Leaving It Behind

So as the result of a talk I was having with a friend over the weekend, I've started to mull over an idea that I might never get a chance to write, but which I really hope to hit one day.

So you start off with a classic Left Behind scenario: everyone's been raptured, the people left behind are all scared and stuff, people start to remember the Book of Revelations; the whole nine yards. The ultra-cartoony-style anti-Christ of the LB book series shows up and smarms his way to world power while making the poor world believe that he's an awesome guy. Naturally, various groups of people rise up and cite Revelations as a reason to oppose him.

Then the Christ figure shows up and leads them in the typical Left Behind kind of way: like a military power, rushing the battlements of the supposed anti-Christ. Force and fire are used to topple him down so that a new era of peace and love can begin on Earth...

Only it turns out that the person who was presumed to be our AC? Was just this guy who was neither particularly good or evil. He was just a man who wanted to make a difference, and maybe become quite powerful in the doing. The figure calling himself the Christ? Whups... turns out he's the actual anti-Christ.

So what's the real Christ doing? Well, He never actually appears on camera, but after the big reveal, evidence of His works are everywhere. He's been moving quietly through the people, teaching, guiding, helping them learn the sacrifice and fellowship that they're going to need for the coming 'conflict'. And what is that conflict, you may ask? It's not a war between God's Soldiers and Hell's Minions, not in the traditional sense. It's the courage and wisdom to endure what may come... to allow the anti-Christ's power to break itself on the rocks of their passive resistance. It's the quiet spreading of inspiration and hope in a time when rockets and mortars will do little good.

Eh. Maybe one day...

Peace and joy.