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Scott's Reference Library
Luke 17:20 through Luke 17:37 (NIV)
20Once, having been asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would
come, Jesus replied, “The kingdom of God does not come with your careful
observation, 21nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the
kingdom of God is within you.”
22Then he said to his disciples, “The time is coming when you will long to see
one of the days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it. 23Men will tell you,
‘There he is!’ or ‘Here he is!’ Do not go running off after them. 24For the Son
of Man in his day will be like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the
sky from one end to the other. 25But first he must suffer many things and be
rejected by this generation.
26“Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son
of Man. 27People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up
to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
28“It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying
and selling, planting and building. 29But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and
sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
30“It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed. 31On that
day no one who is on the roof of his house, with his goods inside, should go
down to get them. Likewise, no one in the field should go back for anything.
32Remember Lot’s wife! 33Whoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and
whoever loses his life will preserve it. 34I tell you, on that night two people
will be in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. 35Two women will be
grinding grain together; one will be taken and the other left.”
37“Where, Lord?” they asked.
He replied, “Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather.”
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
The kingdom of God was among the Jews, or rather within some of them. It was a
spiritual kingdom, set up in the heart by the power of Divine grace. Observe how
it had been with sinners formerly, and in what state the judgments of God, which
they had been warned of, found them. Here is shown what a dreadful surprise this
destruction will be to the secure and sensual. Thus shall it be in the day when
the Son of man is revealed. When Christ came to destroy the Jewish nation by the
Roman armies, that nation was found in such a state of false security as is here
spoken of. In like manner, when Jesus Christ shall come to judge the world,
sinners will be found altogether regardless; for in like manner the sinners of
every age go on securely in their evil ways, and remember not their latter end.
But wherever the wicked are, who are marked for eternal ruin, they shall be
found by the judgments of God.