- Paperback: 416 pages
- Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.; Reprint edition (Jan 24 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0842329269
- ISBN-13: 978-0842329262
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.9 x 2.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 408 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (487 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #183,955 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Apollyon: The Destroyer Is Unleashed, by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, is another suspenseful chronicle of those left behind after the rapture of the saved. As the book opens, Hattie Durham, the former airline attendant and mistress of the antichrist, Nicolae Carpathia, is wracked with confusion about what to do with her illegitimate child, whose birth date is coming due. Rayford Steele, the airline pilot who flies Carpathia's plane, is ambivalent about the mounting evidence that his late wife, Amanda, may have been a false believer. Buck, the ace newspaper reporter, and Chloe, his wife, are debating whether to have a child when the future of the world is so uncertain. And all of the world's thousands of believers are gathering in Jerusalem for a stadium rally, which will lead to a showdown with Nicolae Carpathia. Believers are increasingly relying on the Internet for underground communication, and most of them are becoming more and more tempted by violence as a way of battling the forces of evil overtaking the world. But demon locusts are shortly dispatched as a divine plague to attack those who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads; this buys the believers a little bit of time to solve their respective personal crises, all of which end in ways that will keep you riveted until the last page.
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Rayford Steele and Buck Williams, charter members of the Force, have gone from employees of Nicolae Carpathia to international fugitives. Rayford, finally discovering the shocking truth about Amanda, must flee before the grand conference begins. The two witnesses at the Wailing Wall proclaim warnings to the one who sits on the throne of the earth, and Carpathia himself makes a surprise appearance at the stadium. The Tribulation calendar moves ever closer to the halfway point, which the two witnesses call the due time. Meanwhile, the fourth Trumpet Judgment strikes the solar system, crippling life on earth. The next three judgements are to be so much worse than anything that has come before that an angel flies about heaven, warning the earth of the three woes. The fifth Trumpet Judgment - a plague of scorpionlike locusts led by Apollyon, chief demon of the abyss - is so horrifying that men try to kill themselves but are not allowed to die.
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This review is from: Apollyon: The Destroyer Is Unleashed (Paperback)
In this series I never agreed with the author's theology. But the series started off as good fiction, entertaining, and were books that made a reader think about the end times. However as the series dragged on, the writing became weaker and weaker, and for myself and many I know the authors lost the audience. I never made it through the whole series and I doubt I will ever go back and finish it. It really is a pity - there was so much potential in this series.This book was an interesting interpretation of the third woe from the Book of Revelation. The plague of the locust attacking the word is done in vivid graphic narrative. The Trib Force team has both losses and gains. The most important is Hattie leaving and joining the dark side. Buck and Chloe have their child. Yet even with all the action this was the turning point for me. I only made it through one more book of the 16 in the series. The books in publication sequence are: Left Behind: Tribulation Force Nicolae: The Rise of the Antichrist Soul Harvest: Apollyon: Assasins: The Indwelling The Mark Desecration The Remnant Armageddon Glorious Appearing The Rising: The Antichrist is Born The Regime: Evil Advances The Rapture: In the Twinkling of an Eye Kingdom Come In the end it just seemed like a money-making ploy, with graphic novels, cds, teen versions, a video game and more. (First written as Journal Reading Notes in 1999.)
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Better than people give it credit for,
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This review is from: Apollyon: The Destroyer Is Unleashed (Paperback)
A lot of the reviews I have read of these books tend to put it down by comparing it to other end of the world books. And while I will admit that these are not as smart or engaging as some of the the better books that cover the same topic like Fire of Heaven or We All Fall Down, I still really enjoyed them. A friend introduced me to the first book and I cut through all 12 books over the past two months. In a way, it's not really fair to compare them to some of the other books because they are trying to do different things. Left Behind seems to me to try to simply tell a great story about the end of the world. It's light, but what's wrong with that? I really felt like I NEEDED to know what was going to happen next when I finished a book and the very next day would order the next one. I call that a success. A book like We All Fall Down is obviously much more intense and thoughtful, the characters seem much more like real people, and it gives you more to think about, but why does that make Left Behind bad? Can't The Ten Commandments and The Passion both be good movies?
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STEVEN SPIELBERG, BREAK OUT YOUR PEN & PAD AND TAKE NOTE!!!,
By mutual.funds@worldnet.att.net "&&quo... (Bowie, Maryland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Apollyon: The Destroyer Is Unleashed (Hardcover)
All I can say is that I've never been able to read a book the size of these books in FOUR DAYS!!! Now some of you speed readers might say, "four days, get real, I read it in one day" like my wife-who has also read all 5 books!!! My book shelf is filled with books that I'm still trying to finish!!! Many of them are a lot less pages than any the Left Behind series books are. Anyway, the difference has got to be the Lord's Anointing that rests on the Authors when they write these books!!! Come on with Number 6, bring it on, I can't wait. I prayed for Tim & Jerry this morning, asking the Lord to continue to bless them in their writing, and the that movie be as captivating and anointed as these books are. I tell ya, it's the Anointing, it makes all of the difference!!! In Short, I love these books, and I've told many others about them! Take care & God Bless, Martin A. Smit
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