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Left Behind's version of the Second Coming

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  • Left Behind's version of the Second Coming

    I've been wondering if that version of the Second Coming could get mistaken for an alien invasion or something. Wonder what the transition to the New Creation will really look like? Yes, I realize the left behind books aren't good books and the writers seem to have watched too many r rated action movies.
    If it weren't for the Resurrection of Jesus, we'd all be in DEEP TROUBLE!

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    Originally posted by Christianbookworm View Post
    I've been wondering if that version of the Second Coming could get mistaken for an alien invasion or something. Wonder what the transition to the New Creation will really look like? Yes, I realize the left behind books aren't good books and the writers seem to have watched too many r rated action movies.

    It's not as if the Bible itself is vacant of violent imagery.

    Revelation 19:20-21
    New American Standard Bible (NASB)
    Doom of the Beast and False Prophet

    20 And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs [a]in his presence, by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image; these two were thrown alive into the lake of fire which burns with [b]brimstone. 21 And the rest were killed with the sword which came from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse, and all the birds were filled with their flesh.

    Judges 19:29
    When he entered his house, he took a knife and laid hold of his concubine and cut her in twelve pieces, limb by limb, and sent her throughout the territory of Israel.

    Judges 3:21-23
    New American Standard Bible (NASB)
    21 Ehud stretched out his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh and thrust it into his belly. 22 The handle also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not draw the sword out of his belly; and the refuse came out. 23 Then Ehud went out into the vestibule and shut the doors of the roof chamber behind him, and locked them.

    I'm not really sure what you are getting at with the underlined part.

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    • #3
      I know. They were more graphic than the bible.
      If it weren't for the Resurrection of Jesus, we'd all be in DEEP TROUBLE!

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Christianbookworm View Post
        I know. They were more graphic than the bible.

        I really don't know where you are getting that.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Irate Canadian View Post
            Starring: Nicolas Cage

            Well, it's been a few years, but I just remember reading a graphic description of the enemy soldiers bursting like balloons because of Jesus quoting scripture. Would that be taking sword of the Spirit too literally?
            If it weren't for the Resurrection of Jesus, we'd all be in DEEP TROUBLE!

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              Originally posted by Christianbookworm View Post
              Well, it's been a few years, but I just remember reading a graphic description of the enemy soldiers bursting like balloons because of Jesus quoting scripture. Would that be taking sword of the Spirit too literally?
              Um, again.

              Originally posted by Cerebrum123 View Post

              It's not as if the Bible itself is vacant of violent imagery.

              Revelation 19:20-21
              New American Standard Bible (NASB)
              Doom of the Beast and False Prophet

              20 And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet who performed the signs [a]in his presence, by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image; these two were thrown alive into the lake of fire which burns with [b]brimstone. 21 And the rest were killed with the sword which came from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse, and all the birds were filled with their flesh.
              Sounds pretty literal to me.

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              • #8
                Portraying Revelation in film completely literally would seem difficult, with abstract concepts being treated as tangible objects (i.e. death, which is thrown into the lake of fire).
                "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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                • #9
                  It's a book series. And forget about my crack about graphic violence. It's the difference between
                  this: The guy's head was cut off/ he was disemboweled and his guts came out
                  and this: The blabe went crunching through his spine and down into his neck with blood spurting on the floor/ blood and fat and organs fell on the floor as he was being disemboweled but with pages of description.
                  I was more interested in seeing the other views of what it will be like when Jesus comes back and the final resurrection occurs. As far as Eschatology positions go, I'm not dogmatic for any position and more of a pannenialist(it all pans out in the end).
                  Last edited by Christianbookworm; 06-10-2014, 07:47 PM.
                  If it weren't for the Resurrection of Jesus, we'd all be in DEEP TROUBLE!

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                  • #10
                    It's been ages since I've read Left Behind, but I distinctly remember alien invasions being one of the more popular explanations for the mass disappearances.

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                    • #11
                      I liked the Left Behind books.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                        I liked the Left Behind books.
                        Yeah, me too. I mean sure, I can see why some disagree with them, but they didn't seem horrible as far as fiction goes.

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                        • #13
                          I liked the kid ones, but I've heard the adult books aren't that great. Anyways I was just using it as an example of one view of the final battle.
                          If it weren't for the Resurrection of Jesus, we'd all be in DEEP TROUBLE!

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                          • #14
                            Most of what I read is non-fiction anyway, but I just can't motivate myself to read fiction where I know exactly what's going to happen in the end.
                            "I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill

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                            • #15
                              I haven't read the Left Behind books... does that make me a horrible person?

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