I remember when brothers Peter and Paul LaLonde had their weekly TV program "This Week In Bible Prophecy" back in the early 90's. On a TV newsroom-style set, Paul Lalonde would read the current events in the news of the past week, and Peter Lalonde would give commentaries and Paul too. And Peter's wife Patti would show up to do special reports. They had correspondents and everything like a regular newscast. They were trying to change Christian television from the frankly trashy programs you see too often (in which you are embarrased and want to change the channel fast!) to those of a professional Network TV News level with intelligent anchors, correspondents, and viewers, with high production and technical quality.
Now the Lalondes have a movie studio, Cloud Ten Pictures. They know that Hollywood will never produce a movie that promotes Jesus Christ. They have an earnest desire to bring Hollywood technical quality to Christian filmmaking without the profanity and anti-family side of Hollywood.
Click on the Left-Behind : The Movie web site below. Click on the "Multi-media" button, then "Video". Look for the "Interviews From On The Street".
http://www.leftbehind-themovie.com/
http://www.cloudtenpictures.com/
Then you will see how much the public is ignorant about the Bible!
These are the people the Lalondes, as well as Tim Lahaye, are trying to reach.
It should be noted that the actors in the home video version I have of Left Behind: The Movie make testimonies after the movie and on a corresponding tape that they
would not want to be Left Behind and to receive Jesus Christ
today.
And the Left Behind music video (by Bryan Duncan with Shine), which can be heard and seen at the movie's web site given above, makes it clear with its main message "I
will not be Left Behind".
Whether we like some of the details of the interpretations, perhaps LaHaye's version is the best to present the concept of the coming Tribulation to the public. And his books are on the best-seller list.
Just like in the movie Titanic by James Cameron, of course, the story of Jack and Rose Dawson was corny and fictitious, but this was the vehicle used to tell the story of the Titanic from start to finish. And of course historians debate details of the way Cameron portrayed the Titanic sinking. But Cameron, at least, got the public to thinking about it, and it became the top box office movie of all time.
When you think about it, the concept of the Titanic itself is a lot like the concept of the coming Tribulation, to those who have never heard of it.