luke 17:34 mandela effect
), But there was more. The disciples thought they should carry all before them, and expected a constant series of success in their work; but Christ tells them it would be otherwise: "The days will come, before you have finished your testimony and done your work, when you shall desire to see one of the days of the Son of man" (one such a day as we now have), "of the prosperity and progress of the gospel, and shall not see it. There is no greater mistake than to suppose, that an object of affection to Him before He died ceases to be such to Him when risen. 2. Then we find another picture His citizens hating Him; for nothing can be more elaborate than this parable. And so the Lord said, If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed ( Luke 17:6 ). He would erect no barricade of miracles to shelter Himself. Jesus is led away to the cross, and Simon is compelled to bear it after Jesus; for now man shows his needless cruelty in every form, The women that were there lament with the crowd after Jesus: there was much of human feeling in this, though not faith or real love. There are those who see that as the body of Jesus Christ, wherever the body of Christ is there will the eagles, His victorious saints, be gathered together. Bless now, Lord, and may we grow in grace and in our knowledge of You. This indicates that the Lord is looking for thanks when He has worked in a person's life. It may be possible to satisfy the claims of law; but every lover knows that nothing can ever satisfy the claims of love. When a man is made willing to receive the truth, his eye is single and his whole body full of light. So He closes this matter. 35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. So difficult is the path of faith for men in one direction or another, that (in earlier days when, in the midst of adversaries and full of superstition, men yet clung to the stainless honour of the Son of God)the timid orthodox ventured on the bold step of expunging verses Luke 22:44-45; for what, after all, is so adventurous as this Uzzah-like anxiety for the ark of God? Web( Luke 17:1 ) You can't live your life unscathed. It is the old way that wicked men have trodden, that have gone slumbering to hell, as if their damnation slumbered while they did. As a great commentator said, "No man will foresee it, and all men will see it.". Only there is a difficulty here to some that Luke appears to contradict what we have in the other accounts of this part of Christ's progress. Boneheaded meant that a person's thick skull had no brains, or so their actions would suggest. God has many arrows in his quiver, and uses which he will in making war upon his rebellious subjects, for he can make which he will effectual. 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. All true enough; but are these the platitudes that content us before His troubled spirit? The only reason why men have so spoken of that evangelist is because they turn aside his prophecy of the end of the age to that which has been already accomplished. It was the same tale at the end as at the beginning. Kennedy Williamson tells of an old man who was dying. Wherever Christ is, believers will flock to him, and meet in him, as eagles about the prey, without being directed or shown the way, by the instinct of the new nature. And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer: for I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God." In that night contrasts with "in that day" (Luke 17:31); and some of the ancient skeptics scoffed at the idea that Jesus' coming could be both at night and in the daytime also; but present knowledge of the fact that it is always night on part of the earth, and always day on the other part, has eliminated the question from the writings of modern critics. They part His raiment, and cast lots for it. Worded in a dirty way, I mean. 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. So I think it's proper with the disciples just say, "Lord, increase my faith. It will be the same on the day on which the Son of Man is revealed. Nothing sexual about it. He was the very embodiment of the kingdom, and they did not recognize him. A scribe probably inserted Luke 17:36 (cf. It is absent in the best ancient Greek manuscripts. (Luke 22:14-16.) You're the servant of the Lord. Only this I would add. Where, Lord? By Good Save yourselves from this untoward generation. You gonna do it? 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. Look how good I am, look what I've done for You. He received salvation. for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you." Hence our Lord expounds to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself. Those who confine Christianity and the church to this place or that party, cry, Lo here, or Lo there, than which nothing is more contrary to the designs of catholic Christianity; so do they who make prosperity and external pomp a mark of the true church. ), Yet was this the moment when, spite of a traitorous disciple, spite of another too confident that denied Him with oaths, spite of all who ought to have been faithful forsaking and fleeing, spite of the distant and saddened lookers on who had once followed Him devotedly, God emboldens a man of high station, who might have been then the least expected by us (and, as we are told elsewhere, Nicodemus). When Christ comes to destroy the Jewish nation, by the Roman armies, the generality of that nation will be found under such a reigning security and stupidity as this. ._3-SW6hQX6gXK9G4FM74obr{display:inline-block;vertical-align:text-bottom;width:16px;height:16px;font-size:16px;line-height:16px} In my mind you are making this one up. There was not a word of all this when He spoke of the siege and capture of the city under Titus. (Verses Luke 19:11-27.). 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. But now he does more: he add to his faith virtue. It is a false chimera of the enemy. But, at the same time, Luke never confines his view to outward facts. They were not alone; angels appeared. People often shared beds. [2.] "Were there not ten cleansed?" The same can be said of all religious texts, cults, governments, militaries, and so on and so forth. For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors [or], [rather, lawlessness ]: for the things concerning me have an end. Yea, it was from all: our Lord has to meet shame in those He loved best. How great is the simplicity and assurance of faith! Now, verse Luke 17:29 I feel is significant, "But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all." Was not He Himself, David's Son owned as his Lord by David? The point of these examples is that when Jesus returns He will separate people, even those who are intimate companions. OMFG LOL It's right there. He thought there was no demand of goodness but what he was able to meet; but the trial was too much for him. One is taken, where Lord? (VersesLuke 23:32-38; Luke 23:32-38. They may not obelize or obliterate; but they do not believe them. No doubt there was the deepest of suffering for Himself. But the open adversaries are called into the scene; and as the Lord here pronounces those men His enemies which would not :that He should reign over them, He says, "Bring them hither, and slay them before me." It may even be according to men's ideas of a hero, but it is not the truth of Christ. 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. I know it is a failing of mine, because my wife isn't my servant. And Lord, we pray that we might walk in the light of Thy truth, the path illumined by Your Holy Spirit. 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. And as they went they were cleansed. Nothing of the sort was uttered, but "Lord, remember me." But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve. "Take heed to yourselves. The term was originated in 2009 by Fiona In the resurrection state there will be no such relations. It would be wrong to say that the kingdom of God was in the Pharisees. Why seek ye the living (One) among the dead? Wherever the godly are, who are marked for preservation, they shall be found happy in the enjoyment of Christ. Copyright Like The Master Ministries. 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He therefore climbs up a sycamore tree by the way; and Jesus knowing well the desire of Zaccheus, and the faith that was at work there however feebly, at once, to his joy and astonishment, invites Himself to his house. But he does not see man merely. Man was not good God only. They were to be preached to all the nations, beginning with Jerusalem. or, lo there! Such was ever His way. This is the reason why difficulties are felt and abound. There is but one way that can be trusted in which we can know Jesus. This truth is not confined to the present portion of our Gospel. 36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. This most fitly has its place in Matthew, spite (yea, because of) His rejection. . That all good Christians should certainly escape, but many of them very narrowly, from that destruction, Luke 17:34-36; Luke 17:34-36. [Note: See Renald E. Showers, Maranatha: Our Lord, Come! Luke 12:35-48; Luke 14:7-24; Luke 21:5-33). Does not the account of the rich man and Lazarus intimate the same thing? Quite often these scholarly theologians accuse me of preaching a simplistic gospel. 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. His having power to banish death weakened His sense of it in no respect. So too the brief picture of His daily occupation in the temple and of His nights apart at Olivet which in no way precluded the people from coming to hear early in the morning. The 36th verse Luke 17:36 is, without doubt, an interpolation; see the margin. ( Luke 17:1 ). Luke 17:34 (NKJV). 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. Next is set forth humility, founded on our littleness (ver. Whatever there had been working in him at any time all was now swallowed up in the presence of the Son of man seeking and saving the lost. It concerns us, while they are continued, to improve them, and in the years of plenty to lay up in store for the years of famine. He feels all man did and said, and owns His Father. It matters not whether it be in Abraham or in a Samaritan leper, its path is entirely outside the ken of nature, yet faith does not fail to discern it; the Lord assuredly puts His seal upon it, and grace supplies all needed strength to follow. 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? Yet the day often comes when an aged parent is a nuisance; and many young people are unwilling to repay the debt they owe. The godly must not follow men's cries, but count on the Lord. For what was in that cup? 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. The verb grinding is feminine. where are the nine? How many a man acknowledges justification by faith in a general sense, who, the moment you make it personal, would shrink from taking the place of a justified man, as if this would be too much for God to give him! He is now gone on high to associate with Himself there those who were once, possibly, the worst on the earth, now with Himself above, cleansed of course (need we say it?) Luke 24:5-8; Luke 24:5-8.) There is another word for the vultures that feed upon the flesh of men at the great battle of Armageddon. Let him not regard his stuff at such a time, when it will be next to a miracle of mercy if he have his life given him for a prey. Jesus, who was God, had given up beyond all comparison more, yea, infinitely. "Now," say the Pharisees, "when will that glorious view open? We have done what it was our duty to do.'". They gave them timely notice of what would be in the end of their wicked ways, and that it was not far off. Speculation is vain. The people seem conscious that it was all over with them stricken in heart over a deed they could not but feel to be dreadful, though hardly defined. 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