I’ve always interpreted when Christ said that one will be taken and the other left as a cautionary note that not one of us knows which of us is really saved. The best person we can think of may have sins only known to them that will keep them out of heaven.
I have seen it as when God calls us home via dying.
The best person we can think of may have sins only known to them that will keep them out of heaven.
If what he has built survives, he will receive a reward. If it is burned up, he will suffer loss. He himself will be saved, but only as if through the flames. 1 Cor 3:14,15
Avoiding or succumbing may not impact salvation, but it will affect your reward in the next age.
32 “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. 33 Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it[e] is near, right at the door. 34 Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. The Day and Hour Unknown 36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[f] but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.This is specifically that some will die in the seige and destruction of Jerusalem in 69-70 AD
I have always thought that verse was referring to the whole world..You
see when we are working in America it is day but on the other side of the world people are sleeping... It is also because salvation is very personal.
Salvation is a person not an event, Salvation is a love affair...The more we
know our Jesus the more we love him...
But no matter whether there is a raprure or not... to be ready to meet Him when He comes is key. Why churches study books written by man and not
The Book written by God is a mystery to me. It is in the scriptures we see our Jesus.
Jonty - every one of us has sinned and has fallen. The only thing that saves us is the blood of the lamb.
Like my tag line, we must all search God out in the best way we know how. No one is going to stand next to you in the day of judgement but if we have sought out, repented (which is forever ongoing) and pray...muster just enough faith and trust, the Lord just may stand in for us in petitian to the Father. I don’t understand the trinity, but I believe God is three persons, yet One. I don’t know about the rapture, or being “Caught up in the air”, but if it does happen, I hope I’m part of that group. If I’m left behind I’ll know that I need to get my head out of my ass and help people who don’t know the Lord and teach them about prophecy and scripture because I have a head knowledge of God. But maybe my heart is not honest enough