Now, to demonstrate even more clearly that that's the order of things Jesus is describing, we should turn over to the parallel passage, Luke's record, of Jesus' same teaching as recorded for us in the Gospel of Luke in Chapter 17. Two women shall be grinding together, the one shall be taken and the other left. Two men shall be in the field, the one shall be taken, the other left. Same teaching that Matthew recorded in Matthew 24. 17 Luke records something that Matthew did not record.
Vultures are flesh-eating fowl.
They are taken into the realm of death. That's where they're taken at my Second Coming and their dead bodies, their carcasses will be left here on the earth for the vultures and flesh-eating fowl on planet Earth to come and feast upon their dead bodies. Jesus is making it very clear that the ones taken here are taken in judgment into the realm of death. These are not believers being taken into the realm of blessing as will be true at the Rapture. We've been talking about a seven-year period of time between the Rapture of the Church from the world and the glorious Second Coming of Christ immediately after the Great Tribulation.