In Luke 17.22-37, we still see some normalcy of life: "...in that day...as the days of Noah...and as the days of Lot ..." two will be together, at work, in the field, at home in bed, and then we read that "and one will be taken, one left."
22 Then He said to the disciples, "The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. 23 And they will say to you, 'Look here!' or 'Look there!' Do not go after them or follow them. 24 For as the lightning that flashes out of one part under heaven shines to the other part under heaven, so also the Son of Man will be in His day. 25 But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. 26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27 They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed. Luke 17:22-30
I believe the revealing of Christ is at the end of the "70th Week," being the end of the "great tribulation." I believe this revealing is the "Day of the Lord." I believe it is at the revealing that 2 reapings will take place: the 2 reapings/ harvests of Revelation 14:14-20 are back-to-back; the *first is of believers, being the rapture, while the second is of the unsaved, at the time of the revealing.
The second harvest is the Day-of-the-Lord-wrath that will come upon those who seem to be experiencing some degree of normalcy, according to the text referenced above. The revealing will involve a harvest of those unsaved who are living in some degree of normalcy as referenced in Revelation 14:
"17 Then another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. 18 And another angel came out from the altar, who had power over fire, and he cried with a loud cry to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, "Thrust in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe." 19 So the angel thrust his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth, and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. 20 And the winepress was trampled outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress, up to the horses' bridles, for one thousand six hundred furlongs." Revelation 14:17-20
There appears to be a degree of normalcy for those who will follow the beast, because when Christ is revealed, it will be as in the days of Noah, for people were doing normal things when the flood came (or when Sodom was destroyed, as in the Luke reference above.)
I believe the trumpets and bowls mostly precede the revealing of Christ and the Day of the Lord, and though these things are judgments and wrath on the earth, there will still be some normalcy on the earth up to the revealing of Christ. The revealing of Christ will be in connection with the 6th bowl. The 6th bowl will involve the nations being gathered together for battle, which reveals that in spite of all the devastation that takes place on earth up to that time there is still the ability for nations to gather for war, and certainly there will be those who still have to labor, and even some will still be involved in marrying:
"12 Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared. 13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 14 For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
15 "Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame."
16 And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon." Revelation 16:12-16
Compare that with this:
"as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 38 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. ... if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, Matthew 24:37-43
*I believe this is a harvest that is the rapture, which precedes the wrath on the unsaved harvest: "14 Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and on the cloud sat One like the Son of Man, having on His head a golden crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle. 15 And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to Him who sat on the cloud, "Thrust in Your sickle and reap, for the time has come for You to reap, for the harvest of the earth is ripe." 16 So He who sat on the cloud thrust in His sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped." Revelation 14:14-16
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