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Summary: I heard him on Larry King--very compelling thoughts!
Review: I am still reading it, I am not an overly religious person, but feel that something has been missing in my life, this book is opening up my mind and my thoughts. I am so glad that I bought it! Perhaps it will change my life--I would like to think that good begets good.
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Summary: Jim Bakker is WRONG again in bible prophecy
Review: I have just ordered this book, but since I finished I Was Wrong last summer, I've had a knawing desire to contact Jim Bakker. I was only in high school when the PTL scandal took place a few miles from where I grew up. I'd like to write Jim Bakker and tell him how much I'm praying for him and I'd even like to meet him. My heart went out to him as I read I Was Wrong. It makes me sick to see the media still make a mockery of his past. If anyone knows how I can write him, please let me know at my email address. I can't wait to read the book that I ordered.
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Summary: Awakened me to search scripture for the real truths.
Review: I literally consumed this book. There is nothing but truth to what Jim Bakker has to say, read this book, sit with your Bible and search the scriptures yourself. I have recently been rethinking the PreTrib Rapture "concept" and Bro. Bakker has given me reason to doubt what I have been taught all of my life. I see that Christians will go through at least a portion of the Tribulation as a refining process, taken out only before Judgment comes to the earth. I also see that God will provide for His children in ways that only He can. I understand more fully the NEED to prepare for the coming times. If you read this and do not come away with a renewed hunger to get closer to God and Love the Lord more than you ever have you have greatly missed something in this book. Be Prepared. You will have your theologies challenged. I recommend this book highly, I wish all pastors and leaders would read this book and glean the warnings that are here. Focus on God and not the things of the world!
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Summary: Awakened me to search scripture for the real truths.
Review: I literally consumed this book. There is nothing but truth to what Jim Bakker has to say, read this book, sit with your Bible and search the scriptures yourself. I have recently been rethinking the PreTrib Rapture "concept" and Bro. Bakker has given me reason to doubt what I have been taught all of my life. I see that Christians will go through at least a portion of the Tribulation as a refining process, taken out only before Judgment comes to the earth. I also see that God will provide for His children in ways that only He can. I understand more fully the NEED to prepare for the coming times. If you read this and do not come away with a renewed hunger to get closer to God and Love the Lord more than you ever have you have greatly missed something in this book. Be Prepared. You will have your theologies challenged. I recommend this book highly, I wish all pastors and leaders would read this book and glean the warnings that are here. Focus on God and not the things of the world!
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Summary: Doom's Children
Review: I saw Jim Bakker recently on the Larry King Show and thought the show was excellent. This book was mentioned so I bought it. On the Larry King Show Bakker came across as very sincere and a man who has begun to put his life back together. Bakker came across as being very rational. Larry King must not have read this book because this book basically says that the end of the world is very near and that believers should stockpile food and water in much the same manner as contemporary survivalists. One of the scenarios calls for a meteor or asteroid to hit the earth which would make the earth uninhabitable. This book was very interesting because basically all religions say that the world is going to end at some point in time. Bakker misjudged the Y2K problem (he said it could lead to chaos and nothing happened) and the supermarkets are overflowing with massive amounts of food, but who can what the future will hold for humanity?
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Summary: Prepare yourself for the inevitable...
Review: I too, can't believe I bought a book by Jim Bakker. And, I really liked it!Just finishing a phenomenal book series on Raptured Christians, I was compelled to read more on "The End Times." I was concerned about where in the Bible it spoke about "Rapture." I found all the pertinent Tribulation scriptures in Revelations, yet none of "Rapture." So, I searched and searched for anything that would lead me to this. I thought, "My God, what has this world come to for me to have to go to Jim Bakker for info on RAPTURE." Much to my surprise, it had nothing I was looking for, yet everything I needed to read. Jim speaks of our unconscious dependency on $$$, material things, wealth and things we take for granted daily such as utility, electricity, communications and so on - in our society today. And how we've become so accustomed to making all those things our God without even knowing it. Thus, making the Devil even more deceitful than one can comprehend. Perhaps we should challenge ourselves to see just how much "abundance of this world" is really a part of us. I know I feel awakened... I hear Jim Bakker urging us & crying out to us like John the Baptist did in Jesus' time to make straight the path of the Lord. It behooves us Christians to listen hard for God's guidance, rather than to our own pride slaying the words of other Christians whom we feel may not be in sync with our own beliefs. I hope Christians (like the choosen Jews of biblical times) find themselves choosing Jesus this time - and NOT Barrabas - because they're too content with the way they're living. I pray for all the Christians out there that they hear Jesus Christ through Jim Bakker or whomever He chooses to send ahead of Him, as Christ leads us through that narrow path to the Righteous One.
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Summary: Prepare yourself for the inevitable...
Review: I too, can't believe I bought a book by Jim Bakker. And, I really liked it! Just finishing a phenomenal book series on Raptured Christians, I was compelled to read more on "The End Times." I was concerned about where in the Bible it spoke about "Rapture." I found all the pertinent Tribulation scriptures in Revelations, yet none of "Rapture." So, I searched and searched for anything that would lead me to this. I thought, "My God, what has this world come to for me to have to go to Jim Bakker for info on RAPTURE." Much to my surprise, it had nothing I was looking for, yet everything I needed to read. Jim speaks of our unconscious dependency on $$$, material things, wealth and things we take for granted daily such as utility, electricity, communications and so on - in our society today. And how we've become so accustomed to making all those things our God without even knowing it. Thus, making the Devil even more deceitful than one can comprehend. Perhaps we should challenge ourselves to see just how much "abundance of this world" is really a part of us. I know I feel awakened... I hear Jim Bakker urging us & crying out to us like John the Baptist did in Jesus' time to make straight the path of the Lord. It behooves us Christians to listen hard for God's guidance, rather than to our own pride slaying the words of other Christians whom we feel may not be in sync with our own beliefs. I hope Christians (like the choosen Jews of biblical times) find themselves choosing Jesus this time - and NOT Barrabas - because they're too content with the way they're living. I pray for all the Christians out there that they hear Jesus Christ through Jim Bakker or whomever He chooses to send ahead of Him, as Christ leads us through that narrow path to the Righteous One.
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Summary: Right on the Money
Review: Jim Bakker has struck a resounding chord with his book on Prosperity and the Coming Apocalypse. Unlike an earlier reader who misunderstood Jim, he doesn't attack pre-tribulationism, but clearly shows from the biblical that the church may well experience the Tribulation. My question to the earlier reader is if God didn't spare the early church from such persecution, and they were probably a lot more pure in their expectations of Christ's return, why should God spare the Church of the 21st century from persecution, especially as it deals with the Church of Jesus Christ in the United States. We are a materialistic, soft, and spoiled church who argues about everything, and is accountable to no one. It's about time that God did some purifying, and that the Church SHOULD go through some of the Tribulation. Mr. Bakker is not embracing "Kingdom Now" theology, as the earlier reader suggested, and he should re-read Bakker's book to know this. The only problem with this book is it is dated as far as Y2K is concerned, and Bakker's insistence on a meteor is plausible, but not scientific. Maybe God would use His own creation to do the job. Only He knows, but Jim's treatise on prosperity is golden and should be read by all those who are in the wealth, health and prosperity, as well as the name it and claim it gospel, far more damaging than some other things. Highly recommended!!!!!
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Summary: Right on the Money
Review: Jim Bakker has struck a resounding chord with his book on Prosperity and the Coming Apocalypse. Unlike an earlier reader who misunderstood Jim, he doesn't attack pre-tribulationism, but clearly shows from the biblical that the church may well experience the Tribulation. My question to the earlier reader is if God didn't spare the early church from such persecution, and they were probably a lot more pure in their expectations of Christ's return, why should God spare the Church of the 21st century from persecution, especially as it deals with the Church of Jesus Christ in the United States. We are a materialistic, soft, and spoiled church who argues about everything, and is accountable to no one. It's about time that God did some purifying, and that the Church SHOULD go through some of the Tribulation. Mr. Bakker is not embracing "Kingdom Now" theology, as the earlier reader suggested, and he should re-read Bakker's book to know this. The only problem with this book is it is dated as far as Y2K is concerned, and Bakker's insistence on a meteor is plausible, but not scientific. Maybe God would use His own creation to do the job. Only He knows, but Jim's treatise on prosperity is golden and should be read by all those who are in the wealth, health and prosperity, as well as the name it and claim it gospel, far more damaging than some other things. Highly recommended!!!!!
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Summary: I can't believe I LIKED a book by Jim Bakker!
Review: Jim Bakker has two main points to make in this book: 1.) the prosperity gospel is "another gospel," and is not compatible with the gospel of Jesus Christ and 2.) Christians will not be raptured before the Great Tribulation but will go through the times of tribulation and be raptured when Christ returns at the end of the Tribulation. Hmmmm.....not exactly the same ole, same ole standard issue theology, is it? Not exactly what preachers preach when they want to keep everybody happy and comfortable and keep those pledges rollin' in! Jim Bakker has never been on my top ten list of Christians I look up to. Imagine my surprise, upon reading this book, to find that he has come to the same conclusions about prosperity and about the rapture/tribulation question that I feel the Holy Spirit has led me to through studying the scriptures. I have gotten nothing but grief in my church for expressing these thoughts--so I can only imagine the courage it must have taken for Mr. Bakker to begin preaching and teaching such unpopular positions. Nothing but the honest conviction that they are true could be motivating him. If you have "always assumed" that pre-trib is the only possible scriptural doctrine, I urge you to read this book (as well as books by Van Kampen). If you have a nagging feeling that "I wish above all things that you may prosper and be in health" is not, in fact, the most impoitrant verse in the NT about our attitude toward wealth, then you need to read this book. Those years in prison really were a blessing to Jim Bakker. And now he is a blessing to the church. "God has chosen the weak things and the foolish things to confound the wise." How great God is!
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