Now does he thank that servant because he did those things which were commanded him? 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? "And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations." de Lectis Veter. The term was coined by writer Fiona Broome, who discovered that she and others distinctly remembered Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s, when in fact he survived and went on to become South Africas first black president. In the same way, so it was in the days of Lot. The 36th verse Luke 17:36 is, without doubt, an interpolation; see the margin. Luke 23:54-56.) 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. 37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? (VersesLuke 23:44-46; Luke 23:44-46. "You know not what you ask," saith Christ; "it may come, and you not be aware of it." Go show yourself to the priest." WATCH VIDEO PLAY TRIVIA. That simply meant that a thing would happen when the necessary conditions were fulfilled. God teaches us to know the worth of such mercies by the want of them. And they shall say unto you, Look it's here; look it's there: now don't go after them, or follow them. The Jews having made themselves a dead and putrefied carcase, odious to God's holiness and obnoxious to his justice, wherever any of that unbelieving generation is, the judgments of God shall fasten upon them, as the eagles do upon the prey: Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies (Psalms 21:8), though they set their nests among the stars,Obadiah 1:4. The utmost which can or ought to be allowed is, that if the context so required, it might bear the translation (a paraphrase rather) of coming nigh; but this case demands the very reverse. I wish I could, I wish I did, but I don't. Luke 22:63-65.) Though Scripture was perfectly expounded by Jesus, and though hearts burned as they heard of these wondrous things, still it must be shown in concentrated form that the knowledge which alone can be commended by God or trusted by man is this Jesus known in that which brings His death before the soul. As to the first verse, 10 or 15 years ago there was a book that suggested Lincoln was gay. ._1LHxa-yaHJwrPK8kuyv_Y4{width:100%}._1LHxa-yaHJwrPK8kuyv_Y4:hover ._31L3r0EWsU0weoMZvEJcUA{display:none}._1LHxa-yaHJwrPK8kuyv_Y4 ._31L3r0EWsU0weoMZvEJcUA,._1LHxa-yaHJwrPK8kuyv_Y4:hover ._11Zy7Yp4S1ZArNqhUQ0jZW{display:block}._1LHxa-yaHJwrPK8kuyv_Y4 ._11Zy7Yp4S1ZArNqhUQ0jZW{display:none} 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. Against the holy servant Jesus whom God had anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, were gathering together; but was it not to do whatsoever God's hand and God's counsel determined before to be done? ( Luke 17:7-9 ). Never was any thing but reality in Jesus; but if in the days of His flesh there was one passage more affecting than another, any thing which more than another presents to us His sorrows clearly, graphically and with solemn instruction for us, anything for God Himself above all glorifying (the cross alone excepted) it was this very scene where Jesus avoids and wards off no suffering, but bends to every stroke, (and what was He spared?) For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under. Verse Luke 17:34-36. (VersesLuke 18:9-14; Luke 18:9-14.). Everyone knows the passage or at least the part of it where it says "and the lion shall lay down with the lamb." We have, further, the moral condition of man illustrated in two ways a broken spirit with little light but a real sense of sin, and another soul satisfied with itself in the presence of God. (2.) The seal of the Holy Ghost is unknown until there is the submission of faith to the death of Jesus. The Mandela Effect is a phenomenon that makes us question even the most mundane memories from the past. The difficulty existed for, or rather was made by, unbelief only. They were all wrong therefore, in looking for the kingdom of God immediately to appear. Sexy dancing was called "bump and grind.". Jeremiah 9:23-24. He will avenge them speedily. But, as usual, with men without the revealed light of God, though conscious when sin is done that there is something utterly wrong it is soon forgotten; so here, though not without the sense that the case was desperate, they go not only as sheep without a shepherd, but stumble in the dark night. It is not here, therefore, One speaking in the sense of God's abandonment (as we saw in Matthew and Mark), though this cup He had, indeed, drank to the dregs. I think "grind" has had sexual connotations only in the last 15 or 10 years. Luke, on the contrary, says nothing of Galilee at this point. Not only is God not the God of the dead, but of the living; but "all live unto him." There are all kinds of passages that have been dramatically changed and dare I say it quite "wickedly" and even "perversely" corrupted in terms of their purpose, sense, and meaning, with still more being discovered each and every day. That means for us that God will bring Jesus Christ again in his good time. [2.] Now doesn't say they were cleansed immediately, but as they went they were cleansed. ( Psalms 103:2. "When they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them. For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. 25 But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation. Luke 17:11-19) presented in a very characteristic way, showing that faith does not necessarily wait for a change of dispensation. After all, you might be startled when you find that the real quote is No, I am your dad.. But as to the cup before them, He says, "I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come." I take it to be a token of great good that, as in early days, the person of Christ was not only the fiercest battleground and prime object of the final struggle of the apostles on the earth, but was the means whereby the Spirit of God wrought to give a deeper and deepening enjoyment of the truth and grace of God more profoundly searching, no doubt, but at the same time more invigorating for the saints), so no otherwise, unless I be greatly mistaken, is it now. Jesus is dead and risen, and so must be known, if He is to be known aright. 10 million Ukrainians without power because of Russia. On the other hand, there is the hatred of man, the weakness of the disciples, the falsehood of Peter, the treachery of Judas, the subtlety and terrors of the enemy who had the power of death. His resurrection did not terminate their path of rejection. Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it would obey you ( Luke 17:6 ). A scribe probably inserted Luke 17:36 (cf. We are not quite sure what Jesus went on to say. It is only Luke who gives us this touch. But that is not a true translation of the Greek aetos, which is eagles. (Luke 22:14-16.) "Art thou then the Son of God?" He said to them, "Where the body is, there the vultures will be gathered together.". There was a sense of grace, as well as of sin, and sensitiveness about God's will. Here we have a signal change or converse. Though all the rest of His teaching might have taught them better, they took His words in a material sense, and conceived that He urged them to take a literal sword. In the gospel of Matthew, we find that Jesus was also discussing His second coming just before Matthew 24:40. Materialism always is essentially infidel, though far from being, the only form of infidelity. 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. Luke 18:15-17). The reason seems to me manifest. In Matthew the point appears to be the rejection of Jerusalem, the rejecter, because of its Messiah, the discipular remnant starting from the mountain in Galilee; and the presence of the Lord being guaranteed till the end of the age, when other changes come. Romaine has his place in the body. It is the well-known transition, we see everywhere, on the rejection of the Messiah. It is evident, whether you go into a place or whether you come out of it, you are equally nigh on one side of the town or on the other. For itself it discovers the blessedness of freedom from the law, yet is not lawless to God, but, on the contrary, legitimately bound ( ) to Christ, really and duly subject to Him, and so much the more because not under law. "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is shed for you.". 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. "Shall we pray. "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." It may be possible to satisfy the claims of law; but every lover knows that nothing can ever satisfy the claims of love. ._3K2ydhts9_ES4s9UpcXqBi{display:block;padding:0 16px;width:100%} And so the Lord said, If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed ( Luke 17:6 ). He feels all man did and said, and owns His Father. Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. The evil is not merely his sins, but his religion: nothing more blinding to himself and other men, nothing more dishonouring to God. He was never in a pattern. This flight of theirs from Jerusalem must be expeditious, and must not be retarded by any concern about their worldly affairs (Luke 17:31; Luke 17:31): "He that shall be on the house-top, when the alarm is given, let him not come down, to take his stuff away, both because he cannot spare so much time, and because the carrying away of his effects will but encumber him and retard his flight." In Luke we have not the charge of the work committed to the workmen, as in Mark, with signatures of God's gracious power accompanying; but here it is the message of a Saviour dead and risen, the Second Man, according to Scripture, and the moral need of man and the grace of God, who proclaims in His name repentance and remission to all the nations or Gentiles. It seeks what belongs not to nature, but to God. It was meet it should be so. The same can be said of all religious texts, cults, governments, militaries, and so on and so forth. It is intelligible that those who know should judge; not so, as it appears to me, that people should take the place of judging who confessedly do not know. Even in this case, where the effect was produced rapidly, the Spirit of God has given us the great moral traits of it. All then becomes right: he is brought into the light of God; he sees light in God's light. Who could longer doubt that it was really the same Jesus who died, and will yet come in glory? We find them afterwards using miracles; but it was for others. Therefore, the convicted publican is found outside, beating his breast, and standing at a distance, not so much as looking up. Out of this difficult passage we can pick only the things which are certain--and in truth they are enough. It is always thus in grace. Have you ever been in the position of trying to generate faith? This alone brings to God in spirit (as it did really by the cross of Christ). I was not aware until I read this post that grind was completely sexual now. "Art thou the Christ?" "Now," say the Pharisees, "when will that glorious view open? What I really find most worrisome about all this is that if an irreplaceable reference work and resource like the Bible can be rendered unreliable, untrustworthy, and impotent for the average person, then so too can any and all others they now have free and open access to. Such is the invariable method of God in dealing with a sinful world, where He brings in, not a test of man, but the effectual work of His own grace. What does the verse mean? Then we have the hearers and disciples disclosing their thoughts. The natural light disappeared, and Judaism vanished, that a new and true light might shine, making him who saw it free of the holiest of all. The godly remnant of the Jews must know the rejected Messiah there. He loved his natural position; he loved to be a ruler, though a young one; he loved his possessions; he loved what he had of present advantages in the world. Didn't matter what they were grinding, one would be taken and one not. Still farther to show its character, and His unimpeachable relation to God, as well as how really He was a suffering man, "there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. The Mandela Effect refers to a situation in which a large mass of people believes that an event occurred when it did not. The unfaithful servant is not called an enemy, though, no doubt, he was no friend of the Son, and dealt with righteously. I have little doubt that in this case the reason for putting the blind man here rather than in leaving, the town was, that for Jericho He reserved the wonderful call of Zaccheus, with the object of bringing that tale of grace, characteristic of His first-advent, into juxtaposition with the question and parable of the kingdom, which illustrated His second advent; for immediately afterwards we have His correction of the disciples, thoughts, that the kingdom of God was immediately going to appear; because He was going up to Jerusalem. That now reads "and the wolf shall dwell with the lamb". I trow not. (2.) The Pharisees were looking for visible signs so that they could work out when the Messiahs kingdom would begin. I'm a servant. My attitude after I come in from serving the Lord, and the Lord gives me another task to do, and I'm so tired I feel oh I can't move. Let them not look back, lest they should be tempted to go back; nay, lest that be construed a going back in heart, or an evidence that the heart was left behind. "Then they shall begin to say to the mountains fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us. (Ver. Faith invariably discovers the way to give glory to God. And the apostles, no doubt, felt the same thing, because when Jesus said this, they said, "Oh,". In verse 35 we enter on the closing section of all the historical Gospels, as is well known, that is to say, the entrance into Jerusalem from Jericho. Is Matthew 24:30-31 about the rapture or second coming. Note, It is the folly of many curious enquirers concerning the times to come that they look for that before them which is already among them. We had some people come to Calvary a while back looking for my wife; they thought her name was Romaine, because of the reference that I have made to Romaine from time to time. Thus Jesus sets forth the Only way in which He can be rightly known, or that can be confided in. Also, there was a 1970s song, "I just died in your arms tonight." And he fell down on his face at Jesus' feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan ( Luke 17:15-16 ). 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." And they said, Nothing. Ego and soul? is not he that sitteth at meat? Not necessarily two separate people as we've always believed? Do you have to forgive him if he doesn't repent? And although not a few, who then seemed strong and courageous enough, are gone to the winds (and a similar sifting still goes on, and will to the end), yet sure am I that in the midst of all these troubles and humiliations God has been elevating the standard of Christ for those who are firm and faithful. 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