Christ's return

Good morning friends,
Jesus continues his discussion about his return and the completion of God's kingdom in our reading for today. He uses two biblical examples of sudden disaster from God to emphasize that his return will be sudden and dramatic. We don't know when God's kingdom will come in power; elsewhere in the Gospels Jesus says even he doesn't know. We do know what God wants from us in the meantime: love God and love our neighbors, work for justice and proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ to invite others into the joy of Christian fellowship. I'd say we have plenty to keep us occupied until the kingdom comes. The word this passage has for us is, watch and prepare because God will come suddenly. Amen, come Lord Jesus.

God bless,
Sam

Luke 17:26-37

26Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man. 27They were eating and drinking, and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed all of them. 28Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, 29but on the day that Lot left Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from heaven and destroyed all of them 30—it will be like that on the day that the Son of Man is revealed.


31On that day, anyone on the housetop who has belongings in the house must not come down to take them away; and likewise anyone in the field must not turn back. 32Remember Lot’s wife. 33Those who try to make their life secure will lose it, but those who lose their life will keep it. 34I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. 35There will be two women grinding meal together; one will be taken and the other left.” 37Then they asked him, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.”