The Last Disciple - Softcover

Brouwer, Sigmund; Hanegraaff, Hank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0842384383 ISBN 13: 9780842384384

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2005

Synopsis

What if the Antichrist has already been revealed? The first book in a gripping new series by best-selling authors Sigmund Brouwer and Hank Hanegraaff explores the lives of Christians who struggle to survive and spread the Gospel during the climactic turbulence of “the last days.” With the enemy seeking to decipher the code of John's letter, Revelation, and destroy the church, believers must cling to the hope Revelation provides as they face the greatest of all persecutions. In this spellbinding story of faith and fulfilled prophecy, readers discover the “code” of Revelation as they begin to see it through the eyes of the persecuted believers to whom it was written.

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From the Back Cover:

The beast is on the throne.
The populace is ruled by its appetites.
And a divine prophecy emerges that some would die to protect and others would kill to snuff out.

With the empire sinking into decadence and decay, corruption has infected every sphere of Rome. Those in power have marked Gallus Sergius Vitas, one of the last men of integrity, as a threat to be eliminated.

Followers of Jesus are hunted down and killed for sport as Nero attempts to stamp out the fledgling religion. But the revelation of John, Jesus’ last disciple, portends a different victory, sending tremors through the empire.

From Publishers Weekly:

Tyndale House, the publisher of the Left Behind books, the megaselling Christian series about the end times, now presents a new series with a very different interpretation of biblical prophecy. Christian radio-show host Hanegraaff and bestselling CBA novelist Brouwer take readers back to the time of Nero in the first century. As the Roman Empire ruthlessly persecutes Christians, the novel's warrior-hero, Vitas, tries to defend them. But even Vitas can't prevent the destruction of the Jewish Temple—the historical event that sits at the center of this novel. Hanegraaff and Brouwer posit that the Book of Revelation, in code, predicted Roman persecution and the Temple's fall; subsequent novels in the series presumably will walk readers through the rest of Revelation, tying historical events to biblical prophecy. This is, to be sure, middle-brow genre fiction, and not an especially shining specimen thereof. The prose is plodding, with far too many dramatic sentence fragments and a conventional plot. The dialogue tends toward the unsubtly didactic (" 'Jesus, then, uses this rich symbolism?' Darda nodded.... 'You said John was obviously educated. Can you make any other guesses about him?' 'John verges on genius.' ") Despite the series' many flaws, readers who are hungry for apocalyptic fiction may embrace it, though it remains to be seen whether they'll find a first-century apocalypse as gripping as Left Behind's 21st-century one.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0842384383
• ISBN 13: 9780842384384
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416