I wish I could, I wish I did, but I don't. you might say to this sycamine tree ( Luke 17:6 ). The resurrection is the great truth to which all things turn which the Lord has shown in its final form, too, in His own person now raised from the dead, then just about to follow. In the field of psychology, the term "false memory" is applied to anything that a person remembers "And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them." A non-profit, 501(c)3 corporation. Nevertheless, we again have a loud and vocal group willing to stand up and say that these too are all just more misremembering and that they've always been that way. This was given appropriately by Matthew and Mark. But the Lord turns the sifting, and even the downfall of the saint to ultimate and great blessing not for that soul only but for others. "We indeed justly; but this man hath done nothing amiss." But the kingdom of God, revealed in the person of Christ, went deeper appeals to faith (not sight), and demands the Holy Ghost's action in the soul to give the sinner to see and enter it. The 36th verse Luke 17:36 is, without doubt, an interpolation; see the margin. He goes boldly to Pilate, and begs the body of Jesus, Which, being obtained, is worthily laid in the rock-hewn sepulchre, wherein never had man beenlaid. I do not believe that God's judgment will come upon the earth until the church is taken out. Matthew 24:37-39 (NASB). Not a word about the great tribulation such as never was since time was; it is simply "days of vengeance." 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. The King James was written 400 years ago. They started with similar advantages. (iii) Luke 17:5-6 tell us that faith is the greatest force in the world. These seem out of place in the Bible. You have a choice between the two. Temptation may come and test the heart; but our entering into it is quite another thing. Now I'm gonna grab my Mother's Bible and read it myself BRB. Wherever there is sin, there the divine judgment will fall (Luke 17:37). What is the Mandela Effect? This truth is not confined to the present portion of our Gospel. Evidently there was more than righteousness here. The verb grinding is feminine. 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." There He simply said day that the Son of Man. The term Son of Man is a reference to Himself. That would refer to Jesus himself. 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. "And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen: saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest."(Ver. "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." "Within you" is a poor translation here. It will then be too late for people to do anything to save themselves. The Lord grant that even these our studies of the Gospels, which have been necessarily curt and cursory, may nevertheless give an impulse not only to younger saints, but to those who may be ever so old; for assuredly there is no one, whatever may be his maturity, who will not be all the better for a fuller acquaintance with Him who is from the beginning. "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.". 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. The publican before us was not meant to give us a full view of the Christian state, or of the blessings of the gospel, but of a man taught of God to feel his own nothingness as a sinner before Him; and God's estimate of him, in comparison with the man who was satisfied with his state. One will be taken and the other will be left. Further, we know that just as Matthew, for his design, so he displaces facts historically for the purpose of giving a more forcible moral picture of the truth in hand. ", Apparently this was disobedience; and the others could well reproach their Samaritan fellow that he was unfaithful to Jesus. From henceforth [not] ["hereafter,'' as in the A.V.] "And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him. How great is the simplicity and assurance of faith! It was suitable that it should be so; for Christ's work was not yet wrought, still less applied to his soul. Coming of the kingdom (Luke 17:20-37). Luke 17:34 (NKJV). Luke 24:44.) There is another word for the vultures that feed upon the flesh of men at the great battle of Armageddon. 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? There shall be two women grinding together; Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. At the same time man, having a bad conscience and a depraved heart, slights God's word as well as kingdom, and looks for that which would please himself by gratifying his feelings, mind, or even lower nature. Next, we have the place of the servants responsible to use what the Lord gives. At any rate the scorning of Jesus proceeds; and Pilate, carried away against his conscience by the will of the people, gave sentence that it should be as they required. It is not the value of persistent prayer, and the certainty of God appearing even for the weakest, no matter how apparently deserted (indeed, so much the more, because of it in His own). Memories are complex and influenced by various factors. Matthew and Mark tell us the sad truth that, when He needed the disciples most, they all forsook Him and fled. 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. 4. (Verses Luke 20:27-38.) So take heed to yourselves ( Luke 17:3 ): Be careful that you're not a stumbling stone. 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. On the contrary, though the true God, He was a true man, and a holy sufferer, having a heart that felt every thing: this is the truth of Christ as man. (VersesLuke 23:27-31; Luke 23:27-31. So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we haven't done any more than what was our duty to do ( Luke 17:9-10 ). Then came the first, saying, Lord, thy mina hath gained ten minas;" and so with the other; and then we hear of the one who says, "Lord, behold, here is thy mina, which I have kept laid up in a napkin: for I feared thee." This may be the way of men, to avoid what they can, and think as little as possible of what is painful and disagreeable. Hotels used to have rules like : no more than 5 men in one bed. This is also characteristic of Christians. If you recall these verses being different that's cool. 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. The godly must not follow men's cries, but count on the Lord. 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. 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. It gets its name from an incident in 2010, when many people on the internet said they clearly If it be but a parabolic description, the evangelist for the Gentiles not only gives the fig tree which is in Matthew, but the Gentile trees which are heard of nowhere else. It is absent in the best ancient Greek manuscripts. For more information about this event, we must read Matthew 25:31-46. It is not, as in the Gospel of Matthew, the Lord giving different gifts to different servants, which is equally true; but here it is the moral test of the servants carried out by each having the same sum. This was not the effect of an earthquake, nor of other physical causes. He received more than just the healing of his leprosy. In the old days, people actually went to sleep when they were in bed! But if you had faith as a grain of mustard seed. If the original had said "bottles" who in their right mind would deliberately pull "wineskins" out of their hat to ostensibly update and make that more intelligible in an era when bottles had long since replaced all of the old fashioned wineskins? But this presentation to faith now, as we have seen does not hinder the Lord from speaking of another day, when the kingdom of God would be manifest. this is the law of the leper and the day of his cleansing, Leviticus 13 . Even so, you too, when you have done everything you were ordered to do, say, 'We are unworthy servants. He thought there was no demand of goodness but what he was able to meet; but the trial was too much for him. I don't know of a single instance where God forgave a person without repentance. This last is ever a great point with Luke the emphatic value always of any part of God's word, but especially of the words of Jesus. 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I tell you, in that night,. Of affliction and calamity, that shall be upon the Jewish nation, and which is before called that day, Luke 17:31 and therefore is not to be understood literally of the night: there shall be two [men] in one bed; this is said agreeably to the time, the night before mentioned, that being the time to be in bed, at rest and asleep; for they that sleep, sleep in the night; and still suggests the security the people of the Jews would be in, at the time of their destruction. When they have made their escape, they must not think of returning (Luke 17:32; Luke 17:32): "Remember Lot's wife; and take warning by her not only to flee from this Sodom (for so Jerusalem is become, Isaiah 1:10), but to persevere in your flight, and do not look back, as she did; be not loth to leave a place marked for destruction, whomsoever or whatsoever you leave behind you, that is ever so dear to you." As a matter of human righteousness it was well; it was the proof that Zaccheus exercised himself as a man to have a conscience void offence in his own way. Speculation is vain. And immediately his leprosy left him.Now here they stood afar off. Joseph of Arimathea was a man that had waited for the kingdom of God for some time, a good man and just, and a real believer, though he had shrunk from open confession of the Lord Jesus; but now, when fear might naturally have more than ever operated to keep him back, grace made him bold. Henceforth it was not a question of a living, Messiah on the earth, but of Him that was dead and risen, now seen by faith in the word of God. Not only is there the sack of the city, the slaughter and captivity of the people, but continual occupation by their enemies till the termination of the period God allows the nations to have the supremacy over Israel. ( Psalms 103:2. ( Luke 17:17 ). For remember Lot's wife ( Luke 17:30-32 ). The nine--where are they? Nothing could better show the utter isolation in which lepers lived. (i) Luke 17:1-2 condemn the man who teaches others to sin. Here it is prayer out of the midst of circumstances of desolation and deep trial prayer with evil near at hand, as well as divine judgment. Matthew 24:41). Then said he unto his disciples, It is impossible but that offenses will come ( Luke 17:1 ): You cannot help if you're living in this world, you're going to have offenses come your way. This Galilean resort Luke does not give here. ._12xlue8dQ1odPw1J81FIGQ{display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle} It is not surprising that the disciples at that time failed to seize His meaning. 31 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 likewise not return back. WebClarke's Commentary. Remaining in Jerusalem they should be clothed with power an essential thing for Christianity, and quite distinct from spiritual intelligence already conferred, as is apparent also in Peter's word and way in Acts 1:1-26. 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. Here, too, the loved companion of Paul proves, in the history of the resurrection, the value of the Scriptures. And there are two basic interpretations. "Oh darn, if only I had been grinding grain like the Bible said, then I'd have had a 50% chance of getting taken.". So I think it's proper with the disciples just say, "Lord, increase my faith. Neither shall they say, Lo here! To seek to put a stumbling stone or a block in their faith of Jesus Christ.Jesus said much the same thing at another occasion in which He took a little child and was using a child for an example. Note, We must not think that Christ's church and cause are lost because not always alike visible and prevailing. 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. Luke 20:39-44; Luke 20:39-44) our Lord puts the great question of His own person and the position He was just going to take not on the throne of David but on the throne of God. not only its reckoning, but its experiences and its end! In fact that's actually the kind of "daily bread" the Lord's Prayer refers to. "Zaccheus, make haste, and come down; for to-day I must abide at thy house. Now their hour was come, and the power of darkness. h Vid. This is not the theme predicted by prophets, but a glory which the person of Jesus alone can account for, and His grace alone introduce to. As in the days of Noah and of Lot, people will be carrying out their everyday duties when the divine judgment will suddenly fall (Luke 17:26-30). (VersesLuke 18:9-14; Luke 18:9-14.). 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It was common for a mother and daughter or two female friends to grind grain together in Jesus day (cf. I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be There was none but a blind man or two to own real need, but our Lord at least healed all who cried. The Mandela Effect is a phenomenon that makes us question even the most mundane memories from the past. But now the Jew is left to abhor Him, the Gentile to despise and crucify Him. The Greek may mean two things. That is what he looked for when he sought to be remembered, when Jesus comes in His kingdom. What unwearied travail of love! God must be God in His recognition of faith, as everywhere else. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?" But faith as a grain of mustard seed. Its desolation He predicts, and destruction, because the time of its visitation was unknown. There is a place for rebuke. ( Luke 17:7-9 ). 176-91, for a discussion of the differences in the biblical descriptions of the Rapture and the Second Coming, which argue for a pretribulation Rapture.]. The figures, no doubt, are taken, as they must be, from the body. what unbrokenness of self! (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. Thus Jesus was pleased, Himself with them, that the truth of His death should flash upon the two souls at Emmaus. Look as far back as the old world, when all flesh had corrupted their way, and the earth was filled with violence. @keyframes _1tIZttmhLdrIGrB-6VvZcT{0%{opacity:0}to{opacity:1}}._3uK2I0hi3JFTKnMUFHD2Pd,.HQ2VJViRjokXpRbJzPvvc{--infoTextTooltip-overflow-left:0px;font-size:12px;font-weight:500;line-height:16px;padding:3px 9px;position:absolute;border-radius:4px;margin-top:-6px;background:#000;color:#fff;animation:_1tIZttmhLdrIGrB-6VvZcT .5s step-end;z-index:100;white-space:pre-wrap}._3uK2I0hi3JFTKnMUFHD2Pd:after,.HQ2VJViRjokXpRbJzPvvc:after{content:"";position:absolute;top:100%;left:calc(50% - 4px - var(--infoTextTooltip-overflow-left));width:0;height:0;border-top:3px solid #000;border-left:4px solid transparent;border-right:4px solid transparent}._3uK2I0hi3JFTKnMUFHD2Pd{margin-top:6px}._3uK2I0hi3JFTKnMUFHD2Pd:after{border-bottom:3px solid #000;border-top:none;bottom:100%;top:auto} He is drinking the cup in Matthew and Mark; He, the true, but rejected Messiah, the faithful servant, now suffering for sin, who had laboured in grace here below. He was God, and proved it not least in a self-abnegation truly divine. He had told the ten equally to go and show themselves to the priest; and as they went they were cleansed. To serve was the Lord's place: may we prize it! 106. He looked upon the Lord merely as good after a human fashion. Thus we find the desire for cooling of the tongue, which men of speculative mind use to prove that it was the time of being clothed with a real body. I say unto you, In that night, there shall be two men on one bed; and the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. That the setting up of the kingdom of the Messiah would introduce the destruction of the Jewish nation, whom it would find in a deep sleep of security, and drowned in sensuality, as the old world was in the days of Noah, and Sodom in the days of Lot, Luke 17:26; Luke 17:26, c. Observe. inTruthbyGrace No doubt man was guilty beyond measure and without excuse. The death of Jesus is the sole foundation of safety for a sinful man. 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. All was in its season. It is rather the promise of the Spirit's power to act in man that is brought before us. WebLuke 17:34-35.But the decision at the Parousia, what a separation it will be!a separation of those who are in the temporal life united in a perfectly common position. Of all living creatures man requires longest to become able to meet the needs essential for life. The 36th verse Luke 17:36 is, without doubt, an interpolation; see the margin. 4. The final scene comes on apace; and not more surely, according to the word of Christ, the murderous malice of the priests, than the energy of Peter, so fatal, to himself, who could not face the difficulty into which his self-confidence carried him. 3 corporation show themselves to the present portion of our Gospel distant future and the day of his,... 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