Doctoral student from King's College, London, Michelle Fletcher, wrote this quick article about the movie, and its theology. As a warning, this will not be agreeable to some of my readers, assuming I have any, that are in the Pentecostal tradition. It's very different from our eschatology. However, as a reminder, we have so many opinions about eschatology that a scholarly perspective would be refreshing to see.
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Blending into One: The Left Behind Movie, the Book of Revelation and the Rapture
Michelle Fletcher • 10/14/2014
The new Left Behind movie (2014) depicts the Rapture, which is often assumed to be clearly explained in the Bible, especially the book of Revelation. It’s more complicated than that, says author Michelle Fletcher.
It’s a day like any other, and then—
bam!—everything changes. Millions of people disappear in an instant and all that’s left are piles of clothes, iPods and wallets. Panic and terror break out. This is the scene that viewers are faced with in the new
Left Behind movie, directed by Vic Armstrong, and it’s Nicolas Cage’s job to find out what’s happened. But the viewers already know the answer: it’s the Rapture, of course! The Biblical prophecies have come true.
Or have they?
The Rapture is now commonly understood to refer to a time when believers will be snatched up to heaven by Jesus to escape the time of tribulation about to engulf the earth during the reign of the Antichrist. This chain of events has become so integral to some Christian eschatologies (end-time theories) that it’s often assumed they’re clearly explained in the Bible, especially the book of Revelation. But in fact it’s all slightly more complicated than that."
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