LaHaye died on July 25, 2016, in a hospital in San Diego, California, after suffering from a stroke, aged 90. He sold the movie rights for the Left Behind series and later stated he regretted that decision, because the films turned out to be 'church-basement videos', rather than 'a big-budget blockbuster' that he had hoped for. The first book in the series opens with a similar scene. He wondered what would befall the pilot if the Rapture happened at that moment. LaHaye indicates that the idea for the series came to him one day circa 1994, while he was sitting on an airplane and observed a married pilot flirting with a flight attendant. Jerry Falwell said about the first book in the series: 'In terms of its impact on Christianity, it's probably greater than that of any other book in modern times, outside the Bible.' The best-selling series has been compared to the equally popular works of Tom Clancy and Stephen King: 'the plotting is brisk and the characterizations Manichean. 1 on the bestseller lists for The New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly. Seven titles in the adult series have reached No. The books have been very popular, with total sales surpassing 65 million copies as of July 2016.

The series, which started in 1995 with the first novel, includes 12 titles in the adult series, as well as juvenile novels, audio books, devotionals, and graphic novels. I wish I was smart enough to write a book that's hard to read, you know?' The literary-type writers, I admire them. I know I'm never going to be revered as some classic writer. Jenkins has said, 'I write the best I can. Jenkins, a former sportswriter with numerous other works of fiction to his name, wrote the books from LaHaye's notes. The books were LaHaye's idea, though Jerry B. LaHaye is best known for the Left Behind series of apocalyptic fiction that depicts the Earth after the pretribulation rapture which Premillennial Dispensationalists believe the Bible states, multiple times, will occur. Tim LaHaye married activist and fellow author Beverly Ratcliffe in 1947 while attending Bob Jones University. LaHaye later said that, upon hearing those remarks, 'all of a sudden, there was hope in my heart I'd see my father again.' He had been inconsolable until the minister at the funeral said, 'This is not the end of Frank LaHaye because he accepted Jesus Christ, the day will come when the Lord will shout from heaven and descend, and the dead in Christ will rise first and then we'll be caught up together to meet him in the air.' His father's death had a significant influence on LaHaye, who was only nine years old at the time. Timothy Francis LaHaye was born on April 27, 1926, in Detroit, Michigan to Frank LaHaye, a Ford auto worker who died in 1936 of a heart attack, and Margaret LaHaye (née Palmer).

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