Editing Left Behind (section)

==== American Century and American exceptionalism ====
Marisa Ronan places the series in the context of the [[American Century]] and [[American exceptionalism]], "proving at the fin-de-siècle that not only was the twentieth century American, it was Christian". Ronan notes that American evangelicals are portrayed as taking center stage in the apocalypse, fighting a spiritual battle against the UN's successor – headed by the Antichrist – which in part seeks to usurp the superpower status of the United States.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ronan |first=Marisa |date=2015 |title=The American Century and Its Evangelical Christian Fiction Legacy |url=http://op.asjournal.org/the-american-century-and-its-evangelical-christian-fiction-legacy/ |url-status=live |journal=[[American Studies (journal)|American Studies Journal]] |series=Occasional Papers |volume=9 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241104055708/http://op.asjournal.org/the-american-century-and-its-evangelical-christian-fiction-legacy/ |archive-date=November 4, 2024 |access-date=January 28, 2025}}</ref>