The Rapture of Canaan
Author: Sheri Reynolds
Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 1997: Members of the Church of Fire and Brimstone and God’s Almighty Baptizing Wind spend their days and nights serving the Lord and waiting for the Rapture–that moment just before the Second Coming of Christ when the saved will be lifted bodily to heaven and the damned will be left behind to face the thousand years of tribulation on eart….Read More
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