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New Life Book Review
AUSTRALIA'S WEEKLY CHRISTIAN NEWSPAPER
Thursday 4th December 1997
Escape from Armageddon
Paperback - 218pp
Ken and Val Walker.
Good News Australia,
P.O.Box 642, Glen
Waverley, Vic 3150. (address not
now current)
Email: kgww-@tpg.com.au Ken Walker. PLEASE NOTE. When using this email
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address and bombarding me with useless emails.
'Escape from Armageddon', a title no less graphic than dozens of paperbacks
on the market today, gives the impression of drama, suspense and fast
moving action. It isn't wrong! This novel is based on the
"futurist" interpretation of the events to happen at the end of the
age, and holds attention from one swiftly moving scenario to the next. Those
who have studied Revelation and other Scriptures relating to eschatology will
recognise the progression of events, although they are of necessity
contracted. Catastrophic occurrence follows devastating trial in rapid
succession, sometimes making it hard to realise this is not just fiction.
Three university students, reunited after several years, are the main
fictional characters They and their families interact with angelic and
demonic figures from the Scripture record to step through the rapture, the
rise of the New World Order and Antichrist, Israel's war with Russia, the
escape of the righteous Jews to Petra and Christ's triumphal return to
Jerusalem. Small line drawings at the start of each chapter give a
microscopic view of its contents.
At the close of the book the authors have supplied a list of prophecies
both fulfilled and unfulfilled, a bibliography and 40 pages of
NovelNotes. A new term for footnotes, these give explanations and Scripture
references for the events in the book itself. Included is a history of
the New World Order to date and a detailed plan of salvation.
With the famine of end time teaching in our Churches, it is the hope of the
authors that the reading of this book will start many searching the
Scriptures as did the Bereans of old. Many things suggest our
generation is likely to see a fulfilment of much indicated in the book.
And it will catch so many of God's children unawares.
Barbara Furman
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