Posted by
Chad on Saturday, November 01, 2008 9:48:35 AM
One mysterioius phrase from the gospels of Jesus is "one will be taken and the other left." This has been thought of either as the rapture, or as some kind of being taken away in judgement at the end of the 1,000 rule of Jesus.
However, if you look at the Greek, which any internet savy person can do now because of Blue Letter Bible and other on line tools, you will see that the word women or men is not actually in the Greek! Luke 17:34 in most translations has two men in a bed, one taken and the other left! But you see this isn't about gays. For example, as in my King James Bible I just looked at the word men is italisized, meaning it doesn't appear in the original Greek.
No, the answer I think is in the original language. The word men does not appear. It just says two will be in a bed. The word can mean other things too, the greek word. It could mean a table or an incline.
Next, or text in Luke 17:31-36 talks about two women grinding in a mill in most translations.
OK, stopping with the craziness, think about it. The previous verses show a pattern of a Noah (Luke 17:25-26) like end time event than a Lot (Luke 17:26-27) like one with fire from heaven.
So, first tsunamis, an earth quake? That is one possibility. Then a mountain of fire hits earth, some kind of massive burst of radiation perhaps from a close explosion of a star, stars or a galaxie. It is probably already on its way racein toward us through space. God already knows when it will hit to fulfill this in my interpretation of all this.
So what of the two in a table or incline or bed? What of the two grinding?
The ocean is like a bed. One taken could mean the ocean taken off the sea floor leaveing it as the one left.
Earth quakes are caused by two grinding. That could be the top of Lepalam Island blowing off, the top stratta of rock that is. So here we have another tie in to the text and another mysterious saying of Jesus. He who is on the roof top don't go down to get anything. He didn't say roof tops pluaral. What is the roof top of the world? It would be a place with most of the world's observatories. Lepalma Island could fit this description. If Lepalma Island blows 500 million tons of rocks into the west side if it NYC gets a massive tsunami coming at it at 700 mph.
Unbelievers make fun of the rapture. But what exacly is it that makes millions disapear with bright shining going from east to west? (Luke 17:24).
Are you ready to gather with the eagles (Luke 17:31) in Alaska and graduate from your old life here (Luke 17:34) to go to your new 1,000 or so year life in a new world where nothing will be impossible?