Left Behind–Rebooted?
Filed Under (Author, Dee Dee Warren) by dee dee on 22-10-2012
Tagged Under : Books-Left Behind, Movies-Left Behind
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Well, okay, I admit it. I would like to boot, and then reboot, Left Behind many times over. But apparently the rumours are heating up that it will be re-made. A friend sent me over this article that a redone, and more snazzy (read less cheesy), version of the book will be done. My friend didn’t think it was a good thing. I disagree. You see, I see “Left Behind” as the Vista of futurism. It has been said that the best thing that ever happened to Apple was Vista. I think the best thing that has ever happened to preterism is dumb bunny books like Left Behind. So heck, get it out to bigger crowds. Futurists have complained to me that it is easy to pick on the book, low-hanging fruit as it were, as serious reflection can see that it is poorly written and silly. The theology is serious for those who hold it, as I once did. But the book is poorly written and silly. One can admit that, futurists. It won’t kill you. So, if a “better” presentation is done, it gives more opportunity to critique the actual theology. Though honestly, there is only so much you can do with that script.
I would go see it. It would save me from watching The Hunger Games for 76th time. No… wait, it is not coming out until 2013. Well maybe it will save me from watching The Hunger Games for the 1076 time. 
On a more serious note, with the defamation of Kirk Cameron as a bigot, this film, using mainstream actors, may open the doors to present the Gospel. People can get and be truly regenerate and born again with bad eschatology— it isn’t heretical. It is just bad. God can shoot straight with a crooked stick. But I woke up in a decent mood, maybe I will change my mind at the end of the day (about the movie being a good thing, not about whether futurism is a salvation issue, OBVIOUSLY IT ISN’T
I think billy bob thorton should play the Anti Christ… that would be cool…
Justin Bieber is my pick.
Left Behind is bad theology. I don’t see how it can be ‘cleaned up.’ The pre-trib rapture doctrine has stolen from too many a sense of purpose, and of a job to do, making them just spectators. They see no fight to win, and don’t prepare to fight, or win. “Left Behind” is one of the biggest lies the church has bought, Lord God, wake up Your children!
A bigot… and a postmillennialist!
Pretrib Rapture Pride
Pretrib rapture promoters like Thomas Ice give the impression they know more than the early Church Fathers, the Reformers, the greatest Greek New Testament scholars including those who produced the KJV Bible, the founders of their favorite Bible schools, and even their own mentors!
Ice’s mentor, Dallas Sem. president John Walvoord, couldn’t find anyone holding to pretrib before 1830 - and Walvoord called John Darby and his Brethren followers “the early pretribulationists” (RQ, pp. 160-62). Ice belittles Walvoord and claims that several pre-1830 persons, including “Pseudo-Ephraem” and a “Rev. Morgan Edwards,” taught a pretrib rapture. Even though the first one viewed Antichrist’s arrival as the only “imminent” event, Ice (and Grant Jeffrey) audaciously claim he expected an “imminent” pretrib rapture! And Ice (and John Bray) have covered up Edwards’ historicism which made a pretrib rapture impossible! Google “Morgan Edwards’ Rapture View” and journalist/historian Dave MacPherson’s “Deceiving and Being Deceived” for documentation on these and similar historical distortions.
The same pretrib defenders, when combing ancient books, deviously read “pretrib” into phrases like “before Armageddon,” “before the final conflagration,” and “escape all these things”!
BTW, the KJV translators’ other writings found in London’s famed British Library (where MacPherson has researched) don’t have even a hint of pretrib rapturism. Is it possible that Ice etc. have found pretrib “proof” in the KJV that its translators never found?
Pretrib merchandisers like Ice claim that nothing is better pretrib proof than Rev. 3:10. They also cover up “Famous Rapture Watchers” (on Google) which shows how the greatest Greek NT scholars of all time interpreted it.
Pretrib didn’t flourish in America much before the 1909 Scofield Bible which has pretribby “explanatory notes” in its margins. Not seen in the margins was jailed forger Scofield’s criminal record throughout his life that David Lutzweiler has documented in his recent book “The Praise of Folly” which is available online.
Biola University’s doctrinal statement says Christ’s return is “premillennial” and “before the Tribulation.” Although universities stand for “academic freedom,” Biola has added these narrow, restrictive phrases - non-essentials the founders purposely didn’t include in their original doctrinal statement when Biola was just a small Bible institute! And other Christian schools have also belittled their founders.
Ice, BTW, has a “Ph.D” issued by a tiny Texas school that wasn’t authorized to issue degrees! Ice now says that he’s working on another “Ph.D” via the University of Wales in Britain. For light on the degrees of Ice’s scholarliness, Google “Bogus degree scandal prompts calls to wind up University of Wales,” “Thomas Ice (Bloopers),” “be careful in polemics - Peripatetic Learning,” and “Walvoord Melts Ice.” Also Google “Thomas Ice (Hired Gun)” - featured by media luminary Joe Ortiz on his Jan. 30, 2013 “End Times Passover” blog.
Other fascinating Google articles include “The Unoriginal John Darby,” “X-raying Margaret,” “Margaret Macdonald’s Rapture Chart,” “Pretrib Rapture’s Missing Lines,” “Edward Irving is Unnerving,” “Pretrib Rapture Politics,” “Pretrib Rapture Secrets,” “Pretrib Rapture Dishonesty,” “Pretrib Hypocrisy,” “Pretrib Rapture Secrecy,” and “Roots of Warlike Christian Zionism” - most from the author of “The Rapture Plot,” the most accurate documentation on pretrib rapture history.
Can anyone guess who the last proud pretrib rapture holdout will be?
(Postscript: For another jolt or two Google “The Background Obama Can’t Cover Up.”)
/ Preceding was spotted on the net. Interesting, eh? /