What Was Left Out of the Left Behind Series?

When a series of religious novels become runaway best-sellers as soon as they're off the press, Christians everywhere should be delighted, right? Especially if the engrossing page turners focus on the second coming of Christ.

Phenomenally successful, the Left Behind series--followed by a video and major motion picture--has captured nationwide, even worldwide attention.

In this clear, biblical, and easy-to-read book, author and university church pastor Dwight Nelson takes a close-up look at the central even featured in this series--the snatching away of millions of earth's citizens, who vanish instantly in a ''secret rapture,'' leaving behind stunned and bewildered millions to puzzle over this mass disappearance of family, friends, and coworkers.

In these pages Pastor Nelson searches the Bible to see what it teaches about the second coming of Christ.

• Is the ''secret rapture'' in the Bible? If so, where? And if not, why?

• What does the Bible say about the ''tribulation'' and the ''antichrist''?

• Did the authors of Left Behind leave behind anything themselves as they wrote?

• Does it really matter what we believe about Christ's return, so long as we believe?

These are questions this book takes up--and you may find the answers both surprising and unexpected.