In Matthew the point appears to be the rejection of Jerusalem, the rejecter, because of its Messiah, the discipular remnant starting from the mountain in Galilee; and the presence of the Lord being guaranteed till the end of the age, when other changes come. Here are clips of actual Batman comics that mean something completely different now than when they were written. This was not the effect of an earthquake, nor of other physical causes. Our own day has seen how men can speak and write eloquently of Jesus as a man here below, all the while serving Satan denying His name, His person, His work, when they flatter themselves they are honouring Him, like the weeping women (Luke 23:27), without a grain of faith in His glory or His grace. What more convincing proof that the man had not an anxiety about his sins? 28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. In their earlier mission it was never needed. And being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground." The Mandela Effect is a phenomenon in which a large group of people shares a false memory. Matthew and Mark tell us the sad truth that, when He needed the disciples most, they all forsook Him and fled. But, in truth it is impossible to go on with God aright, until the personal question is settled by divine grace. Do not depart, and do not follow them. Accordingly they do but discover and condemn themselves. Therefore, the convicted publican is found outside, beating his breast, and standing at a distance, not so much as looking up. Matthew 24:40). There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.". Hence was it of all importance that we should learn wherein He is to be known. But I go to the hospital, I make the call, I pray for them and encourage them. Does two men in the field, one taken and one left refer to the rapture? According to Cleveland Health, the Mandela Effect is when a group of people misremember an event or detail that never occurred or (3.) It was about to come morally; for Luke holds to that great principle the kingdom of God was about to be established in what you may call the Christian system. If your brother trespass against you, rebuke him ( Luke 17:3 ); The Bible tells us that we should reprove, that we should rebuke. And so the Lord said, If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed ( Luke 17:6 ). For itself it discovers the blessedness of freedom from the law, yet is not lawless to God, but, on the contrary, legitimately bound ( ) to Christ, really and duly subject to Him, and so much the more because not under law. It was the Samaritan in whom the Lord illustrated the power of faith. This employment of the Scriptures by our Lord is very significant. Work in our lives, Lord. God will not hold the man guiltless, who, on the road of life, sends a younger or a weaker brother on the wrong way. 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. 1. 26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. Christ was going away to heaven to receive the kingdom from God there not about to take it from man now and in this world. Dorothy really says, Toto, Ive got a feeling were not in Kansas anymore.. He is alone. It may even be according to men's ideas of a hero, but it is not the truth of Christ. Was it a fitting time for speaking of himself? Jesus was the green tree; and if Jesus was so treated, what should be their fate, as set forth fully by that dry tree, which was Israel? "When he was returned, having received the kingdom, then he commanded those servants to be called unto Him, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading. They thought of having the kingdom of the Messiah set up in external splendour: "No," saith Christ, "we must go by the cross to the crown. Nothing of the sort was uttered, but "Lord, remember me." But even where that is maintained in a general way, at least, it is an awful thing to deny any part of His moral glory; and what is it but denying, this, to shut out those real sufferings which prove the extent and character of His humiliation, exalt and endear Himself in our eyes, and issue in the richest streams of comfort for His saints, who can afford to lose none of His sympathy? Who, of course, in turning back turned to a pillar of salt. In Matthew, Galilee is the quarter especially noticed. When we have done our best, we have done only our duty; and a man who has done his duty has done only what, in any event, he could be compelled to do. How great is the simplicity and assurance of faith! Now, it is Luke alone who thus treats the matter; the great moral value attached to prayer, at the same time connected, it may be, with general circumstances of sorrow, but bearing on the circumstances of the last day. This is a matter of fact description of what was really fulfilled to the letter in the capture of Jerusalem by the Romans under Titus. It is the contrast of the condition of the disciples during His ministry, and that which must be now that He was going to die. It is therefore infinitely more personal, though it be also the wondrous sight of One who, coming, with the consciousness of divine power to banish death and bring life into the scene, yet in grace nevertheless did not one whit the less, but the more, feel the power of death as no mere man ever felt, yet as none but a real man could feel. He owns to the truth; and they need no more to condemn Him. This he had never suspected in himself before. http://lexiconcordance.com/hebrew/7901.html, Just so you know You're inspiring me to go check. If poor dying man felt it somewhat, the Lord made flesh, the God-man, entered into it in spirit the more because He was God, though man. It was really the Lord who had deigned to continue with them, and had sustained their faltering steps; but He could say, "Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. So it was here: and it is of great importance that those who maintain the work for, should equally maintain the work in. And it's no help to tell a person, "Well, if you just had enough faith you wouldn't be in this condition, brother." Next, we have the place of the servants responsible to use what the Lord gives. But now all was to change; and the disciple must be as his Master. They were blind. That the setting up of this kingdom was a work that would meet with a great deal of opposition and interruption,Luke 17:22; Luke 17:22. There was as yet no such privilege known as a purged worshipper having no more conscience of sins. Matthew 24:40-41 (NASB). It was not a question of human willingness or power, but of receiving from God. He judged himself truly, and, therefore, was in a moral condition to see other things aright, as God should bring them before him. Real faith which God gives is never so far wrong: and he who, instead of going on to the priest, recognizes in Jesus the power and goodness of God upon earth, (the instincts of that very faith that was of God working in his heart and carrying him back to the source of the blessing,) he, I say, was the only one of the ten who was in the spirit, not only of the blessing but of Him who gave the blessing. He had been really a conscientious man. Its desolation He predicts, and destruction, because the time of its visitation was unknown. There is a warning here. Protecting The Most Valuable Treasure On Earth. And may you be enriched this week as the love of Christ works in your life and works through your life. (2.) Luke 24:5-8; Luke 24:5-8.) He lets us know that in that night two should be in one bed; one taken, and the other left. There is retributive severity, but not a sign appears of its being anything unparalleled. They were all very merry; so were the men of Sodom, and yet very busy too: they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded. There was not a word of all this when He spoke of the siege and capture of the city under Titus. We have only to think of the number of scientific marvels, of the number of surgical operations, of the feats of endurance which today have been achieved and which less than fifty years ago would have been regarded as utterly impossible. Had they discerned this better, and been simple in the faith of His real manhood, and held to the written word about His sufferings on and before the cross, they had not been so easily stumbled. and he answered and said unto them, The kingdom of God does not come with observation ( Luke 17:20 ): The word there in the Greek is a word that means with outward manifestation or an outward show. Many good interpreters understand it of the gathering of the saints together to Christ in the kingdom of glory: "Ask not where the carcase will be, and how they shall find the way to it, for they shall be under infallible direction; to him who is their living, quickening Head, and the centre of their unity, to him shall the gathering of the people be.". Matthew 16:1-4). In the common tragedy of their leprosy they had forgotten they were Jews and Samaritans and remembered only they were men in need. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. That God took care for the preservation of those that were his, who believed and feared, and took the warning themselves which they gave to others. For, as the flashing lightning lights up the sky from one side to another, so shall be the Son of Man in his day. Certainly, too, His suffering, though not confined to the cross, there culminated, as there alone was sin judged; there God's necessary intolerance of it was proved, when only, but most really, imputed to Christ. "He fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. Then we have the ruler, to whom our Lord shows that all was wrong where a soul is not brought to know that there is none good but God. They said to him, "Where, Lord?" 3. over the scene of His death and burial, without for the present in the least realizing, that life which was to be put forth soon so gloriously. They do prey upon livestock, live animals. Here there is no cry to God in the sense of being forsaken, when His soul was made an offering for sin. (Weren't they grinding grain?). I can remember when the slang term in the comics meant that someone had done a stupid, boneheaded stunt. /*# sourceMappingURL=https://www.redditstatic.com/desktop2x/chunkCSS/IdCard.ea0ac1df4e6491a16d39_.css.map*/._2JU2WQDzn5pAlpxqChbxr7{height:16px;margin-right:8px;width:16px}._3E45je-29yDjfFqFcLCXyH{margin-top:16px}._13YtS_rCnVZG1ns2xaCalg{font-family:Noto Sans,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:400;line-height:18px;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex}._1m5fPZN4q3vKVg9SgU43u2{margin-top:12px}._17A-IdW3j1_fI_pN-8tMV-{display:inline-block;margin-bottom:8px;margin-right:5px}._5MIPBF8A9vXwwXFumpGqY{border-radius:20px;font-size:12px;font-weight:500;letter-spacing:0;line-height:16px;padding:3px 10px;text-transform:none}._5MIPBF8A9vXwwXFumpGqY:focus{outline:unset} "You enquire when it will come, and are not aware that it is already begun to be set up in the midst of you. The Jews having made themselves a dead and putrefied carcase, odious to God's holiness and obnoxious to his justice, wherever any of that unbelieving generation is, the judgments of God shall fasten upon them, as the eagles do upon the prey: Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies (Psalms 21:8), though they set their nests among the stars,Obadiah 1:4. 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. And he goes out and gets a couple of doves and he brings one in. Jesus second illustration in verse 35 is about two people who will be grinding at a mill. Therefore He takes all from God, and feels all, as it really was for His glory. The lepers came to Jesus with desperate longing; he cured them; and nine never came back to give thanks. 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. (a) It originally meant the bait-stick in a trap. In Luke 17:20-21 Jesus answered the question of the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God would come. He was now about to face death; first in spirit, then in fact. Wherever there is sin, there the divine judgment will fall (Luke 17:37). The kingdom of God is among you; so some read it. For us it is the question of what God tells us in His word of the sufferings of Christ not whether we understand all He says about them. Bible Answer: Luke They were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building, but, on the day on which Lot went out of Sodom, fire and brimstone rained from heaven and wiped them all out. Webluke 17:34 mandela effect. Surely one of the things which should draw all men together is their common need of God. A similar truth appears also later on in the case of the converted thief. I remember the time, though unable to boast of any very lengthened scene to look back on as a Christian, when at least almost all for I will not say all were more engaged in attacking ecclesiastical error, and spreading much of kindred and other truth (and, in its place and time, important truth). 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. And immediately his leprosy left him.Now here they stood afar off. "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. this is the law of the leper and the day of his cleansing, Leviticus 13 . You know, you go trying to get the turbines turning and get things rolling. What is Jesus saying? I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left. Now it doesn't say anything if he doesn't repent, does it? Remission of sins therefore, with repentance, was to be preached in His name. Griesbach thinks it might have been omitted on account of the similar ending, (see the preceding verse,) or that it was borrowed from Matthew 24:40. That they continued in their security and sensuality, till the threatened judgment came. One interpretation. If, on that day, anyone is on the housetop, and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them. Christianity is based not on the work only but on the glory of the person and place of Him who is glorified in God. Jesus was on the border between Galilee and Samaria and was met by a band of ten lepers. ( Psalms 103:2. Matthew 24:23-28; Matthew 24:37-39), though the differences suggest separate teaching situations. Naturally the Jews, save the unbelieving portion of them, looked for resurrection; but for the Gentiles the Spirit of God gives us our Lord's answer to the Sadducees, both proving the resurrection which is common to all the Gospels, and bringing in the living, of dead men in the separate state. Wherever the godly are, who are marked for preservation, they shall be found happy in the enjoyment of Christ. This is the truth I tell you--on that night there will be two in one bed. But in this Gospel the last words are of One who, whatever the forsaking of God for sin, was perfectly tranquil, and peacefully committed Himself to His Father. And so our Lord Jesus vindicates him. He who humbled Himself as man in suffering is exalted as man to the glory of God on high. In Luke all disappears, except grace, in presence of sin and misery. It was a term for grinding corn or some other grain. or, lo there! They must make up their minds to the same thing. If you recall these verses being different that's cool. Jesus said that it was impossible to construct a world with no temptations; but woe to that man who taught another to sin or who took away another's innocence. http://qbible.com/aramaic-new-testament/luke/17.html, Have you read Ezekiel 23? Such was his habit. We need not dwell on the scene of the riding in on the colt; but that which is peculiar to Luke claims our attention for a moment. Surely also we ought to feel it, instead of merely treating it as a thing, that must be, and which Scripture prepares us for, or which God's goodness turns to gracious ends. Jeremiah 9:23-24. The problem with the first interpretation is eagles are not a bird of prey, that is, upon the human bodies. Now, the Lord Jesus did feel the traitor's heartless ways (and we may learn it yet more from Psalms 109:1-31.) The Lord's relation to the kingdom at the second advent is contrasted with the grace that flows out in the former part of the chapter. All fell to murmuring. There is much vagueness in minds as to this merging all in the atonement, to the great detriment of their distinctness even in holding the atonement itself. We are sure that the Judge of all the earth will do right; and therefore, when he sends a judgment on purpose to avenge the death of his Son upon those that crucified him, he will take care that none of those who glorified him, and gloried in his cross, shall be taken away by that judgment. Be thou clean. Kennedy Williamson tells of an old man who was dying. "Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.". Where are the nine? A common misfortune had broken down the racial and national barriers. It could not be. . the converse proves true. "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." The other Gospels positively tell us it was as He went out. Not that the Pharisee represents a man who denies God, or who is not a religious man. Should be just like that. "You know not what you ask," saith Christ; "it may come, and you not be aware of it." You gonna do it? (VerseLuke 24:30; Luke 24:30. Look how good I am, look what I've done for You. They started with similar advantages. A scribe probably inserted Luke 17:36 (cf. (Ver. Such was the fruit of His blessing, and of His great grace. ._12xlue8dQ1odPw1J81FIGQ{display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle} Note, Those do best themselves that trust God in the way of duty. Luke 17:34 describes what will happen after the judgment. Wherever the body is there will the eagles be gathered together. These seem out of place in the Bible. . Note, Though the stupidity of sinners in a sinful way is as strange as it is without excuse, yet we are not to think it strange, for it is not without example. We have the priests with their question of authority (ver. They could not understand Him, no matter how plain the words employed. ._3K2ydhts9_ES4s9UpcXqBi{display:block;padding:0 16px;width:100%} (Luke 24:1) And they found the stone rolled away, but not the body of Jesus. And so our Lord adds here what touched, not merely the Jewish system, but the condition and doom of the world at large. The Lord said, "If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you would say to this sycamine tree, 'Be rooted up and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you. Not only is God not the God of the dead, but of the living; but "all live unto him." But here we may pause for a moment; for there are special and profoundly instructive touches peculiar to Luke. No story in all the gospels so poignantly shows man's ingratitude. Another cup was before Him. (iii) When that day comes the judgments of God will operate, and of two people, who all their lives lived side by side, one will be taken and the other left. So it was with Him. But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation." But which of you, who has a servant plowing or feeding your cattle, will say to him by and by, when he's come in from the field, Go and sit down and eat your dinner? After the Gentile domination is over (which clearly it is not yet), there shall be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and distress of nations; men's hearts failing them forfear; for the powers of heaven shall be shaken and then shall they see not when the Romans of old took the city but, in the future crisis, when these astonishing tokens, heavenly and earthly, are given by God then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. [2.] Now a lot of times we are made to feel very guilty"Well, brother, if you just had enough faith. (Verses Luke 19:11-27.). Then there will be two men in the field; one will be taken and one will be left. For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part of the heaven, shines to another part under the heaven; so shall the Son of man be in his day ( Luke 17:22-24 ). https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekial+23&version=NIV. But they were not simple, understood in the Scriptures, and accordingly dared, some to stigmatize these verses, others to strike them out. Judaism, lowering the person, sees not or denies the position. This truth was combated and refused by the most active sect among the Jews at that time, the most intellectual and the best informed naturally. Where, Lord? But here the Saviour is viewed in His absolute dependence and trust in Him, whom He had set before Him, as in life always, so with equal affiance of heart in death. ), And they crucified Jesus between two malefactors the one on the right hand, and the other on the left and Jesus says, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." (Verses Luke 18:18-25.). And so our Lord breaks bread with the disciples. Thus, the only perfect man, the last Adam, who was there rejected of the Jews, and despised of men, with a loud voice, which denied the exhaustion of nature in His death, commended His spirit, as man, to His Father. Like the martyred saints he will cry out, "How long?" Jesus was going to suffer. Men pass them over as if there was nothing for the soul in them, as if the Saviour Son of God condescended to a show, a pantomime, instead of enduring the severest conflict and anguish that ever had been the portion of a human heart on this earth. The verse in the New American Standard Bible (NASB) and the New King James Version Bible (NKJV) reads as follows, I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left. 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. Then it comes when it makes those humble, and serious, and heavenly, that were proud, and vain, and carnal,--when it weans those from the world that were wedded to the world; and therefore look for the kingdom of God in the revolutions of the heart, not of the civil government. Only this I would add. 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. It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to trip up. (Verses Luke 22:24-27.). It is described in Matthew 25:31-46. There would be no other way of saving their lives than by quitting the Jews, and, if they thought to save themselves by a coalition with them, they would find themselves mistaken (Luke 17:33; Luke 17:33): "Whosoever shall seek to save his life, by declining from his Christianity and complying with the Jews, he shall lose it with them and perish in the common calamity; but whosoever is willing to venture his life with the Christians, upon the same bottom on which they venture, to take his lot with them in life and in death, he shall preserve his life, for he shall make sure of eternal life, and is in a likelier way at that time to save his life than those who embark in a Jewish bottom, or ensure upon their securities." He was made known unto them in the breaking of bread in that most simple but striking action which symbolises His death. ( Revelation 6:10.) The word "men" is not in the text, it is only, "there shall be two in one bed"; and may as well be understood of a man and his wife, since it is not so usual for two men to lie in one bed; and this the rather more strongly expresses the distinguishing providence of God in saving one, and suffering the other to be taken and lost: the words may be rendered, "there shall be two upon one couch": that is, sitting together at supper, which was also in the night season: it was the custom of the ancients to sit upon beds, or couches, at meals; and they had a bed, or couch, which held two persons only, and was called Biclinium h: and so this likewise intimates, that the destruction of the Jews would be at a time when they were thoughtless of it, and were eating and drinking, as in the days of Noah and of Lot, Luke 17:27.

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