Critique of 'Left Behind' Series
StoryAnalogy★★★★And I know that there’s a lot of dear people that have been taught through Tim LaHaye, good man, wrote that Left Behind series, colorful. Very first thing he says is, this is a novel. He doesn’t say it’s scriptural. He says it’s a novel.
And pilots are flying along, and all of a sudden, copilot disappears. They’re both pilots, and the plane goes down because they were raptured and no 1 else was. Man goes to talk to his wife and she’s not there, just her clothes are there in the bed and her curlers because she’s been raptured and he was left behind, but he gets a second chance.
See, the devil is telling people, you’ll get a second chance. No, friends, you got to get ready now for when Jesus comes.
Batchelor, Doug, “Signs of Christ’s Return, Part 2” (AudioVerse teaching 43401).
The point
The speaker references Tim LaHaye's popular 'Left Behind' series, noting that it is presented as a novel, not scripture. He describes the fictional scenario of a secret rapture where people disappear, leaving others behind with a 'second chance,' which he contrasts with the biblical teaching that preparation for Christ's coming must happen now.