Liberal Christians do not like to acknowledge the apocalyptic side of Jesus' message - they find it embarrassing. But scholars generally agree that those apocalyptic passages are among the most certainly authentic statements of Jesus. Nevertheless, I'm not into the specifics of the "Left Behind" series; I don't think it necessarily represents accurate Biblical scholarship.
I'm not into the specifics of the "Left Behind" series; I don't think it necessarily represents accurate Biblical scholarship.
I don't think it's supposed to, it's just one depiction of many possiblities of how it could happen.