Luke 17:30-37

Rachel Workman: 30 Yes, it will be ‘business as usual’ right up to the day when the Son of Man is revealed. 31 On that day a person out on the deck of a roof must not go down into the house to pack. A person out in the field must not return home. 32 Remember what happened to Lot’s wife! 33 If you cling to your life, you will lose it, and if you let your life go, you will save it. 34 That night two people will be asleep in one bed; one will be taken, the other left. 35 Two women will be grinding flour together at the mill; one will be taken, the other left.[i]” I think one of the hardest things for us as a human. We want to cling to his life. The first thing is we were designed that way. In the end we want to live. Secondly, this is what we know. Everything we love in this life is here. If I put myself in Lott's wife shoes would I look back? Maybe, I think it depends on a lot of things. And that is the wrong answer.

37 “Where will this happen, Lord?”[j] the disciples asked.

Jesus replied, “Just as the gathering of vultures shows there is a carcass nearby, so these signs indicate that the end is near.”[k]

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John Burnett:  ²⁶ And just as it happened in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: ²⁷ they were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. ^28 [r]It was the same as happened in the days of Lot: they were eating, they were drinking, they were buying, they were selling, they were planting, they were building; ²⁹ but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and ^[s]brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. ³⁰ It will be ^[t]just the same on the day that the Son of Man is revealed. ³¹ On that day, the one who is on the housetop and whose goods are in the house must not go down to take them out; and likewise the one who is in the field must not turn back. ³² Remember Lot’s wife.³³ Whoever seeks to keep his ^[u]life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. ³⁴ I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other will be left. ³⁵ There will be two women grinding at the same place; one will be taken and the other will be left.³⁶ [^[v]Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other will be left.”] ³⁷ And answering they *said to Him, “Where, Lord?” And He said to them, “Where the body is, there also the ^[w]vultures will be gathered.”  Verse 26 states “…so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man.”  The days of the Son of Man is plural meaning there are more than one day being discussed.  Some believe the verses 26 through 32 are referring to Christ’s return where he exacts His perfect judgement on the earth and He compares it to the judgement of Noah’s and Lot’s day.  Verse 33 starts discussion of another day where those who die to self and repent and put their trust in Jesus will be taken up which is referring to the rapture.  

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Tomorrow’s reading for Luke 18:1-5

One day Jesus told his disciples a story to show that they should always pray and never give up. ² “There was a judge in a certain city,” he said, “who neither feared God nor cared about people. ³ A widow of that city came to him repeatedly, saying, ‘Give me justice in this dispute with my enemy.’ ⁴ The judge ignored her for a while, but finally he said to himself, ‘I don’t fear God or care about people, ⁵ but this woman is driving me crazy. I’m going to see that she gets justice, because she is wearing me out with her constant requests!’