The parable is a parable. All parables are metaphors that teach a spiritual truth. The stories of the flood and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah were real events. They both occurred on Earth and no one was "raptured" to escape them.
But they did escape the global flood by entering the ark, ad they did escape the destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah by leaving those cities.
Disagree all you want, but Jesus identified the parable as being like the kingdom of heaven, not the marriage Supper of the Lamb. That's an addition to the word of God to create a fiction.
Not when aligning similar messages like Luke 14:15-24 & Matthew 25:1-13
This sounds reasonable but the parable is about entering the kingdom of heaven, not about the marriage Supper of the Lamb. Jesus spoke this parable to those outside the faith as with all His parables.
No. The kingdom of heaven was likened unto those ten virgins where five were foolish & fiver were wise. Those ten virgins were the kingdom of heaven. Therefore it was about attending the Wedding reception for why the Bridegroom is warning believers to be ready or else.
This whole argument is based upon the notion that Christ divides the church into 2 sets of saints, the super duper really faithful ones, and the unfaithful ones left behind to minister to a dying world, a complete and biblically unsupportable fantasy.
Yet you had stated earlier that it sounds reasonable, but after I have corrected you regarding that parable of the ten virgins, what do you say now because those ten virgins are the kingdom of Heaven; it is just that five were too late for the Marriage Supper of the Lamb?
So why are there vessels unto dishonor in His House that are vessels of wood & earth as opposing to the vessels of honor, vessels of gold & silver of those whom departs from iniquity?
2 Timothy 2:20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. 21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.
When the Apostle says that the dead in Christ will rise first and that those who are alive will be changed in an instant to meet them in the air, that's because there is one body of Christ, not 5 or 10. The idea of separate tribulation saints is pure fiction to justify the cowardice of fearful men who have no place in the city of God.
That is to be aligned with other truths in scripture since the Apostle was referring to those abiding in Him as His disciples.
Did not the apostle commanded the church to excommunicate the unrepentant brother in 1 Corinthians 5:1-13? You really think all believers will be ready to meet the Bridegroom? Even Paul knew if he was not abiding in Him, he could become a castaway and not just lose the reward of crowns.
1 Corinthians 9:24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. 25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.