Jerry B. Jenkins

When the church is taken up, the church age comes to an end, and then the seven years of tribulation, that's when almost everything kicks in.

And that view has been... popularized by Hal Lindsey in his book, The Late Great Planet Earth, in the 1970s, and The Left Behind series, co-written by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, or mostly Jerry Jenkins was the writer, Tim LaHaye's the main theologians.

And you're probably familiar with The Left Behind series.

It's all coming in the future after we just disappear.

They even said they interviewed something that we have talked about, even with S90, is they knew Tim LaHaye, who was the author.

Well, he gave Jerry B. Jenkins the idea for Left Behind.

jeremy jenkins was the author now they're both counts for national policy members okay but they but they knew tim hey tim i actually endorsed one of troy anderson's books all right so that's where they're getting all that's where most christians get their idea of the antichrist from is from left behind

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Hey, welcome to 7-Minute Books.

I'm Sam, and today we're talking about Verbal Judo by George J. Thompson and Jerry B. Jenkins.

Sophie, I have to ask, what made you want to revisit this one?

Hey there, Sam.

I'm pretty sure my parents still have Freed Stride meat from Y2K in their basement.

But then also during this time, Jerry B. Jenkins, he was finishing his sixth book in the Left Behind series.

This was a super popular series about the end times, and it was a success.

Everyone was reading it.

Well, yeah, I mean, that's been a common reaction on social media when I've been posting the Trump versus the Bees book cover, because, you know, it's a pretty provocative book cover.

And, you know, people say, you know, Trump's the beast, right? But, you know, I remember I did an interview with Jerry Jenkins.

He's co-authored a Left Behind series here a few years back.

And he said that when he and Tim LaHaye were releasing the Left Behind series, about half the mail they got was that the current president was the Antichrist.

They were very interested in learning about the rapture.

If you remember the time, uh, the, the book series Left Behind by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins had, had come out, and there was a lot of interest in studying, uh, about things of the end times, and the rapture specifically.

Uh, in the last handful of years, um, I have noticed that the church is drifting away from the teachings of the rapture and of the, the, the, of what I would argue or say would, or describe as a traditional dispensational view of scripture.

And it's, for me, personally, it's very disheartening, uh, because Titus, Paul and Titus in the Book of Titus calls the rapture our blessed hope, this time of the glorious appearing of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

So we set all that up to set these two gentlemen up.

Joining me now, New York Times best-selling author, again, of the Left Behind series, and he's got a new book out, which we're gonna talk about, The Battle for Heaven and Earth, Jerry Jenkins.

Joining him, co-author of this brand-new book, along with being the co-author, he's also the president of the Dallas Theological Seminary, Dr.

Mark Yarbrough on the program.

Good timing.

Gentlemen, thank you so much.

Jerry Jenkins, Dr.

Mark M. Yarbrough.

So these are these big 2,000 plus membership churches, often in auditoriums.

And it happened to be the megachurch that a guy named Jerry Jenkins went to.

And Jerry Jenkins is one of the co-authors of the Left Behind novels, which were these really popular novels in the 90s and 2000s.

It was a fictionalized version of the End Times.

The Rapture was in the first book, and then the Antichrist and all that kind of stuff.