Can anyone give a reason why only the clothes remain, and not the bodies?
When somebody dies and "goes to heaven" their body stays on earth. So if all this people went to heaven on this event their body's should have stayed with the clothes. Makes sense to me but I guess that would be a very different movie.
This movie is based on books that were based on scriptures in the Bible.
Here are some to answer your question:
30 ?It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed. 31 On that day no one who is on the housetop, with possessions inside, should go down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything. 32 Remember Lot?s wife! 33 Whoever tries to keep their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life will preserve it. 34 I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. 35 Two women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.?
Worldly possessions are left. Clothes jewelry etc.
And some are taken and some left because those who have faith in Jesus go those who don't are left behind.
The word for taken in that verse has an entirely different meaning than being "raptured" away. It's a simple look up, the Greek word translated back in this verse as well as Matthew 24:40/41 is word 3880 in the Strong's Concordance- paralambano -it means to receive near i.e. associate oneself with.
If they wanted to imply someone has actually left the earth they would have used this example -
Matthew 9:15 "And Jesus said unto them, "Can the children of the bride chamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast."
The word taken translated back to the Greek from this verse, is 522 -apairo -to lift off, remove.
The rapture is false doctrine. It's time to get into the word and really seek the truth out about this very dangerous doctrine. I once believed this as well and it's simply not true. And it sets up someone with a false hope and belief in something that is not biblical. Christ in Matthew 24, (describing his return as "immediately after the tribulation) Mark 13 and Luke 21 gives out warnings about the timing as does Paul in 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2. He had to write a letter because 1st Thessalonians confused them as well. He comes back and is very clear on the timing of Christ's return to us.
II Thessalonians 2:3 "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come , except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition."
We are to remain in the "field working", being watchmen. Christ says those that endure until the end are saved. We are to wait on the true Christ, not the fake. Anti in the Greek means "instead of" He will be instead of Christ and sit on the sides of the north proclaiming to be God. Isaiah 14/2nd Thessalonians. That's two witnesses to this very event.
Christ returns at the last and 7th trump. To try and split this event into two different comings is not biblical.
The Langoliers got them. They always leave the clothes.
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