Gospel of Matthew Chapter 24 Vs. 41

 No One Knows That Day and Hour

Matthew 24:41“Two [women shall be] grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.”

at the mill... The mill (τῷ μύλῳ)

The ordinary hand-mill with a handle fixed near the edge of the upper stone, which is turned by two women.

shall be taken... Taken like the flood took them all away or destroyed them (Mat. 24:39; Luke 17:27). Did the flood rapture or destroy the people that it took away? So the second coming will not rapture but destroy many at the battle of Armageddon to make the carcasses that will be eaten by the fowls of Mat. 24:28; Luke 17:34-37; Eze. 39:17-22; Rev. 19:17-21.

the other left... Not destroyed, like Noah and his family were left and not destroyed. At Armageddon many will be left to continue living on earth when Christ reigns (Zec. 14:16-21; Mat. 25:34, 25:46; Isa. 2:2-4; 66:19-21; Rev. 20:4-10).

That separation process is described in detail in the judgment of the sheep and goats (in Mat. 25:31 to 46), where He takes the goats on the one hand and sends them into everlasting punishment. His sheep on the other hand and gives them the Kingdom. So they are left. Very important, they are left for the Kingdom. So it is this that we have to keep in mind.

The future generation will be warned for three and a half years. And the fact is they’re being warned right now. They’ve been warned ever since the New Testament was written whatever generation it is that will be alive when that happens, and that could be this one. But they’re not going to awake to it until they’re taken away in judgment.

Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the Goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

But the period before His coming will be like the time in the days of Noah. People then were enjoying the normal pursuits of life, with no awareness of imminent judgment. Life continued normally for the people of Noah’s day for they were eating, drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage. But the Flood came and took them all away. It was sudden and they were unprepared.

Clearly the church, the body of Christ, cannot be in view in these statements. The Lord was not describing the Rapture, for the removal of the church will not be a judgment on the church. If this were the Rapture, as some commentators affirm, the Rapture would have to be posttribulational, for this event occurs immediately before the Lord’s return in glory. But that would conflict with a number of Scriptures and present other problems that cannot be elaborated on here (cf., e.g., see 1Thes. 4:13-18 and Rev. 3:10). The Lord’s warning emphasized the need to be prepared, for judgment will come at a time when people will least expect it.