12d • General discussion
Who Is Really Taken?
Who Is Really Taken?
When I hear Jesus compare His coming to the days of Noah in Matthew24, it always makes me pause, not because of fear but because of clarity.
In Noah’s day, who was taken away?
Not the righteous.
Not the faithful.
Not the ones inside the ark.
It was the wicked who were swept away by the flood.
Jesus says his return will be “just like that.”
So when he speaks of two in a field and two at a mill, one taken and one left, the natural question is not, “Who escapes?” but “Who is being removed?”
If the pattern holds, then the ones “taken” are not being rescued; they are being taken in judgment. The ones who are left are the ones who remain to inherit what God has always promised: the renewed earth.
This fits the larger story of Scripture. From Genesis to Revelation, God’s plan has never been to abandon the earth but to restore it. The meek inherit the earth. The righteous dwell in the land. God comes to make His dwelling with humanity, not to whisk humanity away from his creation.
So the call to “stay awake” is not a call to escape the world. It is a call to live faithfully in it.
It means refusing to be lulled to sleep by everyday life, eating, drinking, working, marrying, while ignoring God.
It means building our lives as Noah did: on trust, obedience, and hope in God’s future.
The hope of the gospel is not that we disappear from the world.
It is that God makes all things new.
And when he does, may we be among those who are still standing, still faithful, still here to receive what hehas promised.
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