"And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen: saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest."(Ver. WebLuke 17:34 | New Living Translation (NLT) [ 34 ] That night two people will be asleep in one bed; one will be taken, the other left. I just don't say those things. God will then judge the quick; and so, no matter what the association, the employment, or the sex, whether within doors or without, there can be no shelter or exemption. Sometimes they will be under inward restraints, will not have such tokens of the presence of the Son of man with them as they have had. Thus says the LORD, Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom, and let not the mighty man boast of his might, let not a rich man boast of his riches; but let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me . The other Gospels connect it with the future; Luke speaks of what was to be made good shortly "righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. What is the Mandela Effect? "He fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. So your brother trespass against you, rebuke him, and say, "Hey, that isn't right, you shouldn't have done that." I do not believe that God's judgment will come upon the earth until the church is taken out. . It will be better to leave his stuff behind him than to stay to look after it, and perish with them that believe not. So here Jesus says to the converted robber, "This day shalt thou be with me in paradise" at once, by virtue of His blood, the companion of Christ in the garden of divine joy and delight. The figures, no doubt, are taken, as they must be, from the body. So two women at the mill; for here we have not to do with human judgments. That all good Christians should certainly escape, but many of them very narrowly, from that destruction, Luke 17:34-36; Luke 17:34-36. I wish I could, I wish I did, but I don't. Even as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man. It was as if he said, "The whole offer and secret of God are here--and you will not accept them.". And I think that was from the 1800s, not the 1600s. My attitude after I come in from serving the Lord, and the Lord gives me another task to do, and I'm so tired I feel oh I can't move. Our Lord is next (ver. Christianity is based not on the work only but on the glory of the person and place of Him who is glorified in God. His rejection was complete; and Old Testament Scripture was amply fulfilled. inTruthbyGrace There are those who interpret this as the person who is taken is the one in, who is in trouble, because he is taken to the judgment. As we know, the Lord deigns to go yet farther in John; but there it was to convict Thomas's unbelief, as well as with a mysterious typical meaning behind. When shall we see this long-looked-for kingdom?". Say, I'm an unprofitable servant. Luke 17:34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. However, in Matthew, Galilee is the sign for a converted Jewish remnant till He come to reign in power and glory. Had they possessed the faith only to cry to Messiah about their blindness, He was therewith power and willingness to heal them. Coming of the kingdom (Luke 17:20-37). ( Psalms 103:2. The honourable counsellor renounced the expediency and prudence of the past, horrified, no doubt, at their counsel and deed to which he had not assented. He only states that it was while the Lord was in the neighbourhood. /*# sourceMappingURL=https://www.redditstatic.com/desktop2x/chunkCSS/TopicLinksContainer.3b33fc17a17cec1345d4_.css.map*/About the 1990s poker players would call someone who ground out a living on the poker circuit a "grinder." It was the same tale at the end as at the beginning. The NASB simply translates the word as two. To this the Lord appends a peculiar, but not less solemn though brief word: "Remember Lot's wife! Finding an original Luke might be easier said than done, but how about do a search on Aramaic primacy and then check here? "Put your shoulder to the wheel. It was a real work within: it was not merely a work ever so perfectly done outside. h Vid. Was it a fitting time for speaking of himself? The sentence that most people remember is the former, not the later. Few of us at the moment, believed we could ever forget; but few of us in the end satisfy the debt of gratitude we owe. We must live so that whenever he comes, at morning, at midday or at evening, he will find us ready. Man was not good God only. This looks forward to his disciples in after-ages; they must expect much disappointment; the gospel will not be always preached with equal liberty and success. ( Revelation 6:10.) He who humbled Himself as man in suffering is exalted as man to the glory of God on high. seeing God's hand in all. This is what He was looking for, whatever they were. Hence, it is said, "He spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray." That they continued in their security and sensuality, till the threatened judgment came. They were not alone; angels appeared. It is the act and language of Him whose confidence was unlimited in the One He was going to. It is not, "Enter into the joy of thy Lord;" but one receives ten cities, another five, and so on. the ball is in your park and you've got to forgive. This Galilean resort Luke does not give here. (b) It then came to mean any stumbling-block placed in a man's way to trip him up. In Luke all disappears, except grace, in presence of sin and misery. Next we see Judas, who approaches and kisses Christ: the Lord of glory is betrayed by the apostle. Oh it is a truth for us to treasure in our hearts His weeping in divine grace over guilty Jerusalem, forsaking its own mercies, rejecting its own Saviour the Lord God. The Messiah was about to be openly cut off. When God's judgments are laying all waste, he will take an effectual course to preserve those that are his, by remarkable providences distinguishing between them and others that were nearest to them: two in a bed, one taken and the other left; one snatched out of the burning and taken into a place of safety, while the other is left to perish in the common ruin. It was not a question of man's walking righteously, or of talking about it. Web( Luke 17:1 ) You can't live your life unscathed. The body consciousness and the spirit consciousness that we all have? The Spirit of God speaks to be understood, and (if He is to be understood by men) He must deign to use language adapted to our comprehension. Then the Spirit of God notices the darkness which reigned, and not merely in the lower air around the earth; for the sun was darkened, the splendid orb of natural light, which rules the day. And the bloody water dove flies away with the blood sprinkling down and the guy is cleansed of his leprosy and he's able to go back into the community. So to interpret the aetos, which is eagles, as vultures is wrong, but yet, those who make the first interpretation are always translating aetos, as vultures. Man has it apparently all his own way, in mockery, blows, and blasphemy; but yet he is only accomplishing the will, the purpose, and the grace of God. The consistency of this with all we have seen in Luke, from first to last, is unquestionable: Son of God of the Highest, as of David also; but He is emphatically, and in every detail, the Son of man. How it had been with sinners formerly, and in what posture the judgments of God, of which they had been fairly warned, did at length find them. We are to be firm against ourselves; we are to be firm for our brethren, even where they touch ourselves. Its desolation He predicts, and destruction, because the time of its visitation was unknown. In fact, Jesus said unless you repent you're gonna perish. ", 2. Though all the rest of His teaching might have taught them better, they took His words in a material sense, and conceived that He urged them to take a literal sword. Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. He fell on his face at Jesus' feet and kept on thanking him. It is here shown that faith always finds its place of blessing with God and proves Him superior to forms; but God is only found in Jesus. It is evidently, therefore, a picture of the Lord's return at the second advent, after having received a kingdom. Another touching, and beautiful trait in our Lord's dealing is here worthy of remark. "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. Luke 17:35 (NASB). Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. If you were a leper you had to cry, "Unclean," and could not allow anyone to approach you. Accordingly our Saviour, at the mount of Olives, (ver. So repentance is necessary for forgiveness. So take heed to yourselves ( Luke 17:3 ): Be careful that you're not a stumbling stone. The final scene comes on apace; and not more surely, according to the word of Christ, the murderous malice of the priests, than the energy of Peter, so fatal, to himself, who could not face the difficulty into which his self-confidence carried him. This saying means that even that which looks completely impossible becomes possible, if it is approached with faith. He came down to associate with the poorest and feeblest on earth. Luke, on the contrary, says nothing of Galilee at this point. Not that I allow it any more in Matthew. And so with this soul whom grace had now touched. This teaching is quite similar to portions of the Olivet Discourse (cf. In those days, it wasn't uncommon for people to share a bed, married or not, same sex or not. We have, after these, the Sadducees denying the resurrection. It would be wrong to say that the kingdom of God was in the Pharisees. Simon, sadly ignorant of himself, is full of bold promises to go to prison or to death; but, says the Lord, "Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me." Be assured that we know but in part, and have much to learn, especially of that which does not touch our own immediate necessities; but there is one thing we are always responsible for and that is, to submit to God, to believe Him, even though we enter very little into the depths of all that He has written for us of Jesus. The Son of man must suffer many things. Historians dismissed this, because times were different back then. (VerseLuke 24:30; Luke 24:30. Here are clips of actual Batman comics that mean something completely different now than when they were written. We are not quite sure what Jesus went on to say. This he saw not; and therefore, the Lord proves him, and searches the ground of his heart, and demonstrates that after all he valued the world more than God and eternal life. God has shown that His name is, as ever, a stumbling-stone for unbelief; but for the simple and spiritual a sure foundation, and most precious. We have further, in our Lord's answer to the Pharisees, who demanded when the kingdom of God should come, a striking revelation, and most suitable to Luke's purpose. "Lord, remember me when thou comest in thy kingdom." The explanation I heard was that sex was long ago called the "little death." Press J to jump to the feed. Pain, and shame, and death, are those many things. Two women will be grinding together. And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together. But as to the cup before them, He says, "I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come." The day of unleavened bread comes on, and the passover must be killed; and Peter and John go to prepare it. What grace! And for you who are listening on tape, Romaine is not my wife. The judgment of God is an individual judgment. said the Saviour; "but where are the nine? In the same way, so it was in the days of Lot. The Lord is exhorting to prayer, in view of the final trial; nevertheless, He prefaces it with a plain moral precept on the value. "And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations." He forgot Himself in Christ the Lord thus vindicated. On the other hand, there is the hatred of man, the weakness of the disciples, the falsehood of Peter, the treachery of Judas, the subtlety and terrors of the enemy who had the power of death. Catch myself a couple of times almost running off the road. They expected that He was going to take the throne of David at once. Alstorph. And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, there will the eagles be gathered together ( Luke 17:33-37 ). In the old days, people actually went to sleep when they were in bed! We see the people beholding, the rulers also with them sneering, the soldiers mocking with vulgar brutality, but Jesus dealing in ineffable grace with a justly crucified malefactor. There was as yet no such privilege known as a purged worshipper having no more conscience of sins. He alone of the two judged things according to his little light. Accordingly, Luke puts together those two features the grace that illustrates His first coming, and the real nature of the second coming of Christ, as far as regards the appearing of God's kingdom. The best way to figure this out is to find the original translation and go from there. WebLuke 17:34-35.But the decision at the Parousia, what a separation it will be!a separation of those who are in the temporal life united in a perfectly common position. I wonder if the "two people" really represent our bi-polar nature? The archaic King James that advised against not putting new wine into "old wineskins" but rather "new wineskins" to preserve both has now been altered to read "bottles", while the much later updated and Revised KJV that formerly read "bottles" as a more modern rendition and equivalent of that which is still in common usage today now has the more archaic "wineskins" now in that passage. Hence He says, "Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer." ._1LHxa-yaHJwrPK8kuyv_Y4{width:100%}._1LHxa-yaHJwrPK8kuyv_Y4:hover ._31L3r0EWsU0weoMZvEJcUA{display:none}._1LHxa-yaHJwrPK8kuyv_Y4 ._31L3r0EWsU0weoMZvEJcUA,._1LHxa-yaHJwrPK8kuyv_Y4:hover ._11Zy7Yp4S1ZArNqhUQ0jZW{display:block}._1LHxa-yaHJwrPK8kuyv_Y4 ._11Zy7Yp4S1ZArNqhUQ0jZW{display:none} The Mandela Effect refers to a situation in which a large mass of people believes that an event occurred when it did not. Jeremiah 9:23-24. You gonna do it? "The judgments that are to destroy the Jewish nation, to lay them waste, and to deliver the Christians from them, shall fly like lightning through the land, shall lay all waste from one end of it to another; and those that are marked for this destruction can no more avoid it, nor oppose it, than they can a flash of lightning." 106. Jerusalem has been trodden down of the Gentiles for many centuries as every one knows, throughout mediaeval and modern history. Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all ( Luke 17:25-29 ). Look here!' The Greek word (skandalon, G4625) is exactly the same word as the English scandal. One would have thought that this discourse of our Saviour's, which was public, and not long after published to the world, should have awakened them; but it did not, for the hearts of that people were hardened, to their destruction. He told them at last what it was. More particularly remark this that he alone, of all the evangelists, here characterizes men, in the activities of this life, as "the children of this world," or age. I do wish that the Lord would increase my faith.Now this business of faith, though, becomes a very tough issue, because so many times we find ourselves trying to generate faith. The Mandela Effect is when a large group of people share a common memory of something that differs from what is generally accepted to be fact. (2.) But it is much to believe it to be what it really is, not (as unbelief thinks) a field of darkness and uncertainty, requiring light upon it, but a light itself, which communicates light to the dark, through the power of the Holy Ghost revealing Christ. They were blind. Not that the Pharisee represents a man who denies God, or who is not a religious man. It is man giving up himself as altogether bad, man resting upon God as altogether good to the bad, and both proved in the remission of sins by Jesus, whom man, Jew and Gentile, crucified and slew. [3.] But if they do repent, then you . To weigh before God such circumstances as then surrounded Jesus, to anticipate in His presence what was coming, did not lessen, but rather increased the depth of all; and so we find Him praying earnestly to His Father that, if it were possible, the cup should pass away from Him. WebThis is a phenomenon where a large group of people collectively misremember a fact. That's no help at all. "They began to enquire among themselves which of them it was that should do this thing." The Rabbis had a saying that if one forgave another three times, one was a perfect man. WebIn Luke 17:34 Jesus says, I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. WebClarke's Commentary. But our Lord brings in another remarkable point here. No, it's gonna be like lightening, everybody is gonna see it when it happens.But before He comes in this glory. (2.) This was the sole warrant and ground. But it was not possible; and so He adds, "Nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done." . These offenses, as people challenge your faith, as people ridicule you for your walk with Jesus Christ, it's gonna happen. Thus the parable is a very complete sketch of the general results of the Lord's second advent for the citizens of the world, as well as of the occupation and reward of the servants who serve Him faithfully meanwhile. What is being referred to wherever the body is there will the eagles be gathered together. Is it not often true that a family is apt to leave the duties of church membership to one of its number? In remorse and despair, casting the price of innocent blood into the very sanctuary, and going away to hang himself; here no imprecation of His blood on them and on their children; here no detail of the guilty people's unconscious accomplishment of the living oracles of God in the Psalms and Prophets; nor here any allusion to the earthquake, and the rent rocks, and opened graves, or the subsequent appearing of risen saints to many in the holy city. But here we have another scene, His weeping over that very city that was about to cast Him out and crucify Him. or 'Look there!' They, like Christ, must be "anointed with the Holy Ghost, and with power;" they must wait for "power from on high" from the risen and ascended Man. All fell to murmuring. The remnant of the last days will know what it is to be cast outside Jerusalem also, and it is as outcasts that they will find real deepening of faith and due preparation of heart for receiving the Lord when he appears in the clouds of heaven. The truth is the sum of what all tell us. Nevertheless, we again have a loud and vocal group willing to stand up and say that these too are all just more misremembering and that they've always been that way. It was part of the very perfection of Jesus that he felt and deprecated the awful cup. Many of us never even offer a grace before meat. (2.) Jesus was on the border between Galilee and Samaria and was met by a band of ten lepers. This is not the question here, but rather the reality of the resurrection, and the identity of Jesus risen with Him they had known as their Master, and withal as still man, not a spirit, but having flesh and bones, and capable of eating with them. And Jesus said unless you become as a little child you won't be able to come in to the kingdom of Heaven. It is beyond all controversy, that here the human side of Christ's death is more vividly portrayed than in any of the Gospels perfect, but human; just as in John it is the divine side, though care is taken to prove particularly there its reality, as well as the witness of its efficacy for sinful man. When the last days come, be assured they will learn too late that there is no hyperbole with God or His word. How perfect it all is! It's really, "the kingdom of God is among you." Henceforth it was not a question of a living, Messiah on the earth, but of Him that was dead and risen, now seen by faith in the word of God. But even so, the Lord Himself would not terminate the Gospel thus. He said to them, "Where the body is, there the vultures will be gathered together.". You seasoned that roast just perfectly, oh that was good." But will you not rather say unto him, Prepare my supper, gird yourself, and serve me, until I have eaten and drunken; and afterward you can eat and drink? 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