After the flood, who was left? Noah and his family - the good guys. Well, you need to say to them: “Not so fast, folks.” Two problems with the Protestant “Left Behind” interpretation: First, in the passages from Luke 17 and Matthew 24, Jesus’ coming is compared to the days of Noah and the days of Lot. That’s how rapture enthusiasts interpret these passages. “One is taken, one is left” - the Rapture right? Jesus takes the Christians and leaves behind non-Christians! Two women grinding at the mill, one is taken one is left.” Then two men will be in the field, one is taken and one is left. Matthew 24 puts it this way: “As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of man… and they did not know until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of man. The Left Behind books get their name from a passage in Luke 17, and a similar passage in Matthew 24, which compares the coming of the Lord to the days of Noah and the days of Lot. Keep that in mind as we look at these next couple of Scripture passages. Those who are “left” get caught up to meet the Lord. This is a very important point to stress to rapture enthusiasts. But notice, in verse 15, Paul says that “…we who are alive, who are left,” shall be caught up.

Christians will simply vanish, meet Jesus somewhere in the air, and then return with Him to Heaven to await the end of time. The “Rapture” refers to a passage in First Thessalonians 4, where Christians are “caught up” in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.” Many Christians believe, and the Left Behind books promote, that this being “caught up” to meet the Lord will occur before the Great Tribulation sometime in the near future. Is there really going to be a “Rapture” like these books talk about?Īnswer: No. Question: A friend of mine has been reading the Left Behind books that have all of this stuff about the “Rapture” in them.

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