The Last Disciple
by Hank Hannegraaff and Sigmund Brouwer
GoodBookStall Review:
Intended as something of a rival to the Left Behind series, The Last Disciple (and its sequel, The Last Sacrifice) aims to present a historical interpretation of the Revelation to John, set within, not a 21st century End Times scenario, but the contemporary period of the Roman Emperor Nero’s persecutions (AD 65-), here treated as the backdrop of a fictional story, albeit one in which John and his visionary document, and the persecutions themselves, loom large. Like the Left Behind books, The Last Disciple is a large novel filled with bite-sized sub-chapters and many (too many) characters, and plots; but the descriptions of Christian suffering - rightly put near the beginning – did pull me up sharp, with a realisation that we stand, unworthily, on the shoulders of moral giants, for whom today’s relativism was so totally absent.
Reviewer: John Thomas (21/12/05)
Intended as something of a rival to the Left Behind series, The Last Disciple (and its sequel, The Last Sacrifice) aims to present a historical interpretation of the Revelation to John, set within, not a 21st century End Times scenario, but the contemporary period of the Roman Emperor Nero’s persecutions (AD 65-), here treated as the backdrop of a fictional story, albeit one in which John and his visionary document, and the persecutions themselves, loom large. Like the Left Behind books, The Last Disciple is a large novel filled with bite-sized sub-chapters and many (too many) characters, and plots; but the descriptions of Christian suffering - rightly put near the beginning – did pull me up sharp, with a realisation that we stand, unworthily, on the shoulders of moral giants, for whom today’s relativism was so totally absent.
Reviewer: John Thomas (21/12/05)
