1 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:13,400 Hi everyone. Welcome back to logical Bible 2 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:15,200 study. Thanks again for tuning in. 3 00:00:15,500 --> 00:00:17,700 This is the podcast where we take a look at the Gospel 4 00:00:17,700 --> 00:00:21,000 reading from today's mass, we try to really pull it apart in 5 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:24,200 the sense of doing a verse by verse exegesis of the text. 6 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:27,400 We're always faithful to the teaching of the magisterium and 7 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:29,900 we're trying to engage with the best scholarship to help. 8 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,400 Us understand what Jesus meant in his original context. 9 00:00:33,800 --> 00:00:36,200 We have a longer reading today, so we'll get straight into it. 10 00:00:36,500 --> 00:00:44,000 Luke chapter 17 verses 26 to 37. Jesus said to the disciples as 11 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,800 it was in Noah's day. So we'll also be in the days of 12 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:51,200 the son of man. People were eating and drinking 13 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:53,600 marrying wives and husbands. Right? 14 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:57,600 Up to the day, Noah went into the ark and the flood came and 15 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:02,300 destroyed them, all it will. The same as it was in Lots day, 16 00:01:02,700 --> 00:01:06,400 people were eating and drinking buying and selling planting and 17 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:09,000 building. But the day that lot left. 18 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:13,100 Sodom God, rained fire and brimstone from heaven and 19 00:01:13,100 --> 00:01:16,600 destroyed them all. It will be the same when the day 20 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:19,200 comes for the son of man to be revealed. 21 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:23,100 When that day comes anyone on the housetop with his 22 00:01:23,100 --> 00:01:26,600 possessions in the house must not come down to collect them, 23 00:01:26,900 --> 00:01:29,800 nor must anyone in the fields turned back either. 24 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:34,700 Either remember, Lot's wife anyone who tries to preserve his 25 00:01:34,700 --> 00:01:39,100 life will lose it and anyone who loses it will keep it safe. 26 00:01:40,200 --> 00:01:43,700 I tell you on that night, two will be in one bed. 27 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,600 One will be taken the other left. 28 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,400 Two women will be grinding corn together. 29 00:01:49,900 --> 00:01:55,200 One will be taken the other left. the disciples interrupted 30 00:01:55,400 --> 00:02:01,700 where Lord, they asked he said, where the body is there to the 31 00:02:01,700 --> 00:02:07,400 vultures will gather Now, I want to say up front, this particular 32 00:02:07,400 --> 00:02:10,100 reading is very difficult in many ways Scholars. 33 00:02:10,100 --> 00:02:13,400 Both Evangelical, Protestant Catholic Orthodox. 34 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:15,100 All have very different opinions about it. 35 00:02:15,100 --> 00:02:18,400 Even within amongst Catholic college, scholarship itself. 36 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:21,500 Very Orthodox conservative Scholars, have different views 37 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:24,400 about how to, how to understand, Luke 17. 38 00:02:24,900 --> 00:02:27,800 There's lots of textual difficulties with it. 39 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:30,300 Some of the phrases can be artist understood in multiple 40 00:02:30,300 --> 00:02:32,600 ways. It looks like, either Matthew or 41 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:35,700 Luke has placed some I'm of the phrases in different contexts 42 00:02:35,900 --> 00:02:38,300 than when Jesus might have originally said them. 43 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:41,900 So, for all these reasons, it's not entirely clear. 44 00:02:41,900 --> 00:02:45,100 What Jesus means we can really only come up with theories and 45 00:02:45,100 --> 00:02:46,600 work out what the best one might be. 46 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:50,800 So, I'm going to present my view when I look at the evidence. 47 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:53,500 What I think the best interpretation of most of these 48 00:02:53,500 --> 00:02:57,700 verses is, but I should say up front, you're free to disagree 49 00:02:57,700 --> 00:03:00,500 with this, some of the interpretations. 50 00:03:00,500 --> 00:03:02,700 I'll offer. I'm not 100% confident of 51 00:03:02,700 --> 00:03:05,500 there's certainly, Part of this that can be understood in 52 00:03:05,500 --> 00:03:07,100 different ways, but we'll do our best. 53 00:03:07,900 --> 00:03:11,300 So what's the context? Jesus is moving From Galilee to 54 00:03:11,300 --> 00:03:13,300 Judea. He's getting towards the Final 55 00:03:13,300 --> 00:03:16,700 Phase of his ministry and he's doing Ministry along the way and 56 00:03:16,700 --> 00:03:20,700 he's speaking to the crowds now in the reading yesterday. 57 00:03:20,700 --> 00:03:23,600 So, in the section just before this, he has just begun the 58 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:27,200 first eschatological discourse about the end times, or about 59 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:31,700 the end of the age and in that section yesterday, his confirmed 60 00:03:31,700 --> 00:03:33,700 that there would indeed be a day of the Sun. 61 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:36,500 Of man, eventually when the kingdom of God will be 62 00:03:36,500 --> 00:03:40,600 manifested clearly, but this would not take place until the 63 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:44,000 Messiah has suffered first, and it's well worth listening to 64 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,900 yesterday's episode first, because that's the first half of 65 00:03:46,900 --> 00:03:49,200 this speech that sets up today's reading. 66 00:03:49,700 --> 00:03:52,100 So we're looking today to passage where Jesus is clearly 67 00:03:52,100 --> 00:03:55,000 predicting the future, something that's in the future from the 68 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:56,400 time. He uttered at the question is 69 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:59,400 how far in the future and Scholars are divided on it? 70 00:03:59,400 --> 00:04:03,500 The big question and the big debate is In this passage is 71 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:07,700 Jesus, talking about events that occur in ad 70 at his middle 72 00:04:07,700 --> 00:04:10,600 coming when the temple is destroyed and the jewish-roman 73 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:14,000 war happens as a punishment of God, is he talking about that 74 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:17,500 here or is Jesus talking about the second coming? 75 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,399 You could argue either way people throughout history, 76 00:04:21,399 --> 00:04:23,700 people have gone, either way with it today, people go either 77 00:04:23,700 --> 00:04:26,800 way. My view is that Jesus here is 78 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:30,300 speaking primarily of AD 70. His speaking of things that have 79 00:04:30,300 --> 00:04:33,800 already happened in ad 70 but at the time he sang them, they 80 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:36,700 haven't happened yet. And that's for one. 81 00:04:36,700 --> 00:04:41,300 Key reason In this passage Jesus repeatedly tells his disciples 82 00:04:41,700 --> 00:04:43,500 that when they see these things happening. 83 00:04:43,500 --> 00:04:47,300 They should run for that reason. I don't think it can refer to 84 00:04:47,300 --> 00:04:49,500 the second coming because if If you think about it, when the 85 00:04:49,500 --> 00:04:52,800 second coming happens and I do believe, the second coming will 86 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:55,000 happen that, there's some prophecies, which haven't been 87 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,400 fulfilled yet. So, the second coming will 88 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:00,900 happen one day, but it's sort of hard to see how you can outrun 89 00:05:00,900 --> 00:05:02,700 the second coming when it happens. 90 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:04,800 So, it doesn't really make sense. 91 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:08,000 But here, Jesus tells his disciples, when this day comes 92 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:10,400 whatever day it is that he's talking about. 93 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:13,200 Don't trip that, will they? They should try to run. 94 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:15,400 That's what he says you should try to run and get out of there 95 00:05:15,400 --> 00:05:18,100 as quick as possible. Why would Jesus say that if he's 96 00:05:18,100 --> 00:05:20,200 talking about Second Coming. It doesn't make a lot of sense. 97 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:23,000 You can't outrun the second coming and if they're his 98 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,200 disciples, what would they have to be afraid of? 99 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:28,000 Anyway, if it's his thinking about the second coming, when 100 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:31,800 everyone is rewarded. So that's the main reason why. 101 00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:35,100 I don't think the second coming interpretation makes the best 102 00:05:35,100 --> 00:05:38,200 sense of this text. Let's start at verse 26. 103 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,400 Jesus said to the disciples. So the audience here is 104 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:45,100 important, he is speaking to those who follow him already. 105 00:05:45,900 --> 00:05:48,400 He's speaking to those who believe that he's the Messiah. 106 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,000 And that one day, there will be a day of judgment that the 107 00:05:51,008 --> 00:05:54,500 Messiah will bring about, and he says to them here, as it was in 108 00:05:54,500 --> 00:05:58,200 Noah's day, and as he's going to describe you what he means by 109 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:01,400 Noah's day is during Noah's day, people were going about their 110 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:04,200 normal lives. They were ignoring the warnings 111 00:06:04,200 --> 00:06:06,500 that the flood was coming. Apparently Noah was preaching to 112 00:06:06,500 --> 00:06:08,400 them about the flood and says, repent. 113 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:11,700 The flood is coming, but they ignored him and then of course, 114 00:06:11,700 --> 00:06:13,100 the flood came and destroyed them. 115 00:06:13,100 --> 00:06:15,100 All they were going about their daily lives. 116 00:06:15,100 --> 00:06:17,000 They did not expect the flood to happen. 117 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:21,300 Jesus says, Is so will it also be in the days of the son of 118 00:06:21,300 --> 00:06:24,800 man? So Jesus is continuing here to 119 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:26,900 describe the days of the son of man. 120 00:06:26,900 --> 00:06:29,300 That's what he was talking about in yesterday's episode in 121 00:06:29,300 --> 00:06:33,900 verses, 23 24, the days of the son of man, that's the time. 122 00:06:34,100 --> 00:06:37,400 When the Messiah will be Vindicated and his enemies will 123 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:41,400 be judged. So Jesus says that when that day 124 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:44,500 comes the day of the son of man, when the Messiah appears as 125 00:06:44,500 --> 00:06:47,600 Victorious and judges his enemies, it will be like the 126 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:50,900 days of Noah. Now in what sense will it be 127 00:06:50,907 --> 00:06:53,400 like the days of Noah? I've heard some pretty wild 128 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:55,500 speculations about why Jesus says this. 129 00:06:55,500 --> 00:06:58,700 And they try to draw some very strange parallels between the 130 00:06:58,700 --> 00:07:00,400 time of Noah and the time of Jesus. 131 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:03,800 And that's why we should not do eisegesis, we don't want to read 132 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:07,600 into the text, what we wanted to say, we have to let the text 133 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:10,800 speak on its own terms and here. Jesus actually tells us what he 134 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:13,700 means. He tells us in what sense the 135 00:07:13,700 --> 00:07:15,900 days of the son of man will be, like, the days of Noah. 136 00:07:15,900 --> 00:07:19,900 He is what he says in the days of Noah people were eating and 137 00:07:19,900 --> 00:07:22,100 drinking marrying wives and husbands. 138 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:24,100 Right? Up to the day, Noah went into 139 00:07:24,100 --> 00:07:27,900 the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all mr. 140 00:07:27,900 --> 00:07:31,300 Watts, Jesus saying, he's saying that in the time of Noah people 141 00:07:31,300 --> 00:07:32,800 were going about their daily lives. 142 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:36,000 They thinking, always find that God would protect them and they 143 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:38,200 were ignoring the warnings from God's Messengers. 144 00:07:38,900 --> 00:07:41,300 But what? The flood did come one day and 145 00:07:41,300 --> 00:07:45,100 they were all destroyed. Jesus says the days of the son 146 00:07:45,100 --> 00:07:47,200 of man will be similar in that sense. 147 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,600 And if we understand this to be the destruction of Jerusalem in 148 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:53,500 ad 70 which is what I think he's talking about that. 149 00:07:53,500 --> 00:07:55,100 Make sense. Jesus teaching here. 150 00:07:55,100 --> 00:07:58,200 Is that the destruction of Jerusalem will be sudden? 151 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:00,700 And unexpected people won't think it will happen. 152 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:04,400 The Jews will think, God will protect them, but then the 153 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:07,000 temple was destroyed, it was sudden and unexpected, even 154 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,400 though there are warnings of God's prophets. 155 00:08:09,500 --> 00:08:13,000 Right up until ad 70. So it is a pretty nice fit, a 156 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,100 nice parallel with the days of Noah in that sense. 157 00:08:16,700 --> 00:08:18,500 And now, Jesus gives a second example. 158 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:20,900 It will be the same as it was in Lots day. 159 00:08:21,900 --> 00:08:24,800 So this is a second example of, a judgment of God from the Old 160 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:27,200 Testament. You probably know the story when 161 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,500 Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities they were 162 00:08:30,500 --> 00:08:33,500 known for their wickedness, and they were destroyed by God, 163 00:08:33,700 --> 00:08:36,799 that's in, Genesis 13. And again, Jesus says that in 164 00:08:36,799 --> 00:08:39,400 Lots day, people were eating and drinking. 165 00:08:39,500 --> 00:08:41,700 Buying and selling planting and building. 166 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,900 So the image is that people were going about their daily 167 00:08:44,900 --> 00:08:46,700 business. They didn't think anything bad 168 00:08:46,700 --> 00:08:49,100 was going to happen but verse 29. 169 00:08:49,100 --> 00:08:54,200 Jesus says but the day lot left. Sodom God, rained fire and 170 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:57,100 brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 171 00:08:58,100 --> 00:09:00,700 So that's what happens in Genesis 13, the evil cities are 172 00:09:00,700 --> 00:09:04,800 destroyed. As soon as lot gets out, Some 173 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:06,700 Scholars point out, there might be another interesting 174 00:09:06,700 --> 00:09:10,000 similarity here, between the Noah judgment, the lot judgment 175 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:13,600 and AD 70. In all three cases, know a lot 176 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:17,200 and the destruction of the temple in ad 70, the righteous, 177 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:21,400 get out of the area, first. So in Noah's case, Noah and his 178 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:24,400 or God, wait until Noah and his family are preserved inside the 179 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:29,800 ark before he sends the flood. In Lots case, he waits until lot 180 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:31,800 is out of the city before he destroys the city. 181 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:35,600 So God only pours out the judgment on the Evil, once his 182 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:39,200 righteous people are protected, that seems to be the case in ad 183 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:42,000 70 as well. If you study that, that period 184 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:46,300 of History carefully, Jesus. Apparently, if we understand the 185 00:09:46,308 --> 00:09:49,500 destruction of the temple, to be a punishment of God, God does 186 00:09:49,500 --> 00:09:54,000 not allow the Romans to invade and Destroy Jerusalem until all 187 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:56,300 the Christians have fled out into the Wilderness. 188 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:59,800 Apparently, by the time, the destruction of Jerusalem happens 189 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:02,600 in ad 70. There's no Christians left in 190 00:10:02,600 --> 00:10:04,100 the city. That's what history seems. 191 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:06,700 Has to tell us. And that's because when we 192 00:10:06,708 --> 00:10:09,900 discussed this yesterday, elsewhere, in the gospels, Jesus 193 00:10:09,900 --> 00:10:14,100 tells them to be prepared and to flee when they see the armies 194 00:10:14,100 --> 00:10:18,900 coming, Verse 30, it will be the same when the day comes for the 195 00:10:18,900 --> 00:10:22,300 son of man to be revealed. So what is Jesus said so far? 196 00:10:22,300 --> 00:10:25,600 He says, when the son of man is revealed, when that day happens, 197 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:29,800 when the Messiah is Vindicated, it will be sudden unexpected and 198 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:32,400 people will be wiped out as a judgment by God. 199 00:10:33,500 --> 00:10:37,300 If this sounds a bit strange in thinking that God is a god, 200 00:10:37,300 --> 00:10:40,000 punished the Jews in ad 70 by destroying the temple. 201 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:44,200 If that seems a bit strange to you, keep in mind that God often 202 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,900 uses foreign armies as instruments of his judgment. 203 00:10:46,900 --> 00:10:49,100 Think about the Old Testament over and over again. 204 00:10:49,100 --> 00:10:54,100 He uses armies whether Israel or Israel's enemies as instruments 205 00:10:54,100 --> 00:10:56,800 of his own judgment. Against those who have been 206 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:59,800 breaking his law over and over again, he sends Egypt against 207 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:04,500 Israel and he says, Egypt will be an extension of My hand, he 208 00:11:04,500 --> 00:11:06,900 says the same Babylon. He says, Babylon will be my 209 00:11:06,900 --> 00:11:10,100 Messenger to bring judgment and sometimes he says the same of 210 00:11:10,100 --> 00:11:13,600 Israel in the Book of Joshua. When Israel wipes out the 211 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:17,900 Canaanites, that's the basic idea God uses Israel to bring 212 00:11:17,900 --> 00:11:20,800 judgment on people. So here, he apparently does the 213 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:23,100 same thing in ad, 70 to the Jews. 214 00:11:23,500 --> 00:11:26,400 He brings the Romans as an instrument of his judgment 215 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:29,800 against the Jewish people. Verse 31. 216 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:33,300 When that day comes anyone on the housetop with his 217 00:11:33,300 --> 00:11:36,400 possessions in the house. Now, in that culture of this is 218 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:39,500 literally how it worked, the housetops would be where people 219 00:11:39,500 --> 00:11:42,700 would socialize, they'd hang out and relax on the roofs of their 220 00:11:42,700 --> 00:11:46,300 house, whereas the actual possessions and the actual kind 221 00:11:46,300 --> 00:11:49,200 of living rooms and bedrooms, were in the house below. 222 00:11:49,900 --> 00:11:52,900 So Jesus says, when that day comes the day of the son of man, 223 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,400 anyone on the housetop must not come down to collect his 224 00:11:56,400 --> 00:12:00,100 possessions. Just anyone in the fields turned 225 00:12:00,100 --> 00:12:03,300 back either, these are instructions for Jesus 226 00:12:03,300 --> 00:12:05,800 disciples. He's telling his disciples what 227 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:08,600 they should do when they realize the day of the son of man has 228 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:13,300 come Jesus says that when Christians realize that day has 229 00:12:13,300 --> 00:12:17,000 come, they need to run and get out of a tower out of Jerusalem. 230 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,600 As far as possible. He describes this in more detail 231 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:21,800 elsewhere and we'll look at this as Luke goes on. 232 00:12:21,900 --> 00:12:24,700 He specifically gives them Specific Instructions on where 233 00:12:24,700 --> 00:12:27,100 to go. Actually, so here the teaching 234 00:12:27,100 --> 00:12:29,900 is when you see The the day of the son of man coming, get out 235 00:12:29,900 --> 00:12:32,700 of there as soon as you can. Don't even go back into the 236 00:12:32,700 --> 00:12:35,800 house to get your possessions. Jesus, he was probably being 237 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:37,700 quite literal. He's probably not exaggerating. 238 00:12:37,700 --> 00:12:41,800 He probably means when you see the army's coming, get out of 239 00:12:41,800 --> 00:12:43,400 there. Don't go back into your house. 240 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:48,400 And Jesus says, nor must anyone in the fields turned back 241 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:49,800 either. So he says, even if you're 242 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:53,400 working in the fields and you see the son of man coming in the 243 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:55,900 form of the Roman armies, that's what he means by. 244 00:12:56,100 --> 00:12:58,800 When you see the son of man coming the Judgment of the 245 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:00,900 Messiah in the form of the Roman armies. 246 00:13:01,300 --> 00:13:04,100 When you see the Roman armies coming over the hill, don't go 247 00:13:04,100 --> 00:13:05,700 back home. If you're in the field, just 248 00:13:05,700 --> 00:13:09,300 run, get out to the Wilderness. This is Jesus instructions to 249 00:13:09,300 --> 00:13:13,800 his disciples. And then he says, remember Lot's 250 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:16,900 wife. So the teaching here for Jesus 251 00:13:16,900 --> 00:13:21,100 disciples is Don't Turn back like Lot's wife did when you see 252 00:13:21,100 --> 00:13:24,000 the Judgment coming, she paid the price for turning back. 253 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:27,600 Jesus says, if you turn back or if you're slow in getting out of 254 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:29,700 the city, you too will be destroyed. 255 00:13:29,700 --> 00:13:31,700 That's the parallel. And I think the parallel works 256 00:13:31,700 --> 00:13:34,100 pretty well. This is a teaching about what 257 00:13:34,100 --> 00:13:38,300 happens to Jerusalem in 70 AD. It is destroyed by God as a 258 00:13:38,300 --> 00:13:44,000 judgment on the Jewish people. Then he says in verse 33, anyone 259 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:46,500 who tries to preserve his life will lose it. 260 00:13:46,700 --> 00:13:49,500 And anyone who loses it will keep it safe. 261 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:52,600 Now, a better translation, here might be something like this, 262 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:56,600 whoever seeks to gain his life, will lose it, but whoever loses 263 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:00,400 his life, will preserve it. Now, this phrase is used in 264 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,600 different contexts in the gospels, Jesus seems to use it 265 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:07,200 to mean different things, but hear what he's saying is, is 266 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:10,200 seems to be talking about the literal life of the disciples, 267 00:14:10,200 --> 00:14:13,300 his literally saying, If you want to save your actual life, 268 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:17,100 you need to lose it in a sense. But if you try and save your 269 00:14:17,100 --> 00:14:20,100 life, if you try to guard your possessions if you become too 270 00:14:20,100 --> 00:14:23,100 worldly about guarding your life and your possessions then you're 271 00:14:23,100 --> 00:14:25,700 going to be killed. So if you try to preserve your 272 00:14:25,700 --> 00:14:29,100 goods on the day of the son of man, if you come back into your 273 00:14:29,100 --> 00:14:32,900 house and try to get your goods and preserve your worldly things 274 00:14:33,500 --> 00:14:35,500 and you stay in the house, you're going to be killed. 275 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:38,700 That's the teaching he says don't try and come back for you 276 00:14:38,708 --> 00:14:41,200 Goods on the other hand. If you're willing to forsake, 277 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:44,400 your Your old life forsake, your house, forsake, your possessions 278 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:47,400 and run, you'll be saved. That's the teaching has been 279 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:49,900 quite literal here and that would match with other things. 280 00:14:49,900 --> 00:14:52,900 Jesus says, in the Gospel of Luke Jesus is constantly on 281 00:14:52,900 --> 00:14:56,400 about, you need to be willing to give up possessions and your 282 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:58,000 life. For the sake of the Gospel will 283 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:01,000 hear Jesus says the same thing. He says, if you want to keep 284 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:04,100 your life on the day of the son of man, you need to be willing 285 00:15:04,100 --> 00:15:07,300 to leave everything behind and flee Into the Wilderness. 286 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:11,300 Jesus, in verse 34, he is now going to give some scenarios. 287 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:14,400 It's where two people. So in each of the scenarios you 288 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:16,700 have two people going about their daily business. 289 00:15:17,100 --> 00:15:19,900 One will be taken the other will be left. 290 00:15:20,700 --> 00:15:23,100 So, this is an interesting and this has been taken different 291 00:15:23,100 --> 00:15:24,700 way. So let's start at the start of 292 00:15:24,700 --> 00:15:27,900 verse 34. Jesus says, I tell you on that 293 00:15:27,900 --> 00:15:32,900 night to will be in one bed, one will be taken the other left. 294 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:35,700 Now, many Christians and you've probably heard this 295 00:15:35,700 --> 00:15:38,300 interpretation. Many Christians think that when 296 00:15:38,300 --> 00:15:42,000 Jesus says here, one will be taken and the other left, the, 297 00:15:42,300 --> 00:15:45,700 it's kind of like the Rapture Jesus is going to come back and 298 00:15:45,700 --> 00:15:48,000 Rapture away. All of his followers. 299 00:15:48,300 --> 00:15:50,800 Those are the ones that will be taken where, as the bad people 300 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:53,100 will, the wicked will be left behind. 301 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:57,100 Now, the word behind is not actually in there, that's just 302 00:15:57,100 --> 00:16:00,900 the other left, and so, that's, that's an important key word 303 00:16:00,900 --> 00:16:02,800 here. I don't think that's the best 304 00:16:02,808 --> 00:16:05,900 interpretation in the context of what Jesus has just said about 305 00:16:05,900 --> 00:16:09,900 the flood in Noah's day. And Sodom remember what happens 306 00:16:09,900 --> 00:16:13,600 in those stories, those who were taken in a sense, those are the 307 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:17,300 ones who had killed or judged by God, they're taken away by God 308 00:16:17,300 --> 00:16:21,700 and those that are left. If left behind, if you like 309 00:16:21,700 --> 00:16:24,700 those that are left behind with a righteous, really who's left, 310 00:16:24,700 --> 00:16:28,500 at the end of the story of nowhere in the flood, it's Noah, 311 00:16:28,500 --> 00:16:33,600 Noah, the righteous is left. And then in the Three of lot in 312 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:36,300 Sodom who's left after Sodom was destroyed, its lat the 313 00:16:36,300 --> 00:16:38,300 righteous. So, if we continue on that 314 00:16:38,300 --> 00:16:41,500 model, then when Jesus says here, on that night to will be 315 00:16:41,500 --> 00:16:44,200 take, sorry, one will be taken the other left. 316 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:47,500 Probably it means the wicked will be taken. 317 00:16:47,500 --> 00:16:51,900 At the righteous will be left. Now, some Scholars think there 318 00:16:51,900 --> 00:16:53,700 might be a reference to the Passover here. 319 00:16:53,700 --> 00:16:56,600 Remember, in the original Passover, people were either 320 00:16:56,600 --> 00:17:00,300 killed or spared so maybe if Jesus is going to use a similar 321 00:17:00,300 --> 00:17:04,400 model in D. Now here's he's very good to be 322 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:06,800 complicated. If Jesus is still speaking about 323 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:12,200 70 AD in what sense can we say that in 70 AD one? 324 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:14,700 There'll be two in one bed, one will be taken and the other 325 00:17:14,700 --> 00:17:17,400 left. How can a person be taken and 326 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:19,099 the person right next to them be left. 327 00:17:19,099 --> 00:17:23,000 Did that happen in 70 AD? Well, we can't be sure history 328 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:26,400 is a bit incomplete here but some Scholars think yes, that is 329 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:30,200 the way we should take this. So maybe it's that. 330 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:32,600 When the Roman armies getting to the City and we know how the 331 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:35,900 Roman armies typically worked. Perhaps, what Jesus is saying 332 00:17:35,900 --> 00:17:37,800 here is that people will literally be going about their 333 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:40,500 daily business. Some of them are we sleeping and 334 00:17:40,500 --> 00:17:43,800 the Romans burst into their house and they capture and kill 335 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:45,700 people. They've sort of grab one person 336 00:17:45,700 --> 00:17:48,100 and kill them and they leave another one behind. 337 00:17:48,100 --> 00:17:50,400 This would be consistent with what the Romans did often. 338 00:17:50,400 --> 00:17:53,400 The Romans had a quota of the number of people, they wanted to 339 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:54,700 kill. And the number of people they 340 00:17:54,700 --> 00:17:58,500 wanted to leave in the city to sort of instill fear in them. 341 00:17:58,500 --> 00:18:01,600 So perhaps, this is what literally happened in 70 AD 342 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:03,100 there. Come into people's houses or 343 00:18:03,100 --> 00:18:05,600 Fields, kill some and leave others. 344 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:08,300 That was part of the brutality of the Romans. 345 00:18:09,300 --> 00:18:11,800 So here, if that's the right interpretation, Jesus is 346 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:16,300 basically saying to his disciples if you're laying in 347 00:18:16,300 --> 00:18:19,000 bed or if you're working in the field, when you see the Romans 348 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:22,600 coming, get out of the city before the Romans, get to the 349 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:24,800 city. Otherwise there's a good chance 350 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:26,900 that you'll die. There's a good chance that 351 00:18:26,900 --> 00:18:29,400 you'll be one of the people that the Romans kill at random. 352 00:18:29,900 --> 00:18:33,800 So it seems here This is talking about the way that the Romans, 353 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,600 as part of God's judgment are going to kill at random. 354 00:18:37,500 --> 00:18:39,800 They're going to just in discriminately kill some and 355 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:42,400 leave others behind now. If this seems like a bit of a 356 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,400 strange view, it's the view that's taken by NT Wright. 357 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:48,400 Who's probably one of the most famous New Testament, Scholars, 358 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:51,700 whose written the most about the kingdom of God. 359 00:18:51,700 --> 00:18:54,000 And Jesus predictions about ad 70. 360 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,000 So that's his view. He says that when Jesus says, 361 00:18:57,600 --> 00:18:58,900 one will be taken the other left. 362 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,600 It's talking about how the Roman armies killed in. 363 00:19:01,800 --> 00:19:04,200 Discriminately and they left others behind. 364 00:19:04,500 --> 00:19:07,500 Now, that's not entirely a perfect fit because in the Noah 365 00:19:07,500 --> 00:19:11,500 and lot model, basically, the righteous are saved in the 366 00:19:11,508 --> 00:19:14,200 wicked of killed. But here in ad 70, it looks 367 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:18,400 like. Sometimes it's the righteous 368 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:20,800 that are killed as well, if they don't get out of the city, 369 00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:24,500 however, we could say here that Jesus has warned the Christians. 370 00:19:24,700 --> 00:19:26,800 That if you're righteous, if you're a true follower of him, 371 00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:29,800 you will get out of the city before that happens and 372 00:19:29,800 --> 00:19:31,100 apparently, that's what they did. 373 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:37,100 Now, on this verse here, verse 34, it says on that night two 374 00:19:37,100 --> 00:19:40,700 will be in one bed and one will be taken the other left. 375 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:43,500 It's sometimes on this podcast, it's good to talk about some 376 00:19:43,500 --> 00:19:45,700 other interpretations that you'll hear which are a really 377 00:19:45,700 --> 00:19:47,400 strange, but you will encounter them. 378 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:51,100 So some people and there are some translations, which 379 00:19:51,100 --> 00:19:54,300 actually put it this way, some translations have this as there 380 00:19:54,300 --> 00:20:00,600 will be two men in one bed and some gay activists have taken 381 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:03,300 this to be a France to homosexual, men being in bed 382 00:20:03,300 --> 00:20:05,300 together. Jesus here is saying they'll be 383 00:20:05,600 --> 00:20:07,800 on that night. They'll be two men in one bed. 384 00:20:08,100 --> 00:20:11,600 It's a bit of a strange View. And it turns out that the Greek 385 00:20:11,600 --> 00:20:14,000 he doesn't support this at all. If you look at the Greek version 386 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:16,900 of this verse the Greek, you literally just says there will 387 00:20:16,900 --> 00:20:20,300 be two in one bed. That's all it says, and some 388 00:20:20,300 --> 00:20:22,400 Modern Bible translations to make it a bit clearer. 389 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:23,800 In English. Have put the word, they'll be 390 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:27,500 two men in one bed. Certainly the it's not like a 391 00:20:27,700 --> 00:20:29,200 sexual thing that's in view here. 392 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:32,800 It's just Jesus saying that we too The asleep, one will be 393 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:35,900 killed, and one won't be, and then he gives another example. 394 00:20:35,900 --> 00:20:39,800 Verse 35, two women will be grinding corn together, one will 395 00:20:39,800 --> 00:20:44,100 be taken the other left, so we have the same basic idea here, 396 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:47,200 both women, imagine the day in ad 70. 397 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:50,800 When the Romans come over the hill to take this city, both 398 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:52,600 women will be working on grinding corn. 399 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:55,500 Keep in mind that they really didn't know what day the Romans 400 00:20:55,500 --> 00:20:57,100 were coming. They'd sort of been small 401 00:20:57,100 --> 00:21:00,000 skirmishes before them, but they could not literally predict the 402 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,700 day, the Romans would come Over the hill, they didn't know. 403 00:21:03,100 --> 00:21:07,000 So imagine this those two women working on grinding corn and 404 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,400 then all of a sudden, the Romans burst into the room, although 405 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:13,300 burst onto the farm and they take one of the women at random, 406 00:21:13,500 --> 00:21:15,700 this is the picture we get and that seems to be what happened 407 00:21:15,700 --> 00:21:17,600 on that day. Hopefully this is making sense 408 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:21,200 to you and you can kind of visualize what happened in ad 70 409 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,000 and why Jesus is warning them. They need to get out of the city 410 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:27,400 before them. Now in verse 36, most 411 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:29,500 translations don't actually have verse 36. 412 00:21:29,500 --> 00:21:33,300 Some ancient manuscripts do But here's what verse 36 says, it 413 00:21:33,308 --> 00:21:36,500 doesn't add a whole lot. It just says this, two men will 414 00:21:36,500 --> 00:21:39,100 be in the field. One will be taken and the other 415 00:21:39,100 --> 00:21:41,800 left. Now Matthews version of this, it 416 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:45,300 does have this line and it would flow on with what Jesus said. 417 00:21:45,300 --> 00:21:48,400 Earlier about being out in the field, remember in the he said, 418 00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:51,200 if you're in the field on that day and you see the army's 419 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:54,700 coming, get out of there. Otherwise the armies will get 420 00:21:54,700 --> 00:21:56,600 you. So it fits the same theme. 421 00:21:56,600 --> 00:22:00,500 Certainly That's all Jesus has to say about this at this point, 422 00:22:00,500 --> 00:22:03,800 but then in verse 37, the disciples interrupted that's 423 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:07,300 what our translation says, all. That really says in the original 424 00:22:07,300 --> 00:22:09,200 is they said to him. So we shouldn't imagine that 425 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,200 they suddenly interrupted him mid-speech, that doesn't seem to 426 00:22:12,208 --> 00:22:14,300 be the case. They just asked him a question. 427 00:22:15,300 --> 00:22:20,200 This is the question as Luke puts it, where Lord now it's not 428 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:22,600 entirely clear what the disciples are asking. 429 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:26,300 Where about literally all it says, here is they say to Jesus 430 00:22:26,300 --> 00:22:28,900 where Lord? So this Could mean one of two 431 00:22:28,900 --> 00:22:31,300 things? The disciples he could be asking 432 00:22:31,300 --> 00:22:34,700 either Jesus. Where will this judgment take 433 00:22:34,700 --> 00:22:38,400 place? Or maybe, they could be asking, 434 00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:41,000 where will those who were taken be taken to? 435 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:44,400 Because he's just been talking about taking some people away. 436 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:46,500 So, maybe it's a question of where they're going to be taken 437 00:22:46,500 --> 00:22:50,700 to and so either of those might be the right interpretation 438 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:54,100 notice. Jesus answer though, he says, 439 00:22:54,300 --> 00:22:59,300 where the body is there to will. The vultures gather this has 440 00:22:59,300 --> 00:23:00,700 been taken in lots of different ways. 441 00:23:00,700 --> 00:23:04,200 Some have taken it in a very graphic way as in on that day. 442 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:07,700 There's literally going to be Eagles, hovering around the 443 00:23:07,700 --> 00:23:10,700 corpses and certainly there were a lot of corpses in ad 70. 444 00:23:11,100 --> 00:23:13,900 So, maybe Jesus is saying that after it's all said and done, 445 00:23:13,900 --> 00:23:16,900 they'll be lots of eagles hanging around the bodies that 446 00:23:16,900 --> 00:23:19,000 could actually be right. We can't rule that out. 447 00:23:20,100 --> 00:23:21,800 And some have even taken it a different way. 448 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:24,500 Some have taken it as a reference to the Rapture as in, 449 00:23:24,500 --> 00:23:27,300 on that day. Jesus is apparently that if you 450 00:23:27,300 --> 00:23:29,800 take this, as the second coming, Jesus will gather all the 451 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,800 Christians to himself, they'll all sort of float up in the air, 452 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:37,800 to be with Jesus. And in that sense, Jesus body is 453 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,600 what's in view where Jesus body is there, the vultures will 454 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:43,700 gather and the, vultures here would represent, Christians. 455 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:45,400 I don't think that's a good interpretation. 456 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:49,400 I think in context, this is probably a Hebrew metaphor 457 00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:51,600 Hebrew. Idiom remember. 458 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,900 Jesus, here is answering the question, where Lord, right. 459 00:23:54,900 --> 00:23:56,300 That's the question. I posed to him. 460 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:58,500 And Jesus answer is where the body. 461 00:23:58,500 --> 00:24:00,500 Is there to the vultures will gather. 462 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,500 I think this is probably best understood as a Jewish idiom, 463 00:24:03,500 --> 00:24:06,800 which means something like this, the location will be obvious. 464 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,200 So, in that time in the time of Jesus, if you solve vultures 465 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,300 gathering around the certain area, if you saw them sort of 466 00:24:13,300 --> 00:24:16,200 hovering around a field, then you would know there's probably 467 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:18,900 bodies at that place in the distance. 468 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,100 So I think this Where the body is there to the vultures will 469 00:24:22,100 --> 00:24:23,500 gather. It's just a Jewish metaphor. 470 00:24:23,500 --> 00:24:26,300 That means the location will be obvious. 471 00:24:26,300 --> 00:24:28,300 If that's the right interpretation. 472 00:24:28,300 --> 00:24:31,800 Jesus is basically saying this in answer to their question of 473 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:35,400 where Lord, he's saying the judgment will be obvious because 474 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:38,900 everyone will see it in the events associated with the 475 00:24:38,900 --> 00:24:43,000 destruction of Jerusalem. Jesus gets more explicit with 476 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,100 this. In Luke Chapter, 19, Verse 43 477 00:24:45,100 --> 00:24:48,600 and 21:10. So he's going to revisit this 478 00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:50,500 theme of the destruction of The temple. 479 00:24:51,500 --> 00:24:54,100 Now, there's one more aspect of this line, which is worth 480 00:24:54,100 --> 00:24:56,000 mentioning where the body is there. 481 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,900 The vultures will gather, or you can translate that Eagles, will 482 00:24:58,900 --> 00:25:02,500 gather interestingly, the Roman armies in this time period, when 483 00:25:02,500 --> 00:25:06,100 they marched into battle, they had a big banner with an eagle 484 00:25:06,100 --> 00:25:08,400 on it. So maybe Jesus is literally 485 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:11,300 referring to the Roman Eagle, that's certainly possible as 486 00:25:11,300 --> 00:25:14,400 well. So that's all in our text today. 487 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:18,500 Jesus revisits these themes and he gets even more explicit about 488 00:25:18,500 --> 00:25:21,200 it in chapter 21 Jesus. More to say about the 489 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,100 destruction of the temple. And we'll look at that when we 490 00:25:23,100 --> 00:25:25,200 get there. Hopefully, I know we've gone 491 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,000 through this in a bit of depth and really gotten into the 492 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,200 nitty-gritty of Prophecy here, but I think it's important, we 493 00:25:30,208 --> 00:25:33,500 do that because even amongst Catholics there's some really 494 00:25:33,700 --> 00:25:37,800 wild views about Jesus views of the end of the world and I think 495 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:41,500 a lot of it is best understood as referring to ad 70. 496 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:44,400 Not necessarily all of us. And of course, God works in 497 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,100 pattern so he could do the same again at the end of the world. 498 00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:49,800 But primarily here, it looks like Jesus. 499 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,200 Is warning his disciples about the events that will take place 500 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:56,100 in ad 70. And he tells them, they need to 501 00:25:56,100 --> 00:25:59,000 get out as quick as they can. Otherwise, they could be killed 502 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,800 along with the rest of the Jews in the city. 503 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:05,500 Let's quickly turn to the catechism before you finish. 504 00:26:05,500 --> 00:26:09,000 Today there's one key paragraph here where there's a reference 505 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:13,300 to Luke chapter 17 paragraph. 1889, this is in the section 506 00:26:13,300 --> 00:26:17,000 about conversion and Society. It's an interesting application, 507 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:22,100 says, charity is the Social commandment it, respects, others 508 00:26:22,100 --> 00:26:24,500 and their rights. It requires the practice of 509 00:26:24,500 --> 00:26:27,800 justice and it alone makes us capable of it. 510 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,600 Charity inspires, a life of self giving. 511 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,800 Whoever seeks to gain his life, will lose it, but whoever loses 512 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:39,500 his life, will preserve it. So here in the original text in 513 00:26:39,500 --> 00:26:43,400 Luke's text, as we set in this exegesis that line, whoever 514 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:45,300 seeks to gain his life will lose it. 515 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:47,200 Whoever loses his life will preserve it. 516 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:49,800 It's probably about, literally saving your life. 517 00:26:49,900 --> 00:26:52,300 By running out of the city. His, it's a very specific 518 00:26:52,300 --> 00:26:55,700 application. But here, the catechism sees a 519 00:26:55,700 --> 00:26:58,100 possible deeper spiritual reality here. 520 00:26:58,100 --> 00:27:01,500 Maybe when Jesus says, whoever seeks to gain his life will lose 521 00:27:01,500 --> 00:27:03,800 it, but whoever loses his life, will preserve it. 522 00:27:04,300 --> 00:27:06,600 He's talking about giving yourself away for the kingdom 523 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,200 giving yourself away, spiritually. 524 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,300 And in the context of this part of her catechism. 525 00:27:11,300 --> 00:27:14,400 It's about love, loving others. Giving yourself away in love. 526 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:16,800 Certainly. There are other places in the 527 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:20,900 gospels where Jesus uses this phrase to refer, to Losing your 528 00:27:20,900 --> 00:27:23,600 life for the sake of the Kingdom as in giving yourself away, 529 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:27,000 spiritually for the sake of the kingdom and he does use that in 530 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,400 other contexts, even if he doesn't mean that exactly here. 531 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:33,200 So we'll finish it there for today. 532 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,000 If you have others in your life who were interested in Prophecy 533 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,000 and who might be interested in the interpretation that's been 534 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,900 offered here as we've moved through verse by verse please, 535 00:27:41,900 --> 00:27:44,300 share it with them and will continue to look at Luke. 536 00:27:44,300 --> 00:27:46,400 In the coming days. We have a bit of a break from 537 00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:50,900 this heavy prophecy stuff as we move into Luke, Chapter 18.