[2][3] Patty Myers is a young woman who considers herself a Christian because she occasionally reads her Bible and goes to a theologically liberal church regularly, although her pastor is actually an unbeliever.
The third film, Image of the Beast, begins with Patty being forced by UNITE soldiers to decide to take the mark or to be publicly executed by guillotine.
A sudden storm and earthquake occur, and the soldiers and others nearby run for safety, leaving Patty strapped to the guillotine.
David continues with his plan to destroy the master computer of the Beast by injecting a destructive code into it, which is in fact the hymn Onward, Christian Soldiers.
Filming for A Thief in the Night and A Distant Thunder was largely done in and around Des Moines, Iowa, and surrounding areas.
[5] The rapture scene in A Thief in the Night (the missing letters from the marquee) was filmed at the First Church of the Open Bible, which is located at the corner of Hickman Road and Beaver Avenue in Des Moines.
[2][5] A quarter century later, the authors of the broadly successful Left Behind series of books and films acknowledged their debt to Thief.
Barren Cross, The second track on the album, State of Control, "Out of Time" features the rapture newscast being played before the song begins.
The first track on the Trytan album Sylentiger, "Take Cover" begins with a young man listening to a couple of news reports, one of which is from the movie, before receiving a phone call confirming the rapture.