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There's plenty of action in the first pages of Pat Robertson's fictionalized account of the end times The End of the Age--the discovery of a giant meteor heading for southern California, incredible tidal waves and earthquakes, the U.S. President shooting himself while on national TV. But that's in the first 40 pages as Carl and Lori Thorneberry are fleeing Los Angeles for Albuquerque.
Once there, they join a group of survivors in the Christian Resistance and seek to provide safety and restore order in the madness around them. Much of this evil bedlam is directed from the new man in the oval office-or by the unearthly power at work in him.
But somehow this very timely book loses the thread that would have made it good fiction. Perhaps it's because the reader loses contact with the people introduced in the opening pages. Perhaps it's because so much of the book is told in a narrative form rather than the words and actions of the characters. Perhaps it because Robertson sees world finance and politics on a big scale and can only paint the larger picture.
In any case, the content does make readers think about scenarios of the end times and what biblical prophecy foretells. In Robertson's case, it's the post-tribulationist viewpoint. The End of the Age is definitely worth reading as we approach the turn of the century and are accosted by events like the horrible Oklahoma City bombing and the rapid spread of the AIDS virus.
Robertson, who placed third in 1988 for the Republican presidential nomination, is founder and chairman of the Christian Broadcasting Network, the Christian Coalition, the American Center for Law and Justice, and numerous relief and evangelistic organizations. He is perhaps best known as host of "700 Club." He has written five previous books.
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