CE – responding to the lightning-flash

“Because just as the lightning-flash, lightning-flashing from the ‘under the heaven’ into the ‘under heaven’, shines – like so will be the Son of Man in his day. But first it is necessary for him himself to suffer many things and to be rejected from this generation.” (Luke’s AD 60 research report re Jesus: Chapter 17: 24-37)

What did these words of Jesus actually mean at that time? ("In his day ... the Son of Man ... will be ... like ... the lightning-flash, lightning-flashing ... under heaven.” “But first it is necessary for him himself to suffer many things and to be rejected from this generation.”) What are your thoughts? Jesus was “going into Jerusalem” where he would be rejected, tortured and killed. Was this the suffering of “many things.” Then he would rise from the dead. Is his resurrection from death the continuing “lightning-flash” to a world “under heaven” where every person will, actually and for certain, personally die? Why can’t we see it? “And, according as it came to be in the days of Noah, like so it will also be in the days of the Son of Man. They were eating, were drinking, were marrying, were being given in marriage, until a day when Noah came into the ark, and the cataclysm came and destroyed them all.” From the Bible’s first book – Genesis - we know something about “the days of Noah” “Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence.” Is history repeating itself today?
“Likewise, just as it came to be in the days of Lot—they were eating, were drinking, were buying, were selling, were planting, were house-building, but a day on which Lot came out from Sodom, it drenched fire and sulphur from heaven and destroyed them all.”	.
We also know from Genesis about “the days of Lot” and of “Sodom.” “In accord with these things themselves it will be in a day that the Son of Man is revealed.” In this general statement, Jesus seems to say that it is not only on one day that “the Son of Man is revealed.” "A day." Instead, he is drawing attention to the fact that he will be “revealed” in “a day” which will be similar to the days of Noah and Lot. Today as much as yesterday? “In the same day, the one will be upon the roof and his containers in the house – do not move down to take them! And likewise, the one in a field – do not turn around into the things behind. Remember Lot’s wife!” If you see the “lightning-flash” today take heed that what you have in your “containers” does not divert you. Nor your own past life. In Genesis, “Lot’s wife” turned her back on the “lightning-flash.” “If any person may seek to make his soul to remain for himself, he will destroy it. But any person who may destroy will generate life for it.” What did Jesus mean by “his soul”? His original recorded Greek words also translate as “his breath” or even “his life.” Jesus' statement immediately above is counter-intuitive. On “a day” when you see the “lightning-flash – the Son of Man in his day”, don’t opt to keep your "soul" for your own self. Instead, opting for Jesus will “generate life” for your whole being. “I state to you, in that night there will be two in one bed. The one will be taken along and the other sent away. There will be two women grinding upon the same task. One will be taken along and the other will be sent away.” Instead of “a day” for each of us, Jesus describes “that night” for all of us. A night of only two destinies. A night of separation.
And, answering, they stated to him, “Where, Lord?” But he said to them, “Where the body, there the eagles will be gathered together above.”	.
The disciples were desperate to know “where” people would be “sent away” on “that night.” Jesus pictured “eagles … above.” Are these the unseen powers of evil which evidence themselves all the time among us?

Sinner Syvret

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