Contact: Steve Wohlberg, White Horse Media, 559-977-9744, steve@whitehorsemedia.com

MEDIA ADVISORY, Oct. 3, 2014 /Christian Newswire/ -- Produced by Stoney Lake Entertainment, with Hollywood actor Nicolas Cage playing the lead role, a rebooted 'Left Behind' movie opens today in theaters. Though fiction, Left Behind's underlying theology is considered to be true by millions of evangelical Christians. According to Left Behind co-author Tim LaHaye and countless others, the Bible itself predicts this future scenario: rapture first, then 'seven years of tribulation' for those left behind, then the visible return of Jesus Christ. 

"There's one major problem," counters Bible expert, television producer, and author of 30+ books, Steve Wohlberg. "A careful study of each New Testament text used to support the rapture theory, taken in context, teaches only one return of Jesus Christ at the very end of the age, not a silent coming followed seven years later by a visible one."

See for yourself. The immediate context of "one shall be taken, and the other left" (Matthew 24:40) clearly points to the visible return of Jesus Christ with myriads of holy angels, not the mysterious vanishing of Christians worldwide (see verses 27,30,31,35-39). Christians are then changed "in the twinkling of an eye" (1 Corinthians 15:52) "at the last trumpet," not seven years before it. Believers are then "caught up" -- instead of disappearing instantly -- when Jesus literally descends with "a shout," loud "voice," and "trumpet" blast (1 Thessalonians 4:16,17). The "pre-tribulation" misinterpretation of these texts entered Christianity through British theologian John Nelson Darby (1800-1882), through the footnotes of the Scofield Reference Bible, and then later through Bible colleges like the Dallas Theological Seminary. "In the process," notes Wohlberg, "solid Bible truth has been left behind."

Steve Wohlberg is the Speaker/Director of White Horse Media (Priest River, ID) and the host of World News and the Bible television broadcasts. Widely regarded by media as an apocalyptic expert, he has been featured in numerous History Channel documentaries (Secrets of the Seven Seals; Strange Rituals: Apocalypse; Armageddon Battle Plan), and has spoken by special invitation inside the Pentagon and U.S. Senate. His eye-opening book, End Time Delusions: The Rapture, the Antichrist, Israel and the End of the World (Destiny Image, 2004), explores this subject more fully.

Mr. Wohlberg may be contacted at 559-977-9744 (mobile) or by email at steve@whitehorsemedia.com.