Left Behind
Evangelical apocalypse series
Left Behind is a series of evangelical Christian novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B.
Jenkins, depicting events after the Rapture when believers are taken to heaven and others remain on Earth.
The books, beginning in 1995, became bestsellers and spawned films and other media.
The title has become shorthand for this apocalyptic narrative framework. (Lowercase left behind means abandoned or not taken along.)
- evangelicalZealously advocating beliefs
- antichristEnemy of the faith
- raptureOverwhelming ecstatic feeling
- tribulationState of great distress
- second comingAwaited return of greatness
end times · end of days · last days · apocalypse · books · survivors · remnants · departed · vanished · Christianity · exodus · bereaved · aftermath · grieving · remaining · second chance · waiting · empty nest
- Modern ChristianityVatican II, ecumenism, evangelicalism, liberation theology, Billy Graham
- faith fictioncontemporary Christian, Bible stories, biblical tales, biblical drama, miracle stories
- Dispensationalismdispensations, Darby, rapture, literal interpretation, tribulation
- Religious FilmsBen-Hur, The Ten Commandments, Jesus of Nazareth, The Chosen, Risen
- fantasy seriesHarry Potter, Game of Thrones, Narnia, Discworld, Earthsea
- apocalypseapocalypse, Armageddon, end times, rapture, tribulation
Left Behindtaken up
Begun or absorbed
raptured · caught up · translated · glorified · saved
Left BehindHis Dark Materials
Fantasy trilogy about consciousness
The Road · literary fiction · 1984 · Brave New World · Philip Pullman
Left BehindThe Road
Paved travel surface
The Stand · 1984 · World War Z · The Walking Dead · Mad Max