Let me see if I can finish your sentence in the way you are intending (... something like...)
"Now, which of the 'left behind' folks are going to be taken by surprise by the Second Coming when they'll be surrounded by [blatant evidences of people having previously 'disappeared' !!?? (seven years earlier)]" (<--is that CLOSE to what you were intending to convey??)
I did say I had already made a post about that (I don't want to go through typing all that out again... maybe I can find that post later, but I'll post the gist of it here):
--recall, I just said in that other post in this thread, (following "our Rapture") THEN 2Th2:10-12 will come into play - "God shall SEND
TO THEM GREAT DELUSION, so that
they should BELIEVE
THE LIE / THE FALSE / THE PSEUDEI..."
--recall, I've said...
much of "Christendom" (the segment that "come in His name, but
who are not actually saved/believers/trusting-in-Christ-for-salvation")
will still be on the earth following "our Rapture"...
many of these will tend to
not want to believe "what just happened" was "
Rapture [of the believers],"
but SOMETHING ELSE (coz, duh, *they themselves [
professed Christians]*
are still here! *
Evidence* to themselves that surely it was
NOT THAT ['RAPTURE'], that "just happened," but rather
SOMETHING ELSE... which they will *think* they have some biblical-backing for [explanation]... but *really* it was that
they WERE
NOT SAVED [
their not having trusted in Christ for salvation], even though they *think* their massive pile of "good works" has merited it to them and they they ARE Christians)
--recall, I've said that the Olivet Discourse [except for about 12 verses in Lk21:12-24 re: 70ad events] are all about what happens
FOLLOWING "our Rapture" (this includes the parallels I've pointed out, like the following passage I will quote below):
Luke 12:35-48 - [
parts being PARALLEL to Matt24 near the passage under present discussion]
[all FOLLOWING "our Rapture"]
(
Matthew 24:36-51;
Mark 13:32-37)
35 Let your loins be girded about, and
your lights burning; [<--
see my post about the "LAMPS LIT" taking place for the "IN THE NIGHT" time-period, i.e. for the "NIGHT WATCHES"]
36 And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will
return from the wedding [
RETURN FROM the wedding, as an
ALREADY-WED Bridegroom]; [
so] that when he cometh and knocketh,
they may open unto him immediately.
37 Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh
shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them
to sit down to meat [G347--the MEAL (<--see the parallels I've listed for this, like Matt8:11, etc)], and will come forth and serve them.
38 And if he shall come
in the second watch, or come
in the third watch, and find
them so,
blessed are those servants. [<--
corresponding to the 8-10 "BLESSED" passages speaking of this point in the chronology--His Second Coming to the earth FOR the earthly MK age to commence--these being "still-living" mortals (saints only!) who will ENTER it / that "MK-age"]
39 And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. 40 Be ye therefore ready also: for the
Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
41 Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?
42 And the Lord said, Who then is that
faithful and wise steward, whom
his lord
shall make ruler over his household, to give
them their portion of meat in due season?
43 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall
find so doing.
44 Of a truth I say unto you, that he will
make him ruler over all that he hath.
45 But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; 46 The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers. 47 And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. 48 But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
--more to say, but I need to close for now... (perhaps I can try to find that other post I was talking about)
This ^ is just
a part of my explanation regarding
your Q asking,
"which of the 'left behind' folks are going to be taken by surprise by the Second Coming when they'll be surrounded by [blatant evidences of people having previously 'disappeared' !!?? (if you meant that)]" --
esp the fact that it will be
a time of GREAT DECEPTION (with
SEAL #1 [
note: 'bow' often representing 'DECEPTION'] having occurred at the START of this time-period [the
"IN THE NIGHT" time-period],
parallel Matt24:
4/Mk13:
5 "
G5100 - tis - '
A CERTAIN ONE [
'a certain one' BRINGING DECEPTION]" aka "the man of sin" "whose COMING
is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and LYING wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness unto them who..." along with the fact that "God shall SEND
TO THEM GREAT DELUSION,
so that they should
BELIEVE THE LIE / THE FALSE / THE PSEUDEI..." etc etc...