Like the martyred saints he will cry out, "How long?" The Greek masculine gender could describe a man and his wife, however. The other interpretation is that this actually is a reference to the rapture of the church. What more convincing proof that the man had not an anxiety about his sins? Luke 18:15-17). WATCH VIDEO PLAY TRIVIA. Then the Lord adds some moral considerations for the heart: "Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life and so that day come upon you unawares. He saw God His Father above and behind all the secondary instruments, and bowed and blessed, even while He prayed with blood-sweat. Wherever there is sin, there the divine judgment will fall (Luke 17:37). Who could longer doubt that it was really the same Jesus who died, and will yet come in glory? He lets us know that in that night two should be in one bed; one taken, and the other left. And he said to him, Arise, go your way: your faith has made you whole ( Luke 17:18-19 ). He told them at last what it was. 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. What is the Mandela Effect? It will be their concern to do as Lot and his family were charged to do: Escape for thy life. Luke 17:11-19) presented in a very characteristic way, showing that faith does not necessarily wait for a change of dispensation. If a bad man so acted, not because of his hatred of the wrong done to her that was oppressed, but to get rid of being always troubled by her cries for justice if it be so even with the unjust, would not God take up the cause of His own elect, that cried unto Him day and night? In the 1960s it meant work. Note, We must not think that Christ's church and cause are lost because not always alike visible and prevailing. He tells the disciples that it was they who had continued with Him in His temptations. It's not just that, but virtually all Bibles are no longer what they once were until fairly recently, that is. There will be two women grinding at the same place; one will be taken and the other will be left. Which of these refers to the saved, which to the unsaved? 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. Jesus, who was God, had given up beyond all comparison more, yea, infinitely. Who that believes and understands the cross could dream longer of man's worthiness? 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. . So take heed to yourselves ( Luke 17:3 ): Be careful that you're not a stumbling stone. 106. "Shall we pray. 23 And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them. Jesus is dead and risen, and so must be known, if He is to be known aright. People often shared beds. That it ought to be the care of his disciples and followers to distinguish themselves from the unbelieving Jews in that day, and, leaving them, their city and country, to themselves, to flee at the signal given, according to the direction that should be given. Even if he sins against you seven times in the day, and if seven times he turns to you, saying, 'I repent,' you must forgive him.". That one tree notoriously applies to the Jews as a nation; the other figure ("all the trees") adds the rest, so as to be universal. That they continued in their security and sensuality, till the threatened judgment came. It was the last act of communion of Christ with them. 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. 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. The sentence that most people remember is the former, not the later. Nevertheless, when the Son of man cometh, shall He find faith on the earth? (Verses Luke 20:27-38.) The opportunity of just growing in our walk and in our fellowship. The chapter closes with Jesus before the council of elders, chief priests, and scribes. Of all living creatures man requires longest to become able to meet the needs essential for life. Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it would obey you ( Luke 17:6 ). If you recall these verses being different that's cool. Jesus was on the border between Galilee and Samaria and was met by a band of ten lepers. "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is shed for you.". Luke 22:63-65.) Towards the end of the chapter (ver. Both were to be preached in His name. Matthew 24:40-41 communicates the same facts. He looked upon the Lord merely as good after a human fashion. Thank you, Lord, I needed that. "Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the Scriptures, and said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day. And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high." "This man hath done nothing amiss." 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. 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. When Messiah the Prince comes to set up his kingdom, they shall not say, Lo here, or Lo there, as when a prince goes in progress to visit his territories it is in every body's mouth, he is here, or he is there; for where the king is there is the court. 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. The reason seems to me manifest. Kjv is a sloppy translation, if you start translating from original text you realize this. Two women will be grinding together. It was probably borrowed from Matthew 24:40. It is humility founded upon the sense of unworthiness, which is always right as far as it goes. They proclaim that Luke 17:34-35 said two people would be in the same bed, not two men. Then, after settling this moral truth which was fundamental for the soul, He turns to His disciples, and tells them that the days would come when they should desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, and should not see it; for the kingdom will be displayed by and by. "The gospel that is to set up Christ's kingdom in the world shall fly like lightning through the nations. It was not a question of man's walking righteously, or of talking about it. Luke 12:35-48; Luke 14:7-24; Luke 21:5-33). Surely one of the things which should draw all men together is their common need of God. Therefore He that was (and not merely had) life, as no one else, weeps in the presence of death, groaning, in spirit at the grave. But even so, the Lord Himself would not terminate the Gospel thus. Oh well. He was about to drink of a far different cup, which His Father would give Him the anti-type of the passover, and the basis of the Lord's Supper. this is the law of the leper and the day of his cleansing, Leviticus 13 . In the resurrection state there will be no such relations. "Simon, Simon," says the Lord, "Satan hath desired [demanded] to have you, that he may sift you as wheat; but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren." The evil is not merely his sins, but his religion: nothing more blinding to himself and other men, nothing more dishonouring to God. The kingdom of the Messiah is not to be a local thing, but is to be dispersed far and wide over the face of the whole earth; it shall shine from Jerusalem to all parts about, and that in a moment. I wish I could, I wish I did, but I don't. The Rabbis had a saying that if one forgave another three times, one was a perfect man. Quite often these scholarly theologians accuse me of preaching a simplistic gospel. In my mind you are making this one up. We cannot know that time; we dare not speculate about it. . (i) Often we are ungrateful to our parents. This is like claiming that any instance of "work" in the bible implies a drag queen strutting her stuff and owning the stage. Few of us have not at some time owed a great deal to some fellow-man. 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. "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." "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." "And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost." We must live so that whenever he comes, at morning, at midday or at evening, he will find us ready. For example, it is important to notice that in Luke 17:22 we are told that Jesus referred to the days of the Son of Man, and He did it again in Luke 17:30. 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. (Verses Luke 23:39-43.). They said to him, "Where, Lord?" Consequently its ultimate bearing is in connection with the tribulation of the last days. Christ will not come with all this talk; it will not be set up in this or that particular place; nor will the court of that kingdom be here or there; nor will it be here or there as it respects the country men are of, or the place they dwell in, as if that would place them nearer to, or further from, that kingdom. It was not called this in the 1970s, but the songwriter was hiding it by using the really old slang. * "Testament" is wrong here, and, indeed, everywhere else in the New Testament, save in the parenthesis ofHebrews 9:16-17; Hebrews 9:16-17. By Good If, on that day, anyone is on the housetop, and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them. This at least must he the basis. 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. II. The answer is no! ), Luke then ushers in another scene, still more precious, peculiar in its details at least to himself the journey to Emmaus, where Jesus joins Himself to the two downcast disciples, who discoursed, as they went, on the irreparable loss they had sustained. It is not surprising that the disciples at that time failed to seize His meaning. 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." But, inLuke 16:1-31; Luke 16:1-31, blessedness and misery at once are felt by the soul in the dissolution of the link with the body. That means for us that God will bring Jesus Christ again in his good time. Our Lord, however, cuts it all short. Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains." They are diametrically opposed. Where, on the contrary, God breaks down the believer, and sets him free in the liberty wherewith the Son makes free, the conscience is purged, and the heart turned towards Himself. I'm a servant. of prayer at all times "that men ought always to pray, and not to faint." But then he does not say what the English version makes him say, "As he was come nigh," but simply, "When he was nigh to Jericho," leaving it open to other Scriptures to define the time with more precision. Hotels used to have rules like : no more than 5 men in one bed. ._3K2ydhts9_ES4s9UpcXqBi{display:block;padding:0 16px;width:100%} Our Lord is next (ver. To me it is a grievous thing, this denial practically of a large part of the sufferings of Christ. God will not hold the man guiltless, who, on the road of life, sends a younger or a weaker brother on the wrong way. At first, indeed, you will have wonderful success" (so they had, when thousands were added to the church in a day); "but do not think it will be always so; no, you will be persecuted and scattered, silenced and imprisoned, so that you will not have opportunities of preaching the gospel without fear, as you now have; people will grow cool to it, when they have enjoyed it awhile, so that you will not see such harvests of souls gathered in to Christ afterwards as at first, nor such multitudes flocking to him as doves to their windows." The sense of His rejection and His approaching death not only pressed on the Saviour's spirit, but more or less also affects the disciples, who were under the pressure especially of what was done by men. In some time of bitter need we pray with desperate intensity; the time passes and we forget God. Repentance, so far from allowing it, is the perception and confession that there is no good in man, in me; it is wrought by grace, and is inseparable from faith. Perhaps Jesus intended the fact that one separation takes place at night and the other during daytime to reinforce the fact that He could return at either time. It was not a question of human willingness or power, but of receiving from God. It was the Samaritan in whom the Lord illustrated the power of faith. 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. Nor is it as the consciously divine person, the Son, pronouncing the work finished for which He had come. People usually quote The Wizard of Oz as Toto, were not in Kansas anymore.. [Note: See Renald E. Showers, Maranatha: Our Lord, Come! So often, once a man has got what he wants, he never comes back. "There shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people." It is a very serious thing to tamper with someone's faith in Jesus Christ. Every Scripture is inspired of God, and is profitable yea, able to make us "wise unto salvation through faith that is in Christ Jesus." And he said unto them, It is enough." On the other hand, in the midst of any answers that God may vouchsafe, and of all service rendered to Him, the admonitory word is added that when we have done all things not when we have failed we are unprofitable servants. This means that both Luke 17:30-35 and Matthew 24:37-41 are events that will occur after the second coming of Christ. For more information about this event, we must read Matthew 25:31-46. Yea, more; not only the existence of the soul separate from the body, after death, of course) but also blessedness and misery at once. 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