Quick and Easy Guide : Bible Prophecy

By: Brian R. Coffey

Reviewed By The TRUTH Staff

      First of all I want to say that I don't hate this book because it's a Christian book, I don't like it much because it isn't a good book. That's my thesis here, if you even care (And I know that book reviews don't need a thesis but it helps my point :) ). I would recommend people who are borderline Christian/Atheists to read it because it might help you jump over to the free-thinkers side (if their even are sides). But to anyone else, like a Christian or strong Atheist, should not read it unless you want to get a good laugh every once and a while.

      My first point is my main, and biggest, point. The prophecies which where listed are not real prophecies! They are just prophecies that the Bible's author made up and found some guy to make them true. I don't think any prophecy about Jesus really came true, the authors probably just made some nobody say something and then later in the book, after Jesus was already dead, they would say it came true. The prophecies the author of this book was trying to use where really just history. He makes prophecies about Abraham and Isaiah, the Bibles didn't even exist that far back! If I would make a 'prophecy' that "there will be a terror which will destroy many of the people of Israel, it will happen during a battle which many kingdoms fight." It doesn't take a genius to compare that passage to the holocaust of the Jew's during W.W.II. It isn't a real prophecy, but me just stating a piece of history like one.

      Next I want to take time to talk about the writing of the book itself. The book was very repetitive, it was very redundant. I think if a real writer, and not just a pastor (opps I mean senior pastor), could write this book much better and only take 75 pages, instead of Brian Coffey's 160 pages.

      While I'm on the subject of the book itself, and not the content. The book is not very well written: there are typos, grammatical and mechanical errors, and it was not very well ordered. I think even I could have made a better order of it, maybe Coffey should have written an outline.

      The prophecies didn't make a whole lot of sense, they weren't explained well. Coffey says what the Bible prophesied, summarized it in modern English, and then moved on. He didn't even say what the prophecy meant or if it came true (or not {which was probably the case}). I think what Coffey was trying to do (but didn't do very well since the book was supposed to explain them) was put a spark in us to think about it. But why do that since the reason a reader would read this book is too get strength in the Bible, make it strong and then feel better. All the book did was state Bible quotes of past history.

      OK, to summarize this: The book only said past history; the book shouldn't have been written, it should be in a super market tabloid with the familiar heading 'Jesus' Prophecies finally found'; It wasn't written, ordered, spelled, or grammatically correct; and finally the book was too long for what the content was. If you have ever heard the saying, "If you put One Million monkeys in a room with One Million typewriters for One Million years they will write a Shakespearean play", well this might be true, but I think the first few copies of that play will be close to this book.