This is a classic, and if you’re studying the book of Daniel, it’s a book you won’t be able to avoid. It’s a really thorough book calculating the timespans given in Daniel. Other scholars have differed from Mr Anderson’s conclusions, however. What makes the book particularly interesting for us is that it was published in 1894 – that’s before Israel returned to being a nation again. And what is significant is that Anderson repeatedly says that none of these things can come to pass until Israel is back in the land again – and who knows when that will be?! If only he had known that in a little over 50 years from his publishing his work that Israel would once again be found on the map – who knows what he would have written…
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666 – Salem Kirban
This is an interesting book; it’s a novel set after the Rapture, but because it was published in 1970, it’s got some funny ideas about how the author thought contemporary culture would be like in the 21st century. Mr Kirban makes a lot of use of the ‘picture phone’ which is like the iconic 1970s plastic telephone but with a video screen; even he couldn’t have envisaged ‘facetime’. He also uses ‘heliojets’ to get around, and ‘seahouses’ is not the name of a Northumberland town, but rather a collection of massive semi-submarine ships built to accommodate the world’s excessive population. My favourite bit was when the locust demons were released from the abyss – with jetpacks on! Hurrah! Brilliantly entertaining book, there’s nothing quite like it.
