So cruel and yet so funny…
Left behind…really
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August 23, 2007 at 17:40
Dude,
That is so fake. You can tell that the main girl is acting. Not well actually. But it was pretty funny when she says “We’ve been left behind!”
August 23, 2007 at 17:54
That is so terribly cruel. Those people should be ashamed of themselves for perpetrating a stunt like that on someone they claim to love.
August 23, 2007 at 21:50
Now I’m scared…is the implication here that when the rapture happens that our clothes are staying here…and we get our robes there…um, I’m going to start working out more.
August 24, 2007 at 06:59
Yeah Cruel….AND BRILLIANT!
Some people have to be loved in a special way.
August 24, 2007 at 07:28
This goes way to far.
August 24, 2007 at 10:54
Guys. Guys. I think…I think we’ve been left behind. We’ve been left behind!
I like the Christian twist on the prank show – adding 3:16 makes it MUCH holier.
August 24, 2007 at 11:47
This is a bit frustrating from the “Think Christian” side of things…
First, the Left Behind series is really poor writing. It’s also really poor theology. First, historical optimism has been the position of the church since the beginning, or it was until World War I shook many people’s faith. The world is not going to get worse and worse until God comes and pulls us out! The knowledge of the Gospel will eventually cover the earth “like the waters cover the sea” and then Christ will return triumphant. “The kingdoms of this world is/are becoming the Kingdom of Our Lord and of His Christ.” This is the already/not yet of our eschatological hope. The story of our world began in a garden and ends in a garden city, with the creation mandate having been fulfilled.
That’s the big thing. I don’t care about when and where you think the millennium will happen. Spurgeon was a very optimistic premillennial, for instance. I do believe that preterism is the Biblical position, and dispensationalists must be made to deal with Jesus’ words about the ‘rapture’ happening within the lifetime of his original audience.
I feel like I’m veering into rant territory, so I’m done. =P
August 25, 2007 at 19:42
Austin Storm…...what bible are you reading from? Have you heard of the book of revelation?
August 26, 2007 at 08:15
relax, folks…and be faithful in the meantime. ohhh, this is sooo funny!
August 28, 2007 at 16:21
Will this generation ever reach some level of maturity?
August 30, 2007 at 14:02
The concept of being left “behind” is not potrayed anywhere in the Bible. In fact, it is sad that millions have not yet learned how to read their bible. In Lk. 17:26-28 Jesus tells us that the days of His return will be the same as it was in the days of Noah (v.26) and also as it was in the days of Lot (v.28)He sted that the people then we all busy with themselves, eating and drinking etc, then in the following verse (v.29) He clearly tells us that they were all doing this right up until the very day “Lot left” Sodom. Note well who Jesus associate the word “left” with > Lot; not the unbelievers of Sodom. Lot represent the saved. It was only after He clarified who ‘left’, He then proceeded to make the statement re- “one taken the other left’in (v.34). Likewise, in Mt.24:37-39, the parallel verses to that of Lk. 17 Jesus after making the same statement re- the days of Noah in (v.37) had this to say in (v.39)”The people did not believe until the flood took them all away”. Note well once again, that it was unbelievers that the flood “took” away. It’s the same as the word ‘taken’. Think for a moment by textual deduction, who was ‘left’ OR ‘remained’ during the flood based on Jesus’and the Bibles explanation? Noah ofcourse! Moreover, if one go throughout the entire Bible, they will see that the concept of “taken” is always associated with those who are captured, destroyed etc, and always those who are left or remain are those who are saved from destruction and they are the “few” or the remnant. This is consistent in the Bible. the many are destroyed the few are saved; just as Noah and Lot represent the ‘few’ which as shown above are the one who are ‘left’. The Bible does NOT use the words “LEFT BEHIND” to potray the position of unbelivers in the face of impending doom. Instead they are always classified as ‘taken’ while on the other hand God people are always dipicted as ‘left’ which = saved /spared during and after the the apparent destruction.
Please people check the Bible carefully. I find it interesting that Jesus used the two most popular Biblical events ever told to millions from childhood (even if they have never heard any other Biblical events the rest of their lives) to be the backdrop for His statement “one taken the other left” I believe He allowed thes two events to be so popular so that its explanation would be clear to all, not just a few. Yet millions are still so mistaken as to who are the ‘taken’ and who are those who are ‘left’.
Now let us all get on with the business of being a true relationship with the Lord in preparation for His return that indeed we will be the ones who are left/remain to live with Our Lord eternally after this present world with all that offends is destroyed.
Thanks for this opportunity for sharing, and may God bless you all.
August 30, 2007 at 15:46
Arlene,
Check out this book when you have time.
http://www.amazon.com/Revelation-Four-Views-Parallel-Commentary/dp/0840721285
Actually, even though I don’t agree with every detail as Austin Storm, it sounds like he/she has a great grasp of Revelation. I’ve found that most people that have a strict Left Behind view get most of their theology from the LeHaye books than they do from the Bible. That view has only been around a little over 100 years.
September 1, 2007 at 15:15
I’m an old codger and you are all bunch of silly kids. Now I like a good joke, but to scare someone like that is not very funny in my estimation. That is almost as bad as calling one of your friends, as a joke, and telling them that one of their loved ones has just died. Ha, ha and ha.