The Last Battle vs. Other Works of "Apocalyptic Fiction"

I was just thinking to myself yesterday; "Jesus' coming was nothing like the awaited coming of the Messiah they expected, though it was heavily prophesied. Why should the last days be any different?"

What really matters is that God wins. That much is clear.
 
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I was just thinking to myself yesterday; "Jesus' coming was nothing like the awaited coming of the Messiah they expected, though it was heavily prophesied. Why should the last days be any different?"

What really matters is that God wins. That much is clear.
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That is a very good point. Religious people who knew what Messiah would be and do, based on their extensive biblical scholarship, totally missed Messiah when He did arrive and did His work. They probably could have spun a good story about what was going to happen when the Redeemer came ... but when He actually did, His life and teachings and work and death were nothing like what they'd planned for.

I imagine that is how it will be, all over again, when He returns -- for me and for Tim LaHaye. God's plan will always far outshine our plan.
 
I have read the Left Behind Series during lock down and watched the movies before that. Even though I won't get into the theological aspect of it or into the end-time debate, it certainly makes you think. In way, it's really deep and frightening all at once.

Regardless, I think CS Lewis does a really good on presenting the last days in The Last Battle without going into all the dispute on how it will happened.
 
I'm going out on a limb here and suggesting that Revelation is not written to scare people into being good. It's written to reassure good people that no matter what it looks like, good will win in the end and the dictators of this world...whether the Philistines, the Roman Empire, or the Martian Colony...will not surprise or overcome God. It's also written to reassure us that as soon as the last people God wants in his kingdom for fellowship have lived as long as he has determined, AT THAT MOMENT, NOT ONE SECOND BEFORE OR AFTER, this world will be remade as well as redeemed.
 
JASMINE: Don't neglect to read the Space Trilogy, beginning with "Out of the Silent Planet." The final volume is set ON EARTH, but is connected with everything the hero experienced on other worlds. In that final volume, without committing himself to a doctrine about how The End will come, Lewis does a chillingly convincing job of describing the TYPES of deception and sabotage which the forces of Antichrist are sure to use.
 
I actually remember that after watching the Left Behind movie, I kind of had a nightmare about where my parents disappeared and I was wandering about in my house, looking for them. Thank goodness, it didn't happen. The franchise are really good movies. It's uneasy to watch at times.

I would say that CS Lewis presented the last days in The Last Battle without going into all the dispute on it will happened. I know people like to speculate when the world is going to end. There even had been some Bible preachers who tried to do that.
 
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The deceptions and intrigues involved in the Last Battle were written in such a way that they could be digested by even the youngest readers, without losing their importance. I appreciate CS Lewis for that as I was very young when I first read it. The older i got, the more I was able to get, but it was because I knew more and had more context to compare it to. So as far as end times/apocalyptic literature goes, Last Battle is top tier and handles a potentially devastatingly frightening subject with its proper respect, but gently.

However, it was the great throne of judgment which has stuck with me the most all these years. Every beast standing before Aslan and just one look into His eyes is enough to condemn or reward. I found that so powerful.

With the exception of "Further up, further in" which still gives me goosebumps, I found the judgment scene most poignant, on that day there will be no more excuses, no petitions, no arguments that will work. He knows and you know too. He will either say "Well done my good and faithful servant", or "I never knew you, depart from Me you workers of iniquity". That's it.
 
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