On October 3, theaters across the country will be lowering their screens for the much talked about reboot of \u201cLeft Behind,\u201d a film installment based upon the popular book series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins and a remake of the previous film by the same name. It\u2019s been the \u201cyear of the Christian movie\u201d with films like \u201cGod\u2019s Not Dead,\u201d \u201cHeaven is For Real,\u201d and \u201cSon of God.\u201d (I would include \u201cNoah\u201d but that was apparently condemned as heresy by the masses.) So, a reboot of \u201cLeft Behind\u201d \u2014 especially one with a bigger budget and a bigger name (Nicolas Cage) \u2014 is not really unexpected, though it most certainly will draw the same sort of crowds as the other three movies and will find itself well within the likes of the church crowd.<\/span><\/p>\n Unfortunately, however, while \u201cLeft Behind\u201d may prove itself to be a mediocre box office success, it represents a severe misinterpretation of what the Bible actually says about the topic. To put it bluntly, and perhaps to the chagrin of some readers, the idea of a \u201crapture\u201d is simply not biblically based (and that\u2019s where I\u2019ve lost a third of you!) It represents, instead, a theology based on escapism and in the process does damage to what the Bible really does say about \u201cthe last days.\u201d<\/p>\n Of course, it\u2019s beyond the scope of this article to give a fleshed out analysis of the various portraits of \u201cthe last days\u201d which exist in contemporary Christianity. More to the topic of this post, though, the whole idea of disappearing for seven years to a heavenly abode while the rest of the world endures some timetable of Revelation\u2019s cataclysmic prophecies of cosmic destruction, a one world order, an antichrist, a mark of the beast (watch out iPhone 6!), etc. is just not what Revelation is about.<\/p>\n