Taken or left

Two people in one bed, two women at the same hand mill. One is taken, the other left. Jesus doesn't say what that means. Many people think of a sudden rapture, with believers taken up to heaven. That reading only took hold from the nineteenth century onwards.

Just before, with Noah, it was the others who were swept away by the flood. So being taken isn't automatically being saved. It remains a mystery, and you may honestly say so. What is clear is this: two people can live side by side and still not both be ready.