Book Review: “The Sick Man’s Rage” by Amir Tsarfati and Steve Yohn
Tsarfati is an Israeli citizen and previously served as a major in the Israeli Defense Forces. Though his writing is particularly focused upon the nation of Israel, it truly covers matters of global concern.
He has written many best-selling nonfiction books and this is book four in a series of novels co-written with Steve Yohn, an American pastor. Their goal for these novels has been to deliver an exciting story, and incorporate Biblical and geopolitical truth to give the books a higher purpose.
The four books follow a group of Mossad agents working to prevent terrorist attacks upon Israel and other nations in the Middle East. There is plenty of action and the continuing story line draws from historical and current political developments in the region. This fourth novel has the added element of tragedy, using the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attack as the launch point for the story. These chapters deal with it in an appropriate way, but the horror of the real events dwarfs what the novel can portray.
When I ordered the book, I didn’t know the background for the title, assuming it was a reference to a fictional terrorist. Actually, it comes from a very fitting historical reference to the nation of Turkey.
The fictional tale is a page turner, as the Mossad agents and IDF deal with the evil acts of Turkey, Russia, Iran, and Hamas (who are increasingly linked in current events, too). My reading pace picked up further when I saw the fictional storyline was going to highlight an upcoming event described in Bible end times prophecy, the war of Ezekiel chapter 38.
Ezekiel chapter 38 tells us of this coming attack on Israel by a group of countries led by Turkey, Russia, and Iran. The prophecy tells us the who, what, where and why of this war, but doesn’t give us the “when.” The Bible tells how the war ends (Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39 describe a supernatural intercession by God), but that does not preclude heroic efforts by real-life equivalents of agent Nir Tavor.
Students of Bible end times prophecy have differing views of where this war fits in the sequence of other Bible prophecy, particularly the rapture and Tribulation. I describe these different views in my primer, “Lifeline, A Guide to Surviving the End Times.” The two novels in my “Tribulation Pilgrims’ Progress” series put the rapture before the Ezekiel war and anticipate the war as an event leading to the emergence of the Antichrist and the start of the Tribulation.
Spoiler Alert: I think the sequencing of events and the lead-in to the war of Ezekiel 38 are well handled in ”The Sick Man’s Rage.” I’m not surprised, because Tsarfati and Yohn have also written Christian study books about Bible prophecy. I look forward to the upcoming series of novels described by the authors in the “Authors’ Note.” It will be interesting to see them dramatize the events of the Tribulation in their new series. I am thankful that my Tribulation home will be in heaven with Nicole and Jesus and not on earth with Nir and the Antichrist; I am confident that the authors hope all their readers would make that same choice.
I recommend “The Sick Man’s Rage” for readers who seek relevant reading in the action/thriller genre. Be sure you read the forepart and the Authors’ Note.
