[campaignPete R-CT]

The parable says nothing about a rapture

[Ezekiel]

The "watchers" are busy watching for their own doctrines to come to pass. Since they won't come to pass, the $y$tem is confident of its own perpetuity.

Matthew 25

6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
7 Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.
10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.

Midnight oil is not sold in stores. So much for all the end-times prophecy merchandise.

Watchers of fake doctrines hit hardest.

Besides... Establishment Jesus is the fake Jesus that Jesus warned everybody about.

It's going to be a bloodbath so to speak.

Meanwhile, the real Messiah of the Bible is a great guy! The best of the best of the best! A veritable Can-Do "Captain America", which explains why these same geniuses can't find America in Bible Prophecy.

[MHGinTN]

The parable is given for and to the Jews, not The Body of Believrs CHURCH.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

This also has nothing to do with the rapture, but there's a delightful short story by O. Henry called "The Trimmed Lamp" - in obvious reference to a young single woman patiently waiting to find her bridegroom. It's the first story in a book of short stories that also go by the same name. Your can read it for free & without ads & without even having to "sign up" - here on Gutenberg.org

[Cronos]

exactly - it says nothing about a rapture

Notice how the parable expands our understanding of the earlier phrase “one is taken, and one is left” (Matt. 24:40–41).

This parable shows that Jesus meant “left out of the eternal Kingdom.” He never meant “left behind at the secret rapture,” as rapturists claim.

Jesus is talking about the taking of Christians into eternal bliss. Two men will be working together. One will be taken, and the other left out of the marriage feast (Matt. 24:40). Two women will be together. One will be taken into the marriage feast of the Lamb, and the other left out (Matt. 24:41).

In the parable before this, tye parable of the two servants,Jesus does not mention any hint of a seven-year tribulation or a Millennium after this coming. All that remains is either eternal bliss or eternal damnation.

Christ’s second coming will be sudden. It will be public and unmistakable. Christians will be irresistibly attracted to their Lord immediately. We cannot determine its precise timing, so we should live each day in anticipation, yet prepare for the long haul. Christians will be living and working alongside non-Christians when it occurs. Every person will receive his just reward in the end based on the charity he has shown.

Nothing even remotely suggests the private rapture that rapturists try to deduce from these verses. Nowhere is anyone “left behind.” There is no secret rapture preceding a seven-year Great Tribulation; indeed, the Great Tribulation Jesus predicts here has already come to pass. There is no mention of a separate millennial reign of Jesus as Messiah after the judgment.

[MHGinTN]

The Parable was given to the Jewish disciples regarding their question over Israel not The Body of Christ made up of Jews and Gentiles no longer under the law because their spirits have been Born Again through the blood of The Christ.