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Church at Quail Creek: Amarillo / August 20, 2006.

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Over the past decade, the fifteen novels of the Left Behind series, written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, have racked up nearly 70 million sales, making them the fastest-selling adult fiction books in the country. These novels describe a near-future world in which the last acts of history follow a complicated scenario known by the ungainly name of dispensationalist premillennialism, an imaginative elaboration of the Second Coming. According to this script, faithful Christians will soon be "raptured"--snatched up to meet Jesus in the clouds--leaving the lost to endure the seven years of Great Tribulation, as well as betrayal and persecution by the Antichrist. At the close of this period, Jesus and a heavenly army will return, engage the Antichrist and his forces in the Battle of Armageddon, and usher in the millennium, a thousand-year period of peace, prosperity, and pleasant weather. Millions of evangelical and fundamentalist Christians subscribe to this doctrine, so I was pleased to have the opportunity to visit Amarillo's five-thousand-member Church at Quail Creek, whose pastor, Start Coffey, was...

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