Armageddon (Left Behind #11)
by Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim LaHaye
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Author: Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim LaHayeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-11-01
ISBN: 0842332367
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
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Book Review: who buys this drivel?
Summary: 1 Stars
"Hail Carpathia, our lord and risen king;
Hail Carpathia, rules o'er everything.
We'll worship him until we die;
He's our beloved Nicholae.
Hail Carpathia, our lord and risen king".
Nicholae Jetty Carpathia is the most pathetic anti Christ I have ever come across. Not only has he to listen to puerile songs like the above but he seems to be a remarkably shallow character for one who is supposed to be the incarnation of evil. To give him his due, he can, however, glow in the dark like one of the side kicks in the Sky High movie. Not very much admittedly but he can emit rays of light which is helpful when God plunges his capital into darkness.
Nicholae's followers spend a considerable amount of time in this book groping around in the dark. This is because the authors of this very popular series take their lines almost literally from The Book of Revelations, which forms the last book in the New Testament. Because God plunged the anti Christ's headquarters into darkness, Nick has to suffer. And so do the readers of this awful book.
In Armageddon the eleventh book in the Left Behind series, Nick has taken over the world and, a few Jewish and Christian believers apart, everyone else is happy enough to pay homage to him even if it means eternal damnation in the fires of hell. These include Krystall, Nick's very polite personal secretary, who, even though she accepts her own eternal damnation for taking Nick's mark, feeds the Christian rebels information for her own peculiar reasons.
Although one would expect the anti Christ to take a very dim view of those who betray him, Nick is too preoccupied with crushing the rebels to bother himself with Krystall's treachery. As part of this process, and to foreshadow the apocalyptic fight ahead, Nick cobbles together the biggest army ever assembled in the history of the world and he equips it with the best weaponry available. As a result of these preparations, Nick feels confident he can defeat God's army. To this end, he rides a horse. And many of his soldiers also ride horses.
Although this might make bad military sense, it accords with the Book of Revelations where the anti Christ leads his forces into battle on a horse. The Book of Revelations, unfortunately, is not the only part of the Bible to permeate this boring book. God, for example, feeds the Christian rebels with manna from heaven, just as Exodus 16.31 informs us He fed Moses and his followers when they fled Egypt. When the believers are not gorging themselves on manna, they are using the Internet to read whatever battle tips the Bible has to offer as they attempt to defeat Nick.
Nick must be a technophobe. Not only does he ride a horse into battle but his forces, which control the world, cannot even close down a very popular underground Christian site. If the Christians in this book are anything to go by, one would almost have to wish him well. These Christians are a pompous myopic lot. They delight in telling Krystall and other unfortunates that God has prepared a very warm spot for them in Hell and they seem to be unable to string a handful of sentences together without throwing in a few biblical quotes as well.
Although Nicholae Carpathia may not sport a hoof, a trident and a cloven foot, yet he may as well: he is as much a caricature as Lucifer or Old Nick himself ever were. Unfortunately, he is not so scary. This is because his character, like all the other characters in this puffed up book, lacks any depth or subtlety at all. That is not his fault but the fault of the writers who feel compelled to churn out as much "Christian literature" as quickly as they can.
Jenkins even has a writing school to foster more Christian clones to help spread "the Word". But the Bible has some very beautiful writing in it and it does offer many words of wisdom to the wise. The same cannot be said of the Left Behind series of books. They are low grade propaganda: the mystery is why they sell so well. If Christian parents are forcing their children to read this drivel, our hearts have to go out to them. And to Nicholae Carpathia, the anti Christ, who thinks it is ok to ride into battle on a horse.
Summary of Armageddon (Left Behind #11)
The scattered Tribulation Force is drawn inexorably toward the Middle East, as are all the armies of the world, when human history culminates in the battle of the ages. During the last year of the Great Tribulation, safe houses are no longer safe, and the cast of characters dramatically changes. By the time of the war of the great day of God the Almighty, the globe has become a powder keg of danger. Except those already in Petra, everyone has been forced to relocate as Antichrist ratchets up the pressure in the world's most treacherous game. Who will be left standing when the battle leaves the Tribulation Force on the brink of the end of time and the Glorious Appearing?Fiction Books
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