User blog comment:SouthWriter/No Supernatural Intervention/@comment-1777104-20110214020005/@comment-1777104-20110214202143

I chose "reply" rather than post a new comment. I hope this is not too confusing. To Peter's question, I read the first of the "Left Behind" series, but did not follow through with the rest. The concept of being snatched away before any "real" persecution begins is a modern development of premillennial eschatology. Based on my studies of the Bible, especially the New Testament use of imagery for the church, I believe that there is one people of God. That same study has led me to believe that the rapture will occur much closer to the final judgment than seven years -- more like seven days (10 actually, based on the OT feasts). I also saw the first LB movie, but not any sequels.