The
Left Behind books are filled with car bombings, murders, earthquakes,
floods, wars, famines, and plagues. Tim LaHaye did most of the study of
Christian prophecy that led him to portray events like these during his
time in San Diego. In 1956, the year that he came to town, a family
could buy a home for a song. Many people who lived here then describe
the area as a paradisiacal combination of urban and rural settings in
ideal weather. There was little of the air pollution we have now. And
after being the pastor of a church in Minnesota for six years, LaHaye
could enjoy waterskiing, his fondest recreational passion, whenever he
wanted.
Why, then, was he largely preoccupied at the time with the tribulation predicted in the Book of Revelation?
Scott Memorial Community Church, now known as Grace Church SD traces its roots back to a San Diego
Sunday school group organized in 1909 by Civil War chaplain Winfield
Scott (not the general). Earlier, Winfield Scott also founded Winfield,
Kansas, and Scottsdale, Arizona.
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