Days   Luke 17:20-37

This post concerns what Jesus instructed about days.

‘Days’ discusses the coming of the physical kingdom of God and the day designating the end of the world, Luke 17:20-21. “…asked by Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come… “The kingdom… not coming in ways…  observed. …the kingdom …in the midst of you.”

This means that no one could see the physical appearance of the kingdom of God. It would exist in the hearts of people.

Then He spoke to the disciples, Luke 17:22-24. “The days… coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. And they will say to you, ‘Look, there!’ or ‘Look, here!’…

…Do not go out or follow them. For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man… in his day. But first he must suffer many things and… rejected by this generation.”

These verses explain the future. People would say that Jesus returned. Don’t believe them. When Jesus returns, everyone will see it like lightning. But before that occurs, rejection and suffering of Jesus will happen.

Then, Jesus explained life would go on like in the days of Noah and Lot. But on the day of the Lord, destruction would come like lightning, observable by everyone.

The Apostle Paul described the judgment day, 1 Thessalonians 4:17. “Then we… alive, who are left, …caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air,”

This fits what Jesus said, Luke 17:34. “…, in that night… two in one bed. One will…taken and the other left… two women grinding together. One …taken and the other left.”  The Lord will lift the saved from the earth and leave the lost for destruction.

The disciples asked, “Where?” So, Jesus described the lost as dead bodies, Luke 17:37. “…Where the corpse… the vultures will gather.”

So, what did we learn?

1.The physical kingdom of God will not come with observable signs.

2.Lightning will signify the end of the world to everyone.

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