Did not Jesus say specifically that the end times will be "as in the days to Noah"? So, why do Jesuit Futurists interpret end time prophecy to be something totally different from the events back in Noah's day?
In the time of the "cataclysmos" Flood when the Ark door slammed shut, the fate of the wicked was sealed, though the rain would not fall for seven more days...and they didn't even know they were lost! When the Flood hit, there were two classes of people, those who were left alive safely inside the Ark and the ones Jesus said "knew not until the Flood came and took them all away".
But, Jesuit Futurists once again get it wrong by twisting Scripture so that the two classes of people in the last days are BOTH left alive, the one class taken up alive in a "secret rapture" while the other class are left alive down here for seven more years...does that sound even remotely like what happened in Noah's day?
[pre-tribber, here (me
) ]
I've posted before (perhaps you haven't seen it), that the
"one taken, the other left" applies in the following way (
not the way you are suggesting "pre-tribbers" have it).
"
as the days of Noah were,
so shall also
the coming of the
Son of man be"...
where I've said:
--
ALL "
Son of man cometh / coming / shall come / coming of / etc" passages refer to His Second Coming
to the earth (NOT "our Rapture"), to judge / govern / reign (i.e. the
earthly MK age commencing upon His
"RETURN" to the earth);
--the
"one taken" is taken away in judgment (
just as in Noah's day);
--the one
"left" is left
on the earth, to ENTER the
earthly MK age in their mortal bodies, capable of reproducing/bearing children (
just as in Noah's day;
Only the "saints / righteous / BLESSED" [i.e. "
saved" persons] will
ENTER the MK age, upon His "RETURN"
there--these are folks who will have come to faith FOLLOWING "our Rapture [IN THE AIR]" and who will have survived [
alive] throughout the entire trib years,
as in Dan12:12 and
about 8 other "BLESSED" passages speaking of the
same time-slot/circumstances, including in this Matt24 context "
BLESSED" and in ITS parallel passage Lk12:36-37,38,40,42-44 "
BLESSED"... "when he will
RETURN FROM the wedding"...
THEN the meal [G347])
--thus,
Matt24 / Lk17, where these phrases are found (re: His Second Coming
to the earth time-slot),
parallel both Gen9:1 and Dan2:35c
"and FILL [/FILLED] the [whole] earth" (i.e. the "
taken / left" passages are
NOT "Rapture"
contexts).