Left Behind

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I recently viewed a 2014 movie on NetFlix starring Nicolas Cage titled "Left
Behind". There was a glaring omission: nobody came back from the dead for
the rapture; only living people were taken out.

Something else overlooked by the movie's producers is the category of folk
who are supposed to be taken. According to 1Thess 4:13-17, they are "in
him" and "in Christ"; viz: the rapture is exclusive; Christ is coming back for
his church and no others.

Well; in order to get in Jesus' church, one must first believe the gospel. Then
they have to be sealed in him by the Holy Spirit (Eph 1:13). Therefore; non
believing, non sealed children won't be taken in the real rapture. The
movie's rapture took all the children.
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It's sometimes objected that a truly loving, sensitive, kind-hearted god
would never leave children behind to go thru the calamitous events depicted
in the book of Revelation.

How many children were spared the Flood?

How many children were spared Sodom and Gomorrah?

How many children would've been collateral damage had not the adults in
Nineveh heeded Jonah's warning?

Being left out of the rapture may be a death sentence for some but it isn't a
sentence to hell; I mean, after all, according to Rev 7:9-17, a very large
number of people will be saved during the calamities; which includes a
world-wide earthquake so severe on the Richter scale that every city on
Earth will collapse at once; no doubt resulting in an unimaginable body
count.

Something like 2,829 lost their lives when the World Trade Center was
demolished by a terrorist attack in 2001. Well that was only a small portion
of New York City. Just imagine the carnage when all of Manhattan comes
down at once. along with other major cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Mexico City, Paris, Moscow, Beijing, and Tokyo, et al.

FYI: The rapture and the second coming of Christ are two separate events. The
one precedes the other by seven years. Only his church will see Christ at the
rapture. The whole world will see him at the second coming.
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I close my remarks with lines from the movie spoken a few hours after the
rapture that go something like this:

Journalist: It looks like the end of the world.

Ce Steele: No, not yet. I'm afraid this is just the beginning.
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I mean, after all, according to Rev 7:9-17, a very large
number of people will be saved during the calamities;

Pre-wrath believes they are the raptured church. The bible never speaks of an end-time revival only a great apostasy.