Review: Plausible and scary
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 19, 2012
I read everything I can get my hands on concerning the last days from a Christian perspective, because like many others, I believe we are living through them. This book is a fairly good example of the genre.The action is fast paced, the situations are believeable, and the characters are well developed. A modern day California family living in perilous times is without warning thrown into turmoil.This is the first end times book that ever scared me. Not because of the presense of angels or demons, because of the real depiction of demonic influence on ordinary people. We see this every day, and it isn't the green vomit and levitation the movies depict, but the selfish choices and the surrender of will and discipline for the pleasures of the world.My major disagreement with this book is that it is written from an Adventist perspective. The emphasis on Saturday worship distracted from the reality of the situation. I will not engage in that debate because this isn't the place for it. But I did feel deceived when there was no clue until a quarter of the way through the novel.Another issue was how quickly everything occurred. Even allowing for creative license, there is absolutely no way Americans would completely reject the Constitution and fall away from the truth of the Gospel in only six months.I would recommend this book with a warning. If you are a Christian and are strong in your faith, read this book and put the unorthodox theology aside. If you are not a Christian, realize the theology presented is not believed nor followed by most believers in Christ.