The ones taken away will be taken in judgment; the ones left will live to enter the Millennial kingdom.
Except it is the second coming when the taking and leaving happen so it's Christ deciding to take or leave. Taken means to be accepted in the Greek, like a companion you want to join with you, and left means to be rejected like divorcing someone or abandoning someone so your explanation goes against what the words mean.
The truth is Christ will take those he wants to be his companions in the rapture which is a catching or taking up of people, and those "left" are rejected as being his companions and are left to face the wrath of God, abandoned to their fates.
See it for yourself:
taken
3880
3880 paralambano {par-al-am-ban'-o}
from 3844 and 2983; TDNT - 4:11,495; v
AV - take 30, receive 15, take unto 2, take up 2, take away 1; 50
1) to take to, to take with one's self, to join to one's self
1a) an associate, a companion
1b) metaph.
1b1) to accept or acknowledge one to be such as he professes to be
1b2) not to reject, not to withhold obedience
2) to receive something transmitted
2a) an office to be discharged
2b) to receive with the mind
2b1) by oral transmission: of the authors from whom the
tradition proceeds
2b2) by the narrating to others, by instruction of teachers
(used of disciples)
"to take with one's self"
"to join to one's self"
"an associate"
"a companion"
"not to reject"
left
863
863 aphiemi {af-ee'-ay-mee}
from 575 and hiemi (to send, an intens. form of eimi, to go);
TDNT - 1:509,88; v
AV - leave 52, forgive 47, suffer 14, let 8, forsake 6, let alone 6,
misc 13; 146
1) to send away
1a) to bid going away or depart
1a1) of a husband divorcing his wife
1b) to send forth, yield up, to expire
1c) to let go, let alone, let be
1c1) to disregard
1c2) to leave, not to discuss now, (a topic)
1c21) of teachers, writers and speakers
1c3) to omit, neglect
1d) to let go, give up a debt, forgive, to remit
1e) to give up, keep no longer
2) to permit, allow, not to hinder, to give up a thing to a person
3) to leave, go way from one
3a) in order to go to another place
3b) to depart from any one
3c) to depart from one and leave him to himself so that all
mutual claims are abandoned
3d) to desert wrongfully
3e) to go away leaving something behind
3f) to leave one by not taking him as a companion
3g) to leave on dying, leave behind one
3h) to leave so that what is left may remain, leave remaining
3i) abandon, leave destitute
"to send away"
"of a husband divorcing his wife"
"to expire"
"to disregard"
"neglect"
"keep no longer"
"to leave on dying"
"leave behind one"
"abandon, leave destitute"
That's the complete opposite as being "taken" and is very negative. Do you
want to be rejected at the return of Christ or do you want to be accepted?
Christ takes the first one from the field and the rest is "left" by him, and
are "kept no longer".
Who was TAKEN into the Ark?
Who was LEFT outside the Ark?
Who was TAKEN to a safe place to live?
Who was LEFT to die in an unsafe place?
Who was TAKEN out of Sodom?
Who was LEFT in Sodom?
Who was TAKEN to a safe place to live?
Who was LEFT to die in an unsafe place?
Why does TAKEN/paralambano¯ mean to accept as a companion and does NOT mean to reject and leave to die?
Why does LEFT/aphie¯mi means to reject and leave someone to die and does NOT mean to accept as a companion?
Why does TAKEN/paralambano¯ mean you survive?
Why does LEFT/aphie¯mi mean you do not survive?
