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Welcome to the Left
Behind Series of
Study
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Truth Left
Behind in the
Tim
LaHaye Novels
Message
to Left Behind novel readers
Tim LaHaye's famous
"Left Behind" series really is a novel and doesn't
have much truth about the end times nor the rapture
contained within them. Those books have done more to
confuse Christians about the rapture and other tribulation
topics such as the Mark
of the Beast than any others and will do great
damage to their faith during the worst time in human
history.
"Preach the word; be instant in
season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long
suffering and doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they
heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
And they shall turn away their ears
from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables;" II
Timothy 4:2-4
"As also in all his epistles,
speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard
to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable
wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, unto their own
destruction." II Peter 3:16
Learn who is really
left behind and begin
to prepare you and your family
for what is really happening and how to "escape these
things coming upon the earth".
A Thief In
the Night
"But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the
night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a
great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the
earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
"Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things,
be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot,
and blameless." II Peter 3:10&14
A thief
in the night is always connected to the Day
of the Lord or Christ in scriptures, and the Day of the Lord
is the last day as well, and comes at Armageddon, which is the
last day of the age and when the Lord returns.
Remembering this
simple fact alone places the rapture at the Day of Armageddon at
the Day of the Lord.
(See the Tribulation
Chart and Sequence of Events)
"For they are the spirits of devils working miracles, which
go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to
gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he
that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and
they see his shame.
And
he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew
tongue Armageddon.
And the seventh
angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a
great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne,
saying, IT
IS DONE." Revelation 16:15-17
As you
can see in the verses above, the timing of the thief in the
night is at Armageddon which is during the 7th and last
Vial poured out, and it is done.
If we would quit
reading between the lines to build our pre-conceived
doctrines on the matter as taught by either deceivers
or those who are themselves deceived on the pulpits across the
land, we could then allow the Spirit of Truth to teach us the
truth. Otherwise the truth will evade us!
Change of
Mind
This
article is not meant to deal with the exegesis of the rapture,
as that would take a whole book and then some, but I wish only
to deal with the negative effects of the false doctrine of pre
tribulation teaching and the damage and harm it will cause many
Christians, when the rapture does not happen before the
Antichrist takes power as most all pre tribulation teachers
teach.
I
know very well the teaching about the pre tribulation
rapture, as I was taught it growing up in a Southern Baptist
Church, and later in Bible College, and then taught it myself
when I was a pastor. But when I shortly thereafter began
to study the Bible for myself to learn the whole truth about the
end times, for truth's sake, I immediately changed my mind as it
became clear that I was teaching a false doctrine concerning the
rapture and many other things in the Bible concerning the
Tribulation and I am still studying for more truth as I have
been now for over 25 years.
I am
not a pastor, nor a member of any church. I have no
doctrines to defend except the faith of Yah and faith in his Son
for the forgiveness of sins. But what I do know is how
difficult it is for a pastor or teacher to tell his congregation
that he has been wrong about what he has been teaching for many
years to his congregation.
He
knows that to a large degree he would lose his credibility and
many in his church. They would invariably wonder what else
he has been teaching that is not biblical!
Whose Left
Behind?
"Let both grow
together until the harvest: and in the time of the harvest I
will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and
bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat
into my barn."
The field is the world,
the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are
the children of the wicked one;
The enemy that sowed
them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the
reapers are the angels.
As therefore the tares
are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it
be in the end of this world.
The Son of man shall
send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom
all things that offend, and them which do iniquity."
Matthew 13:30,38-41
"For they are
spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the
kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the
battle of that great day of God Almighty,
Behold, I come as a
thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepethe his
garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
And he gathered them
together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
And the seventh angel
poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice
out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done
The scriptures about the thief in the night
deals not with the rapture,
but with who is taken from the earth when Yahshua/Jesus returns after
the rapture which in fact takes place the Day of
Armageddon/Day of the Lord. The
wicked (non-believers in the saving grace of
Yah who came in the flesh and died on the cross, to give
everlasting life to those who believe, by paying the price for
their sins, and their not being sent to hell) are
clearly removed from the earth, and those left
behind in the rapture, who did not take the mark of the
beast and who were not believers else they would have been
raptured, are left behind in the earth to repopulate the
earth in their physical bodies, as they became believers
immediately after the rapture on the day of Armageddon.,
awaiting for the Lord's return later in the same day, but they
know not not what hour (morning, noon, or night) he would return
as a thief in the night.
The harvesting begins during the tribulation, as
un-believers are gathered together to be burned (the seven
trumpets and vials; during the great tribulation), while the
remnant of the true church of Yahshua is taken to a place of
refuge under the protection of Yah.
Matthew 13 makes it completely clear that both
believers and non-believers are in the world, until the final
harvest at the end, after Armageddon. (See
Chart) In chapter 16 of Revelation at the end of the
7th Vial, the world is being gathered
Message
to Left Behind novel readers
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