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This is primarily to post scripture, as the word of God speaks for itself. But I would like to preface the verses with something interesting, for those of you with eyes to see something speaking volumes in some older English Bible translations, which speak to a proper exegesis of certain Luke 17 verses (related Matthew 24):
From the Geneva Bible, the teaching of our Lord Jesus,
Luke 17:32-37 Remember Lot's wife. Whosoever will seek to save his soul, shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose it, shall get it life. I tell you, in that night there shall be two in one bed; the one shall be received, and the other shall be left. Two women shall be grinding together, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. Two shall be in the field; one shall be received, and another shall be left. And they answered, and said to him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither shall also the eagles be gathered together.
More detail of "the one shall be taken, and the other left" phrase of Luke 17 in the KJV:
In the Geneva Bible (1587) "one shalbe receiued, and another shalbe left," the person taken is referred to as being "received," as in received by the Lord, in the Noah or Lot context, the person left falling into disaster.
In the Wycliffe Bible (1395) "the toon schal be takun, and the tother forsakun," the person left characterized as being "forsaken."
Other translations have referred to the persons left as abandoned, or "left behind."
The Greek word translated "taken" in the KJV:
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[TD][SIZE=+1]paralambavnw [/SIZE]Paralambano (par-al-am-ban'-o);
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- to take to, to take with one's self, to join to one's self
- an associate, a companion
- metaph.
- to accept or acknowledge one to be such as he professes to be
- not to reject, not to withhold obedience
- to receive something transmitted
- an office to be discharged
- to receive with the mind
- by oral transmission: of the authors from whom the tradition proceeds
- by the narrating to others, by instruction of teachers (used of disciples)
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Bible verses:
Jeremiah 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble; but he shall be saved out of it.
John 14:1-3 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
Colossians 3:4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
1 Thessalonians 5:9-10 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
1 Thessalonians 1:8-10 For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing. For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
Romans 5:8-9 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
Ephesians 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
Luke 21:33-36 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away. And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
1 Corinthians 15:51-58 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 4:14-18 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Interesting of Geneva Bible: 2 Thessalonians 2:3-8 Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, except there come a departing first, and that the man of sin be disclosed, even the son of perdition, which is an adversary, and exalteth himself against all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he doeth sit as God in the Temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. Remember ye not, that when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doeth already work; only he which now withholdeth, shall let till he be taken out of the way. And then shall that wicked man be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the Spirit of his mouth, and shall abolish with the brightness of his coming.
... Continued in blog post "The Rapture - Part 2"