
In other words, Jesus is the one who is responsible for the Rapture. The event is described as Jesus coming back to get His own people. The Tribulation starts when the Antichrist mediates a seven-year peace treaty between the nation of Israel and his world government. Jenkins, support a Dispensationalist, Premillennial, Pre-tribulation point of view, and thus the story of Left Behind follows this view.Ĭontrary to what one's initiation impression may be, the Rapture does not initiate the seven-year Tribulation, which is regarded by the authors to be Daniel's Seventieth Week of Daniel 9:24-27. The authors of Left Behind, Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. There are differing opinions on when the Rapture will occur. Theological and Eschatological Significance

1 Theological and Eschatological Significance.
