Matthew 24:40 Is the rapture secret?

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ewq1938

ewq1938

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Iconoclast said:
One will be taken - Although paralambano means to take to one's self and to seize for one's own possession, and is usually used in a good sense (eg Jn 14:3), in Mt 24:40 the context is not good so that this is clearly not a proof text to support the Rapture of the saints as some commentators state! The one… taken will be taken to judgment and eternal punishment (Second Death). !
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False. The one taken is those raptured to be with Christ. The one left symbolizes those left for the wrath of God. This is the first death not the second death.
 
ewq1938

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Iconoclast said:
It does not speak of the second coming.
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Obviously you are wrong.

Mat 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
Mat 24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.


You say the second coming is not in chp 24 but there it is, proving you wrong.
 
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