Nicolae: The Rise of Antichrist<\/em><\/a>. His review posts provide ample evidence of why the Left Behind series is poor literature as well as poor theology and poor Biblical interpretation.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I saw this ad for the upcoming Left Behind movie on the blog Speculative Faith: There is no sense in which Left Behind is \u201cbased on a true story\u201d \u2013 even one that hasn\u2019t happened yet. It is based on an impressionistic reading of Revelation that ignores its original context, and often ignores what it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":26402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,81],"tags":[3592,6444,7755,8102,12508],"class_list":["post-26401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eschatology-theology","category-revelation-bible","tag-fred-clark","tag-left-behind","tag-movie","tag-nic-cage","tag-theology"],"yoast_head":"\n
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