Rapture and apocalypse: two words that evoke fear and curiosity. To Christians, the rapture is believed to be the day they'll be taken up into the kingdom of God; saved from the impending apocalypse. The apocalypse is believed to be the beginning of the end of the world. It's a time when the fires of Hell are laid upon the earth by the Antichrist in order to destroy the world and bring suffering to those who had not been raptured. Even if you are not a devout Christian and never go to church or read the Bible, you still know the story of the coming Rapture and Apocalypse. They are instilled in your brain from childhood and they make you wonder when the Antichrist will rise up, when the sky will turn red and the rivers will run thick with blood. But what if that was not the case? What if the Bible story of Revelation, the story in which the Rapture and the Apocalypse are told, is not telling that story, that story of death and destruction and utter hopelessness? For Barbara Rossing, this is the case. God loves the earth and every creature on it so why would he destroy it? In The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation she gives a whole new view of the Rapture and Apocalypse that shows a peaceful world, a world without the fires of Hell and the destruction of the Antichrist. Unbeknownst to most people today, the view of the Rapture has been given to us by a group of Christians known as the dispensationalists. They believe that when the Rapture happens people will be taken from Earth; they will simply vanish on the spot with no warning. Immediately following, the Apocalypse will begin. The Antichrist will rise up and begin bombing the earth and destroying everything that God has created. The sky will turn red and the Red Horse of the Apocalypse will bring the fires of Hell up from Satan himself. Their view of the Apocalypse is one of death, conflict, and suffering, a view that most Christians today share, without even reading the Bible. In her novel, Rossing rebukes them. She proves them wrong about their vision of the Rapture and the Apocalypse and she then goes on to give the real vision that is told in the Book of Revelation. Throughout the entire novel, Barbara Rossing works to disprove the view of the dispensationalists and give the true vision of the Book of Revelations. The dispensationalists are fixed on violence and destruction of the earth during the Apocalypse. They want to see people fighting and destroying the world around them. This is not the message in the Book of Revelations. Rossing describes the Left Behind novels of Tim LaHaye as written for the violence and action of the dispensationalist views. They give a story of the Rapture and the Apocalypse as a horrible event that brings fire and destruction across the globe. People suddenly vanish, leaving only their clothes behind. Many people die from the bombs and bullets of the Antichrist and the remaining survivors are fighting him through their cyberspace safe houses. Rossing tears these novels apart. She breaks down their message and image of the Apocalypse and throws them in the trash. They work to give action and entertainment only; there is no truth i