Joel C. Rosenberg

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Not to be confused with Joel Rosenberg.

Joel C. Rosenberg in Jerusalem with the Dome of the Rock in the background.

Joel C. Rosenberg is a New York Times best-selling American Messianic Jewish author and a communications strategist.

He has worked with some notable figures in business, politics, and media, including Steve Forbes, Rush Limbaugh, and former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He has written four novels about terrorism, recent world events and the coming destruction of the world. Rosenberg serves as a political columnist for World and he has also had his work published by the Wall Street Journal, National Review, and Policy Review. He and his wife, Lynn, have four sons and live near Washington, D.C.

1 Works
2 Media appearances
3 Criticism and controversy
4 Books
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Works

At the beginning of his first novel, The Last Jihad, he puts the reader inside the cockpit of a hijacked jet, coming in on a kamikaze attack against the President of the United States. This leads to a war with Saddam Hussein over weapons of mass destruction. The book was written in 2001 before the September 11th attacks (a revised edition takes the event into account) and the war with Iraq, but it was published in 2002. When published, The Last Jihad spent 11 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, reaching as high as number seven. It raced up the USA Today and Publisher's Weekly best-seller lists, hit number four on the Wall Street Journal list and hit number one on Amazon.com.

Rosenberg's second book, The Last Days, opens with the death of Yasser Arafat and a U.S. diplomatic convoy ambushed in Gaza. Two weeks before The Last Days was published, a U.S. diplomatic convoy was ambushed in Gaza. Thirteen months later, Yasser Arafat died. The Last Days spent four weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, hit number five on the Denver Post list, and hit number eight on the Dallas Morning News list. Both books have been optioned by motion-picture producers.

His third book, The Ezekiel Option, was released in the summer of 2005.

His fourth book, The Copper Scroll, was released in August 2006.

[edit] Media appearances

Rosenberg has been interviewed on more than 300 radio and TV programs, including ABC's Nightline, CBN's The 700 Club, CNN Headline News, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Glenn Beck Program, and The Sean Hannity Show. He has been profiled twice by The New York Times, and was the subject of two cover stories in World magazine. He has spoken all over the country at universities, churches, political events, bookseller conventions, fund-raisers, and even the International Spy Museum.

[edit] Criticism and controversy

Media Matters for America criticized Rosenberg's July 31, 2006, Paula Zahn Now appearance that "featured a segment on 'whether the crisis in the Middle East is actually a prelude to the end of the world,' marking the third time in eight days that CNN has devoted airtime to those claiming that the ongoing Mideast violence signals the coming of the Apocalypse."^[1] It featured Rosenberg comparing apocalyptic Scripture in the Bible to modern events.

Rosenberg's views on the Ezekiel 38-39 war of Gog and Magog and the end times are also not fully accepted in the Christian community. Partial preterist Gary DeMar has debated Rosenberg on this subject. [1]

Although Rosenberg constantly flaunts his Jewish past, and his being a Christian Jew, rarely is mentioned that his mother was a gentile. It is typically considered that a person is "not a real jew" if their mother was not a Jew. Also, Rosenberg's father was not a practicing Jew.

Rosenberg is hailed as a "prophet", however it has never been verified that his book which was published in late 2002 "The Last Jihad" was truly written before the events of 9-11-01, and if they were, why was the book not rushed to publication.