It's time to close the book on the FReepathon.
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Hmm. Thoughts?
Jesus is coming. Look busy.
I’m guessing that when the film opens, there will be plenty of opinions offered right here. Patience, Grasshopper...
I read some of these books when they came out…..Cage is interesting choice as Rayford Steele. I don’t see many movies, but I’ll probably go see this.
It's a great story, that needs to be seen by a larger, Generation.com/Gen X audience. Sorry, but Kirk Cameron and Brad Johnson -- both of whom I like -- just don't have the star appeal to draw a mass audience. Combine Cage's star power with some good effects, a rockin' soundtrack (I hope), and a good supporting cast, and this could be an example of exactly what we need...conservative pop culture. Here's hoping more follow.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Know nothing about the book or movies.
But is this brief article right about the book/movie plot?
IIRC, the anti-Christ is for EVERYone, and comes BEFORE the rapture (believers being taken). The anti-christ is destroyed. Thus, there is nothingness after the rapture.
Sounds like the plot is a bit wrong WRT the Bible.
1. Global warming makes most people, who don't kow tow to it, suddenly disappear.
2. Gaea, the Earth Goddess, then brings about a time of tribulation, where arugula is impossible to come by, and people must use only wind power and eat crickets.
3. Everything could have been avoided if the Republicans in Congress wouldn't have blocked Obama, and weren't so darn racist.
I read Hal Lindsey’s Late Great Planet Earth more than 40 years ago...
Left Behind seems to copy the ideas..
Seems Cage has a very dark spirit. I think he’s taken on the role of most of his movies.
Cage certainly needs Jesus, hope he finds him.
Isn’t HBO doing the same thing?
Only the HBO series is directed by a big liberal
I suspect the HBO series is ‘Noah-ing’ this movie...providing akward non-Christian fiction to offset a Christian viewpoint.
Since the dead in Christ rise first, and Revelation states that the first resurrection is AFTER the tribulation, keep looking busy.
I read the book years ago but did not follow up with others in the series. I enjoyed it.
Books like this always make me worry if I’ll be one of the ones left behind or not. Fear is a good motivator.
A “pre-trib” rapture seems to contradict John 17. In that chapter, Christ prays for all the Father has given him (v. 9) or will ever give Him (v. 20) in His High Priestly prayer. In between (v. 15), Christ specifically asks the Father to not take us out of the world, but to “keep” (guard) us from the evil.
I know many try to make Rev. 3:10 into a pre-trib rapture verse, but that same “keep” (guard) is used in that verse too. What would we need to be guarded from if we’re in heaven? And it’s clear that Christians will be guarded from the effects of at least some of the End Times judgments (Rev. 9:4; 16:2)
The books were a good view of the end times and loved em! There was an attempt to film an early sequence but that was the only one produced, and that was it. I look forward to the new version, with hesitation as to how Hollywood will twist it.
Nick Cage flicks these days are horrible
He’s rebuilding his fortune on a mound of dookie