“Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Watch therefore: for ye (Israel) know not what hour your Lord  doth come” (Matt.24:40-42).

How often the above passage has been miss-interpreted to apply to our Lord’s coming to catch away the members of "the Body of Christ." At the catching away (rapture) of "the Church, which is His body" it is erroneously said, two will be working in the field, when one will be taken to heaven and the other left to go through the day of God’s wrath, and so also this erroneous interpretation is applied with two women who may be grinding side by side at the mill: one will be caught up to be with the Lord and the other left behind. This is what occurs when so many Christians ignore context of what they read when the read and study the Bible.

Actually this passage cannot have anything to do with the rapture of the Body to be with Christ.

1) The truth of our Lord’s coming for the members of "His Body" was kept a secret and first revealed by the glorified Lord... through Paul (cf., 1Cor.15:51-58; 1 Thes. 4:15-18).

2) But from Matthew 24 itself it is still more evident that the passage cannot refer to the rapture.

True, the passage says: “The one shall be taken, and the other left,” but Where And How Will The One Be Taken, and What Will Be The Lot Of The One Who Is Left Behind?

From the verses immediately preceding our text, it's evident that the 2nd coming of Christ to earth to judge and reign is in view. This 2nd of Christ coming is likened to what happened in "the days of Noe (Noah)." (Matt 24:37).

So, we must ask what is the account of the time of Noah's flood? At the time of Noah's flood the people ate and drank, married and gave away again in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, “and knew not until the flood came and took them all away." These people who died in the flood were not “taken away” to glory; they were “taken away” by the flood in judgment.

Since verses 40 and 41 are a continuation of this illustration, it's evident that the two “taken away” are also to be "taken away" in judgment at our Lord’s 2nd return to reign... while the two who are “left” are left as Messianic kingdom believers of the Tribulation who will  then enter into His millennial kingdom reign of Christ.

This interpretation alone is consistent with the whole context in which we find this passage.

How much confusion would be avoided if the truth of the rapture of "the Body" to be with Christ were recognized to be what it is: a divine secret that was first revealed to Paul concerning the Church of this present dispensation, "the Body of Christ."