The Rapture of the Left Behind !

Introduction: Since this is a Eschatalogical apocalyptic movie  released in US on October 2nd 2014.The movie is scheduled to be screened in India on October 10th.I will be watching this movie in theater after a longtime.Irrespective of it’s graphics,special effects and much more I want to see it as a faith based movie.The Bible is a prophetic book.All the prophecies foretold had took place in God’s time.The rapture is foretold in the Bible soon or later it is going to happen  in this world.

The end is the beginning of the sorrows

Release Date: October 2, 2014 (p.m. screenings),In India October 10th 2014 

Studio: Stoney Lake Entertainment 

Director: Vic Armstrong (Stunt Director of the movie “Amazing spider man”

Screenwriter: Paul Lalonde, John Patus 

Starring: Nicolas Cage(Hero of the Ghost Rider), Chad Michael Murray, Cassi Thomson, Nicky Whelan, Lea Thompson, Jordan Sparks, Quinton Aaron, Martin Klebba 

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller 

Official Website: LeftBehindmovie.com | Facebook | Twitter | Google+ 

In India released on Oct 10th 2014

Summary of the Movie: "Left Behind" is amovie where  Rayford Steele (Nicolas Cage), who  is a commercial pilot airliner. It happened  just hours after the Rapture when millions of people around the globe simply vanish. While the plane was travelling about thirty thousand feet over the Atlantic, Rayford (Nicolas Cage) is faced with a broken plane, fearful passengers, and a disappointed hope to get back to his family. On the ground, his daughter, Chloe Steele (Cassi Thomson) is among those left behind, forced to go through a world of pandemonium as she searches for her lost mother and brother. The movie is based on the New York Times bestselling book series of the same name, co-authored by Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye. Based on the Bible and published in 32 different languages, the series has sold more than 65 million copies and is one of the best-selling fiction series of all time. 

Conclusion:The Bible admonishes us that in the last days the rapture will take place.Rapture is an incident of all the believers being caught in the air to be with Lord Jesus Christ and will be having 7 years fellowship in the midair that is between heaven and earth.There will be a turmoil,pestilences,disasters,wars and catastrophe around the world for those who are left behind for rejecting Christ as personal savior and also not complying to live according to the divine mandates in the Bible.There will be a Antichrist ruling to destroy Jews and Christians

When Rapture takes place millions of believers will be taken 

and establish a one world government,a one world order,A one world religion.

The Antichrist persecutes those who profess their faith in Lord Jesus Christ and aims to destroy the Jews so that God’s promise to His children is not established but at the end of 7 years period of tribulation Christ re-appears as a King of kings and Lord of lords at the war of Armageddon and annihilates all the Antichrist army and establishes his millennial rule.Rapture and Second advent of Christ a re totally different incidents which take place at different levels .During rapture no one will see Jesus Christ only the resurrected bodies of believer is taken back to the midair.During the second advent of Christ whole world will see Jesus Chrsit.During rapture the believers in Christ will be taken and will come back again with Christ during the second advent that takes place after the period of 7 year tribulation to the world.

I want to differentiate the two incidents according to the scripture….

Bible references regarding the rapture.

1.Thessalonians 4:17 -Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

1 Thessalonians 4:16 - For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

2.Titus 2:13 - Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; 

3.John 14:3 - And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, [there] ye may be also.

4.Matthew 24:31 - And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

5.Matthew 24:27 - For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

6.1 Corinthians 15:52 - In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

7.Luke 21:34-36 - And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and [so] that day come upon you unawares. 

8.Matthew 24:42 - Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. 

9.Matthew 24:36 - But of that day and hour knoweth no [man], no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

10.Mark 13:32-37 - But of that day and [that] hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father. 

World religionscouldn't guess about the rapture

11.Matthew 25:1-13 - Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 

12.Matthew 24:42-44 - Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. 

13.Matthew 24:40 - Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

14.Luke 17:26 - And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

15.Luke 12:40 - Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

16.1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 - But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 

17.1 Thessalonians 5:9 - For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

18.1 Thessalonians 5:3 - For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

19.Revelation 19:7 - Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

20.Revelation 16:15 - Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed [is] he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

21.1 John 3:2 - Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

22.2 Peter 3:10 - But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

A glorious experience awaiting for those who beleive in Jesus

23.Hebrews 2:14 - Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

24.2 Thessalonians 2:1-5 - Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and [by] our gathering together unto him.

25.1 Thessalonians 1:10 - And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, [even] Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

26.Colossians 3:4 - When Christ, [who is] our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

27.1 Corinthians 15:51-55 - Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,  

28.1 Corinthians 4:5 - Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

29.Luke 21:36 - Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.                          

Second advent of Christ:

1.Revelation 1:7 - Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they [also] which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.

1,44,000 Jews will be sealed as a remnant to preach about His glory

2.Revelation 20:4 - And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and [I saw] the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received [his] mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

3.Matthew 24:30 - And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

4.Revelation 22:12 - And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward [is] with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

5.Revelation 19:11-16 - And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him [was] called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

Whole world,Religion,Governments,Military will invade Israel...

6.Revelation 3:10 - 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 earth.

7.Matthew 24:21 - For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

8.Matthew 16:27 - For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.

9.Daniel 9:27 - And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make [it] desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

10.Revelation 14:12 - Here is the patience of the saints: here [are] they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

11.Revelation 11:15 - And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become [the kingdoms] of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

12.Revelation 11:1-19 - And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein

First Rapture then Second coming of Christ

13.Revelation 7:14 - And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

14.Revelation 4:1 - After this I looked, and, behold, a door [was] opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard [was] as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.

15.Jude 1:14 - And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,

16.Hebrews 9:27 - And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

17.2 Thessalonians 2:8 - 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:

18.Daniel 12:7 - And I heard the man clothed in linen, which [was] upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that [it shall be] for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these [things] shall be finished.

19.Daniel 9:24-27 - Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. 

During Armageddon war we will return alongwith Christ

20.Revelation 20:2-5 - And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, 

21.Revelation 19:11-21 - And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him [was] called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. 

22.Revelation 19:6-9 - And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. 

23.Revelation 17:8 - The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.

24.Revelation 17:1-18 - And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: 

25.Revelation 16:1-21 - And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. 

26.Revelation 15:8 - And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God, and from his power; and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.

The Heavenly army with Our Lord Jesus at Armageddon

27.Revelation 15:2 - And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, [and] over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of God.

28.Revelation 13:8 - And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

29.Revelation 12:14 - And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

30.Revelation 12:3 - And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

31.Revelation 12:1-17 - And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:

32.Revelation 11:3 - And I will give [power] unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

33.Revelation 11:2 - But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty [and] two months.

34.Revelation 9:5 - And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment [was] as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

35.Revelation 7:13 - And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?

36.Revelation 7:3 - Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

37.Revelation 7:1-17 - And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. 

38.Revelation 6:16 - And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

39.Revelation 6:1-17 - And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see. 

40.1 Peter 1:13 - Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

41.Luke 21:16 - And ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and [some] of you shall they cause to be put to death.

42.Mark 13:26-27 - And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory. 

43.Mark 13:9 - But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.

44.Matthew 24:30-31 - And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

Antichrist and world armies during armageddon

45.Matthew 24:28 - For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

46.Matthew 13:39 - The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.

47.Matthew 13:30 - Let 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.

48.Zechariah 14:4 - And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which [is] before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, [and there shall be] a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south. 

Dear Reader! I ask you in the name of Jesus to accept Him as your personal Savior and escape the coming wrath of Judgement into this world.You will be taken to escape the 7 year tribulation if you are alive during rapture or will inherit the eternal life when you leave this world before rapture takes place.



Kingdom Blessings!

Bibliography:

http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Bible-Verses-About-Rapture/

http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=96227