PreTrib Rapture Moment

Actually, on occasion something is said and eventually, wisdom is gained, if nothing else, to ponder something from a perspective I hadn't noticed yet. Thank you Jesus.

In this case, it's verse that stood out, though I have read it many times before. It may be that God decided it's most edifying to reveal it now, with current goings on in society.

As Bryan mentioned it...

"I tell you, in that night there shall be two [men] in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left." Luke 17:34 (KJB)

That got my attention. So I felt I needed to look further for clarification of just what is being revealed with that verse.

In context...

20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.
22 And he said unto the disciples, The days will come, when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye shall not see [it].
23 And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after [them], nor follow [them].
24 For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one [part] under heaven, shineth unto the other [part] under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.
25 But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed [them] all.
30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
32 Remember Lot's wife.
33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two [men] in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two [women] shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
36 Two [men] shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body [is], thither will the eagles be gathered together.
Luke 17:28-37 (KJB)

Until now, it hasn't stood out to me that this describes people going about life doing a variety of things, when suddenly, ("in the twinkling of an eye"?)
one of them is taken "and the other left" in an apparent "rapture" at the coming of the Son of God.

Why does it say two men in one bed? While "God is not mocked", I can see some having a field day with that verse. But the point that hit me was how all those people seem to be doing the same things, living the same way, yet only one of them is taken, which seems to suggest that it's not about how you live day to day on the "outward appearance", but how you believe in your heart, which only God can judge that, as "the LORD looketh on the heart."

Even Lot and his family were living amongst the wickedness of Sodom. But what happened? God called Lot out of Sodom. Are we being called out of Sodom? Or will we be going about our lives as we have, "like in the days of Noe", when it happens?

One thing is for sure...

"He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus." Revelation 22:20 (KJB)

"The kingdom of God cometh not with observation"