“They were marrying and being given in marriage, they were buying and selling and then the flood came suddenly and swept them all away...”
Christ was talking about how the conditions for the “coming of the son of man” would be just like the days of Noah. It would be a prosperous time as well as a dangerous time. The days of Noah consisted of a world that was “full of violence” and people did evil constantly. Yet it was also a world of prosperity and wealth. There were ways a person could live well if one were careful.
The world may very well experience, before the dropping of God’s hammer, a false bubble of “peace and security” with tech seemingly promising to solve every problem” as well as a time of deep widespread decadence with the few who try to speak out against such evils being shouted down if not actively persecuted against. I see a general trend occurring where governments order private and public debt cancellations, a general Hebrew style debt jubilee(which may be a prelude to a harmonization of all currencies into a global currency). It would unleash much economic power at least in the short to intermediate term and just about everyone gets wealthy or at least makes a UBC possible for the under or non employable. Things will seem to be generally good...at least for a while....until judgment falls.
If the snatching away happens with societies completely open, too many will just disappear from sight and touch, seen by too many. What kind of lie will it take under those circumstances, for it to be believed, what an amazing delusion it will take to swallow a lie for what they actually saw and felt when the instant disappearance happens?