Posted on 06/02/2014 3:52:04 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
The Left Behind books were a very literal adaptation to present day from the Bible's book of Revelations. If Hal Lindsey used that also as source material, they would seem similar.
Several decades ago, in Santa Barbara, California, I saw this bumper sticker.....
JESUS IS COMING AND BOY IS HE PISSED
I read the book years ago but did not follow up with others in the series. I enjoyed it.
Books like this always make me worry if I’ll be one of the ones left behind or not. Fear is a good motivator.
“When Jesus comes back, he isn’t going to look like Ted Nugent. No, he’s coming back as Charles Bronson, and he’s gonna be ......po’d.” - Robin Williams
A “pre-trib” rapture seems to contradict John 17. In that chapter, Christ prays for all the Father has given him (v. 9) or will ever give Him (v. 20) in His High Priestly prayer. In between (v. 15), Christ specifically asks the Father to not take us out of the world, but to “keep” (guard) us from the evil.
I know many try to make Rev. 3:10 into a pre-trib rapture verse, but that same “keep” (guard) is used in that verse too. What would we need to be guarded from if we’re in heaven? And it’s clear that Christians will be guarded from the effects of at least some of the End Times judgments (Rev. 9:4; 16:2)
The books were a good view of the end times and loved em! There was an attempt to film an early sequence but that was the only one produced, and that was it. I look forward to the new version, with hesitation as to how Hollywood will twist it.
Nick Cage flicks these days are horrible
He’s rebuilding his fortune on a mound of dookie
They were cheesy. The Rapture would be quite the event. Easily worth about $20MM of CGI.
There was another about the Rapture that starred Tom Cruise’ old girlfriend, whose name escapes me. (Mimi Rodgers). Not done well. Started well, but did not end well.
Maybe this one will be better. I’d like to see one that conveys the terror in understanding you’ve been left behind, and that the tribulation awaits.
I know there are schools of thought on this, but the idea that in the end, God would remove all of His sheep from the earth, and leave behind 0 Christians, and yet Satan would still lose in the end seems so consistent with how God has operated throughout the Bible with us.
Always the thing that was rejected becomes the cornerstone. The poor abandoned child becomes a high official. Commands not to take anything with you on a journey of many days. Telling us the entire might of the world would be arrayed against Israel, and Israel would win.
Why wouldn’t he take the believers and leave the doubters behind?
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