You've Been Left Behind LLC

A Massachusetts company wants to sell you post-rapture bandwidth to take care of family and friends. You've Been Left Behind LLC will, for $40 a year, offer you 250-Megabytes to store emails of info for up to 62 email addresses. How will they know when to send the data? Their website say,

We have set up a system to send documents by the email, to the addresses you provide, 6 days after the "Rapture" of the Church. This occurs when 3 of our 5 team members scattered around the U.S fail to log in over a 3 day period. Another 3 days are given to fail safe any false triggering of the system.

The Better Business Bureau notes that the company is legitimate, but "As with any such offer, it is always best to protect such sensitive information and think hard on which entities you wish to have such personal information."

The company says it wants to help you contact loved ones with financial information after you vacate the planet and that they hope this will lead to your loved ones coming to faith in Jesus Christ. I'll take it at face value that the folks' hearts are in the right place. With all that said, it seems still to be the bizarre business plan to profit off end times theology. Further, a business plan in which they obviously discussed the fail safe of what percentage of people they could count on. They couldn't be sure that they knew God's will 100% and so they went for best three out of five as a plan. I like the humility in the plan, but I can all too easily imagine the meeting where they realize they can't be sure that everyone of them is really Christian and so build in the 3/5s rule.

This is perhaps the worst example I have seen of where rapture theology can lead and its why I have preached about this before The Problem with the Rapture.

Jesus said that the Kingdom of God has come near. We need to focus on the here and now and trust God to handle the life of the world to come. I'm not knocking people whose theology I don't agree. I just won't be dropping $40 a year into helping their marketing plan pay off.

That's my take. What do you think?

peace,
Frank+
The Rev. Frank Logue, Pastor