Kingdom Come by Jerry B. Jenkins, Tim Lahaye (2007, Hardcover)

I desperately wanted to read this sequel to the Left Behind series, I came "late" to the series so I didn't have to wait for a book to come out. I intended to wait and read the libraries copy - but found it at Walmarts and decided to spend my allowance on it. I may give it to the library when I finish. Hope you have read the series and want more - check out the Bible! What will the millennium be like? I always thought it'd be a perfect paradise with everyone worshiping Jesus and no crime, rape, drugs or murder - but according to LaHaye and Jenkins it will indeed be paradise on Earth, that is until the Children of the Tribulation grow up and some become non-believers, wanting to rule themselves or actually worship Lucifer. With Jesus come as a human to rule the Earth and Satan bound in chains the people of Earth still rebel allowing their fleshly desires to rule. There will be drugs, violence, crime and rebellion! I just can't imagine being on Earth with JESUS there IN PERSON and still people are given over to sin of the flesh. There is not even Satan there to tempt them, yet they sin! One of my favorite parts was when TOL gets a chaplain, oh what is TOL? Read the book and understand! All your favorite Bible characters are there - Noah, Joshua and Caleb, and David. I can't imagine it - the church is there in their glorified bodies and the other people age slowly and will live till the millennium is over. The ending is almost an exact quote from the Bible - they only thing I will miss on the new heaven and Earth is the seas and their creatures - look in Revelations, it succinctly says there will be no seas. I have had this explained as we will need the extra land for all the saved people - there goes my hope for a pod of pet dolphins! Maybe I can have a big pond on my 75 acres - picked that up from somewhere ???? who knows? I'm so sorry the series is over - but now I can read it all over again. The only downside of the book is that Jesus appeared to be an administrator seen only by the Elders and not by the people - I think that would be wrong. If Jesus spent his time on Earth with the people, I would think that during the Millennium Kingdom he's also be out and about making personal appearances and teaching.