Sunday, January 15, 2017

Final warnings: Luke 17:31-37

 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away;  and he that is in the field, let him like wise not return back. Remember lot's wife. Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it;  and whosoever shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. 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. Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken and the other left. Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, the other left. And they  answered and said unto him, where Lord? And He said unto them, wheresoever the body is, thither will eagles be gathered. the thought which stands out from the Lords warning is this, that it will be to late to prepare for the Lord's coming when His hour has come., when the judgment bursts upon the world. The suddenness of the breaking of judgment day will take every person where he just happen to be at that time. A man may be up on the roof of his house. He will neither have, nor should he attempt to take time to go down and get any possessions. A man will be out in the field,  "modern day" ( community), he should not turn back behind him to get anything of this worlds goods. We must not turn back for money, clothes or other goods lost. So the person whose mind is on the goods of this world on the last day is lost, so the person whose mind is still attached to the things of this world on the last day is beyond salvation. The example of Lot's wife should be before the minds of the believers at all times. Had she not turn behind her to satisfy her curiosity, she might have saved her soul with the rest. Her hesitation proved her destruction. (Matt.16:25; Mark 8,35; Luke 9,24.). He that in the last emergency will have nothing in mind but the saving of this earthly life and the goods that are  necessary for its preservation, will lose forever the true life in and with God;  But he whose desires are free from all love for this world and what it has to offer, that has denied himself and all that this life might give him, he will save his life, the life in God, his "soul" and its eternal salvation.
  Christ repeats this warning once more, with great emphasis. In that same night two men occupying  the same bed, of whom one will be accepted  and the other rejected. Two women will be grinding  flour at the same mill; one will be accepted and the other rejected.  Two men will be in the field; the one will be accepted and the other rejected. And the emphasis of the Lord was not without effect on the disciples. In awe and fear, they barely breathe the question: Where Lord?  Where will all this happen? And he told them: where the dead body is, there will the eagles gather themselves together.
 The world especially in the last days, will be,  and today is,  like a decaying carcass, whose stench rises up into the heavens. And judgment and destruction will come upon the entire spiritually dead and normally rotten human race. It is a strong, but fitting figure, revealing the world as it is, in its true condition, without a redeeming feature to recommend it in the sight of God.      

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