Jesus uses an ANALOGY.So there were only 16 people of the entire earth before the flood, Noah's family of 8 entered the Ark, the rest taken by the flood. Good thinking.
What you are doing is taking the ANALOGY, PAST IT'S message.
For example, there are 10 virgins in Matthew 25.
In your template of interpretation, there are ACTUALLY only 10 believers at the rapture.
And in mat 24 there are only 4 "wicked" people , as you put it, on earth taken to judgement.
One in a field,
One at a mil
One on a house top
One in a bed.
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There are components to analogies.
There are components to parables.
When you muddy up an analogy or a parable, it can be tortured to say anything YOU want it to.
The components have to have meaning HARMONIZING WITH THE MESSAGE.
IF ZERO discernment is applied, then yes, you should skip the entire analogy since you NEED IT MUDDIED UP.
*****here is what you need it to say *****
1 Half taken is not half taken.
2 Before the flood is not before the flood.
3 "The Greek word for "taken" is reversed to mean "wicked taken to a bad place."
4 Noah gathered pretrib/flood is erased and omitted.
5 The half taken in Matt 25 has nothing to do with the half taken of mat 24.
6 The setting of normal life in Noah and Lot is omitted and erased.( we never will see a postribber that does not change the setting)
7 The wicked dealt with in the second coming is postrib/wrath, but postribbers invent the pretrib wicked taken BEFORE THE FLOOD/PRETRIB, In an invented "WICKED RAPTURE."
8 Noah is gathered pretrib/preflood.
Postribbers claim Noah is gathered post flood.
9 Noah, a mile above the earth DURING THE TRIB/FLOOD, is really not Noah in the heavens during the flood.
10 Noah and family retuning postrib/ postflood back to earth, is not really Noah returning back from heaven as a picture of God's people returning postrib/postflood.
*******Now the best is for last********
Your ACTUAL CENTER, of Jesus analogy, is the wording "...and the flood came and swept them all away.... "
Psssst, IN REALITY the wicked are dealt with AFTER THE FLOOD/TRIB/WRATH.
YOUR ACTUAL CENTERPIECE IS A TOTAL 100% FAIL.
I am sure there is more to the twisting that you guys do IN THAT ONE ANALOGY.
Whew...how do you guys convince yourselves of all that???????
....and celebrate the twisting???????

