I was ready to move on to Luke 18,
but then I was led to write a Part 3 to Luke 17 about the Kingdom of God. People need to know the signs of the times; people need to be ready for the coming of the Lord. “The coming of the Kingdom of God can’t be detected by visible signs;” but when it comes everyone will know it. It will will be different than when the Jesus first came. When He came the first time, He stood with his disciples and still they didn’t recognize Him. They continued to ask when the Kingdom of God would come. Jesus responded, “You won’t be able to say, ‘Here it is!’ or ‘It’s over there!’ For the Kingdom of God is already among you.” Then he said to his disciples, “The time is coming when you will LONG to see the day when the Son of Man returns, but you won’t see it.” “People will tell you, ‘Look, there is the Son of Man,’ or ‘Here he is,’ but don’t go out and follow them.” I believe He said this because it would be false testimony for a single man to say they saw Him, when they clearly did not. “For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other, so it will be on the day when the Son of Man comes.” It’s hard to believe the King of Heaven came down, and walked around - for thirty-three years, and no one recognized Him - not even the men who gave up their lives to follow Him. But Jesus told them, when He comes again, everyone will see - The sky will light up! Every eye of humanity will see the coming of the Heaven's King. “But first,” He said, “I must suffer a terrible baptism and be rejected by this generation.” It makes me sick to think He was only slightly accepted by man, before His own people killed Him. I mean, when He was born, shepherds and Wise Men recognized Him as the baby king, before walking away and leaving him. Then the mobs... the people that followed Him, the ones who were healed from sickness and disease, and the ones who had demons cast out from them, they all recognized Him as a healer and a prophet, but they did not know Him as the King of Heaven. It’s so crazy to me, that Isaiah’s prophecy about the suffering servant found in Chapter 53 actually walked with them, and they didn’t have the spiritual eyes to even recognize Him. I suppose this is what He meant in Luke 12, verse 10 when He said, “And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him.” Men clearly have dim eyes, at least in the spirit realm. And Jesus knows it - since we only use our physical eyes to see, then maybe that's why we are forgiven for blasphemy against Jesus? But when Holy Spirit lights up our human spirit up, through the anointing of spiritual oil - maybe it's when His fire is burning inside of us - maybe that when we have actually have spiritual vision - Maybe that is why we are accountable for resisting the Holy Spirit - this is a sin choice that cannot be forgiven. When Jesus returns, “it will be like it was in Noah’s day. In those days, the people enjoyed banquets and parties and weddings right up to the time Noah entered his boat and the flood came and destroyed all of them.” “And the world will be as it was in the days of Lot. People went about their daily business - eating and drinking, buying and selling, farming and building until the morning when Lot left Sodom. Then fire and burning sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.” “It will be ‘business as usual’ right up to the day when the Son of Man is revealed. On that day a person out on the deck of a rooftop must not go down into the house to pack.” “And a person out in the field must not return home. Remember what happened to Lot’s wife” (when she was told not to look back, she did anyway - and became a pillar of salt). “If you cling to your life, you will lose it, and if you let your life go, you will save it.” What do you think is meant by this? My guess is that we must die to self, and hold onto Jesus! On the night that Jesus returns, not as a lamb but as a lion, “two people will be asleep in one bed; one will be taken, the other left.” “Two women will be grinding flour together at the mill; one will be taken, and the other left.” I’m still a little confused, because the road is narrow, and Heaven’s Gate is too. But the scripture above implies that half will be saved, while the other half experiences eternal death? God, help me to understand more about this. I assumed it would be less than that. I imagined it would be one in ten. It seems I have a lot of learning to do, about salvation and the Kingdom of Heaven too. “Where will this happen, Lord?” the disciples asked. Jesus replied, “Just as the gathering of vultures shows there is a carcass nearby, so these signs indicate that the end is near.”” Oh My God! I don’t know about you, but this is the image of what our world has become! A carcass represents death, and the vultures represent evilness. I have been hearing, “Cannibalism” for some time, and I have been seeing men eating men! 666 The number of the beast. Is it possible this represents pure evil living inside of humanity? I tell you, I believe the day of the Lord is coming soon! Humans killing humans while laughing? What the hell is wrong with us? Humans selling humans and making money from them! Adults raping children, and children being abused and neglected! Everyone raping Everyone- Driven by power, greed and lust! What has become of us! Splitting hairs to build a case, splitting minds and splitting thoughts! Excuses! Unforgivable sins! Focusing on hate instead of love! Looting in the streets, prostitution in the marketplace. Adultery and divorce is common place! Children without hope, where suicide is the second leading cause of death! Men becoming women and women becoming men, all because of identity confusion! Black and white hating each other, just because we are different colors. Focusing on differences instead of Intentional hearts. Politics - Human governments, and worldly kingdoms instead of bowing down to the King of Heaven. Erasing God from the constitution, opening gates to spiritual adultery. And I’m not just talking about America! I’m talking about “In God We Trust!” Lusts! And more lust! Greed! And more greed! We have become a fattened humanity! Filled with evil intent, yet desperately malnourished and spiritually hungry! This is what drives men to eat of the flesh! This IS the sign of the times! Vultures are no longer circling men. They have landed upon the dead carcasses! We must pray for hearts to repent! We must pray for men to return to God! We must pray for healing within, because all I see is a spiritual infection. Help us Lord! Help us remember YOU!
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