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';A moving, fast-paced account of the end times.'Publishers Weekly A typical day at work turns into a nightmare for Emma Grady when her favorite patient and several colleagues vanish in front of her. Fear turns to chaos as Emma begins the frantic race from Brooklyn to Queens, anxious to discover if her boyfriend is safe. Subways are closed, graves are open, and countless people have inexplicably disappeared. Mayhem erupts as terror grips the residents of New York City. What could make so many vanish in a moment? And not just in New York, but all over the globe? Emma wonders if this is the predicted end of the world and begins a desperate search for answers. This page-turning story will take you on a riveting journey from New York City to Israel, and in the final chapters, Donna turns to the pages of the Bible, where you'll learn that God has made known to us ';the end from the beginning,' and that things aren't spiraling downward but are actually looking up. The bestselling author of The Christmas Shoes now explores a future world facing its final days in The Time of Jacob's Trouble, weaving end-times prophecies into the lives of Emma and her friends as they struggle to survive and come face-to-face with the chilling truth about the disappearances.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers
Date de parution	17 mars 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736978767
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
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The Time of Jacob s Trouble
Copyright 2020 by Donna VanLiere
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97408
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
ISBN 978-0-7369-7875-0 (pbk)
ISBN 978-0-7369-7876-7 (eBook)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: VanLiere, Donna, author.
Title: The time of Jacob s trouble / Donna VanLiere.
Description: Eugene, Oregon : Harvest House Publishers, [2020].
Identifiers: LCCN 2019020314 (print) | LCCN 2019021531 (ebook) | ISBN 9780736978767 (ebook) | ISBN 9780736978750 (softcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Rapture (Christian eschatology)-Fiction. | GSAFD: Christian fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3622.A66 (ebook) | LCC PS3622.A66 T56 2019 (print) | DDC 813/.6-dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019020314
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DEDICATION
For Terrie Carswell,
my longtime friend, who is looking up!
CONTENTS
Dedication
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Where in the Word?
Introduction: Where in the Word?
Amazing Facts
America in the End Times
The End of the Age
An Outline to Follow
The Bride of Christ
What Needs to Happen Before the Snatching Away of Believers and the Second Coming?
Different Lives
After Jesus Gathers His Bride
How Will Believers Be Gathered Up to Jesus?
What s Next?
A Preview from Book 2: The Day of Ezekiel s Hope
Notes
Acknowledgments
Things Are Looking Up Podcast
About the Publisher
THE TIME OF JACOB S TROUBLE
I make known the end from the beginning ,
from ancient times, what is still to come .
I say, My purpose will stand ,
and I will do all that I please
What I have said, that I will bring about;
what I have planned, that I will do .
I SAIAH 46:10-11
I am the L ORD . That is my name
The things I said would happen have happened ,
and now I tell you about new things .
Before those things happen ,
I tell you about them.
I SAIAH 42:8-9 ( NCV )
CHAPTER 1
Queens, NY
W e have to get out of the city! twenty-five-year-old Emma Grady shouts, watching images of destruction on the TV.
Her boyfriend Matt grabs her arm, yelling as he pulls her to the door. No time! Get to the basement!
They scream and yell through the hallway, warning people in the other six apartments. Emma stops at the apartment at the end of the hall, banging on the door. A young Indian woman opens it when she sees Emma through the peephole. Piya! Get your family to the basement.
The young mother is frightened and shaking. She has been up all night. We have to evacuate, Piya says, her words quivering from terror.
Emma grabs her hands. Please! You won t make it out of the city!
Matt runs ahead, banging on doors and shouting a warning as they speed down the stairs. The sound of glass shatters above them and the building quakes, shattering their nerves. The air is pierced with indescribable fear as the apartment building basement fills with eighteen residents, each clinging to loved ones and the stranger next to them. The explosion is deafening, crumbling the ceiling above and shaking the walls. The lights flicker for several seconds before thrusting the room into darkness, shrieks and screams slicing through the black.
CHAPTER 2
Queens, NY-one week earlier
E mma tiptoes out of the bathroom, passing Matt, still sleeping, before pulling the bedroom door closed. She s careful not to make noise in the hall as she steps to the kitchen for a cup of coffee. Matt has been working the late shift at Demarco s, a restaurant in Midtown, while he finishes his law degree during the day. Their schedules rarely afford them the time to see much of each other. Emma leaves the apartment each day at 7:00 a.m., arriving at work thirty minutes early to help prep the physical therapy room. She s worked as a physical therapist at Thrive Rehabilitation in Brooklyn for two years, and while Matt and several friends groan at the prospect of going to their jobs, she loves her work and looks forward to seeing her patients.
She puts a K-Cup into the single-cup coffeemaker, closes the lid, and presses brew on the machine. The coffee begins to stream into her travel mug as her phone buzzes. She reaches for it and reads a text from her sister, Sarah. Call me later. Mom and I are sampling reception food after work today!!!
Emma texts, K. Will call on my break. Have fun!
Sarah is three years younger and getting married. Emma is happy for her; Jason seems great, but there s some part of her, somewhere deep and hidden away, that wonders why she isn t the one planning a wedding. She tosses the nagging thought aside, ashamed again to be jealous of her sister for getting married. Growing up in Indiana, Emma was a track and field star at her local high school. She would pull her light brown hair into a high ponytail and race around the track, dreaming of running in college, but too many injuries on the university team cut all those dreams short. Between that and a failed relationship with her college sweetheart, Emma couldn t get out of Indiana fast enough. She met Matt at a bar with some friends her second week in New York, and they seemed destined for one another.
Are you headed out already?
She jumps at Matt s voice and turns to see him at the end of the hall, squinting into the light of the kitchen. He s standing in his boxer shorts and his dark brown hair is standing straight up on his head and flat on one side, as if it s been ironed. They dated for six months before deciding to move in together two years ago. Her dad liked Matt but didn t approve of them living together. Her parents were old-fashioned, but she loved them anyway. She had hoped that Matt would get to know her dad better, but he died four months after they moved in together, after a short battle with cancer. She sees his mom often; she lives just over the New York state line in New Jersey, where Matt grew up with an older sister. Matt s mom and dad divorced when he was fourteen, and his relationship with his dad is fragile at best. She s never met him, and Matt rarely speaks of him.
You scared me! She reaches for cream out of the refrigerator. Did I wake you up?
He walks behind her and reaches his arms around her, kissing her cheek. Couldn t sleep. Need to study for the exam.
She turns and kisses him. You ll do great! She slides an elastic hair tie off her wrist and pulls her hair into a ponytail, then reaches for a banana out of a bowl on the counter. Don t forget that Rick and Brandon are coming over for drinks tonight.
Matt throws away her used K-Cup, groaning. After a day of exams and a night at the restaurant, I doubt I m going to be up for Rick and Brandon.
You re the one who invited them! she says, laughing. I found a new appetizer recipe. He looks at her, bored. It has bacon in it, she says, her voice tingling with excitement.
All right, he says, brewing a cup of coffee. I m in.
She laughs and waves. See you later. Love you!
Later! he yells toward her. He didn t say, I love you. Sometimes he did. Sometimes he didn t. Although she knew he loved her, his love just didn t seem to be all-in all the time. Maybe Jason s love for Sarah was all-in all the time. Maybe that s why they were getting married and she and Matt weren t.
Emma is thankful their apartment is so close to the subway, and in just a few minutes, she s headed that way. On many days she walks there