No, Noah and the other 6 people were left alive on Earth. It is very clear, All the others were taken to eternity and removed from the earth, It really takes some convoluted thinking to call those who were left on Earth taken. Really, think about it, who was left on Earth after the flood? Think about it.Incorrect. Noah and Lot were taken away from those who were destroyed. They weren’t left behind they were removed from the destruction.
The last judgment takes place outside of time, after the passing away of the old earth and the old heaven, when fire comes down from heaven to destroy the armies besieging the city that God loves (see Rev 20:7-15). The earth will be destroyed by fire before the last judgment (see 2Pet 3), during which every person will be resurrected in the flesh and either consinged to lake of fire or ascend to the glory of the beatific vision. Those who die outside of God’s grace either descend into hell or enter into the state of purgatory (depending on the level of sin and repentence at the moment of death). Those who are in the state of purgatory will all enter into the beatific vision after a purification through fire, since purgatory has only one exit and that leads into the glory of eternal life with Christ. There is also some dispute in Catholic theology as to the extent of hell, which is linked to theodicy and the philosophical “problem of evil”. See Hans Ur Von Balthasar’s Dare We Hope “That All Men Be Saved”? or an excellent overview of Cardinal Avery Dulles article The Population of Hell which can be found here.Sorry I couldn’t figure out how to quote just one sentence. I was wondering at the final judgment if you are on earth and alive at that time you would get judged on the spot basically. Well, what if you are not perfect and then would need purgatory but the purgatory has been done away with. Wouldn’t that mean then there would be no hope unless you are perfect or does God just send everybody to Heaven that would be going to purgatory and it’s like having a out of jail free card? I have always wondered this question and I hope you might have some insight on it.
For the longest time I puzzled over the rapture reasoning. Why, I wondered, do these dispensationalists hold to this secret second coming? Then it finally came to me.The last judgment takes place outside of time, after the passing away of the old earth and the old heaven, when fire comes down from heaven to destroy the armies besieging the city that God loves (see Rev 20:7-15). The earth will be destroyed by fire before the last judgment (see 2Pet 3), during which every person will be resurrected in the flesh and either consinged to lake of fire or ascend to the glory of the beatific vision. Those who die outside of God’s grace either descend into hell or enter into the state of purgatory (depending on the level of sin and repentence at the moment of death). Those who are in the state of purgatory will all enter into the beatific vision after a purification through fire, since purgatory has only one exit and that leads into the glory of eternal life with Christ. There is also some dispute in Catholic theology as to the extent of hell, which is linked to theodicy and the philosophical “problem of evil”. See Hans Ur Von Balthasar’s Dare We Hope “That All Men Be Saved”? or an excellent overview of Cardinal Avery Dulles article The Population of Hell which can be found here.
The Church also teaches that each person is met with a particular judgment at the moment of death, before the general resurrection which takes place after the dissolution of the cosmos.
The Second Coming of Christ or appearance of the Son of Man at the end-time will not be accompanied by a rapture, but rather it is a last sign of hope calling mankind to repentence before the final tribulation and destruction of the world by fire. In addition to the material listed above by Hahn, Thigpen, Olsen etc, the excellent new book Unveiling the Apocalypse by Emmett O’Regan details a Catholic view of end-times theology.