I am about finished with The Rising, by LaHaye and Jenkins,
which is the prequel to the Left Behind series. As I near the final pages I'm
comparing it to The God of the Jews Must Die and have decided that my views on
this sect were distorted.

I've always thought of Luciferians as "evil". I pictured cruelty. I
imagined murderous. I have always viewed them as the worst society had to
offer, the ugliest human souls on the planet.

Now, I'm seeing them in a different light, not in better light, but less grotesque.

In the LB series, people that follow the Antichrist are, in fact, evil. They are
all quick to torture and destroy in order to get where they are going. They
will stomp on anyone that gets in their way. They are all soulless creatures.

Evangelist Brad Keating portrayed the tribulation period from the view of one man (of the
millions) prophesized to deny God, in favor of the Antichrist. He didn't emit a
personality of evil from the main character. He was just a man, who had not
found God - was lost - when the time came to choose between the two. After
choosing to follow the Antichrist, the man remained full of hope for a better
world until the end; he loved and lost his children, and firmly felt he was
just doing the best he could to make it to the next life. The man was still
human.

I find the religion, it's self, to be shallow. Luciferians worship themselves,
believing that to get closer to God (Lucifer, not Allah or Yahweh, in their
ideas) they must seek betterment of themselves (materially and spiritually) and
to grow into divine beings, as I understand it from my brief reading. Most can agree that it's good to better one's self; Christian's believe
that, too. This comparison is what deterred me from the views I once held regarding them as individuals.

I think, now, that they are just like you and me. They aren't all planning to
destroy the world. They truly think Lucifer is the good guy, the fallen angel
that is equal to God (if not the better of the two). I think they take each day
one at a time, put their pants on one leg at a time, and just try to do the
best that they can to get through this life.

I'm not a church goer. I'm not a preacher. I'm just a person that believes the
good guy really is the good guy, Lucifer is still the bad guy and I pity the
people that think otherwise, as they are destined a life of sadness.

I think, with this new revelation, if a Luciferian were to have read this last
thought, he/she would be pitying me.