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Why concern yourself with the specifics when a generalization is inferred? Certainly, we all realize that nbt 1/2 of the world's population will go anywhere all at once. Ok, does this mean if you are not in a field or a woman at a grinding mill - you will remain... Thi would of course mean maybe pehaps 100 women in America could go, but probably that is a high estimate as grinding mills are run by machines and computers and mostly by men, so half the grinding machines and computers are going to go? And most of the men in the fields in America are llegal immagrants, not the owners, so now we got machines, computers and illegal immagrants going ahem... somewhere - real quick? How about a different approach... it is a depiction of events primarily to describe in general form, an idea as to the rapture. This does not mean stop being the watchman, it does imply rapture...so there is a destination. If half the people were "taken" killed would it not say killed? Of course, in hunting terminology in this day and age "taken" means killed. Common sense should apply?
What in the world are you 'going on' about Terry?
The idea of the two women grinding at the mill our Lord Jesus used is a SYMBOLIC ANALOGY. Just like His idea that you don't put new wine into old bottles (skins), He wasn't literally talking about making wine.
And if you think our Lord Jesus meant the first one taken there that He mentioned means one of His being raptured out, you are sorely mistaken. The first one taken will be where those fake eagles are gathered that He mentioned. It is a 'warning', not an admonition for His Church. Study the last section of Luke 17 again carefully.