What do you get when you mix together British gangsters...

... the "Spear of Destiny," Bill Murray, an "ancient biblical prophecy," smuggling rings, and religious fanaticism?

Why, "The Rapture," of course. Yes, of course. All part of the monumental quest, I suspect, to see if a decent, intelligible, well-written, adequately acted, and competently produced movie can be made about "the Rapture." Good luck, chaps.

Comments

[fr richard]

At first it seemed uninteresting until I read the synopsis, which ended with 5 exclamation marks.

So count me in!

[Frank Gibbons]

The British actor, Billy Murray, is one of the leads in "The Rapture" (2009). There was an American film named "The Rapture" starring Mimi Rogers that was made in 1991. It's a lurid film that chronicles the coversion of a promiscuous swinger to Born-Again Christianity. The rapture transpires too late for our heroine who endangers her salvation with a damnable decision. In what is the perhaps one of the most chiling scenes in cimema, Rogers' character rejects the mercy of God as she stands on the brink of hell. I don't recommend "The Rapture" except for those who are interested in how religious experience is portrayed in film.

[Dan Sheehan]

Not that it matters much but I think that is British actor Billy Murray and not our friend Bill Murray.

[Fairmack]

{Just caught the following web piece that tells it like it is!
Fairmack)

PRETRIB RAPTURE - HIDDEN FACTS

How can the “rapture” be “imminent”? Acts 3:21 says that Jesus “must” stay in heaven (He is now there with the Father) “until the times of restitution of all things” which includes, says Scofield, “the restoration of the theocracy under David’s Son” which obviously can’t begin before or during Antichrist’s reign. Since Jesus must personally participate in the rapture, and since He can’t even leave heaven before the tribulation ends, the rapture therefore cannot take place before the end of the trib! Paul explains the “times and the seasons” (I Thess. 5:1) of the catching up (I Thess. 4:17) as the “day of the Lord” (5:2) (which FOLLOWS the posttrib sun/moon darkening - Matt. 24:29; Acts 2:20) WHEN “sudden destruction” (5:3) of the wicked occurs! (If the wicked are destroyed before or during the trib, who would be left alive to serve the Antichrist?) Paul also ties the change-into-immortality “rapture” (I Cor. 15:52) to the posttrib end of “death” (15:54)! (Will death be ended before or during the trib?) If anyone wonders how long pretrib rapturism has been taught, he or she can Google “Pretrib Rapture Diehards.” Many are unaware that before 1830 all Christians had always viewed I Thess. 4’s “catching up” as an integral part of the final second coming to earth. In 1830 it was stretched forward and turned into a separate coming of Christ. To further strengthen their novel view, which the mass of evangelical scholars rejected throughout the 1800s, pretrib teachers in the early 1900s began to stretch forward the “day of the Lord” (what Darby and Scofield never dared to do) and hook it up with their already-stretched-forward “rapture.” Many leading evangelical scholars still weren’t convinced of pretrib, so pretrib teachers then began teaching that the “falling away” of II Thess. 2:3 is really a pretrib rapture (the same as saying that the “rapture” in 2:3 must happen before the “rapture” ["gathering"] in 2:1 can happen - the height of desperation!). Other Google articles throwing light on long-covered-up facts about the 178-year-old pretrib rapture view include “Famous Rapture Watchers,” “X-Raying Margaret,” “Revisers of Pretrib Rapture History,” “Thomas Ice (Bloopers),” “Wily Jeffrey,” “The Rapture Index (Mad Theology),” “America’s Pretrib Rapture Traffickers,” “Roots of (Warlike) Christian Zionism,” “Scholars Weigh My Research,” “Pretrib Hypocrisy,” “Pretrib Rapture Desperados” and “Deceiving and Being Deceived” - all by the author of the bestselling book “The Rapture Plot” which is available at Armageddon Books online. Just my two cents’ worth.