IT'S THE RAPTURE!!!

That's what this book, Left Behind by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, is about: the time when Christ comes back for all his faithful followers and leaves the rest to face judgment. So yes, besides being a slightly science-fiction-y thriller, this book had a lot of highly religious stuff in it. Just a warning, because even I was caught off guard by it.
Anyway, the book starts off on a plane. This pilot, Rayford, is flying it and thinking about cheating on his wife with his young flight attendant, Hattie, when suddenly she tells him "People have disappeared off the plane." Well, how can people just disappear off a plane? Rayford wonders. Then he goes back and discovers it's true: people are gone from there seats, way too many to just be in the lavatory or something, and they left their clothes behind in piles right where they were sitting.
Rayford lands the plane in Chicago then goes home, desperate to know if his family survived. Sadly, his wife and son seem to be gone. However his daughter is still alive and she's on her way home from college.
This is when Rayford starts doing his research and discovering they had warning signs for this happening in the Bible all along: it's the Rapture. And sure enough, all the people who were taken were the good-hearted, Christian people.
So Rayford teams up with a journalist who was on that fateful flight, his daughter, and a left-behind minister to try and survive the Rapture as born-again Christians. The only problem is.... *dun dun duuuunnnn!!!* the Antichrist. He's on the rise, and Rayford and his team can't afford to be taken in by his deception.
This book was good in all thriller respects, but the thing I don't like is that it made it seem like to survive Judgment Day, we must all be Christians. And I get the point about living a good life and praying and all of that, but seriously, it was like the authors were saying, "IF YOU DON'T BECOME CHRISTIAN YOU COULD BE LIKE RAYFORD!!!" and it kind of ruined the book when it got all preachy like that.
But it's also a very powerful book, and although it exists more as a story instead of a book containing answers like The Shack for instance, it makes you think about your life and Would you survive the Rapture? ♠♠♠