THE DAYS OF NOAH?

Is scripture referring to the Rapture of the Church when it
says; "as in the days of Noah"? What does the passage say?

"But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the
Son of man be.  For as in the days that were before the flood
they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage,
until the day that Noe entered into the ark,  And knew not until
the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming
of the Son of man be." (Matthew 24:37-39)

It does speak of the coming of the Son of man, but is it
speaking about the Rapture?  We may want this passage to be
about the Rapture, but if we apply this passage to the Rapture,
don't we necessarily have to apply ALL of this passage?  Don't
we have to include the part about all those who are being left
behind being destroyed at that time? Luke adds clarity to this
issue by also comparing this coming of the Lord to the day when
Sodom was destroyed with fire from heaven.

"And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the
days of the Son of man.  They did eat, they drank, they married
wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe
entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them
all.  Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat,
they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and
brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.  Even thus shall
it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed."         (Luke
17:26-30)

A singular event is being spoken of in both of these passages.
Some people are being saved from destruction, and ALL the rest
are destroyed.  This is certainly not a picture of the LORD
quietly snatching away His true believers.  Is it?  There is a
yet future event in which fire will come down from heaven and
destroy the ungodly, but it isn't until the end of the 1,000
year reign of Christ on the Earth.

"And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed
out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which
are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather
them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of
the sea.  And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and
compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city:
and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured
them."    (Revelation 20:7-9)

Perhaps the "days of Noah" are somehow connected to the Rapture,
but I don't see it in scripture.

Randy Larson