the rapture is it a biblical doctrine?

The Evangelicalrsquos prophecy of Armageddon begins when the Rapture instantly takes all believers in Christ from the Earth A reporter left behind learns that the Anti-Christ will soon take powerDirectorVic SarinWritersAlan B McElroy (as Alan McElroy) Paul Lalonde 3 more credits raquo StarsKirk Cameron Brad Johnson Janaya Stephens | See full cast and crew raquo

The new ldquoLeft Behindrdquo movie promotes the false rapture theology

ldquoLeft Behindrdquo was released

on October 3 2014 directed

by Vic Armstrong and written

by Paul LaLonde and John

Patus Based on the novel of

the same name written by

Tim LaHaye and Jerry B

Jenkins and starring Nicolas

Cage Chad Michael Murray

Cassi Thomson Nicky

Whelan and Jordin Sparks

2014 American apocalyptic thriller film


University of Central Arkansas student Chloe Steele has flown in from college to surprise her father pilot RayfordSteele for his birthday party Her mother Irene Steele quickly calls to inform her however that her father cannot makeit While at the airport waiting for him Chloe meets up with investigative reporter Cameron Buck WilliamsRayford shows up on his way to a flight and apologizes to Chloe for missing her birthday party insisting he was called into pilot a flight to London at the last minute He also assures Chloe things are fine between himself and his wife whorecently had become an active believing Christian much to Chloersquos disgust Chloe suspects things are not fine betweenher father and mother - she had seen him flirting with flight attendant Hattie Durham and notices he has removed hiswedding ring Her suspicions soon are confirmed when an airport worker hands Chloe two hard-to-get theater ticketsin London that Rayford had ordered indicating his trip to London and possible extramarital fling was planned all along


On Rayfordrsquos flight the same strange event has occurred ndash several people including his co-pilot ChrisSmith Kimmy one of the flight attendants and all the children on board have simply disappeared leavingtheir clothing and personal effects behind The remaining passengers panic and demand answers Rayforddoes his best to reassure the passengers he will pass on information once he has any Rayford hasdifficulty getting radio or cell phone contact with anyone on the ground until he is finally informed thatpeople have disappeared everywhere and the world is in uproar Soon a pilot-less jet approaches directlyinto Rayfordrsquos flight path He narrowly avoids a midair collision but the jet damages Rayfordrsquos fuel line Hedecides his only option is to return to New York and hope his fuel holds out


On the ground Chloe hears her fatherrsquos Mayday call on her cell phone and assumes his plane has crashedShe later finds her motherrsquos jewelry left behind in the shower as she has also disappeared Chloe makesher way to New Hope Church to discover the family pastor Bruce Barnes who explains God has taken hisbelievers to heaven and the rest have to face the end of days The pastor explains he was not takenbecause he didnt really believe what he had preached Rayford comes to the same conclusion byexamining his copilot and stewardessrsquo personal effects He tells Hattie the truth about his wife She isinitially upset as she didnt know he was married but Rayford convinces her to be brave and to help calmthe passengers down until they can safely land


Chloe climbs to the top of a bridge intending to jump off it and end her life when she gets a call from Buck who is in the cockpit with Rayford Rayford explains to Chloe all the New York area airports are closed and the streets full and he is low on fuel and has nowhere to land Chloe finds an abandoned Ford truck and uses it to clear away the equipment from a bridge under construction in order to create a makeshift runway She uses her compass app and tells Rayford the coordinates of the landing site Rayford is able to glide to a rough landing saving the passengers who leave the plane only to see the world aflame Buck mentions that it looks like the end of the world while Chloe informs him that it is just the beginning

Left Behind received near universal negative reviews On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a rating of 2 based on 60 reviews with an average rating of 210 The sites consensus states Yea verily like unto a plague of locusts Left Behind hath begat a further scourge of devastation upon Nicolas Cages once-proud filmography On Metacritic the film has a score of 12 out of 100 based on 25 critics indicating overwhelming dislike

Christian magazine Christianity Today heavilycriticized the film saying Left Behind is not aChristian movie whatever Christian Moviecould even possibly mean In fact mostChristians within the world of the moviemdashwhether the street-preacher lady at the airportor Rayford Steeles wifemdashare portrayed asinsistent crazy delusional or at the very leastjust really annoying They want churches tobook whole theaters and take theircongregations want it to be a Youth Groupevent want magazines like this one to publishDiscussion Questions at the end of theirreviewsmdashwant the system to churn away allthe while netting them cash without everhaving to have cared a shred about actualChristian belief They want to trick you intocaring about the movie Dont We tried to givethe film zero stars but our tech system wontallow it

ldquoSo what possessed the makers of Left Behind to produce such an ignorant piece of garbage thatrsquos easily one of the worst films of 2014 if not all-timerdquo Paul Chambers from MovieChamberscom

The promise of the Messiahrsquos second coming has been a cherished promise for just over 2000 years It has strengthened martyrs and comforted the lonely and heart broken

Jesus wants his people ready for His 2nd

coming He had warned everybody to watch and be ready He gave signs to look for as harbingers of his return But Satan wants people to be taken by surprise He knows that when Jesus returns the final battle would have already been fought the great controversy would at last be over and the case for every individual would forever be decided

Jesusrsquo promised hope for His followers

Satan tries to keep people from getting ready so that the 2nd coming will take them by surprise and they will be lost

One of Satanrsquos successful lies is that there will be a second chance given for sinners after Jesusrsquo second coming This very popular belief referred to as the rapture teaches that Jesus will return secretly taking His people from the earth It is believed following the rapture of the righteous the entire earth will be plunged into seven years of great tribulation during which anti-christ will reign and exercise great power on the earth This is a very dangerous belief

Not only is it not found in scripture but it leads people to assume that they have more time to accept salvation than they actual do Rather than diligently searching their hearts and repenting of every known sin people who believe in the rapture have a false sense of security believing if they donrsquot make the secret rapture they can still repent later during the great tribulation following the rapture

Romans 323For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God

Heaven has already graciously granted everyone a 2nd chance in this life to choose whom heshe will serve Probationary time closes shortly before Jesus appears in the clouds of heaven At that time the Saviourwill announce hellip

Revelation 2211-1211 He that is unjust let him be unjust still and he which is filthy let him be filthy still and he that is righteous let him be righteous still and he that is holy let him be holy still12 And behold I come quickly and my reward is with me to give every man according as his work shall be

ldquohellipthose that are filthy and unjust will take occasion thence to be more sohelliprdquo (from Matthew Henrys Commentary on the Whole Bible PC Study Bible Formatted Electronic Database Copyright copy 2006 by Biblesoft Inc All Rights reserved)

Revelation 2211 hellipIt is the hopelessness of the final state of the wicked which is here pictured So as to Let him be made filthy still rupantheetoo eti hellipThe use of eti is not perfectly clear whether still or yet more It is the time when Christ has shut the door to those outside who are now without hope (Matthew 2510 Luke 1325hellip The states of both the evil and the good are now fixed forever There is no word here about a second chance hereafter(from Robertsons Word Pictures in the New Testament Electronic Database Copyright copy 1997 2003 2005 2006 by Biblesoft Inc Robertsons Word Pictures in the New Testament Copyright copy 1985 by Broadman Press)

Revelation 2211 ndash ldquostillrdquo (Gk eti -2089) Meaning ldquofix and unchangeablerdquo ldquobe more sordquo ldquocontinue to do sordquo ldquolet such be more and morehelliprdquo

There will be no other chances given after Jesusrsquo second coming

because when He comes He will be bringing His rewards with Him

Matthew 1330 38-43

bull There will be those who will be ldquodestroyedrdquo by the brightness of His comingbull There will be those that will ldquoshinerdquo at the brightness of His coming

The idea of a secret rapture is deceptively based on a few bible verses taken out of context Matthew 24

Matthew 2440-4240 Then shall two be in the field the one shall be taken and the other left41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill the one shall be taken and the other left42 Watch therefore for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come


The idea of a secret rapture is based on a few bible verses taken out of context

These verses cannot be used to

support the idea of a secret pre-

tribulation rapture because they

are merely a summary statement

of an illustration Jesus just used

Jesus explained that there will be

two classes of people at the end

those who will be saved and

those who will be lost He likened

it to the time before the flood

when everyone by their own

choices determined whether or

not they would be saved

Matthew 2437-4237 But as the days of Noe were so shall also the coming of the Son of man be38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage until the day that Noeentered into the ark39 And knew not until the flood came and took them all away so shall also the coming of the Son of man be40 Then shall two be in the field the one shall be taken and the other left41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill the one shall be taken and the other left42 Watch therefore for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come

In the days of Noah those who choose to obey were saved in the ark those who refuse to obey were left outside and were lost The people outside the ark were not given another chance Their probation had closed and they were destroyed in the flood There was not a 2nd chance for them and there would be no 2nd or 3rd chances for anyone after the 2nd coming

Jesus drew a comparison between the days of Noah and the end of the world

Jesus clearly taught there will be no separation of the righteous or the wicked until the end of the world In a parable He explained that both the wheat and the tares (poisonous weeds) would hellip

Matthew 1330Let both grow together until the harvest and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers Gather ye together first the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them but gather the wheat into my barn

Jesus explained further the sequence of events ndash no second chance

Matthew 1338-4038 The field is the world the good seed are the children of the kingdom but the tares are the children of the wicked one39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil the harvest is the end of the world and the reapers are the angels40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire so shall it be in the end of this world


Matthew 1341-4341 The Son of man shall send forth his angels and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend and them which do iniquity42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father Who hath ears to hear let him hear

The tareswicked are gathered together in bundles for destruction

ldquo hellipI am with you alway even unto the end of the world Amenrdquo Matthew 2820

2 Thessalonians 234893 Let no man defor that day shall not come except there come a falling away first and that man of sin be revealed the son of perdition ceive you by any means 4 Who opposeth and exaltethhimself above all that is called God or that is worshipped so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God shewing himself that he is God hellip8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming 9 Even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wondershellip

ldquoPoperdquo Ferrarisrsquo Ecclesiastic Dictionary The Pope is of so great dignity and so exalted that he is not a mere man but as it were God and the vicar of God

The Book of Revelation contains a precious promise for the faithful and righteous who remain upon the earth until the very end of the world

This text has been also used to support the idea of a secret rapture but actually a power affirmation of his sustaining presence with His people clear to the very end

Revelation 310-1110 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation which shall come upon all the world to try them that dwell upon the earth11 Behold I come quickly hold that fast which thou hast that no man take thy crown

John 1713-1513 And now come I to thee and these things I speak in the world that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves14 I have given them thy word and the world hath hated them because they are not of the world even as I am not of the world15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil

Before Jesus was crucified He prayed for all who should believe on him down to the very end of time

Jerry B Jenkins and Dr Tim Lahaye

Today you have the series called ldquoLeft Behindrdquo by Rev Tim LaHaye LaHaye 33rd

degree freemason Tim Lahaye and Jerry B Jenkinshas brought out this series with its ldquoFuturismrdquo ConceptFiction to the Church worldwide Pre-tribulation Rapture - A lie Created By The Jesuits Of RomeYOUTUBE VIDEO httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=ACcYcPfHHJs

Taking the attention away from Rome

The teaching of the rapture came into prominence throughout the Christian world through a man called Hal Lindsey who wrote the book the ldquoLate Great Planet Earthrdquo A book which sold over 35 million copies Most PastorsBible College Lecturers and Christian Statelite Networks) based their theology on Lindseyrsquos Pre-Tribulation Rapture Theory Lindsey is a Jesuit Two of his daughters attended Jesuit Gonzaga University He also attended a Jesuit University He is one of Jesuit agents planted into the charismatic Pentecostal Churches to take the attention away from Rome

bull The New York Times called it the no 1 non-fiction bestseller of the decade For Christians and non-Christians of the 1970s

bull Hal Lindseys blockbuster served as a wake-up call on events soon to come and events already unfolding -- all leading up to the greatest event of all the return of Jesus Christ

bull it reveals a grand design thats unfolding exactly according to plan The rebirth of Israel The threat of war in the Middle East

bull An increase in natural catastrophes The revival of Satanism and witchcraft

bull a war which will bring humanity to the brink of destruction and of incredible deliverance for a desperate dying planetrdquo httpwwwgoodreadscombookshow899325The_Late_Great_Planet_Earth

POINTS EMPAHISIZED IN THE BOOK

Hal Lindsey the father of Modern Bible Prophecy is a Jesuit of a third vow Mysterious woman co-writer C C Carlson was a ghost-writerco-writer of Lindseyrsquos book ldquoThe Late Great Planet Earthrdquo when he brought this teaching to the church and to millions She is a catholic nun

The definition of the word ldquoJesuitrdquo in the modern

dictionary one will not find any great revelation It has

been suppressed and re-written So you look at an old

dictionary Noahrsquos Webster dictionary ndash 1828

ldquoJESUIT n One of the Society of Jesus so-called founded

by Ignatius Loyola a society remarkable for their cunning

in propagating their principlesrdquo

JESUITISM n hellipCunning deceit hypocrisy prevarication

deceptive practices to effect a purposehelliprdquohellip apostasy from

Apostolic ChristianityhellipThe Antichrist or man of Sinhelliprdquo

The Black Pope Adolfo Nicolaacutes 30th (and current) Superior General of the Society of Jesus

The Rapture Theory was invented by two Jesuits of Rome as part of the Counter Reformation It is a system of re-interpretation called Futurism These two Jesuit were named Francisco De Ribera and Robert Bellarmine Francisco De Ribera was a Superior General from 1537-1591 And also Cardinal Robert Bellarmine from 1542-1621 These were high Jesuits They brought into the church this false theology

Francisco De Ribera Robert Bellarmine

WHO WERE THE MEN THAT INVENTED THE DOCRINE

bull The antichrist will be one man not a dynasty (succession of men)bull Will only be known at the re-establishing of a third Jewish templebull He is an atheist or infidel Will not come out of a church that have fallen

from Apostolic truthbull He will only be revealed during the tribulationbull He will sit in the Temple in Jerusalem and make a covenant with the Jewsbull He will call himself Godbull Christians are hindering his appearance Christians will be caught in the

beginning of the tribulation this will bring forth the anti-christ and only the ldquosecret rapturerdquo he will appear

bull The church cannot know the anti-christ because he will only be known 3 frac12 years into the 7 year tribulation

POINTS OF THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE THEORY

The JesuitsThe Society of Jesus brought this doctrine of FuturismPre-Trib Rapture into the church so the church will not follow in the tradition of the Reformers All these reformers Mighty men of God all knew that Rome was the seat of anti-christ That the pope exalts Himself above God and place himself as the ldquoheadrdquo of God Church So the Jesuit had to bring in a pseudo-theology

WHY DID JESUITS INVENTED THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE THEORY

Roman Catholic Church house the office of the anti-

Christ Succession of men in the office of

theAntichrist

The Jesuit order is the Counter-ReformationIn Rome the Society of Jesusndasha Roman Catholic missionary organizationndashreceives its charter from Pope Paul III The Jesuit order played an important role in the Counter-Reformation and eventually succeeded in converting millions around the world to CatholicismThe Jesuit movement was founded by Ignatius de Loyola a Spanish soldier turned priest in August 1534 The first JesuitsndashIgnatius and six of his studentsndashtook vows of poverty and chastity and made plans to work for the conversion of Muslims If travel to the Holy Land was not possible they vowed to offer themselves to the pope for apostolic work Unable to travel to Jerusalem because of the Turkish wars they went to Rome instead to meet with the pope and request permission to form a new religious order In September 1540 Pope Paul III approved Ignatiusrsquo outline of the Society of Jesus and the Jesuit order was born



theAntichrist

The Reformers were men who willing to stand up for the Word of God at a time when the policy of the Roman church was to censorsilence the voice of protest Are our modern churches returning to such a state of religious tyranny where to stand up for truth is at the peril of the lives of those desire to obey Scripture rather than dictations of men

Who did the Reformers believe was the Ant-Christ



theAntichrist


Oh Christ my Lord look down upon us and bring upon us the day of

judgment and destroy the brood of Satan at Rome There sits the Man of

whom the Apostle Paul wrote that he would oppose and exalt himself above all

that is called God mdash the Man of Sin the son of perdition What is the

Temple of God Is it stones and wood Did not Paul say The Temple of God is

holy which Temple ye are To sit mdash what is it but to reign to teach and to

judge Who from the beginning of the church has dared to call himself master

of the whole church but the Pope alone None of the saints none of the

heretics ever uttered so horrible a word of pride (Luthers Works Vol 2 p

281)



theAntichrist

Who did the Reformers believe was the Ant-ChristJohn Foxe noted writer of Foxes Book of Martyrs gives a list of learned men between 1331 and 1360 who contended against the false claims of the Pope One of these Michael of Cesena who had numerous followers not a few of whom were slain declared the Pope to be the Antichrist and the church of Rome to be the whore of Babylon drunk with the blood of the saints (Foxe Acts and Movements p445)

John Wyclif (sometimes spelled Wycliffe) noted English Reformer taught that the persecuting little horn of Daniel had found fulfilment in the Papacy which arose out of the fourth kingdom Rome Why is it necessary in unbelief to look for another Antichrist he asked In the Seventh Chapter of Daniel the Antichrist is forcefully described as a horn arising in the time of the fourth kingdom wearing out the saints of the most high (Froom vol2 p445) His book the Mirror of the Antichrist is filled with references to the Pope as the Antichrist



theAntichrist

Who did the Reformers believe was the Ant-ChristJohn Huss (1369-1415) born in Bohemia was a well educated man who came under the influence of Wyclifs writings which caused him to break with the church of Rome He labelled the Pope as the Antichrist of which the Scriptures had warned His writings constantly refer to the Antichrist as the enemy of the church - not as a Jew a pagan or a Turk - but as a false confessor of the name of Christ (The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers vol2 p121)

Generally regarded as second only to Luther in influence is the eminent French reformer John Calvin (1509-1564) Originally a son of the Romish church about 1532 he embraced the Protestant faith His published works fill some fifty volumes Concerning the Pope he said I deny him to be the vicar of Christ who infuriouslypersecuting the gospel demonstrates by his conduct that he is the Antichrist - I deny him to be the successor of Peter I deny him to be the head of the church (Calvin Tracts Vol1 pp219-220)



theAntichrist

Who did the Reformers believe was the Ant-ChristJohn Knox (1505-1572) especially known for his Reformation work in Scotland was persecuted from country to country until finally the affairs of Scotland were in Protestant hands Knox preached that Romish traditions and ceremonies should be abolished as well as that tyranny which the Pope himself has for so many ages exercised over the church and that he should be acknowledged as the very Antichrist and son of perdition of whom Paul speaks (Knox The Zurich Letters p199)

William Tyndale (1485-1536) first translator of the Bible from Greek to English Reformer and martyr held that the Romish church was Babylon and that the Pope was the man of sin or the Antichrist seated in the temple of God ie the Church (Ibid p356) Repeatedly he cited 2 THESSALONIANS 2 in this connection (Froom vol2 p319)



theAntichrist

Who did the Reformers believe was the Ant-ChristHuldreich Zwingli (1484-1531) was a prominent figure in the work of the Reformation that broke out in Switzerland On December 28 1524 he very wisely pointed out that the Papacy was evil but that it must be overthrown by the preaching of the Word in love and never by hatred In reference to the Papacy he said I know that in it works the might and power of the devil that is of the Antichrist the Papacy has to be abolished But by no other means can it be more thoroughly routed than by the Word of God (2 THESSALONIANS 2) because as soon as the world receives this in the right way it will turn away from the Pope without compulsion (Principal Works of Zwingli Vol7 p461)



theAntichrist

Who did the Reformers believe was the Ant-ChristJohn Wesley (1703-1791) founder of Methodism whose ministry has affected the lives of multiplied thousands believed the man of sin had found fulfilment in the Romish Papacy (Wesley Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament pp290)

Roman Catholic Church (the whore of Babylon) houses the seat and office of the anti-christ A DynastySuccession of men in the office of the anti-christ

John Hagee Denies Jesus as the Messiah httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=8ktH3eknsak

Video Clip

Job 813 14 Job 278Quote ldquoSince Jesus refused by word and deed to claim to be the Messiah how can the Jews be blamed for rejecting what was never offeredrdquo John Hagee

Matthew 1616 John 1024-26

Hagee Jews Make Deal With Antichrist During End Times httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=wzgmeO6mQio

Ephesians 215-18Romans 116

ldquoJohn Hagee fundamentalist pastor from San Antonio and

friend of IsraelhellipHe also believes that Jews can come to

God without going through Jesus Christhellip trying to

convert Jews is a lsquowaste of timersquo he said lsquoThe Jewish

person who has his roots in Judaism is not going to convert to

Christianity There is no form of Christian evangelism that has

failed so miserably as evangelizing the Jewish people They

(already) have a faith structurersquo Everyone else whether

Buddhist or Baharsquoi needs to believe in Jesus he says But

not the Jewish people Jews already have a covenant with

God that has never been replaced by Christianity he saysrdquo

ldquoJesus saith unto him I am the way the truth and the life no man cometh unto the Father but by merdquo John 146

Galatians 328

No one should delay obeying the divine law to some future convenient date That time will never come Now is the day of salvation There will be no second or third chances given after Jesus comes The second coming is the end of life planet earth as we know it It will mean eternal death for all who have rejected the Saviour and the beginning of life eternal for all who have accepted him

2 Corinthians 62(For he saith I have heard thee in a time accepted and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee behold now is the accepted time behold now is the day of salvation)

Choose you this day whom you shall serve

Texts from King James Version Presentation by Stacia Holder


ldquoLeft Behindrdquo was released

on October 3 2014 directed

by Vic Armstrong and written

by Paul LaLonde and John

Patus Based on the novel of

the same name written by

Tim LaHaye and Jerry B

Jenkins and starring Nicolas

Cage Chad Michael Murray

Cassi Thomson Nicky

Whelan and Jordin Sparks

2014 American apocalyptic thriller film



























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the rapture is it a biblical doctrine?

Spiritual

new left

chloe things

chloe suspects things

pilot rayford steele

new york

flight attendants

false rapture theologyleft

rayfords flight path