The Left Behind Series by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins

I started this journey almost 10 years ago, during my own tribulation of crisis I discovered the Left Behind Series.

I was out of work, down on myself for a failed business, and wondering if the Lord even cared about me.

One weekend I was out with my husband and brother at a small bookstore in town. As I walked the aisles of this store, I was not really looking for anything in particular, I came to the Christian section, there was the first book in the series, and it jump out at me. Revelations and the rapture have always been a fascination of mine, I picked up the book and started to read the back cover, as I did, I was drawn into this story. The book was on sale, and I bought it. Before I even got home, I had read 4 chapters. I was done with the book by the next day, and went back to buy the next two in the series. By the end of the week I was ready for more, I went hunting for the rest. Soul Harvest was the last one (the 4th one in the series) and I had to wait for the rest to be released. I hungered for more, and waited in anticipation for the authors to finish writing them and put them on the shelves.

As they were fiction books (a story for entertainment) they still had the truth buried in the pages, God is our Lord and Savior and no matter our circumstances, He will always be there to support and love us. I craved the fullness of the story, the drama and the intrigue, but I also craved the truth within the story, the revelation of what God is going to do for his children. Protect those that already know Him, and save those that will come to know Him after the rapture of His Church. Even though we don't know what will actually happen until it does, this series gives insight to what the Bible has already laid out in Revelations, and the prophecy of the End Times of our Planet.

It also did more for me than just entertain it gave me hope when I was in very low part of my life, God revealed these books to me and I drank them. They lead me back to my life instructions, my Bible, which saved my mind, spirit and soul. Giving me hope and encouragement then showing me that my problems were not as bad as I thought, saving me from myself.

I have read the books over and over since the first time I picked up the first book, and have downloaded the audio books as well, this story never gets old. Even though the characters are not real, the events may not happen exactly like in the books, but we do know as Christians there will be a time line of how things will unfold when Revelations happens just like in the books. I thank God I will be one of the ones caught up to Him in a Twinkling of an Eye during the Rapture, and will never have to meet or be in the presences of The AntiChrist.

1 Thessalonians 4:14-18

14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so through Jesus God will bring those who have died with him. 15For we declare to you what the Lord has told us to say: We who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have died. 16With a shout of command, with the archangel's call, and with the sound of God's trumpet, the Lord himself will come down from heaven, and the dead who belong to the Messiah will rise first. 17Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18So then, encourage one another with these words.