Have a day off so I just rented this movie. Even with its gross inaccuracies, it's much better because of the nearness of the real event. Most representations of the rapture show millions of people disappear with everyone wondering what happened. In this movie however, when the rapture takes place, the bodies of the raptured remain and they just "die" where they are. Then to explain the deaths, the movie describes an "illness" that has hit a large portion of the world where people just instantly died. The ones who haven't died think they are lucky that they survived.

Is it biblical? After Jesus said, "It is finished", He gave up "the ghost", but his body remained. When people die, their bodies remain and their spirits depart. Just wanted to put this out there as a possibility in case it happens that way.

I do have another theory regarding the strong delusion and it was brought up in the movie as well. The Bible said, "I will send strong delusion, that they should beLIEve the LIE". The word aLIEn has LIE right in the middle of it.

Another note, funny how quickly anyone would believe in aliens, but not God, despite His sacrifice, His word, and His instructions to us all.

Steve M