Despite the setup, neither the show nor the book are overtly religious. The word rapture is never used — at least not in the book — and the ranks of the disappeared seem to have been chosen at random. And the dead in Christ will rise first; then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord.
We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed — in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. Google Scholar. Sisters, Ore. Michael D. Coogan, ed. Wheaton, Ill. A helpful discussion of the three approaches can be found in Craig R. Alternatively, a description of four views, preterist, historicist, futurist, and idealist, can be found in Merrill C.
John E. Thus, "Left Behind" was essentially a book series that merged conjured characters with what millions of Christians expect will be real events in the future. Jenkins recently released " The Valley of The Dry Bones ," a new apocalyptic-themed book that is separate from the "Left Behind" series. He told The Church Boys podcast about some of the challenges related to integrating complex biblical subject matter into his novels.
He explained he and LaHaye had no intention of trying to convince anyone their position was right. We're making it up but, if it happens the way we think it might happen some day, this is what it would look like. Jenkins recalled his childhood reading and learning about the premillennial, pretribulation worldview — a Christian theology he later embraced. After meeting LaHaye, the two teamed up to produce the blockbuster series.
The real-life scenario, which is weaved into fiction, worsens from what's been seen in the headlines of late. While discussing his reasons for writing the book, Jenkins recalled a conversation he had with his son while visiting him in California.
It would be irreparable, and it would be condemned. The prewrath view accepts the basic scenario of the rise of Antichrist taught by pretribulationism, but understands Jesus in Matthew 24, Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2, and John in Revelation to teach that the church will experience the persecution of Antichrist that follows the establishment of the abomination of desolation.
It will be raptured during this period of persecution, immediately before God begins to pour out his wrathful judgments on the kingdom of Antichrist. The second view, posttribulationism, comes in two different flavors. Some posttribulationists reject altogether the idea of an Antichrist arising at the end of time and instead understand the Bible to be referring to events in the first century AD when it talks about the abomination of desolation.
Since those days, the church has been living in an age of tribulation; there is no essentially different persecution to come in the future. Rather, in both versions of posttribulationism, the church will be raptured in conjunction with the return of Christ to earth at the very end of the age, after either this age of tribulation or after the specific tribulation brought about by Antichrist at the end of the age.
Thus, the scenario presented in Left Behind is not a scenario all biblical scholars would agree with.
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