But it is the written word which, as the apostle himself shows, is the sole adequate safeguard for the perilous times of the last days. LAWS OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE ( Luke 17:1-10 ). I wonder if the "two people" really represent our bi-polar nature? Here the Lord does not say, "Make disciples of all the Gentiles, baptizing them into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you." (Ver. http://qbible.com/aramaic-new-testament/luke/17.html, Have you read Ezekiel 23? Jesus is dead and risen, and so must be known, if He is to be known aright. Weren't there ten that were cleansed? [3.] He takes the same place now after His death and resurrection, there resuming relations with His disciples. Intimacy with a good person does not necessarily guarantee our own salvation. Be careful that you don't stumble your brother. 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. (Verses Luke 24:9-12. The state of the heart, as ever, was in question; the will was at fault, even though they were regenerate. They have warning given by Christ now, and will have it repeated to them by the apostles after him, as they had by Noah and Lot; but it will be all in vain. 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! There we discover Luke 17:30-35 and Matthew 24:37-41 are illustrations of the Judgment of the Nations, which is also called the Sheep and Goat Judgment (Matthew 25:31-46). Finding an original Luke might be easier said than done, but how about do a search on Aramaic primacy and then check here? 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. 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. Note, Though the sword devours one as well as another, and all things seem to come alike to all, yet sooner or later it shall be made to appear that the Lord knows them that are his and them that are not, and how to take out the precious from the vile. And when it is planted in the ground and covered with dirt and there germinates. That means for us that God will bring Jesus Christ again in his good time. The will is the real hindrance. And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, there will the eagles be gathered together ( Luke 17:33-37 ). (ii) Often we are ungrateful to our fellow-men. He received more than just the healing of his leprosy. Therefore, just as we have seen the resurrection of our Lord in connection with Jerusalem, where He had been crucified, so He would have the preaching begun there, not going away, as it were, from the guilty city alas! He saw God His Father above and behind all the secondary instruments, and bowed and blessed, even while He prayed with blood-sweat. But faith is always right, whatever appearances may say: I speak not now of a fancy, of course, not of any eccentric humour or delusion too often covered over with the name of faith. 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. "It has a spiritual influence: The kingdom of God is within you." His having power to banish death weakened His sense of it in no respect. 24 For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day. for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. ), 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." To obey my master. It will be in the days of Lot. He gives then a parable but not of the fig tree only: this would not be suitable to the largeness of Luke's scope. The answer begins by understanding that duosimply means two. The word can refer to two men, two women, two children, a mother and a child, or two of anything. Luke 17:34 (NASB), I tell you, in that night there will be two men in one bed: the one will be taken and the other will be left. And so they say they are taken to be put into the great battle of Armageddon where the birds are going to come and feast upon the body of the people. "And they answered, and said unto him, Where, Lord? They were blind. The one shall be taken; by the Roman soldiers: and the other shall be left; being, by one providence or another preserved; which is mentioned, to show the distinction God will make in his providence, and to encourage believers to trust in it. (Ver. It's not just that, but virtually all Bibles are no longer what they once were until fairly recently, that is. Therefore, they are not describing the rapture. Webluke 17:34 mandela effect. They were very secure, went on in their business as unconcerned as you could imagine; they did eat, they drank, indulged themselves in their pleasures, and took no care of any thing else, but to make provision for the flesh, counted upon the perpetuity of their present flourishing state, and therefore married wives, and were given in marriage, that their families might be built up. 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." This great and glorious fact superseded all others. So this timid Joseph waxes valiant in fight. In the ten lepers this blessed principle is brought out clearly. Go show yourself to the priest." In the old days, people actually went to sleep when they were in bed! Why have different Bibles translated the Greek word duodifferently? In order to complete that picture, our Lord gave a sight not only of one blessed man who had lived in what is eternal, while experiencing the bitterness of this evil age, but of another who lived only for the present, despising God's message about eternity. The unstated reason is implicit, namely, to judge some and not the others. Where shall those be safe that are taken? However, in Matthew, Galilee is the sign for a converted Jewish remnant till He come to reign in power and glory. 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.". 20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it also be in the days of the Son of man. The day of unleavened bread comes on, and the passover must be killed; and Peter and John go to prepare it. I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be Two women will be grinding together. (Luke 22:14-16.) Sexy dancing was called "bump and grind.". seeing God's hand in all. What is the Mandela Effect? That the kingdom of the Messiah was to be a spiritual kingdom, and not temporal and external. In Luke 23:1-56 Jesus is found not before Pilate only, but Herod; and the two men who heretofore hated each other are here reconciled, now that it is a question of rejecting Jesus. That's no help at all. For whether is greater, he that sitteth at meat, or he that serveth? You gonna do it? Until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and Lot went out of Sodom, nothing said or done to them served to alarm or awaken them. I think "grind" has had sexual connotations only in the last 15 or 10 years. . There was His body; it was risen. 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. Therefore, we do not know if Jesus was referring to two men, two women or just two people, such as a married couple. Each of them falls into the trap which they had made for Him. Get out of there, escape. It were wise, not to say becoming humility, to wait and learn. And let your light so shine before men, that when they see your good works they'll glorify your Father which is in heaven. The Rabbis had a saying that if one forgave another three times, one was a perfect man. For as a snare shall it come upon all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth." But, at the same time (verses Luke 18:31-34), He takes unto Him the twelve and says, "Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished." The fact is notorious, that Jerusalem has been in the hands of many masters who have dealt hardly with the Jews. He says, "When ye shall sec Jerusalem, not "the abomination of desolation" (not a word about it here for it belongs to the last days exclusively; but "when ye shall see Jerusalem) compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Remark here the absence of a crowd of circumstances of the deepest interest to the Jew, when grace makes him meek, and obedient in heart of solemn warning to him, whatever the unbelief which shuts up his heart and seals his ears, to the truth Here is no dream and message from Pilate's wife; here no awful episode of Judas . What a league of peace over the rejection of the Saviour! Depend upon it, we cannot be too stringent in maintaining, the importance both of the resurrection, and of the immediate blessedness or misery of the soul separate from the body before the resurrection. Certainly God will not be heedless to the continual cry of His own seemingly desolate elect in their fiery trial, where all the might of man is against them; but still the duty always remains true. We have, after these, the Sadducees denying the resurrection. But then, further, He shows that meanwhile His servants are called to occupy themselves till he come. 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In the case of Luke 17:34-35, the Mandela effect is not whats happening at all. In the same way, so it was in the days of Lot. The kingdom of God is among you; so some read it. This saying means that even that which looks completely impossible becomes possible, if it is approached with faith. They "were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God;" but they were associated in life and love with One whose glory was far above them or any conceivable precincts of the earth, and were soon to be made one with Him, and to be the vessels of His power by the energy of the Holy Ghost, who would make this evident in due time. The same can be said of all religious texts, cults, governments, militaries, and so on and so forth. Luke alone tells how graciously He noticed their perseverance with Himself in His temptations. They were all very merry; so were the men of Sodom, and yet very busy too: they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded. And they remembered his words." 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