Unless one already believes that Gill is a prophet, this rambling text full of misinformation and scolding is unlikely to...
In a rambling commentary fueled by imaginative correlations between the King James version of the Bible and current events, Gill prophesies the world’s fate.
Gill, aka Moses, writes with such obsessive and prolix intensity about spiritual matters, it’s easy to understand why his “blessed-ex” wife told him to “Go be Moses.” The author states that “God revealed that the prophetic truths herein could only be found by reading the King James Version with the direction of the Holy Spirit.” Optimistic passages about God’s love open the account. It is “the depth of God’s love that He has for you to bring The Book of Stone your way before it’s too late.” The numerous quoted Bible texts (all quotes are underlined) bounce between the Old and New Testaments as needed, with special attention devoted to the books of Ezekiel, Daniel, Jeremiah and Revelations. After a brief introductory section about the number of the Antichrist, passages detail a “vast conspiracy” connected to the International Monetary Fund. The author notes that the IMF is spearheaded by the powerful “Zionist Occupational Government” consisting of renegade Jews whose “god is Satan.” Gill writes that the Holocaust is a hoax and that the dominant gentile world system is led by the “Great Whore,” which is “almost the same as the “New World Order,” an order created by a vast conspiracy of all levels of government, universities, the Postal Service, Wall Street, mass media giants, day cares and more to maintain a “grand scale delusion” to hide the truth. This nearly 300-page screed, which offends just about everyone, is meant to save “comfortable Christians, and even non-believers,” and exemplifies the difficulties inherent in persuading others if one maintains a literalist biblical ideology divorced from context, history and scholarship. When Gill writes briefly about friends and family, he seems like a pretty nice guy, but he seems unable to consider that he, himself, might be one of the false prophets he warns about in Chapter 9 (also the chapter in which he forecasts in fanciful detail exactly how the New Jerusalem will come about).
Unless one already believes that Gill is a prophet, this rambling text full of misinformation and scolding is unlikely to persuade.Pub Date: Sept. 10, 2008
ISBN: 978-1477239896
Page Count: 316
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Review Posted Online: Nov. 7, 2012
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Worthwhile reference stuffed with facts and illustrations.
A compendium of charts, time lines, lists and illustrations to accompany study of the Bible.
This visually appealing resource provides a wide array of illustrative and textually concise references, beginning with three sets of charts covering the Bible as a whole, the Old Testament and the New Testament. These charts cover such topics as biblical weights and measures, feasts and holidays and the 12 disciples. Most of the charts use a variety of illustrative techniques to convey lessons and provide visual interest. A worthwhile example is “How We Got the Bible,” which provides a time line of translation history, comparisons of canons among faiths and portraits of important figures in biblical translation, such as Jerome and John Wycliffe. The book then presents a section of maps, followed by diagrams to conceptualize such structures as Noah’s Ark and Solomon’s Temple. Finally, a section on Christianity, cults and other religions describes key aspects of history and doctrine for certain Christian sects and other faith traditions. Overall, the authors take a traditionalist, conservative approach. For instance, they list Moses as the author of the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible) without making mention of claims to the contrary. When comparing various Christian sects and world religions, the emphasis is on doctrine and orthodox theology. Some chapters, however, may not completely align with the needs of Catholic and Orthodox churches. But the authors’ leanings are muted enough and do not detract from the work’s usefulness. As a resource, it’s well organized, inviting and visually stimulating. Even the most seasoned reader will learn something while browsing.
Worthwhile reference stuffed with facts and illustrations.Pub Date: Sept. 1, 2005
ISBN: 978-1-5963-6022-8
Page Count: -
Publisher: N/A
Review Posted Online: May 23, 2010
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
This a book of earlier, philosophical essays concerned with the essential "absurdity" of life and the concept that- to overcome the strong tendency to suicide in every thoughtful man-one must accept life on its own terms with its values of revolt, liberty and passion. A dreary thesis- derived from and distorting the beliefs of the founders of existentialism, Jaspers, Heldegger and Kierkegaard, etc., the point of view seems peculiarly outmoded. It is based on the experience of war and the resistance, liberally laced with Andre Gide's excessive intellectualism. The younger existentialists such as Sartre and Camus, with their gift for the terse novel or intense drama, seem to have omitted from their philosophy all the deep religiosity which permeates the work of the great existentialist thinkers. This contributes to a basic lack of vitality in themselves, in these essays, and ten years after the war Camus seems unaware that the life force has healed old wounds... Largely for avant garde aesthetes and his special coterie.
Pub Date: Sept. 26, 1955
ISBN: 0679733736
Page Count: 228
Publisher: Knopf
Review Posted Online: Sept. 19, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1955
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