Netflix’s eerie cult thriller features a disturbing opening scene.
Netflix’s Unchosen is about a religious cult (Image: NETFLIX)
Unchosen’s dark opening scene has left viewers curious.
The show has just arrived on Netflix and the star-studded cult thriller follows a wife and mother who feels trapped in an oppressive Christian sect.
Echoing themes from The Handmaid’s Tale and Happy Valley, the dark psychological series sees Rosie (played by Molly Windsor) question who she can trust.
After she comes across an escaped convict called Sam (Fra Fee), he offers her a taste of life outside the religious cult, while her husband Adam (Asa Butterfield) continues to chastise her.
The thriller opens with Rosie, Adam and their daughter Grace (Olivia Pickering) enjoying a party outside with the other members of their extended cult family.
A storm suddenly closes in on them, forcing them all inside, and Grace looks particularly concerned as she calls it “the Rapture” – but what does this mean?
What does the Rapture mean in Unchosen?
At the start of the series, viewers learn that the Christian cult is part of the church of The Fellowship of the Divine.
Their beliefs quickly become apparent when Mrs Phillips (Siobhan Finneran) curses Grace for reading a children’s magazine – a forbidden item.
During their street party, a storm appears overhead and Grace looks particularly terrified, believing the black clouds and thunder are the signs of the Rapture.
In Christianity, the Rapture is the concept of an event when all dead Christian believers will be resurrected and reunited with Christians who are still alive.
Together, they will will rise “in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air”.
The storm clouds in the series represent the concept, which suggests live Christians will leave the earth to meet Jesus Christ.
Grace may have been scared at the thought of being ‘taken’ in order to meet Jesus Christ at the Second Coming.
The actual term ‘Rapture’ is not mentioned anywhere in the Bible, it is instead a concept that has developed over time.
In his First Letter to the Thessalonians, Paul – one of the Apostles – wrote that Jesus would return one day, and “we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up”.
Some believe the Rapture is when Christ’s followers will be taken up to Heaven, while those who do not follow him will be left behind on Earth.
Unchosen is on Netflix