{"id":4830,"date":"2022-12-05T15:52:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T20:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/?p=4830"},"modified":"2023-06-13T12:52:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T16:52:10","slug":"writer-of-left-behind-film-discusses-why-we-could-be-experiencing-the-end-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/2022\/12\/writer-of-left-behind-film-discusses-why-we-could-be-experiencing-the-end-times.html","title":{"rendered":"Writer of \u201cLeft Behind\u201d Film Discusses Why We Could be Experiencing the End Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4848\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4848\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4848\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/409\/2022\/12\/end-times-apocolypse_credit-shutterstock-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4848\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shutterstock.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Paul Lalonde, writer of the next film in the popular \u201cLeft Behind\u201d films, \u201cLeft Behind: Rise of the Antichrist,\u201d spoke with\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/austukblFek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">CBN<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0recently about why he believes people are ignoring the fact that we are in the end days. The film will be a follow-up to 2014\u2019s \u201cLeft Behind\u201d and will have a limited release on January 26th as a\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.faithwire.com\/2022\/11\/23\/the-rapture-and-end-times-writer-of-new-left-behind-film-reveals-why-he-believes-people-arent-seeing-were-in-the-very-last-days\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Fathom Event<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. It will have a new cast, with \u201cHercules\u201d actor Kevin Sorbo starring in and directing the film. Lalonde states that the new film will focus on Biblical prophecy, saying, \u201cThe vast majority of people still don\u2019t know anything about \u2026 prophecy, and that includes the church. People have, as the Bible prophesied they would, turned away from prophecy.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Lalonde stated that despite the church\u2019s turn away from Biblical prophecy, prophecy still plays an important role in the Christian life. \u201cThe reality is: we do not have the option of just not worrying about it. We are told that prophecy is important. Between a third and a half of the Bible is prophecy,\u201d he said. Lalonde has spent much of his career focusing on end times and Biblical prophecy. He has several titles co-written with his brother Peter that imagine the end of days, including\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Racing Toward the Mark of the Beast\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">and\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Apocalypse<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. He and his brother also had a Biblical series in the 1980s called\u00a0<\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This Week in Bible Prophecy<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Lalonde stated that he hoped the film would impress upon pastors and Christians the urgency to \u201cwake up\u201d to the signs of the coming end times. \u201cI think people aren\u2019t seeing that we\u2019re in the very last days because they\u2019re watching for the wrong things. But we live in a world where all of this can happen like that. We\u2019re living in the days of Noah. We have unlimited seats on our ark,\u201d he said. Of course, when exactly the end of the world will be and how to interpret Biblical prophecy are hotly debated amongst Christians. Dr. David Jeremiah, who also discusses prophecy and end times, listed four signs of the end times on his <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/davidjeremiah.blog\/4-signs-of-the-end-times\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">website<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. He listed signs of deception or an increasing amount of false teachers, disputes among nations, devastations (famines, pestilence, etc.), and increasing hostility towards Christians as hints that the end is near. In a time when churches are\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/cwn\/2022\/may\/united-methodists-finally-split-over-lgbtq-policies-conservatives-officially-launch-global-church\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">splitting<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0over LGBT issues, the\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/apocalypse-now-to-some-evangelicals-ukraine-invasion-spells-the-end-of-days\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">war in Ukraine<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">,\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.todayintheword.org\/question-answer\/is-the-COVID-19-global-pandemic-a-sign-of-the-end-times\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">COVID-19<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, and organizations like\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/focus-family-colorado-vandalized-graffiti-days-after-club-q-tragedy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Focus on the Family<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0are being vandalized for their Christian views, it\u2019s easy to see why some Biblical scholars are pointing to end-time prophecy. Other events, such as the arrival of\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/2022\/09\/are-five-red-heifers-sent-to-israel-a-sign-of-end-times.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">five red heifers<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0to Israel, have also been pointed at as signs of end times prophecy being fulfilled. The Bible states that the end of days will come upon suddenly and unexpectedly to those who have been unprepared, saying in Luke 17:26-30, \u201cAnd as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Lalonde, writer of the next film in the popular \u201cLeft Behind\u201d films, \u201cLeft Behind: Rise of the Antichrist,\u201d spoke with\u00a0CBN\u00a0recently about why he believes people are ignoring the fact that we are in the end days. The film will be a follow-up to 2014\u2019s \u201cLeft Behind\u201d and will have a limited release on January&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":4848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Writer of \u201cLeft Behind\u201d Film Discusses Why We Could be Experiencing the End Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Paul Lalonde, writer of the popular &quot;Left Behind&quot; films, discusses how we could be experiencing the end-times.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" 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