Tim LaHaye's "Left-Behind" series of books and movies are a complete hoax and a joke, even robbery of Christian brethren who spends their money to buy such devilish trash.
So is saying God destroyed Israel in 70AD. There has got to be a better explanation to a rapture, than saying God did this and God did that and it cannot happen in the future. The ROMANS destroyed the temple and scattered the Jews, and not because of prophecy nor the will of God. Tribulation did not start in 70AD. Paul was already at work starting with the stoning of Stephen.
Notice what the Sanhedrin feared the day Lazarus was raised from the dead: John 11:46-54
46 But some of them went off to the
P’rushim and told them what he had done. (Raised Lazarus from the dead)
47 So the head
cohanim and the
P’rushim called a meeting of the
Sanhedrin and said, “What are we going to do? — for this man is performing many miracles.
48 If we let him keep going on this way, everyone will trust in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both the Temple and the nation.”
49 But one of them, Kayafa, who was
cohen gadol that year, said to them, “You people don’t know anything!
50 You don’t see that it’s better for you if one man dies on behalf of the people, so that the whole nation won’t be destroyed.”
51 Now he didn’t speak this way on his own initiative; rather, since he was
cohen gadol that year, he was prophesying that Yeshua was about to die on behalf of the nation,
52 and not for the nation alone, but so that he might gather into one the scattered children of God.
53 From that day on, they made plans to have him put to death.
54 Therefore Yeshua no longer walked around openly among the Judeans but went away from there into the region near the desert, to a town called Efrayim, and stayed there with his
talmidim.
Two things here: They said if they did not stop Jesus, the Romans would come and destroy both the Temple and Jerusalem.
They think if one man would die, the nation would be saved.
Tell me how they avoided history with those two statements.
Potentially accepting Jesus, would be the overthrow of Rome. Yet not God's timing.
Jesus had to die, to save Israel from their sins.
What actually happened. They rejected the death of Jesus and died in their sins and Rome destroyed both the Temple and Jerusalem.
The Sanhedrin did not accomplish their desires, but they did accomplish the Will of God. The Romans came because the Jews did have revolt and civil strife any way. 70AD is not in Scripture as any work of God, because it was not of God. Did God warn them? Yes; Jesus said it would happen. Jumping to conclusions and claiming God "did it" is just the same as getting the Second Coming all wrong.
God did not even have a hand in the Greeks taking over Israel before Christ. Daniel just said it would happen. There was no reason on Israel's part. 70AD was nothing special, but just Israel being their normal selves. They rejected God, they rejected the young church, they were still working out sinful flesh like any other pagan tribe on the outer edges of the Roman empire.