7/1/2023 0 Comments Left behind series in order![]() ![]() Also, Carpathia is the Antichrist, and he’s the Worst Person Ever. This period, dubbed the Tribulation, sees a man named Nicolae Carpathia head up a new world government seemingly overnight in the wake of the disappearances. ![]() The title “Left Behind” refers to the Rapture, wherein all Christian people disappear out of their clothes and go to heaven while everybody who is left has seven years of horrible stuff - war, plagues, earthquakes, and other Judgments from God - ahead of them. And it’s easy to see how that happened, with the series being a lengthy piece of speculative fiction about the end of the world according to (an interpretation of) Biblical prophecy. All 16 books sold well, with the ninth achieving such lofty heights as being the bestselling book in the world in 2001. In 2014, the Left Behind franchise is mostly a fringe curiosity - this week’s film adaptation of the 1995 novel that started it all seems notable more because it stars Nicolas Cage than because it’s the spawn of what was in the late ’90s a pop culture phenomenon.Īnd it was a phenomenon. ![]() Sure, they’re touted as best-selling novels, but the Left Behind books - and maybe this week’s movie release - just aren’t very good. ![]()
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