a series that really got me back into reading. As a sequel, I enjoyed Kingdom Come, but there were points where it left me a little disappointed.

The subject of Kingdom Come is the much debated Millennial Kingdom, a prophesied 1, year reign of Jesus Christ on earth. Satan, also known as the Devil, is locked up for the duration and is unable to tempt mankind. At the end of the Millennial Kingdom he is set free or escapes to once again tempt man am a huge fan of the Left Behind series. At the end of the Millennial Kingdom he is set free or escapes to once again tempt man to follow him instead of the One True God. It has always amazed me that, according to Scripture, at the end of those 1, years with God in the person of Jesus Christ physically and personally ruling the earth that people and droves of them would side with Satan for a final, climatic battle.

What would motivate people to do that? High Points Kingdom Come answers the question of why people choose the sides they do extremely well. Jenkins and LaHaye remind us that even without the temptation from Satan, our desire to be in control of our own lives and not surrender that control to anyone, not even God, remains a powerful force. The book also continues to accomplish something that the previous Left Behind books did so well. For me, there is something about seeing the events prophesied in Scripture portrayed in such vivid, living detail that gives them a greater reality for me.

This stuff is real and its really going to happen. It forces me to evaluate my beliefs and how those beliefs impact my life. I found the ending was especially strong. The imagery of the earth being destroyed and new heaven and new earth created was exceptional. It pointed me to a greater and deeper relationship with Christ. For that, I am greatful to the authors.

Conflict and Filler [Minor spoilers below] My major issues with Kingdom Come center on conflict and filler. At various points in the story, three of these heroes give a detailed retelling of their story. While there are some interesting details thrown in, the vast majority of their monologues are taken straight word for word from Scripture.

They will know these stories well. Quoting so much scripture through these three retellings felt like a bit of filler to me. How would it come off to them? My issue with conflict comes as intrigue begins to build in the story. One such incident is a negative report about one of the characters that appears in an old style physical office inbox.

When a second report also appears, the characters wonder who could be leaving them. They ignore the blindly obvious idea of putting a security camera by the mailbox so they can see who is dropping off the reports. The book lacks any twist whatsoever. I know to a certain extent that is difficult given the subject matter. There is little doubt the forces of Light will be victorious in the end. But even given that I thought more could have been done to make the investigation more interesting.

I doubted the guilty party was who it turned out to be only because that would have been too obvious. The problem with this book is that it lacks legitimate conflict. The main characters can't die, and the ending is telegraphed long before we even start this book. There's a little manufactured conflict towards the end, but overall not the most exciting installment in this series. The first couple of chapters are virtualy unreadable.

If you stick with it, it gets a little better. This book is really for die hard left behind fans if you've read the first 15 books, you mine as well read this one. If nothing else, it provides closure on the series, and the second to last chapter offers a nice tribute for characters that played an important role in the series for a short time, then disappeared.

I give this book two stars for failing to generate new excitement. I'd give the series as a whole 3 stars. There were some really good moments in the series, but not too many in this book. Nov 11, Glenda L rated it really liked it. I thought I had read all of the Left Behind books, but found this one on my shelf. I am so glad I read it, as it concludes the series. I learned about all of the trials and tribulations of the end times and of course all of the beauty for the believers.

I guess you could call this a "Christian Thriller. Feb 10, Wendy rated it really liked it. I have read all of the Left Behind books and I felt this was an appropriate closing to the series and a good fictional representation of the prophecies in Revelations. I really enjoyed this book and seeing the happy ending for all of the characters I loved so much in the rest of the series. After reading this series, anyone who was not a believer would surely turn into one. Mar 22, Carolanne wollin added it.

This book also doesn't get a rating. I too almost put this book down after reading the first 12 , but I pushed thru. I did like certain parts of the book but they were few and far between. I thought it was too late in series to be introducing new characters. I was disturbed to see how quickly after the appearing of Jesus the world once again went to pot. Jan 25, Wavey Cowpar rated it did not like it. After twelve other amazing books on a realistic look at what Revelation might be saying, this one was ridiculous. Jesus is back on earth reigning as King, but for some weird reason sets back up the Temple and sacrificial systems Dec 25, Matteo Borri rated it really liked it.

Jenkins has written a very good piece of dystopian fiction, and I think the people who left bad reviews missed it. Let me elaborate as to why: The Earth is flat - not literally, but there are no more mountains and most of the interesting landscapes are gone. There's no night anymore.

It doesn't have any natural landmarks because the entire Earth outside of Jerusalem is basically central Kansas baking in an endless summer. It's uniformly hot, insanely bright and flat, flat, flat. There was a river Jenkins has written a very good piece of dystopian fiction, and I think the people who left bad reviews missed it. There was a river of milk and honey, but that's less about being a tourist attraction or landmark than TurboJesus not caring about metaphor or allegory.

The Sorcerer Supreme said it once, so by Him he's gonna make it come true, come hell or high water. It sounds kind of Besides, there's no tourism. People wanna see Israel and Jerusalem, but that's more about being closer to Awesome! There's nothing else to see anyway. Mounts Fuji and Aso? Most really awesome forests are probably gone, too. Forget the Amazon rainforest, you'll never see its like again. The magnificent glaciers of Northern Alaska? The stark, forbidding beauty of Antarctica? Not even photos to remember them anymore, almost no one but TOL could care about that kind of thing, but maybe that's just as well.

That's over and done with. Did you like to ski? Homemade snow ice cream, or fresh clean snow topped with hot maple syrup out of a kettle? Yeah, you'll never do any of those things again, summer's eternal and there's no snow or ice anywhere. You could camp in your back yard in broad daylight, I guess. It would be exactly the same. There's no reason to hike again, ever. There's no untamed nature to SEE. There are no monuments, none of the great old buildings of the past, the big powerful culture artifacts that defined entire cultures and nations.

All gone, burned away by Christ Almighty. He can't stand anything that might compete with him for peoples' attention, you see. Nature is pretty much artificial now. Carnivores eat plants, fruit and leaves and nuts and such how does that even begin to work? No travel--why bother, when everything and everyone is the same everywhere? There's no economy, everyone trades for whatever few things they might need.

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I guess all the womenfolk can weave or spin cloth and makes clothes or something, since Almighty Jeebus magically gifted everyone with bronze-age level knowhow. Almost everyone's a farmer or a carpenter or a teacher or something. Starving's impossible, everything is edible--you wander around the landscape and make a salad out of whatever's randomly growing there if you want, so it's pretty meaningless to be a farmer, really, but that's what Turbojesus thinks people should do, so that's what they busy themselves with.

Nothing in nature can hurt you anymore. No fishing, no hunting, no need. Everyone's a vegetarian most of the time. Everyone is shown eating buttery steamed produce, fried vegetables and the like. Exotic cultural dishes and exciting regional cuisines don't seem to exist. Food culture essentially doesn't exist anymore, and never will again. There's no risk to take anymore.

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The only thing to be afraid of is not saying the Magic Words before you're a hundred, where you bind your soul to the Demiurge for all time. There's probably a subcommunity that's turned "cutting it close" into some sort of extreme sport, if that sort of thing is even tolerated anymore King Horse Vaporizer might take a dim view of that kind of shenannigans. Not much entertainment in it, since you can only ever do it once, but maybe other people can gamble in it or something. No books, stories, music or whatever that doesn't glorify Jesus.

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Most of the Millenial Kingdom citizens probably don't feel much in the way of boredom anyway. The Glorifieds aren't capable of boredom. All they feel is the urge to worship Jesus. Everyone but The Other Light is basically Amish, only way more boring, insular and dreary, There's no curiosity. The universe is basically a year old terrarium and the gardener's on his throne in Israel. You can ask him any question you want anytime or anywhere you like.

He might even deign to answer you. No urge to create anything. The only uncomfortable, transgressive or daring ones are going to die at anyway unless they eject all of their uniqueness, and nothing they do that disrupts the social order is going to be tolerated. Even crime is punished instantly and occasionally brutally.

There's not much of it anyway. There's no secrets, even from yourself. No one seems to talk about anything other than Jesus. I guess most people are happy, but no one's excited. Unless it's about Jesus. I guess they get pretty passionate about ol' One Above All, since I suppose he likes that, but that's it. No one builds anything anymore, just farmhouses, barns and the like. Communication, cell-phone implants are good for letting the biologicals do what the Glorifieds are already doing anyway, so there's that, but no one invents anything or studies anything anymore.

There's probably computers somewhere. No one really seems to care about them. Science is completely meaningless in a world of divine fiat. Technology's a dead end. You don't need anything, you're never, ever ever going to reach the stars, and TJ will vaporize everything in a few centuries anyway and remake the world completely so anything you do will be destroyed anyway, and he takes a dim view of anything that takes your attention away from being the best worshiper you can be.

Besides, farm equipment was pretty much perfected by the mids anyway. A tractor is a tractor is a tractor. Most people probably just use a hoe and a spade. There might be a little light industry somewhere, or maybe just a blacksmith, another village-level job. In short it's dry, stagnant, and stultifyingly dead. Almost no one's truly human anymore. TOL is all that's left, and they're all doomed--a century in and they'll die, unless they willingly choose to undergo their supernatural lobotomy and become proper Stepford Smilers.

And in no more than a thousand years, Jesus slays them all and sends them to Hell to torture until time itself rots away. If it sounds like a horrifying, terrifying, miserable place, that's okay--it's for them, not for people like you and me. Besides, they don't want either of us there anyway. They want us dead, gone and forgotten as fast as possible. Something else that's been slaughtered, or erased or burned away, for no other reason than to satisfy MurderGod's bloated ego.

And all I can do is marvel at LaHaye. It's ugly, and it all needs to go. Burn this thing down and replace it with a life-size statue of a bronze-age religious figure sitting on a tacky golden throne and a few megachurches, that'll improve the ambience around here.

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Trapped in a world of enforced blandness. Crime is allowed to happen but the perpetrators are immediately executed by lightning afterwards, thereby somehow managing a Worst of Both Worlds approach to criminal justice. Everyone is forced to live to whether they want to or not, and then immediately murdered if they haven't pledged allegiance to the local regime, or forced to endure up to another solid years of continuing to age and degrade with no hope of the relief of death if they HAVE pledged allegiance.

So these guys want to rebel. But they don't know how to. They can't see a way to win. They've been trying to oppose him however they can for ninety years now, and they haven't come up with anything that might work, and now they're all coming close to their divinely-allotted murder dates. They'd be forgiven for giving up and switching sides to save their own lives.

They'd be commendable for just deciding to make a symbolic gesture out of going down fighting a hopeless battle. What they actually do, though, is fling a light into the future. They focus their last years before they die on recruiting younger members. So having established that it's not gonna be them, that they personally are boned either way, they make a selfless investment in the future, going to their own deaths but founding a movement that will last the whole millenium, changing the time limit on finding a way to win from years to It's not much, but it was all they could do, so they did it.

Any chance of equality. But they found a way to stop him from taking away their hope. And when hope was all they had left, they took it and ran with it and made the most of it.


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It sounds like these people are far and away the most heroic characters in the series. While the putative protagonists sit around and busy themselves with, mostly, office politics, The Other Light do things -- great things, evil things, but they do things. You've got to pay attention to the background events, but they're there. There's also a lot of room for side stories, since we are only shown three "windows" into the Millennial Kingdom, two at the bookends and one 93 years in.

I give Jenkins credit for writing something clever that can be read on multiple levels, it puts the Left Behind series in another perspective and, fittingly, it redeems the unsaved characters in a way that few of the other books do. Jul 21, Shannon rated it really liked it. Though I'm sad to see these characters with whom I've been so connected to over the last 13 books, I feel accomplished being through with the series.

The characters we've come to know so well take a bit of a backseat to the "newer" characters introduced in this post-Armageddon thriller. Don't worry, they're all there and some have returned in glorified bodies so you finally get everyone back without losing anyone else, but the spotlight shifts to some additional characters. I'm a bit ashamed to Though I'm sad to see these characters with whom I've been so connected to over the last 13 books, I feel accomplished being through with the series. I'm a bit ashamed to say I had a bit of a hard time focusing on the set up of the millennial kingdom.

I am a practicing Christian very much looking forward to the millennial reign but I guess the details were a bit much for me. This is the end of a great series and they wrap it up well, but perhaps a bit anti-climactic in light of the other 12 books. Characters are well developed, the plot makes chronological sense but just didn't hold me as well as the other 12 books of the series.

They accomplished the goal in the 12th book but I believe they felt compelled to give that final glimpse of the millennial reign. Well, folks, that's a wrap I guess! There is another 3 book trilogy "Before They Were Left Behind" that I will soon be delving into, but I'm taking a short break for a light-hearted silly book or two just for a little break after 13 books in a row.

This is of course a must read for those who've been along the 13 book series - you can't leave the series without finishing, but you definitely wouldn't want to start here. Aug 01, Stephen rated it did not like it. The first Left Behind series had some issues given how quickly they were put out, and the fact that most readers would be more interested in the premise than the actual delivery. They had drama -- natural disasters, people dying, and the resolution was unknown. Who would survive Tribulation alive? Who would succumb to the wiles of the Antichrist?

There was a reason to endure the hastily-drawn characters and the sometimes awkward dialogue. The sequel books were Because Satan The first Left Behind series had some issues given how quickly they were put out, and the fact that most readers would be more interested in the premise than the actual delivery. Because Satan is gone and Christ is reigning, there's literally nothing which can happen.

We're just waiting for the credits to stop rolling. True, there are some people who claim to worship The Other Light, which is Satan, but there's no a single moment in which the reader suspects that plot is going anywhere at all. They fold like France in -- well, not even France, more like Denmark but fewer would get the reference -- and then it's over. There's just no reason to READ this. I only did it because it was summer, classes hadn't started yet, and I had nothing else to do.

Where to start with how bad this book is? I'll try and only highlight the really bad bits. Disclaimer, I actually didn't finish it.

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I made a good attempt, I got pages in. And I read all 12 previous books and they were pretty good, although with some weak points. The characters are bland and boring. They literally all sound the same, have no individual motivations and are just cardboard cutouts. Any personality or growth in the previous books is lost. Jesus brings back animal sacrifice? I know these are fiction, but as a Christian this actually borders on offensive. They try to explain it away but it's a weak explanation. Basically this whole kingdom of years is a perfect Old Testament.

I could go on, but basically nothing happens until the very end, which is a foregone conclusion anyway, and every aspect of this book is weak. Aug 15, Johnny rated it it was ok. This is the sequel to the amazingly-written Left Behind series, though in my opinion, it is not as good as the rest of the series. We have a full cast at the end of Glorious Appearing that could build a great story of the Millennial Kingdom using more than just seven or eight characters from the actual Left Behind series.

Kingdom Come only uses a few of the characters in the story line, then the rest are forgotten until the end of the book, even influential ones like Hattie Durhman, Chang Wong, This is the sequel to the amazingly-written Left Behind series, though in my opinion, it is not as good as the rest of the series. Kingdom Come only uses a few of the characters in the story line, then the rest are forgotten until the end of the book, even influential ones like Hattie Durhman, Chang Wong, Leah Rose, and Floyd Charles.

However, LaHaye and Jenkins do a good job with the characters they do use, and creatively play famous Bible characters into the plot. This book makes me even more excited for heaven! Sep 05, Aimee Shaffer rated it liked it. First let me say that I have thoroughly enjoyed this entire series.

I plan on re-reading it sometime in the future. With a few exceptions, every book kept me engaged and anxious to read more. This final installment was one of those exceptions. It seemed very contrived and most of the book focused on the stories of Noah, David, etc. I also found it disappointing that there wasn't more interaction with the characters and Jesus or even the characters and people like Noah and David. And the idea of First let me say that I have thoroughly enjoyed this entire series.

And the idea of the Millennium Force seemed like a re-write of an old idea Tribulation Force. This book just didn't pull me in like the others, and because of that it took me forever to finish it.

Fantastic series second time too read I have always found the book of Revelations to be a hard read, confusing, but the series really helped shed light on the end times. This second time around being more firmly set in my faith it just made me truly yearn for my everlasting home and to be with my father in heaven.


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    7. This is one I would recommend to anyone who has questions about this time. Take advantage of the given scriptures throughout the story and look them up and study them to determine for y Fantastic series second time too read I have always found the book of Revelations to be a hard read, confusing, but the series really helped shed light on the end times.

    Take advantage of the given scriptures throughout the story and look them up and study them to determine for yourself what is to come. So, I read the earlier books in this series a decade ago and remember enjoying them. Is this really so much worse than those? Or is it a matter of my changing over time? What I do know is, this was not good. I listened to the audio version and the reader tried to do the various voices of the characters which I just found a bit comical.

    The dialogue is not well written either. Thankfully, the recording was rather short so there was at least something good here. Aug 11, Ken Grant rated it liked it. I really enjoy this series, but this was definitely my least favorite. I appreciate any attempt to fictionalize a topic as complicated as the Millennium. It is a topic not approached much at all and I applaud the effort. Given the limited tension, the story seemed strained at times to provide the kind of excitement and danger normally connected with the series. A worthwhile try, but the overall effect comes off slightly flat. Apr 17, Jeannine Woods rated it it was ok.

    A bit slow, just glad I made it through this book. As I said in my review of book 12, not reading any more of this author's work, book 12 and 13 kept losing track of the story of the characters and into more bible quoting and reference to actual facts listed in the Bible. Could have been written a lot better but the preacher side of the authors came out loud and clear and they abandoned the story line for the most part. Jul 03, Amber rated it liked it. Although I love God's Word, I already read it every night and don't necessarily want to read paraphrased versions of it in my fictional reading.

    The book itself was sparse and kind of halfhearted. Sep 24, Kelly rated it really liked it. This was another hard read for me.

    I really did like the end, though. It gives me hope and comfort to know that someday, Jesus truly will be Lord over all, not just in my life but in the whole Earth!