[Ohio-Communities-of-Faith] Amazing facts devotion: DOESN’T THE BIBLE TEACH IN LUKE 17 THAT THERE WILL BE A RAPTURE?

[Shelly Duffy]

DOESN’T THE BIBLE TEACH IN LUKE 17 THAT THERE WILL BE A RAPTURE?
September 10, 2021 

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“Secret rapture” advocates often use this text as evidence of a time when Christ will supposedly snatch away His saints from the world. But to get the whole picture, we need to start with verse 26, when Jesus described Noah’s day: “Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed” (v. 30). Then He explained that “one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.” 

For the Jews, to be “taken away” meant they would be carried out of the Promised Land as a form of judgment, such as when Babylon and Assyria carried them away as captives. 

In the days of Noah, remember how some were taken and some were left? Those taken away by the flood perished. Jesus said the flood “took them all away; so also will the coming of the Son of Man be” (Matthew 24:39). 

Luke 17:37 makes this clear. The disciples wanted to know where these others would be taken. Jesus explained they would be taken away in judgment. “Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.” (See also Matthew 24:28.) 

In one parable, Jesus says the lost are taken first: “Gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them” (Matthew 13:30). Just as in Noah’s day, the righteous will be spared as the wicked are taken away in judgment. The bodies of the wicked will be scattered over the earth. 

There is no secret rapture being hinted at here. Two people might be outwardly doing the same thing, sleeping in a bed or working in the field, but God looks upon the heart and some will be lost and some will be saved. The doctrine of the “secret rapture” is unknown in the Bible. 



KEY BIBLE TEXTS 
"I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left."
"Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left."
"Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left." 
Luke 17:34-36



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Shelley Duffy