Mat 24: 39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.
Hi Kat, it seems to me, they probably were confused about something since they didn't know what's going on until the flood came, they obviously didn't even try to knock or ask to open the door. So I don't think there's a spiritual wedding from the door being shut and the flood that is imminent. But you brought up a good point about the door being shut, I guess we need to study more and wait for God granting us the understanding.
Of course the world will be confused and not know what is happening when Christ is returning and what do you think the people of the world will think when they see the "sign of the Son of man will appear"... they will "mourn" at what they believe is happening.
Mat 24:30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
v. 31 And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
The ark represents Jesus Christ ("God saved Noah and his family from the raging waves of the sea in an ark. When we come to understanding spiritual things, we will clearly see that the ark represents Christ"
http://bible-truths.com/lake12.html) and Noah's family "the few" (1Peter 3:20) represents the elect. When the elect have enter into the Ark-Christ-Kingdom, is when the door will be shut, "when once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door" (Luke 13:25).
When does this spiritual "wedding" of the elect take place? Well as soon as "the Lord our God... becomes King" and begins His reign and He raises the elect into His kingdom to meet Him in the air... when the bride meets the Bridegroom is the wedding - the marriage of the Lamb.
1Th 4:16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
v. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
Rev 19:6 And I heard as a voice of a great multitude, and as a voice of many waters, and as a voice of mighty thunderings, saying—Hallelujah! Because the Lord, our God, the Almighty, hath become King.
v. 7 Let us rejoice and exult, and give glory unto Him, because the marriage of the Lamb, is come, and, His wife, hath made herself ready;
v. 8 and it hath been given unto her, that she should be arrayed in fine linen, bright, pure, for, the fine linen, is, the righteous acts of the saints.
v. 9 And he saith unto me—Write! Happy, they who, unto the marriage supper of the Lamb, have been bidden! And he saith unto me—These words, are, true words of God. (Rotherham)
mercy, peace and love
Kat