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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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