Author: W. Cleon Skousen
Number of Pages: 146
Number of Stars: 4
Cleon Skousen is also the author of "The 5000 Year Leap" which I think everyone should read. I found this book to be very interesting, but not as informative as The 5000 Year Leap.
The first half of this book, while disturbing, was a more interesting read. He took more out of the scriptures and other sources for the first portion of the book. When I started reading this book the voices in my head were just screaming in unison "AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
You could have many long and heated discussions from this book! I really liked that it brought new thoughts to my mind and made me think. I am not sure how anyone will actually survive everything that is going to take place before the millennium. I think I need to work on my faith so that I won't be scared senseless when these things are happening. I came away from this book really, really hoping my eyes won't rot out, and also the eyes of those I love! In reality I hate to think about that happening to anyone. I am a believer that all of the continents used to be together in one large land formation, so the thought of Earth becoming like that again would be incredible.
The second half of the book was more about forming a "Zion" people. The interesting thing about this is it seems to basically boil down to communism by choice rather than force. I found this to be a less interesting read and I think he put much more of his own opinions into the last part. I just decided that if I survive the horrible eyeball rotting disease, the earthquakes, the wicked people, the thundering, and tsunamis, the cleansing fire, then I will worry about how the government will be set-up. I think at that point people will be very humble and more willing to help each other and listen to each other. It will take something of that magnitude to get people who are in positions of power to think about "the people" again, assuming any politicians survive!
I plan on re-reading this book, because I am sure I missed a lot the first time around!
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