What If "Left Behind" Is Wrong???

I don't want to sound critical or come across as being judgmental, but I think this is a really important question to ask when it comes to a question about the rapture is, "What if 'Left Behind' has it wrong?" I don't mean about the rapture. I'm talking about the portrayal of thousands of Gentile non-believers accepting Christ after the rapture.

Let me re-interate. I am not a prophecy expert, nor have I spend a lot of my time studying and exploring the end times. So I am not saying the portrayal is wrong. In fact, I will confess, I enjoyed reading the novels and have watched most of the videos. I'm just asking "What if it is wrong?"

Let's look at three different reasons to ask the question. First of all, whether you believe the rapture takes place in Revelation 4:1 or Revelation 7, three times after either of those verses, John, when talking about the people who are left behind, says, "they repented not" (Revelation 9:20; Revelation 16:9; Revelation 16:11). There can be no salvation without repentance.


Secondly, when talking about the tribulation period, Paul says in 2 Thessalonians 2:7: “For the secret power of lawlessness [the rebelliousness of the Anti-Christ] is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way.” Most of my readings indicate that "the one who now holds it back" refers to presence of the Spirit of God working in the world today. But during the Tribulation Period, the Spirit of God will no longer restrain the evil of the enemy, so that it appears God's Spirit is "taken out of the way".  There can be no salvation without Holy Spirit conviction.


Finally, Jesus Himself, in His analogy of the end times refers to the days of Noah and the days of Lot. In Luke 17:26-29, He said, “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. “It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.”  After Noah entered the ark, and after Lot left Sodom (both representative of the saints leaving the world through the rapture), no one else was saved. Everyone, except those who entered the ark were lost. Everyone in Sodom, except those who left with Lot, was lost. There can be no salvation once the door of opportunity is closed.


So again, I ask the question, "What if 'Left Behind' is wrong?" Wouldn't it be better to make sure you are ready when He comes? That is the message of hope that Christ offers to each of us. We can be ready!