Welcome to the For the Gospel Podcast where we provide sound doctrine for everyday people.

I'm your host, Kosti Hinn, and I am really excited to keep jumping into this eschatology series.

We're talking today about the rapture, the tribulation, and the church.

Now, if you grew up like I did, many of you probably remember a certain movie called Left Behind.

It became a series, and man, some of my most vivid memories about the end times

come from that era. And I'm not talking about like the modern kind of Kirk Cameron deal. I'm

talking about like the 70s, like way back when. In the last episode, Jeff Durbin and I were

talking about it. Some of you were probably cringing, laughing. I didn't even realize, and I know Jeff, that he came from all of that

extremism. And by that, I mean, way in there, like was picking up copies of the Jerusalem Times

to, like, follow every day what was happening and trying to predict, you know, the end of the world.

And, oh, he and his wife his wife Candy the story was just so so funny but also really enlightening and helpful and you kind of understand then why this is an actual

example and illustration for people and not just some caricature, it's real. The title of the movie

series left behind was based on the belief that there would be a rapture or a snatching away

and there were Christians and everybody else would be left behind and if you were a Christian,

you would go and I used to wake up fearful that my family got raptured

and I was left behind and I have nightmares.

And my dreams were filled with horror film scenes.

And I remember one dream I used to have all the time

where my family was being dragged away and split apart.

And I would yell to my sisters, keep believing in Jesus,

keep believing in Jesus.

Don't let them make you stop believing in Jesus. Keep believing in Jesus. Don't let them make you stop believing in Jesus.

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