Just then, the Rapture comes, and the quarterback is instantly beamed up to Heaven, leaving only his cleats behind.
The accident happens, and the nymph returns to heaven, leaving her husband crazed with longing, until a final reunion.
FOR Chip Meakem, a venture capitalist who commutes daily from Chappaqua, it's heaven: leaving steamy Manhattan for nighttime backyard barbecues with his family.
The movie's catalytic event is the Christian Rapture: 142 million people around the world are abruptly transported directly to heaven, leaving behind their clothes and personal belongings.
When Henry, his talking horse — a kind of holy Mr. Ed — and the Future King of Heaven leave the woods and enter a small town, Ritter writes: "It seemed a tidy place of dappled white houses and American flags..
In Left Behind, the resulting novel, all the good Christians on a 747 to London are suddenly transported to heaven, leaving little piles of clothes and uneaten lasagna behind them.
The film is adapted from Tim's book Final, which follows the events of the Rapture, believed by fundamentalist Christians to be the moment when those of faith are drawn up to heaven, leaving unbelievers behind (an occasion recently played to comic effect in This Is the End).
There are 11 installments so far, and they all take place after the Rapture, when all the true believers have been assumed into heaven, leaving everyone else to deal with the Antichrist and his minions, who sometimes take the shape of liberals and advocates of global government.
The descriptions of the goodness of quantitative easing on financial television programs and the press reached metaphor heaven, leaving aside Fed officials' actions building a bigger bomb.
Did you happen to see the lonely aviator who in the night of the last full moon zoomed and dived across the illuminated heavens, leaving lovely curves of white mist in his wake?
