The End Is Now
by Rob Stennett
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Author: Rob StennettEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-06-16
ISBN: 0310286794
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Zondervan
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Summary: 5 Stars
Little towns across America boast all kinds of odd museums. There's a Mustard Museum in Wisconsin, the Dole Salad Museum in New York, and the Antique Sewing Machine Museum in Arlington, Texas. Up until recently few outside of Goodland, Kansas had ever heard of its one lasting attraction, a Rapture Museum. But, when eleven year old Will Henderson has a mystical encounter while lost in a corn field the subject of Goodland's museum becomes something more than a source of idle conversation. It seems Will has been given a vision of three prophecies that will precede the rapture. Before you confuse this as yet another knock- off of the Left Behind series there is one thing you need to know. As best anyone can tell, after talking with Will, this will be Goodland's own private rapture. Or as one local puts it - "A test market for the real thing."
If you are the type that is easily offended by satire this isn't the book for you. In The End is Now, Bob Stennet leaves no stone unturned in shining the light of his sharp prose on the silliness Christians often descend into when they get sidetracked from the real issues of life and eternity. With each seemingly fulfilled prophecy the town teeters closer to the edge of social and religious insanity. Long-time friends are pitted against each other while more enterprising souls quickly figure an angle to profit off the Lord's soon return to Goodland. And caught in the middle of the madness is the Henderson family: Will, the son who thinks he saw a face talking to him in the corn fields; Jeff, the father whose been playing games with God for most of his life; Amy, a mom who is burnt out on being the perfect Christian mother; and Emily, who really doesn't want the rapture to happen until she is elected Home Coming Queen.
Are the odd happenings in this normally sleepy town the fulfillment of a young boy's warnings or are they just coincidence? How can a people who have proclaimed themselves longing for the rapture for generations become so divided to the point of anarchy? Does God always appear in a white robe and with a long beard? Okay, the last one is answered by Will. In his young mind, the face he saw had a bead so it must be God or an angel of the Lord. If you are expecting The End is Now to answer these questions or to give you deep spiritual insight into eschatology you will be sorely disappointed. But if you want to see how Christians must look from the outside looking in this one is well worth your time.
Loaded with pop-culture references, honest questions only a child could ask, and more than its share of unanswered questions, this story will leave you hoping the end isn't now. At least not until we get our act together a little better and start acting like grown-up believers.
Summary of The End Is Now
One week from tomorrow, at precisely 6:11 in the morning, the rapture or apocalypse or Armageddon or whatever else it is you'd prefer to call it, is going to occur. But only in Goodland, Kansas. Stuck in the middle is the Henderson family: Jeff, a struggling salesman who lives with a nagging fear that something will happen to his family; Will, who's just trying to figure out life in the fifth grade; Emily, whose greatest concern is that she won't be nominated homecoming queen; and his Amy, who is growing stir-crazy from being a housewife for eighteen years---and is convinced this was God's plan B for her life. The Hendersons are longtime residents of Goodland, Kansas, a small Midwest town where nothing new or exciting ever happens ... until now. Are the recent happenings and catastrophic weather mere coincidence, or more? The town spirals into chaos and confusion as its residents discover the end is no longer near---the end is now. Rob Stennett's second novel is both a satire and a story of the apocalypse, a thriller and an exploration of family, community, belief, unbelief, and the two thousand-year-old Christian tradition of looking to the sky because the end is near.Fiction Books
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