Touted as "Based on a true story that hasn't happened yet", this additional adaptation to Tim LaHaye's Left Behind series of books should be understood as a "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" as it again fleeces the sheep on behalf of poor Bible understanding. A main principle of Bible understanding or any understanding is that what is most strongly known must guide and inform what is less strongly known and that must guide what is then speculated.

The idea that "millions of living people will be raptured" a thousand years before the end of the world, before the end of the Millennium (Thousand Year Reign over Earth by Jesus), and before the Tribulation contradicts the clear and most strongly known and understood Revelation 20 passage, which indicates that only those who have been executed for Jesus' sake will rule with Christ for the Millennium.

I can understand how appealing, attractive, and comforting a "Rapture" before the Great Tribulation would be; and how motivating it might be for evangelism, as I was also taught it while spiritually young and immature. Unfortunately, this relatively young doctrinal teaching solidly contradicts foretelling-scripture, which can be very confusing for the spiritually immature. The idea of such "rapture" was not even known in Christianity until invented in 1909 by Cyrus I. Scofield.

Bible scripture has no teaching of "rapture", even at 1 Thessalonians 4:15-17. The mistranslation to "rapture" of these advocates is of the word meaning "snatched-out", which was previously used in scripture to refer to the one who was "back-slidden", being corrected and therefore rescued, similar to being "snatched-out" of the flames of Hell. Earth and humanity's final destruction in Hell, as we clearly see in Revelation 20-24 doesn't occur until after the Millennium. Along with poor scriptural understanding of End-Times with the faulty idea of the "rapture", this movie suppresses correct understanding of scripture, and fails to recognize the standard technique of foretelling scripture's use of conjunctions, such as 1 Thessalonians 4:17's "then", which in foretelling prophesies indicate "a significant gap in time", "change of scene", or usually both of these.

Although I was encouraged to be reminded to watch out for the Antichrist, this movie seems to do more to placate Believers to not study foretelling scripture more deeply. A good story isn't what is primarily necessary when truth is needed.

IN A NUTSHELL: The only light after the world falls into chaos is a charming new leader who rises to the head of the United Nations, but does he bring hope for a better future or is it the end of the world?

The movie was written by Paul Lalonde, Jessica Parker, and John Patus.

I really wanted to like this movie because, as a Christian, I think it's important to support films that try to promote Biblical principles. Unfortunately, the movie just isn't very good.

THINGS I LIKED: I've always been a fan of Kevin Sorbo and I admire that he has tried to support Christian films by starring in them, as well as directing them. His son and wife are in the movie!

Other famous actors in the movie include Corbin Bernsen and Neal McDonough. The rest of the cast was mostly unfamiliar to me.

The movie tries to blend an interesting plot that imagines what those "left behind" are doing to figure out the mysterious vanishings around the world with moments when Christianity can be taught to any nonbelievers watching the film. Because this is a sequel, the film pretty much preaches to the choir. That being said, a lot of Christians have been losing faith and leaving churches in recent years, so this could serve as fodder for conversations that could possibly bring them back to Christ.

It's fascinating how the writers (Paul Lalonde, Jessica Parker, and John Patus) visualize the anti-Christ to be.

THINGS I DIDN'T LIKE: The movie assumes you have seen all of the prior films in this franchise. New viewers will be confused about the characters and what happened prior to these events. There is a lot of talk about the "Rapture" that happened, which new viewers will wonder about.

There is a portrayal of Jesus in a character's dream. I picture Jesus with a smile, not the serious frown shown.

There are some really bad, overacting moments, as well as underacting moments where actors just sit around with no reaction.

The movie definitely looks and feels low-budget. In fact, it is. They only spent $3.5 million, which was the salary amount they paid Nicolas Cage when he did the 2014 Left Behind movie.

This is the 6th movie in the Left Behind franchise, and they're not getting better.

There's a scene where a TV announcer talks about the huge reactions of excited fans when a political leader walks out of a building. She says, "Just listen to the crowd!" The camera pans to the area where about 30 people are robotically cheering.

The rhythmic music and sound effects in the background are often really annoying.

TIPS FOR PARENTS: Most kids will be really bored because the bulk of the movie is just adults talking.

There's a lot of snarky humor Talk of death.

Talk of God.

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