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Written by Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye, "Glorious Appearing" is the latest and final installment on their best-selling Left Behind series.

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The vehicle’s engine raced and when it began virtually climbing the wall, it was all Carpathia
[the Antichrist] could do to keep his balance. “Attack!” he screamed. “Attack! Attack! Attack!” His Unity Army surged ahead.
The siege was deafening. Jet engines, Jeeps, trucks, machine gun fire, cannons, rockets, you name it. But when the panoramic cross disappeared from the sky, the world went black. The only sound was the clicking of weapons that would not fire. Nothing produced light. No headlights. No matches or lighters.
And then, as if God had thrown the switch in heaven, light, and a brilliant multicolored cloud cover parted and rolled back like a scroll from horizon to horizon. Heaven opened and there, on a white horse, sat Jesus, the Christ, the Son of the living God.
Jesus’ eyes shone with a conviction like a flame of fire, and he held His head high and majestic. He wore a robe down to the feet so brilliantly white it was incandescent. He was girded about the chest with a golden band. His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow. His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace.
“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” He said, “the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End, the Almighty.”
And with those very first words, tens of thousands of Unity Army soldiers fell dead, simply dropping where they stood. “I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death” (Revelation 1:18 NKJV).
With that Carpathia scrambled down from his perch. “Retreat! Retreat! Retreat!”

During the story, one of the main Christian
characters in the story, meets Jesus face-to-
face. Our meeting may one day be similar.

As he came within steps of Jesus and saw His welcoming smile, Rayford was struck that the Lord seemed as thrilled to see him as he did to see the Lord. And he was overcome with the shame of his sin. Unworthy. So unworthy. He slowed almost to a stop, fearing he would collapse in disgrace and humiliation.
“No, no,” Jesus said, still smiling, and now leaning forward and reaching for him with scarred hands. When Rayford saw that, he dropped to his knees at Jesus’ feet, sobbing, reminded of every sin and shortcoming of his entire life. Loving hands gathered him in, and he was drawn to Jesus’
bosom. “Rayford, Rayford, how I have looked
forward to and longed for this day.”
Rayford could not speak.
Jesus took Rayford by the shoulders and gently pushed him back and cupped his face in His hands. He stared into his eyes from inches away, and Rayford could barely hold His piercing gaze. “I was there when you were born. I was there when you thought your mother had abandoned you. I was there when you concluded that I made no sense. And I was waiting when finally you came to Me.”
“I am so sorry. I—”
“I have loved you with an everlasting love.
I am the lover of your soul. You were meant to be with Me for eternity, and now you shall be.”

That is the love and forgiveness that Jesus offers you right now. Another of the book’s characters, Carmela, describes her realization of Christ’s love.

“I once was blind but now I see is the only way
I can say it,” Carmela said. “I was blind to God, blind to Jesus, selling my body to buy drugs and food. I had left everything and everybody important to me.
“But then one day you came to me, handed me a brochure, and said, ‘Somebody loves you.’
I read it that night, and I’m glad the Bible verses were in it, ‘cause I ain’t seen no Bible for years. What got me was that it wasn’t fancy, wasn’t hard to understand, didn’t get all complicated. It just told me God loved me, Jesus
died for me, and Jesus is comin’ again. All them Scriptures sounded true to me, ‘bout being a sinner, being separated from God, and Jesus being the way back to Him.
“Before I knew it, the only thing I wanted was
to get Jesus in my life. You told me it was simple.
All I had to do was pray and mean it. Tell God I was
sorry for the mess I made of my life and take Jesus
as my Savior. It ain’t been easy, but know what?
Now I’m ready when Jesus comes.”

You can be ready when Jesus comes too. Here’s how:
Admit your condition and your need—that as a sinner, you are separated from God and you need a Savior to redeem you.

All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Romans 3:23

Your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear. Isaiah 59:2

Jesus declared, “I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again.”
John 3:3
Believe that Jesus Christ died on the Cross to pay for your sin and then rose from the grave to give you eternal life.

Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved.
Acts 16:31

God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16

God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8

Through prayer, receive Jesus into your life as your Lord and Savior.

Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.
John 1:12

If you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 10:9

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Left Behind series at leftbehind.com.

Bible references: NIV (unless noted) • Printed in USA • ©2004
Extracted from Glorious Appearing, copyright © 2004 by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. Cover photo by Photodisc/Getty Images. All rights reserved. Used with permission of Tyndale House Publishers. Left Behind is a registered trademark of Tyndale House Publishers.