Reference

Luke 17:28

Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
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And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.

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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.

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Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

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But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

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Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

Counter-Arguments

The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.

Two-Stage Return

This verse describes the ordinary activities of people prior to a destructive event, without any mention of a return, a rapture, or any distinction between stages of an event.