In these unprecedented times, thee is no excuse for anyone to have bought into a system of prophecy that has you in a prophetic vacuum, endtime prophecy allegedly being fulfilled back in 70AD. As the preterists claim.
In these dangerous times, beware lest you be, “carried about with” such “winds of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive,” Eph. 4:14.
I think we are near that time, but perhaps there is no “taking away” ... looks to me like the Beast (Russia) and the whore of Babylon (globalism) are moving steadily towards a final confrontation, and somehow Jesus Christ returns to the earth and defeats all of them. In one way, it would make sense to remove the faithful from the scene of what would no doubt be terrible battles, to defeat both the Beast and the whore (if the Beast doesn’t finish off the whore first).
But I agree with those who say this interpretation is a modern development of Biblical prophecy discernment, and is not necessarily a correct reading of the passages. Equally plausible is that they simply mean that the faithful are “caught up” to Jesus and the angels as they return to take on the Beast. That would imply that we have a role in that battle. What concerns me is that otherwise good people have decided that the only evil is the whore of Babylon and that somehow Putin is here to do the Lord’s work. I don’t get that feeling from his overall body of work.