Touted as "Based on a true story that hasn't happened yet", this additional adaptation to Tim LaHaye's Left Behind series of books should be understood as a "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" as it again fleeces the sheep on behalf of poor Bible understanding. A main principle of Bible understanding or any understanding is that what is most strongly known must guide and inform what is less strongly known and that must guide what is then speculated.
The idea that "millions of living people will be raptured" a thousand years before the end of the world, before the end of the Millennium (Thousand Year Reign over Earth by Jesus), and before the Tribulation contradicts the clear and most strongly known and understood Revelation 20 passage, which indicates that only those who have been executed for Jesus' sake will rule with Christ for the Millennium.
I can understand how appealing, attractive, and comforting a "Rapture" before the Great Tribulation would be; and how motivating it might be for evangelism, as I was also taught it while spiritually young and immature. Unfortunately, this relatively young doctrinal teaching solidly contradicts foretelling-scripture, which can be very confusing for the spiritually immature. The idea of such "rapture" was not even known in Christianity until invented in 1909 by Cyrus I. Scofield.
Bible scripture has no teaching of "rapture", even at 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17. The mistranslation to "rapture" of these advocates is of the word meaning "snatched-out", which was previously used in scripture to refer to the one who was "back-slidden", being corrected and therefore rescued, similar to being "snatched-out" of the flames of Hell. Earth and humanity's final destruction in Hell, as we clearly see in Revelation 20-24 doesn't occur until after the Millennium. Along with poor scriptural understanding of End-Times with the faulty idea of the "rapture", this movie suppresses correct understanding of scripture, and fails to recognize the standard technique of foretelling scripture's use of conjunctions, such as 1 Thessalonians 4:17's "then", which in foretelling prophesies indicate "a significant gap in time", "change of scene", or usually both of these.
Although I was encouraged to be reminded to watch out for the Antichrist, this movie seems to do more to placate Believers to not study foretelling scripture more deeply. A good story isn't what is primarily necessary when truth is needed.
The idea that "millions of living people will be raptured" a thousand years before the end of the world, before the end of the Millennium (Thousand Year Reign over Earth by Jesus), and before the Tribulation contradicts the clear and most strongly known and understood Revelation 20 passage, which indicates that only those who have been executed for Jesus' sake will rule with Christ for the Millennium.
I can understand how appealing, attractive, and comforting a "Rapture" before the Great Tribulation would be; and how motivating it might be for evangelism, as I was also taught it while spiritually young and immature. Unfortunately, this relatively young doctrinal teaching solidly contradicts foretelling-scripture, which can be very confusing for the spiritually immature. The idea of such "rapture" was not even known in Christianity until invented in 1909 by Cyrus I. Scofield.
Bible scripture has no teaching of "rapture", even at 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17. The mistranslation to "rapture" of these advocates is of the word meaning "snatched-out", which was previously used in scripture to refer to the one who was "back-slidden", being corrected and therefore rescued, similar to being "snatched-out" of the flames of Hell. Earth and humanity's final destruction in Hell, as we clearly see in Revelation 20-24 doesn't occur until after the Millennium. Along with poor scriptural understanding of End-Times with the faulty idea of the "rapture", this movie suppresses correct understanding of scripture, and fails to recognize the standard technique of foretelling scripture's use of conjunctions, such as 1 Thessalonians 4:17's "then", which in foretelling prophesies indicate "a significant gap in time", "change of scene", or usually both of these.
Although I was encouraged to be reminded to watch out for the Antichrist, this movie seems to do more to placate Believers to not study foretelling scripture more deeply. A good story isn't what is primarily necessary when truth is needed.