Bruce Barns was the name used as the character on Left Behind (the movies series and the book series).  Bruce was the associate pastor of New Hope Church.  He was a Christian, or was he, he did not go in the rapture.  He was a charlatan, or was he?

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He had probably, at one time, confessed Jesus as Lord (you know, to get someone off his back) and He was even put in an important position in the church.  Pastor Billings, his pastor, the one who put him in that position must have thought he was a Christian because he didn’t bench him.  Bruce preached from the pulpit and even got some people born again. 

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One night he was reading in bed and suddenly his whole family was gone.  Now, some people say that once a person is born again they are fit for the rapture, “once saved, always saved.”  Is that true?  Well, after thinking, studying and praying about it I can confidently say, “Yes and no.”

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That sound wishy-washy doesn’t it.  But the reason I said it that way is because there are more than one meaning for being saved. 

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Jesus took the punishment for all of our sins when He went to the cross, you might say He nailed our sins to the cross, there is something in the Bible about that (look it up).

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So, when we accepted His sacrifice we were saved (forgiveness became real to us).  But that has nothing to do with going to heaven, that is eternal salvation or being saved for an eternity.