Round 12...Light & Darkness Battle

Over just the past 10 years the Prince of Darkness and the Light of the World have been battling for the minds and hearts of people world-wide in new and unprecedented ways! Here is just a partial scorecard of the titanic blows landed by each side...

Darkness:
Da Vinci Code ... according to the official website of Dan Brown, the Da Vinci Code has sold approximately 40 million copies worldwide and been translated into at least 44 languages

Harry Potter Books ... over 80 million copies sold and counting!

Harry Potter Movies ... estimates are that the 5 films will earn $10 billion by 2010!

The God Delusion by British biologist Richard Dawkins is a 2006 bestselling
non-fiction book. Dawkins contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist and that belief in a personal god qualifies as a delusion... The God Delusion has sold over 1.5 million copies and had been translated to 31 other languages...

The End of Faith by Sam Harris (New York Times Best Seller, 2005 PEN Award.)
"provides a harrowing glimpse of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when these beliefs inspire the worst of human atrocities."

Light:
The Passion of the Christ ... according to a Barna study quoted at www.moriel.org, estimates are that approximately 67 million adults saw the movie and 31 million were unbelievers, many of whom were young people seeing the gospel for the first time.

Left Behind Series, over 65 million copies sold; thousands of testimonies of salvation!

Daystar Christian Network ... began 24-hr.gospel broadcasts into Israel...first time ever!

The Lord of the Rings trilogy... popular films set the stage for the Narnia movies to follow.

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe ... a gospel allegory film...3rd best gross in 2005!

A heavyweight-boxing match goes 12 rounds, but if the fight "goes the distance", the
fiercest round is often the last. That is because both fighters are calling upon all of their
reserves of cunning and strength to score points or even achieve a knockout punch. The evidence presented above indicates to me that we are in round 12 ! But don't listen for a bell, dear saints...it is the sound of a shofar which will signal the end of this fight... and the triumph of our God and His King, Jesus Christ!