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. "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." And they said, Nothing. So take heed to yourselves ( Luke 17:3 ): Be careful that you're not a stumbling stone. Even as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man. While there are certainly true believers in the phenomenon, uses of the Mandela Effect are 17:1-10 Jesus said to his disciples, "It is impossible that snares to sin should not arise; but woe to him through whom they do arise! They are not absolutely dependent on the resurrection. We must again remember that it was the eastern custom to use language in the most vivid possible way. It was better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he was cast into the sea, than he should offend one of these little ones ( Luke 17:2 ). They could not understand Him, no matter how plain the words employed. And the bloody water dove flies away with the blood sprinkling down and the guy is cleansed of his leprosy and he's able to go back into the community. Luke gives us this last also closes, at any rate, with the future crisis; but the main point is the central portion of Luke is to point out the destruction then actually at hand as a distinct state of things and time from the circumstances of the Son of man's day. He was right; and Jesus replies with ineffable grace, and according to that style so worthy of God (compare Psalms 132:1-18), which not only answers the prayer of faith, but invariably surpasses it. So there was. How infinite the blessing! It is an important lesson, and not the first time we find it in Luke, and, indeed, in other Gospels also. Just keep the record clear. 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.". Monday morning was "Back to the grind.". Do you have to forgive him if he doesn't repent? It is described in Matthew 25:31-46. Such is another great point shown out here. And the other verse refers to a slang word! 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. Jesus was the green tree; and if Jesus was so treated, what should be their fate, as set forth fully by that dry tree, which was Israel? On the morrow of the sabbath, very early indeed in the morning, these Galilean women were there, and some others with them. He was really in heart thoroughly rejected already; but He was shortly to enter on other sufferings, even to the death of the cross. But the open adversaries are called into the scene; and as the Lord here pronounces those men His enemies which would not :that He should reign over them, He says, "Bring them hither, and slay them before me." You know, the Bible starts out with 2 naked people Nasb says there will be two in a bed, doesn't specify sex. . 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). Had he really known how good God is he would have soon seen God in Jesus. That judgment is the Goat and Sheep Judgment. 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. "Art thou the Christ?" He lets us know that in that night two should be in one bed; one taken, and the other left. Here are clips of actual Batman comics that mean something completely different now than when they were written. And they lifted up their voices ( Luke 17:13 ). So, in the next scene at Jerusalem, this finds its full display; for the Lord Jesus comes into their midst, and partakes of food before their eyes. When shall we see this long-looked-for kingdom?". Both can't be right, and when you get into a place like that I just find that it's probably best to file it away and say, "Well, I'll just wait for further information. Luke 17:11-19) presented in a very characteristic way, showing that faith does not necessarily wait for a change of dispensation. But He didn't say if you had as much faith as the size of a grain of mustard seed, did He? Two might be ever so closely knit together, but God would discriminate according to the nicety of His own discernment of their state: one should be taken, and the other left. It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea rather than that he should cause one of these little ones to trip up. In Luke 17:34 Jesus says, 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. . Observe more especially this, that here the Lord Jesus brings before us a very direct and immediate picture of the destruction of Jerusalem that was then imminent. The sentence that most people remember is the former, not the later. 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! It will be the same on the day on which the Son of Man is revealed. Claim: In the Star Wars film, "The Empire Strikes Back," Darth Vader says, "Luke, I am your father." This is the main subject with which the parable opens. "Art thou then the Son of God?" They may not obelize or obliterate; but they do not believe them. It was only like 15 years ago that I first heard the word used in a slightly sexual way. They gave them timely notice of what would be in the end of their wicked ways, and that it was not far off. There would be no other way of saving their lives than by quitting the Jews, and, if they thought to save themselves by a coalition with them, they would find themselves mistaken (Luke 17:33; Luke 17:33): "Whosoever shall seek to save his life, by declining from his Christianity and complying with the Jews, he shall lose it with them and perish in the common calamity; but whosoever is willing to venture his life with the Christians, upon the same bottom on which they venture, to take his lot with them in life and in death, he shall preserve his life, for he shall make sure of eternal life, and is in a likelier way at that time to save his life than those who embark in a Jewish bottom, or ensure upon their securities." .LalRrQILNjt65y-p-QlWH{fill:var(--newRedditTheme-actionIcon);height:18px;width:18px}.LalRrQILNjt65y-p-QlWH rect{stroke:var(--newRedditTheme-metaText)}._3J2-xIxxxP9ISzeLWCOUVc{height:18px}.FyLpt0kIWG1bTDWZ8HIL1{margin-top:4px}._2ntJEAiwKXBGvxrJiqxx_2,._1SqBC7PQ5dMOdF0MhPIkA8{vertical-align:middle}._1SqBC7PQ5dMOdF0MhPIkA8{-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;display:-ms-inline-flexbox;display:inline-flex;-ms-flex-direction:row;flex-direction:row;-ms-flex-pack:center;justify-content:center} Such was his habit. Everything was in that order. 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. In like manner, when Jesus Christ shall come to judge the world, at the end of time, sinners will be found in the same secure and careless posture, altogether regardless of the judgment approaching, which will therefore come upon them as a snare; and in like manner the sinners of every age go on securely in their evil ways, and remember not their latter end, nor the account that they must give. It was really the Lord who had deigned to continue with them, and had sustained their faltering steps; but He could say, "Ye are they which have continued with me in my temptations. Luke 19:39-40. Here we have a signal change or converse. "You know not what you ask," saith Christ; "it may come, and you not be aware of it." Have you ever been in the position of trying to generate faith? Here is an example of a great law of life. 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. 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. or 'Look there!' Nothing can be simpler. In fact that's actually the kind of "daily bread" the Lord's Prayer refers to. The best thanks we can give him is to try to deserve his goodness and his mercy a little better. Now in another place He said, "If your faith as a grain of mustard seed you can say to yon mountain be thou removed into the sea and it would happen." It would have been not faith, but presumption, I do not doubt, at such a time, and under such circumstances, for him to have come nigh. Such was man, to whom He had been delivered! ", He said to his disciples, "Days will come when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man and you will not see it. Jesus hears this tale of sorrow from their lips, brings out the state of their hearts, and then opens the Scriptures, instead of merely appealing to the facts in the way of evidence. It was so during His life and public ministry (and hence it figures in Mark so prominently). I wonder if the "two people" really represent our bi-polar nature? So your brother trespass against you, rebuke him, and say, "Hey, that isn't right, you shouldn't have done that." Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it would obey you ( Luke 17:6 ). It's not just that, but virtually all Bibles are no longer what they once were until fairly recently, that is. The Rabbis had a saying that if one forgave another three times, one was a perfect man. Two shall be in the field; one shall be taken, the other left. Some of those changes are so in your face it's absolutely absurd. 27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. In the present case, the cleansed Samaritan in going to Jesus was very simply under grace, in the spirit that animated his heart and formed his path, as Luke the evangelist here records. Faith does not destroy; it has no such commission: angels will have that province another day. Accordingly, after this was duly reported to the apostles and the rest, one like another incredulous, we have the visit of Peter (accompanied, as John lets us know, by himself), who sees confirmation enough, and departed, wondering, in himself at that which was come to pass. In Luke 20:1-47 we have the various classes of religionists and worldly men trooping one after another, hoping somehow to ensnare or accuse the Lord of glory. 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. It was the power of faith leaving Judaism to itself, mounting in Jesus to the source of both law and grace, but not putting the legal system down. Then they will wish to see such days of opportunity as they have formerly enjoyed, sabbath days, sacrament days, preaching days, praying days; these are days of the Son of man, in which we hear from him, and converse with him. Observe, that he who exemplifies this action of divine grace was one that knew not traditional religion as the others did, that had no great privileges to boast of in comparison with the rest. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17). One only, seeing he was cleansed, turns back, and with a loud voice glorified God. "Within you" is a poor translation here. You can't live your life without having stumbling stones placed in your path, but woe to the person who put the stumbling stone there. 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." He's gonna take one of these big ole millstones, and I've seen them the size of the pulpit here, tie it around the guy's neck and toss him in the Sea of Galilee. Luke 23:54-56.) So He closes this matter. Jesus told them that since he was the Messiah and was living among them, the Messiahs kingdom had already begun (Luke 17:20-21; cf. Jeremiah 9:23-24. Comes back again before the priest, and he looks over him again, and there's no new eruptions or blotches then the man is proclaimed cleaned by the priest. I've only done that which was my duty to do. "There was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted greatest." Boneheaded meant that a person's thick skull had no brains, or so their actions would suggest. It was their reluctance to receive what Jesus taught that made the difficulty; and it is the same thing still with believers, as with others. Other evangelists, as well as Luke, mention that, when He was in the midst of His miracles and teaching, they were full of their unseemly rivalry; Luke mentions it where it was beyond comparison most painful and humiliating in presence of the communion of His body and His blood, and when they had just heard of the presence of the traitor in their midst, who was offering to sell their Master for thirty pieces of silver! 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. The idea of sudden destruction resulting in judgment runs through the entire passage. The Mandela Effect is when a large group of people share a common memory of something that differs from what is generally accepted to be fact. This closes the direct teaching here addressed to His followers (Verses Luke 17:1-10.). 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. The time may come when we may in vain wish for such days. The Mandela Effect refers to a situation in which a large mass of people believes that an event occurred when it did not. 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