THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
What if the Rapture has already happened? What if the Book of Revelation's prophecies have been fulfilled?
These questions are unthinkable for those Christians who believe that the end of the world is still to come and that it will unfold in accordance with apocalyptic interpretations of Revelation: the Rapture, the sudden snatching up of millions of the faithful into heaven, followed by the seven-year Tribulation, during which the world is ruled by the Antichrist, followed by the return of Jesus and his triumph in the battle of Armageddon.
That's more or less the story line hewed to in the phenomenally popular Left Behind series. Now, however, Tyndale House, the Christian publisher of Left Behind, is planning a new fictional series with a very different view -- one that posits that Revelation actually tells the story (in code) of the first-century persecution of Christians and of the fall of the Jewish Temple.