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In Christ, Mark
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The scriptures. May God bless the reading of His holy
word.
“I tell you, on that
night two people will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. Two
women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.”
Luke 17:34-36
This ends
today’s reading from God's holy word. Thanks be to God.
Picture these scenes.
A person is in line at
the post office with a box they need to mail to a family member. There is
another person behind them who told the post office customer service agent they
were there to buy stamps. There is one other person behind them and they are
there to rent a post office box to receive mail. All of the people are there
for the same reason. They need a service the postal service provides.
All of a sudden, there
is a deafening sound and a brilliant flash of light that comes from outside the
post office. In the blink of an eye, the first and third person in line
disappear and the person who needed stamps is the only one left in line,
standing there wondering what happened to the others as well as the post office
customer service agent who is also gone. The person wonders out loud:
“Where did they go?”
Across town from the
post office at the time of the thundering sound and bright lightning like flash
across the sky, two cars were driving down a street. Both had different
destinations they were heading to but they shared the same street. That was
what they had in common but as soon as the blinding bright light consumed the
sky, the lead car veered swiftly to the right and crashed. The trailing car
quickly pulled over and the driver ran to the damaged vehicle only to see that
there was no driver. The air bag had deployed during the crash but the person
at the wheel was nowhere to be found, leaving the witness to ask them self:
“Where did they go?”
I could go on and paint
countless numbers of similar scenarios about what will take place when Jesus
returns and I’m not simply hypothesizing what might happen. This isn’t something
dreamed up by this writer, a speculative illustration about what might happen.
Rather, it is exactly what Jesus Himself would happen. Look again at His words
here as we finish this three devotion series and continue to study from the
latter verses of chapter 17:
“I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed; one will be
taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding grain together; one will
be taken and the other left.” Luke 17:34-36
What night was Jesus
talking about?
Step back a few verses
from today’s passage and you will see He is speaking about the day He, the Son
of Man, returns to earth and is revealed, a time of which no one knows the
exactness of, a time that will come sudden and swiftly, a time when those who
are not in Jesus will experience sudden death while whose who placed their
belief and trust in Him will be taken to live with Him and God the Father
forever.
No everyone is going to
get to eternal life. Some will be taken by Jesus. Others will be left behind to
perish on the earth. While asleep, Jesus makes it clear that He will take one
person while another is left.
Ditto for two people
working on the same task together. One will be taken by Jesus and disappear, leaving
the other grain grinder alone.
This leads me to some
questions for you, my readers:
Which way will it go for
you when Jesus comes back?
Will you be taken away
into glory by Him as you receive the salvation God promised when you believed
in Jesus as your Savior?
Or will you find
yourself left behind, destined for sudden death, feeling as abandoned and
rejected as you made Jesus feel in the life you chose to live without Him?
If you are in the latter
category as you read this, please change your outcome forever this very moment
and accept Jesus, the Son of God who offered Him up as a sacrifice to atone for
your sins. Receive Him as your Savior, allow Him to change the person you are
and the way you live from the inside out, and secure your place in glory where
you will abide in perfect love and peace forever, liberated from all the
trappings and afflictions of this world.
It’s a decision you will
never regret, neither now or for all eternity.
Amen.
In Christ,
Mark
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