A Thief in the Night - Full movie 1972

The film deals with Patty, a young woman who knows and has heard the Christian gospel but dismisses it, believing that doing good works, going to church regularly and trying her best to follow the Ten Commandments is all that is necessary. Her pastor, Reverend Matthew Turner (played by Russell Doughten), preaches liberal theology, claiming that people do not have to personally give their lives to Jesus to be saved and that the Bible is merely allegory in nature. Patty, a nominal Christian, trusts her pastor more than the Bible or the born-again Christians whom she meets, such as Jenny. One afternoon, her husband, a Christian, and millions of others suddenly disappear. Gradually, Patty realizes that the Rapture, mentioned in the Bible, has happened and she is living in the last days of the Antichrist. A government system called UNITE (United Nations Imperium of Total Emergency) is set up and those who do not receive the mark identifying them with UNITE will be arrested. Patty desperately tries to avoid the law and the mark but is captured by UNITE. Patty escapes but is cornered by UNITE on a bridge, and falls from the bridge to her death.

Patty then awakens and realizes that all she had experienced was a dream. After breathing a sigh of relief, she hears a report on the radio that millions of people have disappeared. Horrified, Patty frantically searches for her husband only to find him missing too. A traumatized and distraught Patty then realizes that the Rapture has indeed occurred and she's been left behind.

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• A Thief in the Night
• 666
• end times

[TheBookWorm1718]

8:11 If there's one thing I can't stand it's people who think going to church MEANS something, that just showing up is supposed to count for something.

[TheBookWorm1718]

7:45 I know it's the 70s, and I know there's an emphasis that Jenny is the 'good' girl of the bunch, but look how short Patty's dress and Diane's skirt are. That is NOT something I would wear to a carnival to go HIGH up into the air and go around in FAST rides at high speeds in.

[lauraluke339]

ask God to show you this is all real and He will, sometimes things doint have to make sense to be true. i hope nikolai082700 that you find the Lord and read the Bible, and realize this is true. this is nothing to be scared of if you are a christian, i actually take joy in knowing the Lord will protect and save me and my family from the evil that will come. i pray that you find Him and know that He loves you.God bless you.

[TheBookWorm1718]

@nikolai082700 Your complaint is that there's no historical way to prove what's going to happen in the future? Who was it that said a thousand years to us is like a second to God? It works on His time, not ours, but we were instructed, just as people have been instructed for 2000 years, to be ready incase it would happen in our lifetime. And 'scaring' children to teach them is not an evil thing, only if the intent is evil, say if the parent is just trying to be horrible to them.

[nikolai082700]

@nikolai082700 - This, that we are discussing, is just one small example of how convoluted the bible is.

Back to the original point: This movie and the doctrine of "rapture" and the second coming are used as a way to terrify people into being Xians. There is no logical or historical basis for any of the claims in it. It is pure propaganda... And it is nothing short of evil to teach / scare children with this nonsense. But, hey, it's big business for people like Jenkins and Lahaye. (sick f***s)

[nikolai082700]

@TheBookWorm1718 - We'll start with one that we're already talking about. Deut 22... Read the whole chapter. There are laws given on a man's property regarding oxen, etc... Then it goes into laws about making sure that the girl you are betrothing to another man is a virgin. Then it talks about paying a man for deflowering his daughter toward the end. But she has to marry the guy that payed for f***ing her... How can you read that and not see that women are regarded as mere property to be traded?

[TheBookWorm1718]

@nikolai082700 Now I'm going to have to ask for your reference's chapter and verse because searching based on your description alone isn't turning up anything.

[nikolai082700]

@TheBookWorm1718 - (facepalm) Did you not read the verses at all? omg... Ok... we'll go from there... Why would a loving, merciful, just, omnipotent god "(make) woman to be man's partner" and then literally command (through Moses) that they be treated as nothing more than livestock? Could it be that the "word of god" contradicts itself?

[TheBookWorm1718]

@nikolai082700 Obviously not or God wouldn't have made woman to be man's partner.

[nikolai082700]

@TheBookWorm1718 - But that only counts if she is engaged. Because at that point, she is the promised property of another man ("betrothed"). Why make the distinction of engagement otherwise? It's a "death penalty for property crime" issue...

In the verses right before that, it commands that if a man is engaged and can somehow prove that his bride to be is not a virgin, she is to be stoned to death.

Women are chattel in the eyes of the god of the bible.