The Rapture

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The Rapture is a novel in the Christian apocalyptic "Left Behind" series that focuses on the prophetic end-times event in which believers are taken up to heaven before a period of tribulation on Earth.

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Rapture 1
The Rapture canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian apocalyptic novel
Left Behind novel
novel
author Jerry B. Jenkins
Tim LaHaye
basedOn dispensational premillennialism
pretribulation rapture theology
countryOfOrigin United States
depicts Rapture
Tribulation
end times
featuresCharacter Bruce Barnes
Chloe Steele
Irene Steele
Nicolae Carpathia
Rayford Steele
fictionalUniverse Left Behind universe
linked to: Left Behind series
follows The Regime
The Rising
genre Christian fiction
apocalyptic fiction
hasAudience adult
young adult
hasSubject Bible prophecy
Book of Revelation
Second Coming of Christ
hasTheme Christian eschatology
divine judgment
faith under persecution
spiritual warfare
language English
marketedAs prequel to Left Behind series
mediaType e-book
print
narrativePerspective third-person narrative
partOfSeries Left Behind
prequelTo Left Behind
publisher Tyndale House Publishers
religiousTradition Evangelical Christianity
linked to: Evangelicalism
setIn Earth
Heaven
settingPeriod contemporary era
targetAudience Christian readers

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Left Behind series hasPart The Rapture
Left Behind series centralTheme Rapture
linked to: The Rapture