unwatchful Christians), we may live together with Him (1 Thessalonians 5:2, 9; cf. 1:10). The day of the Lord is compared to the flood in the Olivet Discourse indicating God’s judgment upon the unbelieving world. God removed all unbelievers, who perished in the flood waters, in the days of Noah. By contrast, Noah and his family survived. The parallelism requires that those taken at the time of Christ’s return denote the unbelieving world (cf. Revelation 16:15). It will be good for the sheep (the