Your entire rebuttal collapses because you keep arguing from what you think the flood and Sodom should symbolize, instead of what Jesus explicitly states—He says the ones taken in Noah’s day were those the flood “took them all away” (Matthew 24:39), and the ones taken in Lot’s day were those fire “destroyed them all” (Luke 17:29), meaning the removed are the judged, and the left are the preserved, which is exactly the same pattern He teaches in Matthew 13:41–43 where the angels “remove” the wicked from among the righteous; your attempt to rescue pre‑trib logic by claiming Noah was “lifted into the heavens,” the ark was “a type of heaven,” and Noah “returned post‑trib” is not exegesis but imagination, because Jesus never says any of that—He interprets Noah and Lot as judgment events, not rapture events, and your “half the world righteous / half heathen” objection is a category error because Jesus uses two individuals as an illustration of sudden separation, not a census of global salvation; the dilemma you accuse me of is the one Jesus Himself creates, because He defines the pattern as wicked removed, righteous preserved, and the only way to defend your system is to reverse His explanation, which is why your argument keeps collapsing the moment we return to the text.
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"the dilemma you accuse me of is the one Jesus Himself creates, because He defines the pattern as wicked removed, righteous preserved, and the only way to defend your system is to reverse
His explanation, which is why your argument keeps collapsing the moment we return to the text."
The text:
Mat 24.
36;But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
37;But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38;For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
The text you are shown multiple times and still reject it.
The text
" Put pray that you may be counted worthy to stan to escape the things about to come upon the earth and stan before the son of man."
The text
" Because you have kept the word of my testimony. I will also keep you from the hour of trial. There's about to come upon the entire world."
The text.
Mat 25
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.
11;Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
12;But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.
13;Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
Who is taken?
Who is left behind ?
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