For those who do believe in a literal snatching up of bodies into the air.
I know 'you' use Enoch as a type, but where else in the 'bible patterns' would you find this illustration ?
I find this zapping up of bodies from all walks of life, planes, trains and automobiles something like sci fi it do not se it patterned anywhere.
He don't really see where Enoch was zapped into heaven...it just says "he was not, because he lord took him. "
He also took Moses, and buried him where they couldn't find him. It is only a guess that Enoch was zapped...Maybe he also was not, because the Lord buried him. I believe the rapture idea hangs on a thread...
The Book of Jasher chapter 3 expands upon Enoch's rapture:
27 And at that time the sons of men were with Enoch, and Enoch was speaking to them, and
they lifted up their eyes and the likeness of a great horse descended from heaven, and the
horse paced in the air;
28 And they told Enoch what they had seen, and Enoch said to them, On my account does
this horse descend upon earth; the time is come when I must go from you and I shall no
more be seen by you.
29 And the horse descended at that time and stood before Enoch, and all the sons of men
that were with Enoch saw him.
31 And all the sons of men assembled and came to Enoch that day; and all the kings of the
earth with their princes and counsellors remained with him that day; and Enoch then taught
the sons of men wisdom and knowledge, and gave them divine instruction; and he bade
them serve the Lord and walk in his ways all the days of their lives, and he continued to
make peace amongst them.
32 And it was after this that he rose up and rode upon the horse; and he went forth and all
the sons of men went after him, about eight hundred thousand men; and they went with him
one day's journey.
33 And the second day he said to them, Return home to your tents, why will you go? perhaps
you may die; and some of them went from him, and those that remained went with him six
day's journey; and Enoch said to them every day, Return to your tents, lest you may die; but
they were not willing to return, and they went with him.
34 And on the sixth day some of the men remained and clung to him, and they said to him,
We will go with thee to the place where thou goest; as the Lord liveth, death only shall
separate us.
35 And they urged so much to go with him, that he ceased speaking to them; and they went
after him and would not return;
36 And when the kings returned they caused a census to be taken, in order to know the
number of remaining men that went with Enoch; and it was upon the seventh day that Enoch
ascended into heaven in a whirlwind, with horses and chariots of fire.
37 And on the eighth day all the kings that had been with Enoch sent to bring back the
number of men that were with Enoch, in that place from which he ascended into heaven.
38 And all those kings went to the place and they found the earth there filled with snow, and
upon the snow were large stones of snow, and one said to the other, Come, let us break
through the snow and see, perhaps the men that remained with Enoch are dead, and are
now under the stones of snow, and they searched but could not find him, for he had
ascended into heaven.
But your position in quoting this passage presumes that God has already written off the world and closed the door. As I was telling marks, the harvest is the end of the age, so we have a lot of people to reach yet. And lying signs and wonders will indeed come to the wicked, but this does not preclude the Lord manifesting HIS power in turn for those destined for salvation. It says in Matthew that the lying signs will be powerful to deceive the very elect, but these will not deceive them. Is this because they have dismissed all supernatural manifestations as of Satan, or because the church performed "even greater works" than the Lord Himself during the end-time, to bring forth the harvest : )
