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How to Profit From the Coming Rapture: Getting Ahead When You're Left Behind Paperback – November 3, 2008

by Barbara Davilman (Adapter), Evie Levy (Author), Steve Levy (Author),
4.4 out of 5 stars (49)
Are the end times near? Is the Rapture really just around the corner? Could Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson possibly be right? About 1 billion people among us believe, yes, absolutely.

And that means one thing: investment opportunities!

For those who are not as expertly versed in the Book of Revelation, Ellis Weiner and Barbara Davilman, authors of the bestselling Yiddish with Dick and Jane, helpfully offer both illumination and advice: What exactly is the Rapture, anyway? How is it different from the Tribulation? Who are the Antichrist, the Four Horsemen, and the 144,000 male virgins, and what do they want? And, most important, how can I make money during the 7 years of societal breakdown before Armaggedon?

Taking the familiar form of a how-to investment guide, How to Profit From the Coming Rapture instructs those readers who will certainly be left behind (Jews, Catholics, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, less ardent Protestants, and many more) on how to exploit the inevitable demise of the world in order to make a tidy profit. Sure, the rivers and seas will run with blood, locusts will swarm, mountains will move all over the place, and famine will strike. But for the five billion of us left behind, the post-Rapture world will be a time of even more unique investment opportunities.
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  4. Publication date
    November 3, 2008
  5. Dimensions
    5.25 x 0.75 x 8.25 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0316017302
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0316017305
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Ellis Weiner is the only person, dead or alive, who has published in the National Lampoon (where he was an editor), Spy (where he wrote a column), and The New Yorker (where he still appears). He is co-author, with Barbara Davilman, of Yiddish With Dick and Jane, Yiddish With George and Laura, How to Raise a Jewish Dog, The Big Jewish Book for Jews, and other titles. He is founder and editor-in-chief of the Sherman Oaks Review of Books, a "channel" of the Los Angeles Review of Books, which debuted in 2016. Barbara Davilman writes for television. They live in Los Angeles.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little, Brown and Company
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 3, 2008
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316017302
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316017305
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.75 x 8.25 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #999,157 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 out of 5 stars (49)

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  • Christopher
    5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious read.
    Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2013
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    I found this book to be both hilarious and well researched from the standpoint of where these ideas come from. It is a great read for someone who wants to learn more about what all of the talk is about as well as someone who doesn't mind a tongue-in-cheek review of a religious principle. To the credit of the authors ... they are Jewish so the Rapture would not apply to them. Thus, this book is written from their perspective after this Biblical event would happen and how to deal with it if you aren't in the narrow class of people who would go away with this event.
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  • M. Shields
    5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious!
    Reviewed in the United States on April 21, 2018
    Format: PaperbackVerified Purchase
    This book is fantastically funny. I rarely laugh out loud when reading, but this one had me in stitches with its unique take on surviving the apocalypse.

    Don't buy this book if you take such subjects so seriously that you can't find anything about them amusing.

    Also don't buy it for reading in public because you WILL be getting dirty looks from people who don't care to be reminded that other people exist and can enjoy themselves.

    One last warning: don't read this while drinking anything, unless you want to have your beverage coming out of your nose. Don't ask me how I know this.
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  • Morganalee
    4.0 out of 5 stars An understated delight; if only it had been published closer to Harold Camping's May 21, 2011
    Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2013
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    This book would have been the perfect accompaniment to all the hype inspired by Harold Camping's Judgment Day billboards in and preceding May 2011; it would have fit right in with those wry websites promising to rescue the pets left behind by those raptured. But this book came out in 2008, and now the world is suffering from Apocalypse fatigue; as a consequence, this good book is likely never to get the audience it deserves. I can tell that many who've read this book are fundamentalist Christians who somehow don't get the joke, and that's a shame, because such gentle, respectful satire as is presented here deserves to be understood and appreciated. There were no belly laughs for me in this book, but there's plenty to nod and chuckle at, particularly if the reader is, like me, someone who in childhood was scared by Jack T. Chick's tales of the Antichrist, and who now has been introduced to, and freed by, reason and rationalism. There's a great deal of meticulous research in this book that may be easy to overlook, and that's yet another reminder to me that skeptics are likely to know more about the Bible (usually much more) than believers do. Yet satire though it is, it could not be more respectful in its tone; Christians, and their beliefs, are never ridiculed in these pages. How did the authors pull that off? I'm sure I couldn't have. Christians who want to know what's in the Book of Revelation should pick this book up; it's much easier to read than John of Patmos's long nightmare, and far more entertaining. Reading this book also might prompt these good folk to take a long, non-humorous look at their beliefs.
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  • Tim Metz
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good a either a gag gift, or even a serious gift
    Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2024
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    I bought this book as a fun gag gift for a Christian relative. It was a hit! I flipped through it, and I think it was written tongue in cheek, but it presents rather seriously, which makes it especially funny (to me). It covers quite a bit of territory, beginning with apocalypse/rapture theology, and continuing to discuss aspects of survival and thriving in the post-rapture world. Very original and clever! To me, it is a perfect bathroom reader, or maybe a book to leave in a guest room, or on the coffee table. I might order another one and slip it onto the church library shelves!
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  • Lucille
    5.0 out of 5 stars The rapture
    Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2024
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    Interesting book to read
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  • Bill maccannix
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great read for the right (correct) reader...
    Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2017
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    I am sure that there are some that will think this is blasphemy. I found it funny. It helps if you have had religious training and have read/studied or are aware of the book of Revelations. This means it may have a limited audience.

    It is very tongue and cheek. I may startup some of the recommended businesses myself...
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  • Uncle Joe
    5.0 out of 5 stars Most important religious book I own
    Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2024
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    I have this book sitting here ready so I can be guided during the rapture.
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  • K. Commesso
    4.0 out of 5 stars I believe in the Rapture
    Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2010
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    Being a Christian and believing Jesus will return one day, I first was turned off by just the name of this book. That being said, I had to give this book 4 stars due to the fact the authors did their homework. I thought the book was pretty informative and the time line was spot on. The humor of what people could do to make money did make me snicker a few times because it was so far fetched. I know I will never have to use this book and if anyone finds this book after the rapture, I am sure they will be so terrified that money will be the last thing on their mind.
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