We are up against a formidable foe. Just the Left Behind books, alone, sold over 60 million copies by 2016, and then there are all the movies including on with Nicholas Cage and another with Kevin Sorbo.
All this and more has a marketing budget in the millions. But you would never catch the same folks buying a commentary--which if you read the leading evangelical New Testament scholars, you will find they stick to context...the Second Coming of the NT. No rapture.....Christians really need to give reading the key passages
in context an honest try... Paul is writing about the Second Coming in Thessalonians and 1 Cor. 15 etc.
Paul, the Parousia & his Epistles
I do no know how many commentaries are on the market these days for free but there must be some else this charge against marketing the gospel would not make sense. Why would it be good for one to make money for their product and not good for the other? Somebody makes money off these commentaries and some of them have been on the market for years.
I am not for sensationalizing the Bible by writing a novel as the means to teach the truths of God and I have never read the left behind books or seen any movies about them but I know that the translation doctrine of the church of Jesus Christ is a Pauline mystery that he was charged to reveal in his letters to the churches and it was not a creation of the authors of these books.
So, to mis define and misrepresent the church of Jesus Christ by denying it's unique character as the body and bride of Jesus Christ, after the pattern of Adam and Eve, as the Calvinists and the Reformed denominations have done in their presentation of the work of God is far worse in measure than those they accuse as a foe.
These groups and their high profile preachers do not define the church of Jesus Christ biblically and therefore reach wrong conclusions about it. God the Father is fashioning a body for his son and he is taking it from his body and giving it his life, the Holy Ghost to permanently indwell the body. When it is complete, he will take it to where he is, which is pictured by the Garden of Eden. It will be called New Jerusalem bye and bye.
Gen 3:7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
8 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
22 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
Today, the only saved people on the earth is in this body regardless of their ethnicity or social standing or position in life. They all got there the same way, by trusting the gospel of Jesus Christ, that is that he died for our sins, was buried, and rose from the dead on the third day. This is the only way to be saved by God. Nobody was justified by God the Father in this manner before the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ, though many people were justified by their faith in what God said to them. When the church is gathered together from over the earth and from heaven and the earth and taken with Jesus to the Father's house, there will not be left a single saved person on the earth.
Since faith cometh by hearing, God will send two witnesses from the OT, Moses and Elijah, to preach his gospel of the kingdom, and will through them raise up 12,000 preachers from each of the 12 tribes of Israel for a total of 144,000 preachers who will take this gospel over the whole world and they will have the special protection of God on them so not a single one of them will perish. This is the same gospel , the gospel of the kingdom of God, that Jesus and his disciples preached to Israel during our Lord's time on earth. They must believe the Jesus who sacrificed himself for the sins of the whole world is coming back to establish his kingdom on earth and most believers during these days must and will be called on to seal their faith with their life's blood. "
They loved not their lives unto the death."
The Reformed already have a head start on not believing the promises of God of a righteous kingdom of Jesus Christ on this earth. Not many atall believes the promises. This will have to be believed with great conviction of it's truth in order for believers to face the guillotine to prove it in that day.
I urge all Reformed and rapture deniers to reconsider the scriptures that inform us of what lies ahead for this earth and to "Believe the Words!"
At the end of the tribulation of this time period there will be few left on the earth but there will not be a single unsaved person to begin the world wide Kingdom of Jesus Christ which will last one thousand years, according to what God says but is denied regularly by some religious people.