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Luke
Chapter
17
17:1``Then
He {Jesus} said to His students/disciples,
"
"It must be admitted that temptations/
'stumbling
blocks to commit apostasy' "
{literally a double negative here - which is a very strong negative
in the Greek}
are
sure to come . . .
but
woe to the one through whom they come!
17:2``It
would be more advantageous {lusitelei} for him
if
{ei} - and it is true -
a
millstone is tied around his neck
and
be thrown/cast {rhipto} into the sea
than
for him to possibly cause 'spiritually immature believers'
{idiom: literally 'one of these little ones' - indicates a personal
relationship so is a believer there are three levels of spiritual
maturity identified - babies, young men, and fathers}
to
sin.
17:3``Watch
yourselves! {an order}
But
if {ean} your brother {adelphos}
sins
{hamartano - subjunctive mood}
-
maybe he will, maybe he will not {3rd class condition}-
rebuke
him {if he does sin}
{again adelphos implies a relationship - so this means 'other
believers'}.
And
if {ean} he repents {metanoeo- subjunctive mood }
-
maybe he will, maybe he will not {3rd class condition}-
forgive
him.
17:4``Even
if {ean} he sins against you 'time after time'
{idiom: literally 'seven times in a day'}
-
maybe he will, maybe he will not {3rd class condition}-
and
'time and time again' returns to you
{idiom: literally 'seven times'}
saying,
'I repent,' {metanoeo} . . .
you
must forgive him." {an order}
17:5``And,
the apostles {apostolos}
said
to the Lord, "Increase {prostithemi} our faith {pistis}!"
17:6``
So the Lord replied,
"If
{ei} - and it is true {1st class condition} -
you
had and held {indicative mood}
faith
{pistis - can also mean 'doctrine' - 'that which is believed'}
even
as small as a mustard seed,
you
could say to this sycamine/'black mulberry tree'
{sukaminos - a tree having the form and foliage of the mulberry, but
fruit resembling the fig},
'Be
pulled out by the roots {an order}
and
planted in the sea,' . . .
and
it would obey you.
{Note: Remember this is not yet the Church Age. Jesus gave His Apostles the power of miracles (a temporary spiritual gift). All these men had to do was believe in what He taught and said, and almost anything could be done through their command.}
17:7``
Now, which of you
having
a slave who is plowing . . . or tending a flock of sheep
who,
having come out of the field,
will
say to him, 'Come at once and sit down for a meal'?
{Note: This is not the normal treatment of slaves by a master with typical human viewpoint.}
17:8``But,
in contrast {alla}
won't
he {the master} instead say to him,
'Get
my dinner ready,
and
make yourself ready to serve me while I eat and drink?
And
then you may eat and drink.'
17:9``He
won't thank/grace {charis} the slave
because
he did what he was told, will he?
{requires a negative response - of course he would not}
17:10``So
likewise you,
when
you may have done everything you were commanded to do,
say
{an order}, 'We are slaves . . . undeserving of special praise . . .
we
have only done what was our duty.'"
{Note: A mature believer understands that the glory/credit is the Lord's. You are nothing compared to all that He is! If any divine good is accomplished 'through you' . . . it is God Who is the originating source of that divine good and the glory is His. Any rewards that a slave receives are always at the 'good pleasure'/grace of his Master. Thank God, our Master is Perfect!}
{The
Healing of the 10 Lepers}
17:11-13``And
it came to pass {new subject}
as
He {Jesus} was preceding on His way to Jerusalem . . .
and,
He Himself was going through the middle of Samaria
and
Galilee . . . 17:12`` and He was entering a village . . .
there
met Him . . . ten men with leprosy.
They
stood at a distance, 17:13``
and
raised their voices and said,
"Jesus,
Overseer/Supervisor/Master
{epistates - a word to recognize authority at this point}
have
mercy on us."
17:14``And,
having seen them, He said to them,
"Having
gone your way . . .
show
yourselves to the priests." {an order}
And,
in came to pass, as they went along, they were cleansed.
17:15``Then
one of them,
having
seen that he was healed,
turned
back, praising {doxazo} God with a loud voice.
17:16``And
{the cleansed leper} fell with his face to the ground
at
His {Jesus'} feet and thanked Him
(and
he, himself, was a Samaritan).
{the point being that the 'pure bred Jews' will not thank Him
apparently they are unbelievers and will rationalize away
what happened to them}
17:17``Then
Jesus 'had an answer for'/'gave a discerning answer
from
the ultimate source of Himself" {apokrinomai},
"Were
not the ten cleansed?
But
where . . . {are} the other nine?
17:18``
There was absolutely not {ouk} discovered {heurisko}
one
{Jew} returning to give praise to God . . .
except
this foreigner/'person of different genes'?" {allogenes}
17:19``
Then He {Jesus} said to the man,
"Get
up/Arise and continue on life's journey {poreuomai - an order}.
Your
faith {pistis} has made you
'well
with the result that you will be well all your life'
{sozo - perfect 'completed action' tense}."
{The
Coming of the Kingdom}
17:20``
Now, having been interrogated {eperotao}
by
the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming,
so
He {Jesus} 'had an answer for'/'gave a discerning answer
from
the ultimate source of Himself" {apokrinomai},
"The
kingdom of God is absolutely not {ouk} coming
with
signs to be observed.
17:21``Nor
will they say, 'Look, here it is!' or 'There!' . . .
for
'take note'/behold,
the
kingdom of God is 'within you'/'in your midst'."
{Note: There is a 'kingdom of God'. All that ever is or will be was decreed by God in advance. But, the 'kingdom of God' is really more of a plan than a kingdom. In the Old Testament it was called 'walking in the righteous Way of God'. When Jesus came, He revealed to us an even 'More Excellent Way' to Walk. God has a plan for each believer. When you replace your human viewpoint with His Divine Viewpoint through the consistent intake of the Word and apply His thinking to your life's experiences . . . you are in the kingdom of God - in the plan of God. When we fail - either through sin or through evil activities - we must LEARN to recognize this, rebound, forget it and again Walk in the More Excellent Way prototyped for us by Jesus.}
{The
Coming of the Son of Man}
17:22``Then
He {Jesus} said to the students/disciples {mathetes},
"The
days are coming
when
you will desire to see one of the days of the 'Son of Man'
{the days when Jesus was among them must have been the best
one human could experience},
and
you will absolutely not {ouk} see it.
17:23``People
will say to you,
'Look,
there He is!' or 'Look, here He is!'
Do
not maybe go out or maybe chase after them.
{Note: This is also a warning to all of us to watch out for false prophets who will declare they are 'Jesus' - this is particularly important to the believers of the Tribulation. Those who study doctrine will not be fooled!}
17:24``For
like the lightning flashes
and
lights up the sky from one side to the other . . .
so
will the 'Son of Man' be in His day.
{Note: Once Jesus in His Resurrected Body returns to heaven, He will not be seen in His physical form again until the end of the Tribulation. THEN, you will not have to guess if it is Him! Those people will KNOW it is Him. And, if they are unbelievers - then that means it will be too late. They must believe before He returns or they will be cast off the earth and the Millennium will begin with believers only.}
{The
Cross Must Procede the Crown}
17:25``But
first He must suffer many things . . .
and
be rejected {apodokimazo} by this generation.
{Note: Apodokimazo means to put Jesus to the test for the purpose of approving Him. But, finding Him to not meet their specifications prescribed, they reject Him . . . because they find Him lacking. The problem is the legalistic Jews of the day have 'added' to the Word of God. They have set up their own Taboos (like 'no healing the sick on the Sabbath' is the example over and over) and then say Jesus does not meet the standard. We now know that the 2nd Person of the Godhead is and was the God of Israel . . . the only Member of the Godhead Who is ever seen . . . He not only set the standard . . . He was the standard (in the beginning was the Word and the Word WAS God!). So, in their human viewpoint standards, they judge Him as being 'lacking'. The problem was theirs not His.
{Note: Next, Jesus is affirming again that in order for mankind to have salvation, He must go to the cross first - freely - and take the punishment for the guilt of sinning of all mankind. Become 'cherem' - see Joshua 6:16 and the last verse of the Old Testament - Malachi 4:6. Cherem means 'an unredeemable curse'. The word means "a ban, which cannot be reversed". It is a reference to anyone or any property put under a curse where death/destruction is the penalty - it is not redeemable. Cherem means to be accursed and not subject to redemption it and all in it is 'dedicated/sacrificed to the Lord' - see Leviticus 27. Christ was cherem so that we could be redeemed. He died for us because He took the cherem to Himself and He could not be redeemed.}
17:26``And,
just as it was in the days of Noah . . .
so
too it will be in the 'days of the Son of Man'.
{Note: A new civilization always begins with believers only. In the flood, all unbelievers died. The same will be true of the Millennium. Only believers will go into it. So, before the former civilization ended, people continued to do their normal day to day activities, with no idea that the end of their civilization was at hand.}
17:27``They
kept on eating . . .
they
kept on drinking . . .
they
kept on marrying . . .
they
kept on being given in marriage . . .
until/'right
up to' the day Noah entered the ark.
Then
the deluge/flood {kataklusmos} came
and
destroyed {apollumi} them all.
17:28``
Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot,
they
kept on eating . . .
they
kept on drinking . . .
they
kept on buying. . .
they
kept on selling. . .
they
kept on planting . . .
they
kept on building.
17:29``But
on the day that Lot went out from Sodom . . .
fire
and sulfur rained down from heaven/'the sky'
and
destroyed {apollumi} them all.
17:30``
'According to the same pattern' {kata tauta},
it
will be on the day the Son of Man
is
revealed/'made manifest' {apokalupto}.
{Note: The comparison this time is between the conditions of destruction that will occur in the Tribulation (particularly at the end of the Tribulation when Jesus returns to earth). When He destroys the armies persecuting His People, will be similar to what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah. But from the following verse, it appears He is referring to the entire Tribulation, since verse 31 describes what believers are to do in the first 3 ½ years of the Tribulation - run to the mountains and hide there!}
17:31``On
that day, anyone who is on the roof of a house . . .
with
his goods in the house,
must
not come down to take them away.
And
likewise the person in the field must not turn back
{meaning don't return home to gather your belongings - head for
the mountain caves for safety - two commands are given in the
Tribulation - the first half - run and hide; the second half - stay
and FIGHT!}.
17:32``Be remembering {mnemoneuo} Lot's wife!
17:33``Whoever/'Who
if {ean}'
tries
{zeteo - subjunctive mood} to keep his life/soul {psuche}
-
maybe he will try, maybe he will not try {3rd class condition} -
will
'lose it'/'destroy it' {apollumi}.
And
whoever/'who if {ean}'
'loses
it'/'destroys it' {apollumi} . . .
-
maybe he will lose it, maybe he will not {3rd class condition} -
will
'preserve his life alive' {zoogoneo}.
17:34``I
{Jesus} tell you,
in
that night there will be two {people} in one bed . . .
one
will be taken and the other left.
{the unbeliever is taken away - the believer remains to go into the
Millennium}
17:35``There
will be two {women} grinding grain together . . .
{the female form of the word indicates these are women not men}
one
will be taken and the other left."
17:36``{Per Kenneth S. Wuest - this verse is not in the original manuscript - KJV has a verse similar to verse 35 with two men working in a field. So in or out, the meaning is clear.}
17:37``Then
the students/disciples
'had
an answer for'/'gave a discerning answer
from
the ultimate source of themselves to' {apokrinomai} Him
and
said, "Where, Lord?"
He
{Jesus} replied to them,
"Where
the 'dead body'/carcass is . . .
there
the vultures will gather."
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