LaHay's Tribulation

Tim LaHaye is not a happy camper. Despite having made millions and millions of dollars from his Left Behind book series, he's very upset that his publisher Tyndale House is publishing The Last Disciple by Hank Hanegraaff and Sigmund Brouwer. Why? Because it presents an interpretation of Revelations that differs from LaHaye's.

Christianity Today explains:

The Last Disciple ... teaches that most prophecies in Revelation have already been fulfilled. The Left Behind series, however, is grounded in a premillennial, dispensationalist view of the end times, which includes a pre-Tribulation Rapture. "I guess you would say I am disappointed, perplexed, and confused," LaHaye told Christianity Today.

Ron Beers, Tyndale's senior vice president and publisher, said his company wants to promote healthy dialogue on eschatology. Beers said, "We haven't come up with a consensus on end-times issues."

I suspect that Tyndale also just wants to make money and figured that the Hanegraaff book would do just that for them (that would be the reason why they started publishing LeHay's books, too). LaHay, on the other hand, seems to be acting like Tyndale is his own personal publishing house. Why would he assume that they would never publish any books that disagree with his theological assumptions? That's just ridiculous. I could understand him being confused if Tyndale published a book promoting atheism (I'd be perplexed as well!), but this just makes him look churlish.

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