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When I first heard about the popular series "Left Behind" it was already too late. I would have purchased one of the left behind domain names and put a big banner across the top of the page saying just what you see above. Now to explain why.

When talking with someone who mentions that they are looking forward to the rapture I have to agree, I am also looking forward to it. However I ask them who gets removed first from the field in the parable of the wheat and the tares? The usual response is that they don't think the parable applies to the rapture. One thing I have learned is that for several subjects there is an abundance of scriptures that when listed together are better than any sermon on that subject.

Proverbs 10:30 "The righteous will never be removed, But the wicked will not inhabit the earth."

Proverbs 2:22 "But the wicked will be cut off from the earth, And the unfaithful will be uprooted from it."

Psalm 37:22 "For those blessed by Him shall inherit the earth, But those cursed by Him shall be cut off."

Psalm 37:9 - 11 "For evildoers shall be cut off; But those who wait on Yahweh, They shall inherit the earth. 10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. 11 But the meek shall inherit the earth, And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace."

Next are the scriptures that appear to not specify who it is that is taken and who is left. It has been assumed that the righteous person was being removed. Read on and see.

Matthew 24:40-41 Then two shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

Luke 17:34-37 I tell you, in that night there shall be two in one bed, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
35 Two shall be grinding together, one will be taken, and the other left.
36 Two shall be in the field, one will be taken, and the other left.
37 And they answered and said to Him, Where, Lord? And He said to them, Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.

Matthew 24:40-41 does not specify, however Luke 17:34-37 very much does specify who is taken. In verse 37 the apostles ask where the one is taken. Eagles are scavengers and apparently where the body of the one is taken is found by eagles.

Matthew 13:49 "So shall it be at the end of the age: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just"

Zephaniah 2:3, 12 "Seek Yahweh, all you meek of the earth, Who have upheld His justice. Seek righteousness, seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden In the day of the Lord's anger.
12 I will leave in your midst A meek and humble people, And they shall trust in the name of Yahweh."