The premise of the LEFT BEHIND novels and movies is intriguing. What would happen if all true Christians were suddenly raptured to heaven, leaving the world behind to face God’s judgments during the Great Tribulation? These novels often helpfully present the Gospel, but there is nevertheless a problem with their Rapture-before-the-Tribulation premise. The problem is that there is no biblical text that actually explicitly says that the Church will be taken out before the Tribulation.