One of the false prooftext often and erroneously cited as Scriptural proof of the secret rapture of the Christian church is Matthew 24:37-41. This passage reads: "As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left" (NIV).

According to proponents of the secret rapture, those taken in the two concluding verses of this passage are raptured Christians, and those left are unbelievers who are doomed to go through end-time tribulation. However, the context of the passage makes it crystal clear that those "left" are the saved, as Noah and his family were saved in the ark and left on the earth; and those "taken" away are sinners, as the rest of the population of the earth was taken away in the flood. No secret rapture here, just another worldwide judgment of God in which His remnant will be left and the rest of the earth removed, though at Christ's Second Coming it won't be by flood, but by fire (2 Peter 3:3-7).