LUKE 17 (PART 3): GATHERING OF VULTURES

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.””
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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!