Apollyon: The Destroyer Is Unleashed (Left Behind #5)

Tim LaHaye

ISBN 10: 0788751360 ISBN 13: 9780788751363

Publisher: Recorded Books, 2000

Synopsis

The Tribulation Force travels to Israel for the Meeting of Witnesses as further judgements are released upon the world. Satan falls from heaven and opens the bottomless pit, releasing Apollyon and his plague of locusts.

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Review

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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The world holds its breath as the Tribulation Force ventures to Jerusalem for the great Meeting of the Witnesses. Tens of thousands of the 144,000 witnesses prophesied in Scripture meet at Teddy Kollek Stadium to sit under the teaching of their pastor-teacher, Tsion Ben-Judah.

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 judgments 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Recorded Books
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0788751360
• ISBN 13: 9780788751363
• Binding: Audio CD
• Number of pages: 75