Ill give fair warning this series has a pretty heavy religious theme too it which I know will turn alot of people off before they even read it. I normally am not interested in this style of series but a buddy of mine had one of the audio books and I listened to it one day while bored.
The series (13 books, final one released in march '07) is about the 7 year period on earth AFTER jesus as come and taken away the faithful. The world gets plunged into chaos when billions of people just suddenly vanish. Since everyone left on earth was left for a reason most dont believe in god or do but never bothered caring ect.
(semi spoiler-ish, but not really inc)
The main focus is on a group of people who form together as a resistence to the rising-to-power Anti-Christ. They now have to survive (or at least believe before they die) the next 7 years on earth until jesus returns one final time to give his final judgement. Obviously during this 7 year period the anti christ comes to full power and wars break out, mass executions for all those who dont swear to him ect. Also god will cast (that the right word? heh too many RPGs) judgements on the planet... little things like 200 million demonic horsemen on a seek and destroy mission
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I recommend this series to anyone. One of the things I really liked about it is that its not really that preachy at all. I wouldnt of read the series if it had been. I promise its not some church promotional series that will try to get you to believe in jesus or anything. In fact its pretty damn brutal in alot of parts. So even if you dont believe in god or whatever this series is still worth picking up. Take the time to read it I promise you wont regret it.
Left Behind (series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(btw, the series starts with the book Left Behind, there are some prequel books now but I havnt read them and you wont need to either to get into the story. I guess the prequel books are about the anti christ growing up)