When Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye's best selling series was published, they were widely seen as popularizing pre-millennial dispensationalism. As short films like this one show, many of their ideas were already in circulation.
A college student, whom has recently converted to Christianity, struggles to share his newfound beliefs on the Rapture to his unbelieving family. He elects to narrate on an audiotape, attempting to relate his beliefs without starting an argument or making things uncomfortable.
It's an interesting idea for evangelism. He says what he needs to say, and his family can listen - or not listen - without feeling pressured. His mother, father and younger sister do listen to the tape, and each of them find themselves affected. Whether or not they find what he has to say persuasive, is left ambiguous.
As stated at the start, this is Left Behind theology even before it became known as such. One particular sequence, a mother discovering her young son missing, reminds me of a similar scene in A Thief in the Night.
How you receive this movie is probably based on your already existing opinion of the Christian Rapture. As genre entries go, this one is a solid effort.
Also keep your ears open at the end for a Keith Green (RIP) recording.
A college student, whom has recently converted to Christianity, struggles to share his newfound beliefs on the Rapture to his unbelieving family. He elects to narrate on an audiotape, attempting to relate his beliefs without starting an argument or making things uncomfortable.
It's an interesting idea for evangelism. He says what he needs to say, and his family can listen - or not listen - without feeling pressured. His mother, father and younger sister do listen to the tape, and each of them find themselves affected. Whether or not they find what he has to say persuasive, is left ambiguous.
As stated at the start, this is Left Behind theology even before it became known as such. One particular sequence, a mother discovering her young son missing, reminds me of a similar scene in A Thief in the Night.
How you receive this movie is probably based on your already existing opinion of the Christian Rapture. As genre entries go, this one is a solid effort.
Also keep your ears open at the end for a Keith Green (RIP) recording.