End-of-Life Books

In this slim volume of some two hundred and forty-one pages, Kieran Mulvaney has successfully melded historical documentation,
traditional narratives, environmental concerns and global policy
issues. There are those who will quibble that such a range of subject matter cannot be meaningfully covered in such a spare package; however, what Mulvaney has achieved by deliberately opting for the streamlined shark rather than the weightier sperm whale is to produce a work which enables direct juxtaposition of Arctic and Antarctic characteristics and issues and to do so in an accessible and eminently readable fashion.
As one who has spent some time in the Arctic and has read widely
on northern exploration and development, I welcome this text which permits me to experience, however vicariously, the "other" end of the earth.
For people who enjoy reading about the environment brought to life by historical and political insights or enjoy reading history quickened by their relationship to todays ecological and political issues, this is a book which they will find both refreshing and informative.

Polar literature is exploding, seems like every week there is another book out about struggles to reach the poles, or simply struggles to cross and chart the fragile yet savage lands at the ends of the earth. Many of these books make for fine reading, but most of then simply tell the tale. Kieran Mulvaney's "At the Ends of the Earth" makes the effort to look at what happens to some special places after they are discovered and mapped. Unfortunately this isn't always a pretty picture. As someone who has spent a great deal of time in some of the northern reaches of North America, and who dreams of Antarctica I greatly enjoyed the kernals of information Kieran includes. He does an excellent job of finding and highlighting some little know events in polar exploration and development. This book makes a fine addition to any library of polar science and discovery, right along side "The Mystery of the Ice," and "The Quiet Margin of the World."

Kieran Mulvaney's "At the Ends of the Earth" is a strong candidate for this year's most misleading subtitle award. The subtitle states that the book is "A History of the Polar Regions," a pretty hefty task, especially for a book that clocks in at a mere 245 pages of text. Of course, it is not a comprehensive, or even a very complete history. Instead, the book is really a essay on the environmental damage man's presence has caused in both the Arctic and Anarctic. Stories of famous explorers like Admundsen, Scott, Cook, Peary and the like get mentions ranging from a couple of sentences to a few paragraphs. The majority of the book concerns such subjects as whaling, seal hunting, oil exploration, the effects of civilization on eskimos and so forth.

Were the book as well written and as focussed and balanced as recent environmental tomes such as "Oceans End" and "Earth Odyssey," it would still be a worthwhile read. Instead, Mulvaney spends most of his time regurgitating facts and statistics until they become numbing. His leftist environmental stance is also hard to take by anyone who doesn't share his zealous views. He comes off as the kind of environmentalist who would rather see human civilization collapse than have it do anything to further exploit natural resources. In the end, I suspect that his book will have little impact, as he will find himself preaching only to the already committed.

I was very surprised at the quality of this book. I have the hardback copy.

I liked it so much I ordered another one as a gift for my son.

He thought it was a very helpful study guide.

Great book for Cottage Study Group or Prison Bible Class.

The paper back is affordable.

Excellent overview of bible prophecy in a concise and informative manner. Will recommend this anyone , from the babe in Christ onto those who would teach end times prophecy. A must have on everyone's library shelf.

Tim LaHaye, Jerry Jenkins, and others in the Pre-Trib circle, such as Ed Hindson, Tommy Ice, Chuck Missler, etc., continue to put forth the same deceptions that Hal Lindsey popularized decades ago. The notion of a pre-tribulation rapture is foreign to scripture, it is foreign to the teachings of the early Church, and it is grooming the Church for destruction through ignorance and lack of preparation for what is really coming. These men are novices and not prophecy "experts" or "scholars" by any stretch of the imagination; they are those who tickle the ears of gullible Christians. Why continue to be deceived? Tim Cohen, in his excellent book, "The AntiChrist and a Cup of Tea," provides biblically sound and testable evidence to show that the coming AntiChrist is known NOW. Not only that, the same author (Tim Cohen) has now put out the strongest presentation on the whole issue of the rapture EVER offered to the saints of God in Christ: "The REAL Rapture". If you really want to know the truth about the timing of the coming rapture, then you need to hear Tim Cohen's "The REAL Rapture" (based on a volume in his forthcoming "Messiah, History, and the Tribulation Period" series (see Prophecy House's site for details on these items, which are also available via Amazon).

My goodness, 14 years as an SDA was TOO long!!! Marvin Moore takes Adventist prophecy to new heights of historical and theological ignorance in his latest piece of end-times FICTION. I encourage my Adventist friends to read up on the history presented here, without Adventist or even general Christian bias. Just a 2nd glance from first a historical then theological viewpoint at some of Moore's conclusions will open your eyes to the follies of man concerning the mysteries of God. ...

No other book on the topic of "End Times" paints a clearer picture in the mind than this book! Marvin Moore walks you very carefully through biblical prophecies that have already taken place in our world, and through this world's END TIME CRISIS events which are soon to occur, as foretold straight from the Bible.

Be prepared so you won't be deceived! Tomorrow will reflect how you react today....

A MUST READ book for anyone wanting to know the truth about the Second Coming of Christ Jesus..

This book provides the reader with background information on what to expect in the final days of earth's history as we approach The Crisis of The End Time. The book provides very practical advice on exactly how we should go about developing and deepening our relationship with Jesus Christ as we enter this awesome period.

A clear vision of what events we can expect to precipitate the persecution of the Saints is given along with signs that the trouble is about to begin. This is a guide book to spiritual survival for the Christian in the end time.

Richard Lischer offers a powerful and provocative definition of preaching in the modern world. He portrays the homiletical task as beyond bland labels and simplistic theories and restores the prophetic and critical nature of preaching. This book is a good read for those who have completed an introductory course in preaching. I recommend it for the thoughtful pastor.

Rev. Lischer's book, "The End of Words," should be read for what it is: a textual reproduction of lecture series given at Yale. Context is important. It does make a helpful book for preachers, especially new and young preachers. Of course, most readers have something to disagree with an author about; that's expected. However, it's not fair to simply write Rev. Lischer off as one who is "jealous" or "bitter" about not having grown a big church.

I would recommend reading this book in conjunction with two of Lischer's other texts. First is "The Company of Preachers," a text in which Lischer compiled the collective wisdom of Christian preachers through the ages. Second is "Open Secrets," his memoir of his first parish appointment. "Open Secrets" is PHENOMENAL.

I feel an author's individual work (such as this text) is often best evaluated in light of his or her other texts. That said, pick up these three books!
Open Secrets: A Memoir of Faith and Discovery

The Company of Preachers: Wisdom on Preaching, Augustine to the Present

These are well-written reflections that unfortunately peter off into a feeble conclusion. Lischer, a Homiletics Professor at Duke Divinity, is generating the kind of literature that Willimon of the same school has made unfortunately popular: well-spoken cultural analysis that sounds edgy but changes nothing.

The book is divided into four sections.

The first, Vocation, thoughtfully captures the agony of the preacher who searches for words in a sea of words and often comes up with silence. However, Lischer gravitates quickly towards an awkward dichotomy between the integrity of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the marketeering of Powerpoint using megachurches, something Lischer writes off as entertainment that belittles the power of the word of God. Having traveled in the circles of the declining mainline Protestant churches, I wonder immediately if Lischer is not just a former pastor who harbors resentment against the contemporary emphasis on evangelism and church growth. I wonder if he doesn't feel put down by those who built big churches while he, perhaps more intelligent and profound, was unable to follow suit. Just a guess that comes from listening to a lot of pastors complain about big churches. He goes on to criticize cute story-telling (p. 39) in lieu of authentic reporting of the text, which is an enticing way to introduce the book.

The next section, Interpretation, addresses the issue of hermeneutics and exegesis. Without really solving anything, he nonetheless gives some clever categories of reading: flat (which considers all verses of equal value with no center), convenient (which reduces the text to practical tips on daily living), ironic (which observes the wide difference between God and humanity). Instead, he recommends what he calls the generous reading, which is the basis of truly theological sermons (p. 63). This involves reading with the church (p. 74), not insisting on a single, definitive meaning of any given passage (p. 86), and communicating the experience of the text itself without embellishment. Now we have moved from thoughtful reflections into the over-examined quagmire of epistemology, and he's not saying anything new.

In the third section, Narration, Lischer encourages us to drop the outworn, insider vocabulary of the church, which he terms "code," and instead dive into postmodernity (p. 98) and put away the "Grand narrative" to admit that the narrative of humanity is not finished. We are to use the "focal instance"(p. 110) and "perspectival retelling of the biblical story" (p. 118), or telling the story from the vantagepoint of the characters. Unfortunately, neither of these escape the fact that the preacher has an interpretive lens and is using it persuasively; it is only a sleight-of-hand to make his audience think he does not. In a last ditch effort to escape the charge of neutrality, he claims that the gospel narratives do "hang together" (p. 124) and that it matters that Jesus is real, but his only means of convincing us of such is to have us tell the story over and over.

Finally, in Reconciliation, he tells us the point of preaching. We are to escape authoritarian language that leads to violence and instead preach for the language of love (p. 156). Sermons should be narrative rather than argumentative or persuasive. He tells us that the ministry of the word is "an endless card game" (p. 151). In the end, it seems that such is what he is playing. Even while admitting that the language of tolerance is theologically tepid, even while admitting that the influential theologians of the early church and the Reformation were clear and dogmatic, Lischer winds up with little more to say than "Let's all get along."

To his credit, he says it awfully well. He's an extremely good writer. And he can always fault me for not preaching enough of his peace, because, of course, I'm trying to convince you that he's wrong. But then, he can't consistently argue I should do otherwise.

Joyce's voice is missing - so that punch I was expecting was also missing. Also - I ordered the CD because I assumed that I could listen to a morning message on my way into work and the evening message on my way home. Disk management would have been easier if the morning and ending message would be on the same disk and I would not need to switch disks. Also, hard to tell when day one is done on my CD player. The messages are very good and inspiring, but the ease of the CD method of listening wasn't as expected.

Joyce Meyer's STARTING YOUR DAY RIGHT, ENDING YOUR DAY RIGHT BOX SET: DEVOTIONS TO BEGIN AND END EACH DAY is on 4 CDs narrated by Andra McCollom, whose smooth voice lends quiet inspiration to a wonderful set. This will make either a fine lending library addition or a perfect gift for any seeking inspiration.

Joyce's daughter is an adequate reader of this audio book but she lacks the punch of hearing Joyce herself. I'd rather purchase a DVD with Joyce presenting this material. I am dissapointed in this purchase.

This book is very impressive. The research is first rate and the writing is excellent. The coverage of population as an issue is comprehensive. It is especially effective in presenting the terrible consequences of human overpopulation on habitat destruction and biodiversity. I've read several books on human overpopulation. This is the best

The relentless litany of bad news is unfortunately a common theme in many environmental books,including this one. It completely overlooks the major worldwide trends--more food per capita,safer water,lower infant mortality,for example--that have increased life expectancy by more than 20 years since World War ll.

Being substantially outside of Bell Hooks' target audience, I confess a certain amount of difficulty in hearing what she has to say. Frankly, I had to read this book twice in order to get past her offensive terminology. "Whiteness" is the foundational problem for Hooks, and it leads to racism, colonization, and "oppressive structures of domination."

It is possible that Hooks uses inflammatory language with intention. Her overarching purpose seems to be to rekindle black solidarity in order to complete movement toward racial freedom and equality. This goal is laudable, but I find it easier to support Hooks when she rephrases this goal outside of racial class conflict. She advocates for control of one's destiny, self-actualization, community, and integrity of being, but she does not seem to realize that these are the yearnings of all humanity, not simply American blacks.

American culture, perhaps every human culture, is hierarchical. Even whites must deal with the "oppression" of those higher in the structure. Continued fracturing of middle and lower levels of the social structure along racial lines merely diffuses the power innate to each social class. Coalitions across racial, religious, and ethnic barriers are needed to compete with the hegemonic power of the social elites. Hooks passionate voice may actually work to maintain the secondary status of black Americans by making such coalitions more difficult.

I find two additional inconsistencies in Hooks message. First, she advocates solidarity and self-actualization, but I cannot help but wonder if these two goals can be harmonized. Secondly, I believe she is guilty of baseline distortion in her assumption of hopelessness as the black cultural norm. This implied victimization is self-defeating, and seems to deny the tremendous advances black Americans have made educationally and economically in the last twenty years.

It is possible that America needs to be continually confronted lest we become complacent in the progress we have made toward an egalitarian ideal. If so, Hooks' voice should be heard. But make no mistake about it, Hooks is not a voice of calm reason and balanced reflection. She writes from the fringes where ideals shine so brightly that the merest hint of a blemish is magnified.

Yearning is comprised of a series of essays, which identify, dissect, and communicate cultural politics with a focus on the world's lack of focus towards black women. Various overlooked and underrepresented groups in the media and world literature are given a voice too. Stereotypes and cultural ignorance is dealt with thoroughly. Not only does the author shoot down the upper-class white heterosexual male icon, she analyzes mentally, statistically and historically oppressed peoples own misgivings. All the while, the book is entertaining. bell hooks has a straight forward approach that forces one to look past his-story's rhetoric and recognize truths. hooks writes for those with a vocabulary, so if that's what you lack, grab Webster and learn a few words as you gain insight and recognition on cultural politics.

Ok, maybe i won't manage to be as funny and original as some of the people that critiqued this book before me but let me tell you this: the rapture is about the biggest slice of balony there is.
People floating up to heaven when the end times come, saved by the Lord while everybody left behind will fry....what a crock!
I think there is some mental illness going on here.

This book fails to answer a basic question many Christians have: what if it isn't a convenient time to Rapture? For example, everytime I sit on the toilet, I say "Please, God, don't take me now! I've been constipated 6 days, and here on the 7th I'm about to lose 10 pounds, so don't take me flying until I'm done". Other people ask about what happens if the Rapture occurs while they are having "marital interactions" (there is no sin in the marital bed). I can't picture my wife and me floating up to heaven naked and intertwined like pretzyls! I think the book should have given us more tips on how to be ready for Rapture, and whether God will make allowances for sitting on the pot or on our wife's face! We do keep rain coats and umbrellas in all rooms and in the car, in case we are Raptured during a winter storm.

This was a wonderful book! A must read for all ages. Very informative and, after intensive studies on this subject, accurate.

Back in the late 70s my sister became a born again Christian and told us the "good news"...accept Jesus or we're gonna fry in hell...now up until that point, I really didn't think Jesus had it in for me. I thought we were buddies, but this kind of changed the relationship. Whereas before I thought he was cool, now I was beginning to think he was a little bit controlling. Now I had to believe in him. And y'know what? I got just a little resentful and a little bit rebellious. I mean, if I'm gonna be labeled as bad and as a sinner, I want to do some things to back it up.

This idea that I was constantly displeasing God, that I was constantly being tested, that the end times were always just right around the corner really soured my relationship I had with God and by the time I was 19, I really wanted nothing to do with God so I became a born again atheist...at least for a little while.

And what I realized during that little stint, is that God is Real...more Real than anything else because God is Love and Love is God and Love only knows Reality and True Reality cannot be upset or crippled or thwarted because it is the only thing that is Real. So, no, there is nothing I can do that is going to merit punishment in an afterlife. God created me out of Itself. God loves me as much as God loves Jesus because God created me out of the very same stuff that God created Jesus out of. The only difference between Jesus and the rest of us, is that Jesus knew his Oneness with God, most of us, however, have forgotten.

And it's easy to forget with books like this because these books, these religions, these preachers don't believe in Love as much as they believe in fear, they believe in hell more than Heaven, they believe in sin more than they believe in redemption and y'know why boys and girls? Fear sells. Fear keeps the money rollin' in...fear keeps the parking lots of these fundie churches packed...and it is SAD and DISGRACEFUL...that means, without Grace and I think that God is always Gracing us, always embracing us, always making all things new but how can we let the new in when we're focused on sin, on guilt, on fear?

Jesus the Christ embodied Love. I believe in his simple and eloquent teachings. The stuff that was taught after he left the Earth plane was taught by a guy interested mostly in making a name for himself. Is this what we have come to? People have been predicting the end of the world since the beginning of the world and there will be an end of the world as we know it now and Christ will return to Earth, not outside of ourselves, but within each one of our hearts. We will see everything and every one through Love, through compassion, through the simple and gentle knowing that what we do to others we do to ourselves and what we do to ourselves we do to God because everything is One. There is no sin, but a mistake, and all sin is simply an error thinking and feeling and acting as if you're separate from God and we never are.

Come out of your fear induced nightmare and come to Love...come to God...come to the realization that Heaven is now and stop buying into fear and stop buying books that promote fear. The only reason why I even read this book was because my friend thought I might find it interesting. I found it very, very sad. Jesus came to this life to remind us to live this life abundantly well, to love one another, to remember God in every situation.



At least I have found a good use for this book, however, the thickness of this book is just right to hold up the leg of this coffee table I found at a garage sale. I can use this book until I get a new caster.

Peace and Blessings, everyone and may you allow your thinking to become Love based and God centered.

The notion of a rapture is one of a few outraqeous fantasies which seem to resurface every so often throughout history. Funny how "prophecy" can only be applied to postdiction and never to prediction. I can at least respect the naked profit motive behind the Left Behind series. The writing in this book suggest the authors lack the intelligence to possess such ambition. But if you truly believe in the "rapture", why wait? Go find a sturdy tree and a length of rope.

Those looking for an intensive, in-depth analysis of his Music are in for a disappointment. This book is about the Life and Times of a musical legend, not his songs, or his accomplishments! The man was not a God and people need to get over that fact. If you're looking for a hero-worshipping book, don't buy this one.

I picked this book of just to have something to read and it floored me. The book gives you ALL of Elvis's life and not just the sanitized versiion. I would highly recommend it to anyone seeking the TRUTH about Elvis. From his greatest moments to his lowest.

Bad taste as most of the poor writers against the man and his huge musical talents. No matter how much they try to trash him he will be the One and Only forever. I wasn't a fan of Elvis before the 1997. Yeah, twenty years after his death! Then I started getting interested on him. Watched all his movies, read all or most of his books, and he captured, not only my heart, but my mind too! What a phenomenum! Incredible!

A lot of work went into this book, but it lacks objectivity. It is pro-Elvis, though not excessively so, but it seems entirely too kind to Dr. Nick and Priscilla.

Dr. Nick no doubt curbed Elvis's overall drug consumption and minimized the careless peaks that would have occurred had he not been present. However, Dr. Nick was still party to the drug excess. It is difficult not to believe that his interest was primarily money at the expense of caring for Elvis. Despite receiving a hefty income, he found it necessary to borrow $200,000 from his very volatile patient. And then there was the racquetball misadventure resulting in legal estrangement. Still, I received a better appreciation for Dr. Nick's effort by reading this book. He did have a daunting task.

As regards Priscilla, the authors seem to have bought the image she has been trying to project. Finstadt's book on Priscilla presents a more plausible picture.

If Peter Guralnick's mammoth two volume biography didn't exist, this book might serve more of a purpose. But compared to the Guralnick books this is downright flimsy. There is excruciatingly little new here though there are a few early anecdotes and some interesting interviews with marginal players in the Presley story like co-stars Deborah Walley and Mary Ann Mobley who don't get interviewed in connection with Presley very often. There is also extensive interview time spent with the infamous Dr. Nick. Otherwise the book seems like a collection od press clippings that have been trotted out dozens of times before. To make things worse, it seems that in the photo sections the authors deliberately went out of their way to find the most familiar pictures available.
You would think that there wouldn't be anything new to write about Elvis but the Guralnick books were filled with revelations. He didn't stop at the familiar and wound up turning up dozens of forgotten gems just from information that had been in the public domain but had never been gathered in a contemporary work about the king.
This book has other problems besides familiarity. Elvis' music gets glossed over. For example Elvis' 1969 memphis sessions, that produced From Elvis in Memphis and "Suspicious Minds" perhaps the artistic height of his career, get a page and a half. While the authors have an appreciation for Presley's achievement they don't always appear to have the greatest understanding of it. Reading authors like Guralnick, Dave Marsh, Greil Marcus and even Ernst Jorgenson you can feel and hear the music as you read. In their descriptions the music sets off a universe of ideas. That's not the case here. There is a discography, a filmography and a list of Elvis' TV appearances in the back but these have been done better (sometimes in entire books)many times before. In fact, the discography, because of its arbitrary selections and factual errors, is useless.
So, unless you have to read every single word that has ever been written about Elvis you can miss this one.

Darbyism (the eschatology expounded in this book) is a Johnny-Come-Lately interpretation of the Bible. It's running rampant among evangelicals today, but that is a phenomenon that is recent in church history. Not Augustine, nor Luther, nor Calvin, nor Knox, nor Edwards, nor Spurgeon held to this view. It appeals to those who are titillated by the "deep secrets" of the end times and/or science fiction and fantasy. Do a wikipedia search for John Nelson Darby and learn more.

Trying to justify a work of fiction by writing another book to try to prove it's true - doesn't make it true. There is a reason there are respected Christian theologians writing books that explain how the Left Behind series doesn't parallel what is in the Bible. The Bible is true, Left Behind is fiction.

I was quite amazed at the "epistle" negative reviews of this book. One in particular talked about the 'literal' weapons and such. It only took reading three sentences of this review to know that the writer has an extreamly limited knowledge of the Bible itself, and biblical prophecy, yet went on to write what amounted to a 300 word essay. Those who are not of the spirit, can NOT understand the things of the spirit.

I have just finished reading "The Truth Behind Left Behind" by Hitchcock and Ice. As a layman who considers himself to be a well read and versed student on the subject of Bible prophecy, I would consider this book to be an highly accurate and well documented explaination of the end times as they are written in the Bible. Many people who study prophecy have many different interpretations of what, when and how the Bible says that the world will end and Gods Kingdom will be ushered in. To many of those people I would say, "stop trying to read between the lines!" The Bible is the inerrant Word of God and what it says as you read it is exactly what it means. People try to put too much conjecture into Gods Word that simply isn't there. The books of the Old Testament and their prophecies of the end times identically match those in the New Testament so I truly do not understand where most of these detractors of the "Left Behind" series come up with their arguments that say the books are untrue and not well founded. These people are supposed to be Biblical scholars, well they either aren't reading the same Bible I do or they need to work on their comprehension skills. "The Truth Behind Left Behind" is right on the money in explaining the Biblical accuracy and validity of the "Left Behind" series of books concerning end times events. So as I stated in my title, "Why Not Believe the Truth?" this book is a must read for all of those who have been distracted by the detractors. I would recommend that everyone who is seriously interested in the truth about end times events should read "The Truth Behind Left Behind"!

Let me cite just one example from The Truth Behind Left Behind that makes it a very weak defense of the Left Behind theology. There are many more, but there are space limitations. In Tim LaHaye's Introduction to TBLB, we read: "Jerry [Jenkins] and I have unashamedly taken the position that all prophecy should be interpreted literally whenever possible. We have been guided throughout by the golden rule of interpretation: When the plain sense of Scripture makes common sense, seek no other sense. Take every word at its primary, literal meaning unless the facts of the immediate context clearly indicate otherwise" (7). So shouldn't the reader interpret the weapons of Ezekiel 38-39--bows, arrows, shields, war clubs, spears, horses, and chariots--literally? Not according to our authors. Here's their interpretation from their chapter "The Coming Russian/Islamic Invasion": "Inspired by the Holy Spirit, Ezekiel spoke in language that the people of his day could understand. If he had spoken of MIG-29s, laser-fired missiles, tanks, and assault rifles, this text would have been nonsensical to everyone until the twentieth century" (47). Of course, this is question begging in the extreme. Why would the people in Ezekiel's day need to understand a prophecy if it wasn't meant for them? Why confuse them and us? How do Hitchcock, Ice, and LaHaye KNOW that this is what the Holy Spirit meant? Once the trio makes these ancient weapons of no consequence, they are free to create their own prophetic scenario that can't be tested because it all takes place after Christians are no longer here! Convenient. Consider their words: "The focus clearly is NOT the specific weapons that will be used by these invaders" (47). What happened to "literal interpretation"? The weapons may not be the passage's "focus," but they can't be dismissed as inconsequential to the narrative. The weapons are part of the story from beginning to end, and if taken literally would negate the future scenario outlined by the authors. They claim that Ezek. 38-39 has to be a DISTANT future battle because it takes place in the "latter years" (38:8) and the "last days" (38:16). Most biblical scholars, even some dispensationalists, would say that these two time expressions most often mean nothing more than "in the future" or "in the days to come." The same Hebrew phrase is translated as "the days to come" in Num. 24:14, which probably refers to David's victory over Moab. The prophecy of Deut. 31:29, where the same expression is used, came to pass in the period of the Judges (cf. 2:20-21). Here's how one Bible expositor explains it: "this expression does not refer to 'the latter days' (KJV, RSV) in the eschatological sense. . . , but rather to that portion of the future that falls within the scope of the speaker's perspective (cf. Gen. 49:1)." Then one has to wonder why the authors avoid interacting with Edwin M. Yamauchi's Foes of the Northern Frontier which refutes their historical, geographical, and lexographic arguments line by line, and it was written in 1982! Yamauchi is a noted expert on this subject. The Russian invasion premise is only one of the book's many problems. If readers are interested in this topic, I suggest that they pick up a copy of End Times Fiction: A Biblical Consideration of the Left Behind Theology written by me. Since Hitchcock and Ice refer to it several times, it would be helpful to read what they do not deal with.