24.32 Even for the end of the world, the commonplace agricultural metaphors keep coming!
24.34 Compare 16.28. Although that happened in 33 AD; this happened in 70 AD.
24.36 This alone should be enough to silence the speculation about the exact date of Christ’s return: but still we debate it. It also tells us that the persons of the Trinity do not share everything.
24.40 Partly because of the Noah analogy, we tend to assume that the ones taken are the faithful going to heaven; but it could equally be that the faithful are the ones who remain to enjoy a cleansed Creation (as after the Flood). Verse 51 implies this too: the faithful remain.
24.42 Here is another lesson for the end-times: “keep watch”, “be ready” (v44), faithful stewardship (v46).
I remember a workplace like that, too! And how shocked I was, a teenager full of energy and used to conscientious work in school. What, even when teacher wasn’t around? Sometimes, yes. The time allowed was plenty, and it was obvious whether you’d done the work or not. At work, “don’t go at it so fast: you’ll soon tire, and you’ll show up the rest of us too.”
A good warning, especially to the under-shepherds of God’s flock.
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