Okay...I have to put this idea in here. Please understand that I am someone who was raised to believe the "premillenial dispensationalist" viewpoint of the "Left Behind" series, but my viewpoint now is..."who knows?!" So, during college, I was doing a production of "Godspell" and was thinking on the passage about the days of Noah (Matthew 24:37-41) -- "As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left."
Do you notice something? The evil people of Noah's day were all taken away. Of the 2 men in the field, one will be taken and the other left...Both times it says "taken". Wouldn't it be ironic if it's a good thing to be left behind?! To me, this is a perfect example of the fact that we may have it totally wrong. We can't know exactly what will happen. My religion professors used to always smile when I asked this.
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