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If you grew up Pentecostal or evangelical Christian — as I did — you probably remember the prophecy sermons and apocalyptic charts about the Last Days. Preachers warned about the Great Tribulation, the rise of the Antichrist and the “mark of the Beast.” In the 1970s and ’80s, movies, most memorably “A Thief in the Night” and the Left Behind series, dramatized wars, plagues, secret police and global control. Terrifying as they were, such depictions also offered a strange comfort: the idea that the faithful few might escape it all.
