it's . 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? https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ezekial+23&version=NIV. They were blind. The priest kills the dove, pours the blood in water basin, he takes the other dove and dips it in this bloody water and turns it free. But it is the written word which, as the apostle himself shows, is the sole adequate safeguard for the perilous times of the last days. The point of these examples is that when Jesus returns He will separate people, even those who are intimate companions. And so our Lord breaks bread with the disciples. He had told the ten equally to go and show themselves to the priest; and as they went they were cleansed. Faith is a gift of God. "Take heed to yourselves. If some run on heedless and headlong into destruction, that shall be no prejudice to the salvation of those that believe. There are those who see that as the body of Jesus Christ, wherever the body of Christ is there will the eagles, His victorious saints, be gathered together. Repentance, so far from allowing it, is the perception and confession that there is no good in man, in me; it is wrought by grace, and is inseparable from faith. I tell you, in that night,. Of affliction and calamity, that shall be upon the Jewish nation, and which is before called that day, Luke 17:31 and therefore is not to be understood literally of the night: there shall be two [men] in one bed; this is said agreeably to the time, the night before mentioned, that being the time to be in bed, at rest and asleep; for they that sleep, sleep in the night; and still suggests the security the people of the Jews would be in, at the time of their destruction. And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer: for I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God." (Ver. The Greek word duo simply means two two of anything. (Ver. seeing God's hand in all. Now their hour was come, and the power of darkness. Protecting The Most Valuable Treasure On Earth. And the other verse refers to a slang word! WebLuke 17:34 | New Living Translation (NLT) [ 34 ] That night two people will be asleep in one bed; one will be taken, the other left. Darth Vader famously says, Luke, I am your father, in Star Wars: Episode VThe Empire Strikes Back. After He has defeated the nations of the world who attempted to annihilate Israel, He will judge everyone who survived Armageddon. It is the ever perfect man, Christ Jesus, with unwavering confidence committing His spirit into His Father's keeping. It was Simon that furnished the material. shall the Son of man be sitting on the right hand of the power of God. Evidently there was more than righteousness here. The one shall be taken; by the Roman soldiers: and the other shall be left; being, by one providence or another preserved; which is mentioned, to show the distinction God will make in his providence, and to encourage believers to trust in it. No doubt man was guilty beyond measure and without excuse. A Definitive Study of the Rapture of the Church, pp. Now does he thank that servant because he did those things which were commanded him? Who could longer doubt that it was really the same Jesus who died, and will yet come in glory? But it is much to believe it to be what it really is, not (as unbelief thinks) a field of darkness and uncertainty, requiring light upon it, but a light itself, which communicates light to the dark, through the power of the Holy Ghost revealing Christ. (iii) Luke 17:5-6 tell us that faith is the greatest force in the world. But misery had made common brothers of these men. /*# sourceMappingURL=https://www.redditstatic.com/desktop2x/chunkCSS/TopicLinksContainer.3b33fc17a17cec1345d4_.css.map*/About the 1990s poker players would call someone who ground out a living on the poker circuit a "grinder." Not that the Pharisee represents a man who denies God, or who is not a religious man. Nor is this out of keeping with the tenor of Luke's Gospel, as, indeed, it is only here that we have the story at all. Hence our Lord expounds to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself. He goes boldly to Pilate, and begs the body of Jesus, Which, being obtained, is worthily laid in the rock-hewn sepulchre, wherein never had man beenlaid. Not to be looking for glory, not to be looking for thanks, not to be looking for pats on the back.They tell me that I'm a difficult one to work for. He wanted us to just be free to the working of God in different ways. The power that belongs to and comes out from God is but a small thing, in comparison with the knowledge of God Himself. There was His body; it was risen. (Verses Luke 20:27-38.) You say, "Oop, oh wait a minute." For--look you--the kingdom of God is within you. . "Simon, Simon," says the Lord, "Satan hath desired [demanded] to have you, that he may sift you as wheat; but I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren." It is rather the promise of the Spirit's power to act in man that is brought before us. Further, we know that just as Matthew, for his design, so he displaces facts historically for the purpose of giving a more forcible moral picture of the truth in hand. The Mandela Effect is a phenomenon that makes us question even the most mundane memories from the past. The new covenant (or, rather, the blood of the rejected Christ, the Son of man, on which it was based) refused such narrow barriers. One reason was that in a letter he mentioned sleeping in the same bed with another guy. Two shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, the other left. Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. Work in our lives, Lord. The kingdom of the Messiah is not to have one particular place for its metropolis, such as Jerusalem was to the Jewish church, to which all Jews were to resort; but, wherever the body is, wherever the gospel is preached and ordinances are ministered, thither will pious souls resort, there they will find Christ, and by faith feast upon him. 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. But if you had faith as a grain of mustard seed. This is not the question here, but rather the reality of the resurrection, and the identity of Jesus risen with Him they had known as their Master, and withal as still man, not a spirit, but having flesh and bones, and capable of eating with them. (Verses Luke 24:9-12. 5. According to Cleveland Health, the Mandela Effect is when a group of people misremember an event or detail that never occurred or For as a snare shall it come upon all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth." What was the result? 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. These are events that will take place after the Second Coming of Christ. Therefore He that was (and not merely had) life, as no one else, weeps in the presence of death, groaning, in spirit at the grave. What does the verse mean? His visit to the temple and its cleansing are mentioned summarily; as also His teaching there daily the chiefs of priest and people, With their desire to destroy Him but hardly knowing how, for all the people hung on Him to hear. 37, 38.) The Lord grant that even these our studies of the Gospels, which have been necessarily curt and cursory, may nevertheless give an impulse not only to younger saints, but to those who may be ever so old; for assuredly there is no one, whatever may be his maturity, who will not be all the better for a fuller acquaintance with Him who is from the beginning. However, in Matthew, Galilee is the sign for a converted Jewish remnant till He come to reign in power and glory. He judged himself truly, and, therefore, was in a moral condition to see other things aright, as God should bring them before him. Wherever there is that which is dead, and consequently offensive morally unto God, there unquestionably will His judgments fall. And I'm about fall asleep driving home. 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? Such is another great point shown out here. Therefore the apostles, feeling the great difficulty, as indeed it is impossible to nature so to walk, ask of the Lord to increase their faith. People will be going on with business as usual, eating, drinking, marrying wives, buying, selling, planting, building; business as usual. The other Gospels positively tell us it was as He went out. The Mandela Effect is a term coined by Fiona Broome in 2009. On the morrow of the sabbath, very early indeed in the morning, these Galilean women were there, and some others with them. Press J to jump to the feed. The flood came, and destroyed all the sinners of the old world; fire and brimstone came, and destroyed all the sinners of Sodom. Such was ever His way. What they justly sang at the birth of Jesus was, "Peace on earth: good will that is, God's good will in men," ushered in by glory to God in the highest. It is possible that offences will come; but woe to him through whom they come! Okay, so this one is weird for me, because I don't remember this being worded this way and it seems like an intentional change to fit with these odd changes in the world. 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. Two men in shining array stood by these perplexed saints. Weren't there ten that were cleansed? But forget not the warning. A longer explanation for the disciples 17:22-37. But if they do repent, then you . Thus Jesus sets forth the Only way in which He can be rightly known, or that can be confided in. Matthew 24:40). 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. ._2ik4YxCeEmPotQkDrf9tT5{width:100%}._1DR1r7cWVoK2RVj_pKKyPF,._2ik4YxCeEmPotQkDrf9tT5{display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center}._1DR1r7cWVoK2RVj_pKKyPF{-ms-flex-pack:center;justify-content:center;max-width:100%}._1CVe5UNoFFPNZQdcj1E7qb{-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0;margin-right:4px}._2UOVKq8AASb4UjcU1wrCil{height:28px;width:28px;margin-top:6px}.FB0XngPKpgt3Ui354TbYQ{display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-ms-flex-align:start;align-items:flex-start;-ms-flex-direction:column;flex-direction:column;margin-left:8px;min-width:0}._3tIyrJzJQoNhuwDSYG5PGy{display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;width:100%}.TIveY2GD5UQpMI7hBO69I{font-size:12px;font-weight:500;line-height:16px;color:var(--newRedditTheme-titleText);white-space:nowrap;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis}.e9ybGKB-qvCqbOOAHfFpF{display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;width:100%;max-width:100%;margin-top:2px}.y3jF8D--GYQUXbjpSOL5.y3jF8D--GYQUXbjpSOL5{font-weight:400;box-sizing:border-box}._28u73JpPTG4y_Vu5Qute7n{margin-left:4px} It refers to a situation in which a large group of people believe that an even occurred when it actually The consistency of this with all we have seen in Luke, from first to last, is unquestionable: Son of God of the Highest, as of David also; but He is emphatically, and in every detail, the Son of man. Be careful that you don't stumble your brother. 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. It does not become such as say they do not understand this or that, to take the place of being judges. For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under. And he was a Samaritan. Hence he lets nothing stand in the way. 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. "Yes, I forgive you." He takes the same place now after His death and resurrection, there resuming relations with His disciples. Say, I'm an unprofitable servant. They part His raiment, and cast lots for it. But the words here are no expression of His suffering, as thus abandoned and atoning, but of the peaceful departure of His spirit, as man, into the hands of God the Father. A rejected Messiah, fitly and according to prophecy, finds Himself in Galilee, the despised place. They could not understand Him, no matter how plain the words employed. Faith does not destroy; it has no such commission: angels will have that province another day. (Verses Luke 21:5-36.) And we think of it in quantity or in size. He's looking for that response, and He misses it when He is . The mind will be clear, if the conscience and the heart be set right. He led them out, then, as far as Bethany, the retreat of the Saviour, to which His heart turned in the days of His flesh. .FIYolDqalszTnjjNfThfT{max-width:256px;white-space:normal;text-align:center} what a pattern! Undoubtedly Israel ought to have been the green tree of promise; but it was only a dry tree waiting, for judgment. He told them at last what it was. How is He to be known? 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. they said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us. For they were eating, they were drinking, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. "The children of this world [age] marry, and are given in marriage; but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world [age], and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage, neither can they die any more; for they are equal unto the angels." ), Then, as He entered Jericho, Zaccheus, the chief of the tax-gatherers, was mightily stirred with the desire to see this wondrous man, the Son of man. It was a spot that used to be most precious to Him, and, observe it well, was not less precious to Him after He rose from the dead. /*# sourceMappingURL=https://www.redditstatic.com/desktop2x/chunkCSS/IdCard.ea0ac1df4e6491a16d39_.css.map*/._2JU2WQDzn5pAlpxqChbxr7{height:16px;margin-right:8px;width:16px}._3E45je-29yDjfFqFcLCXyH{margin-top:16px}._13YtS_rCnVZG1ns2xaCalg{font-family:Noto Sans,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:400;line-height:18px;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex}._1m5fPZN4q3vKVg9SgU43u2{margin-top:12px}._17A-IdW3j1_fI_pN-8tMV-{display:inline-block;margin-bottom:8px;margin-right:5px}._5MIPBF8A9vXwwXFumpGqY{border-radius:20px;font-size:12px;font-weight:500;letter-spacing:0;line-height:16px;padding:3px 10px;text-transform:none}._5MIPBF8A9vXwwXFumpGqY:focus{outline:unset} It may even be according to men's ideas of a hero, but it is not the truth of Christ. Man was not good God only. Next is set forth humility, founded on our littleness (ver. At any rate the scorning of Jesus proceeds; and Pilate, carried away against his conscience by the will of the people, gave sentence that it should be as they required. "And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and be led away captive into all nations." [5.] Sexy dancing was called "bump and grind.". If, on that day, anyone is on the housetop, and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them. . And so, that same hour, we see the disciples returning to Jerusalem, and finding the eleven there, who say, "The Lord hath risen, and appeared unto Simon." We are not quite sure what Jesus went on to say. This he had never suspected in himself before. 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. 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. But here we may pause for a moment; for there are special and profoundly instructive touches peculiar to Luke. One will be taken and the other will be left. 6. Whoever seeks to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. "When I was a lad," he said, "I often played on a wide common. Temptation may come and test the heart; but our entering into it is quite another thing. Of course, they are not excluded from but exhorted to, the looking up to God, and using faithfully whatever means the Lord gave them. We find them afterwards using miracles; but it was for others. If flood surges over a piece of country and the wild animals congregate for safety on some little bit of higher ground, you will find standing peacefully together animals who are natural enemies and who at any other time would do their best to kill each other. He was coming in the way, not of the power that once overthrew Jericho, but of grace that showed and could meet the real condition of Israel. It is not of this world, John 18:36. It imagines difficulties, and nowhere so much as in the most certain truth of God. There are going to be people who will seek to put stumbling stones in your path. He who humbled Himself as man in suffering is exalted as man to the glory of God on high. In their earlier mission it was never needed. But he will need to learn to light a candle of patience and wait. "Glory in the highest" is the result, not the introduction; and instead of "peace on earth," (which will, no doubt, be the fruit by and by, as it is according to God's mind, the anticipation from the beginning,) the disciples meanwhile and most appropriately, sing, "Peace in heaven." There shall be two women grinding together; Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 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. "They began to enquire among themselves which of them it was that should do this thing." What had He not given up, and for whom? The whole verse is wanting in - ABEGHKLQS, more than fifty others, the Coptic, AEthiopic, Gothic, Slavonic, and many of the fathers: Griesbach has left it out of the text. 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. Such is the true language and feeling for a disciple's heart. Luke 17:34 (NKJV). The body consciousness and the spirit consciousness that we all have? Christ will not come with all this talk; it will not be set up in this or that particular place; nor will the court of that kingdom be here or there; nor will it be here or there as it respects the country men are of, or the place they dwell in, as if that would place them nearer to, or further from, that kingdom. The patronizing, of the lordly benefactor has no place in Christ's mind for His followers. Now, had the story of the blind man healed at Jericho been left for its historical place, it would have cut the thread of these two circumstances. "He fell down on his face at his feet, giving him thanks: and he was a Samaritan. We have done what it was our duty to do.'". Where are the nine? How perfect it all is! It could not but be. 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. In the field of psychology, the term "false memory" is applied to anything that a person remembers The kingdom of heaven when it comes, it'll be as in the days of Noah. And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come ( Luke 17:20 ). I'm stunned!!! I know it is a failing of mine, because my wife isn't my servant. But along with this we have also prayer (Luke 18:1-43), not merely as suitable to a soul's need, and in connection with the word of God received from Jesus, which we have seen in Luke 11:1-54. 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. While there are certainly true believers in the phenomenon, uses of the Mandela Effect are Luke 22:63-65.) It is humility founded upon the sense of unworthiness, which is always right as far as it goes. And Jesus said unto him, Were there not ten who were cleansed? I haven't yet because at this moment, I don't believe you. And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven." When Christ comes to destroy the Jewish nation, by the Roman armies, the generality of that nation will be found under such a reigning security and stupidity as this. 23 And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them. It was not the point with Luke to say "for many," while this was most appropriate in the Gospel of Matthew, because it intimates the extending of the efficacy of Christ's blood beyond the Jew. So you can see that the two interpretations are exactly opposite. Just keep the record clear. Luke 22:23; Luke 22:23.) The pretence of commentators, who rush to hyperbole as a cover for their misapplication, is cut off. There was honesty in these hearts; but what ignorance! Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains." Had they not heard His words? He so counted on His grace, that no doubt or question remained, and he asks to be remembered by Jesus at His advent, ascribing the kingdom to Him who was hanging on the cross. Surely also we ought to feel it, instead of merely treating it as a thing, that must be, and which Scripture prepares us for, or which God's goodness turns to gracious ends. (Compare Psalms 16:1-11; Psalms 31:1-24) It was the atoning One. LAWS OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE ( Luke 17:1-10 ). Umm Wat? It is not a question of signs, wonders, or outward show. 37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? No blow fell upon them. Everyone knows the passage or at least the part of it where it says "and the lion shall lay down with the lamb." Now it is glorious when God plants that faith in your heart, but if He doesn't I don't know what you can do about it. It could not be. The consequence is, that, treating the Lord as a froward man, he finds Him froward. The resurrection is the great truth to which all things turn which the Lord has shown in its final form, too, in His own person now raised from the dead, then just about to follow. He saw God His Father above and behind all the secondary instruments, and bowed and blessed, even while He prayed with blood-sweat. According to the Lord's word, the place was given. c. 15. p. 90, 91. Therefore the evangelist of the ministry of Jesus draws attention to the place in which He had ministered most Galilee; but even he does not speak of it exclusively. WebMANDELA EFFECT SCRIPTURE CHANGES Part One: John 10:10 Revelation 9:1 Revelation 9:11 Luke 4:8 16 May 2021 MANDELA EFFECT - Part Four with PULSE: Exodus 34:12-13 Jeremiah 7:18 Jeremiah 44:19 Ezekiel 8:14-15 Luke 1:19 Psalm 46:1 Proverbs 16:4 03 July 2016 MANDELA EFFECT - Part Three: Psalm 119:89 Psalm 12:6-7 Matthew 24:35 And He's talking to them a little about what a servant . This was the sole warrant and ground. Anything short of this, anything other than this, whatever supplants it as fundamental truth, is false.