Anderson argues in many ways, this movie is a Christian horror movie, which has become much more fashionable since then. That trend reached its summit with the Left Behind novels in the 1990s, but LaHaye and Jenkins have been quoted as saying they built on this movie’s model. For better or worse, this movie sums up the end times craze started by Hal Lindsey’s 1970 book The Late Great Earth. For viewers who find end times thrillers silly, this is at least interesting as a cultural artifact. However, it has the most suspenseful opening and is just over an hour long. The radio carries reports of other disappearances and world leaders arguing over whether this phenomenon is something prophesied in Revelation.Ī Thief in the Night isn’t the most memorable movie in the Mark IV series (most people remember the third film, Image of the Beast). Sometime later, one of the girls who ignored it is married… but one morning, she wakes up to discover her husband has disappeared. Several teenage girls hear about the rapture at a church event. The first of four end times movies made by Mark IV Productions Incorporated in the 1970s-1980s, A Thief in the Night has a pretty simple premise. Photo Credit: Lux Vide-Lube /Rai Fiction/Kirchmedia/Quinta It completes the story of the early church, while pointing the way forward.Ī clever film about Revelation and end times teaching for people across the eschatology spectrum. The Apocalypse sums up all the classic interpretations of Revelation, while showing how the book does fit into a larger story. Or, the visions could be about both the present and the future. Other times, his visions parallel things that the early Christians are experiencing (a soldier on a charging horse slaughtering people), suggesting that the visions refer to what’s happening in the present. Sometimes the visions shift from Biblical imagery to future scenes (from seals being broken to skyscrapers being destroyed), implying John’s visions are about the final judgment. The special effects of John’s visions haven’t always aged well, but they cleverly fit between several extremes. As some of John’s followers look for him, his visions provide surprising answers to their questions. The early church subplot involves Roman emperor Domitian cracking down on Christianity, with his officers (some Christians but hiding it, others treating Christianity with contempt) having a range of responses. The second involves Christians from the churches that John started (waiting for his letters, unsure how much persecution they can stand). The first concerns the apostle John (living on Patmos, having unexpected visions). The Apocalypse is the one entry not named for a person and alternates between two stories. The Bible Collection dramatized various Bible stories, most focusing on one character (David, Jesus, Moses, etc.). Rather than contemplating what the end times may look like, this film considers where we get our description of it: the book of Revelation. Readers are encouraged to research the movies for their own conclusions. Let’s take a deeper look.Įditor’s Note: These movies’ inclusion in this article does not mean endorses the companies who produce the movies, or any dramatic license taken with the material. Some are famous, and others you may have never heard of. Others challenge viewers to consider what Revelation really says. Some interpret Revelation in an easy-to-follow way. The following end times movies approach the subject from a variety of angles. Of course, there have also been various movies about the end times, from action adventures ( Revelation Road) to challenging dramas ( The Rapture). Speculations about what the end times will look like range from whether there will be a rapture to what the seven seals mentioned in Revelation are. A new end times thriller seems to hit the stands every year. The end times continue to be one of the most popular and confusing subjects in Christian circles.
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