Glorious Appearing: The End of Days (Left Behind #12)

by Tim F. LaHaye; Jerry B. Jenkins

Hardcover, 2004

Status

Checked out
Due 24 March 2024

Call number

813.54

Publication

Tyndale House Publishers (2004), 399 pages

Description

Fiction. Literature. Science Fiction. Suspense. HTML:Thousands of years of human history stained by strife, death, and sin come to an end when the King of Glory returns to earth. The satisfying conclusion of the seven years of tribulation covered by the Left Behind series portrays the return of Jesus Christ to earth in both glory and judgment at the height of the battle between the forces of evil gathered at Armageddon and the remaining Christian believers at Petra and Jerusalem. A repackage of the twelfth book in the New York Times best-selling Left Behind series.

User reviews

LibraryThing member Mendoza
I view these books in the Left Behind series as fiction. I am not a christian and I have absolutely no belief system that mirrors the authors. SO, I am looking at these books from really, more of a fantasy/paranormal slant.

And I have stuck with the story since the beginning - it has become like a
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train wreck for me. I/m cringing as I see the next novel coming - not wanting to read it for the pain it will cause - yet I can't stop myself from it anyway.

I enjoyed the story premise from the beginning. IT has been increasingly difficult for me to continue though. The writing is so stilted and to me without true character building that nearly everyone of thr characters thru out are one dimensional for me.

I think at least 4 of the books were stretched out far beyond what they should have been in order to get enough pages so they could wrap it up as a complete book. This series could have, should have, been so much shorter. It really dragged.
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LibraryThing member mramos
This is the final book in the left behind series. The book is still not well written, but it was able to build suspense. Like the people in the book, I kept anticipating the Glorious Appearing. And the story does keep moving. The book begins with the Battle already started and was able to surprise
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me (I won't be a spoiler). And ends with Jesus getting ready to start his reign.

They do tie up all the story lines. And get most of the biblical prophesies in. But it seemed sort of rushed at the end. Mainly so they could get in what they interpret the Bible to say. But we pay the price in that they neglect the personal storylines (feelings) of the main characters.
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LibraryThing member eljabo
I should have left this book behind at the library! Out of all 12 books, this one was by far the most ridiculous. I can't believe I read them all - I'm still not sure how I managed that feat!

The authors stretched the arrival of Jesus to 400 pages. I could have done it in four sentences. (Jesus
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comes. Bad people die. Good people are reunited with their loved ones. The end.) At this point, the characters are almost cartoonish. Carpathia and Leon are so ridiculous, they could have been in the movie Dumb and Dumber. Even Jesus was disappointing - and he was Jesus!

I think I'm done with these books. No 'Left Behind: The Kids,' no prequels. I think the authors missed the money they were making so they continued the saga for as long as possible. They will have to continue it without me!
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LibraryThing member SueinCyprus
I got bored with this series at about number 9, but thought I should read the last one. Sure enough, it follows the expectations of the Tribulation Force and concludes both the time of tribulation and the series. One day seems to take forever; the book is long-winded, sticking in as much preaching
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as possible - and there is still no character development. Only recommended for people who have read others in the series and want to know how it all ends.
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LibraryThing member loubigfish
The final of the series. Iw was terrific...and left more questions to answer. Writing well with true meaning.
LibraryThing member ShortyBond
All of the Left Behind books are provacative and page turning. I read them all at least once a year.
LibraryThing member mantooth
last of series, enjoyed the first book but couldn't wait for the series to finally come to an end. As the series progressed a large part of the book was spent reviewing the past.
LibraryThing member elleayess
Awesome book to end the excellent series! True, some of the writing is lacking at times, but all in all, for a fictional series, it was worth the time invested to get through all the books. Recommended reading!
LibraryThing member ojchase
This is surprisingly boring for how glorious the content is. But it's like the authors ran out of ability to create a story (note: I skipped books 2-10. Maybe they never had it.) so they spend the second half of the book having characters just quote scripture and have Bible studies. It really
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needed an editor to cut the length in half, as there just isn't enough that actually happens to be 400 pages long. The characters don't really _do_ much of anything. They think and talk, correctly, about how wonderful Jesus is, but that's about it.

One of the more frustrating things is that Jesus and the angels have very little personality. They mostly just quote scripture while moving from event to event. I counted up a good 33 pages of it. My heart longs, very imperfectly, for the Jesus who's good and creative and surprising enough to create a universe from nothing, complete with platypuses and black holes and sports teams. Such a God does not appear here. Mostly He is just an audiobook of the Bible that can deliver salvation (in every sense) and smite the wicked. Wonderful and necessary things, but such a letdown.
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Original publication date

2004-03-03
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