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7. So who are the people that are taken away in Matthew 24:37-41?
• These are the "tares" of Matthew 13:38. They are the children of the wicked one.
• When Christ returns to the earth, the "tares" are gathered out of Christ's kingdom, and the angels take them out and cast them into a furnace of fire. You don't want to be taken out at the end of the Tribulation! Matthew 13:40-42
• Those who are designated as "righteous" will stay on earth and will shine forth in Christ's kingdom. Matthew 13:43
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Do you have a reason to connect these two passages?
Every rapture in the Bible is God removing the "good guys" and leaving the bad. So why would God switch at the end of the Tribulation and remove the "bad guys"?
Don't get me wrong, Matt 24 is not describing the rapture of the Bride of Christ. It is describing the rapture of Jewish Christians right before the end of the Tribulation. The end of the Tribulation is Armageddon not the rapture of unrighteous people. God removes the unrighteous by stomping them out at Armageddon (Is 63:1-6).
Also, Matt 13:30 says that God will "gather the wheat into my barn." That is the Rapture during the Tribulation.