Where's the Rapture?

The answer to your question is very simple. The pretrib rapture view is an anomaly in Christianity, and there are multiple views out there regarding the timing. Of course, most Christians believe what most Christians have believed since the beginning. That being a christian doesn't spare you totally from the coming and final persecution of the faithful. A movie that only reflected the minority pretrib rapture people would have been a movie with limited appeal.

Although the fact that it was a horrible movie did a better job of that.

Of course, there are also multiple views on all of "End Times" prophecy, and not everyone agrees with Hal Lindsey

how do we there is a pre trib rapture

I mean the Left behind cult fanatics runned by La Haye wont even allow a discussion on it,plus:


Considering we are in the last days how come the Churches dont have the spine to talk about Prophecy

The Pretrib rapture theory seems to be the most popular theory. It is the one believed by Tim Lahaye, Jerry Jenkins, Mark Hitchcock, and every other Apocolyspe theorist whose works i have read.

The evidence they show for a pretrib rapture is that John is taken up to heaven at begining of the book and that the church is never mentiond after the first few chapters, during any of the tribulation. This is incredibly shallow evidence. If we were all raptured, their would be no point of writing down what will happen after we are all gone. Jesus says that we will live through the great tribulation (Mathew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21). He says nothing of a rapture at that time. In addition to that, the "Temple of God" is mentioned in Rev 11:1, halfway through the trib and it says that the outer courts will be trampled. This "temple of God" is the christians during the trib.

The idea of the rapture is that we will be resurected after we die. Our souls will be resurected to heaven, and with the creation of the new earth, after the apocolypse, our bodies will be resurrected for us to live in throughout eternity. This is spoken of by Jesus in the gospel, Paul in 1 Chorinthians and at the end of Revelations. The idea that we will be ratured while still living, before the trib is a big misunderstanding.

And yes, Herod did die in 4 BC. I think the Herod later on was Herod III, but i'm not sure. And to clear things up, Jesus was born in Spring, 6 BC, before the first herod died.

"How can there be a peace treaty for seven years until they have a Rapture taking place? Whoever did this movie didn't do his homework" ... To a degree, they very much did their homework. One major thing they got right was to avoid trying to pander to Dispensationalists and their rapture theory. A pre-tribulation rapture is not supported by scripture, well, not unless you bend over backwards in a long, drawn out effort to take pieces of scripture here and there out of context and reshape it into a completely make-believe event. Sorry, but this junk didn't get popular until the 19th and 20th century. It was basically popularized by John Darby, and has become an even bigger focus thanks to misleading novelists like Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. People just don't know their scripture well enough to actually see when they are being misled, just as Jesus warned us about when dealing with false prophets. As others have said, many Christians out there believe what has been believed for 2000 years, which has zero to do with any rapture. The rapture belief doesn't reflect the whole of Christianity.