Heaven is God’s home, but earth is his as well. He knows that his coming to power feels so different for those who claim to be running the world than it does for the servants of its true Owner. The unexpected humour rises from the king’s astounding empathy. But if you see God as the owner engaging us as his servants to care for everyone, Jesus is coming to restore the house and reward the faithful servants. If you see yourself as the owner, watch out: Jesus is coming to rob you. Whether Jesus is burglar or boss depends on who owns the house. 47 Truly I say to you that he will appoint him over all his affairs. 44 Through what I’m telling you, become ready, since the son of man comes when you’re not expecting him.Ĥ5 Who could be the dependable and insightful servant whom the lord of the house appointed to provide food for them at the right time? 46 Blessed is the servant who is found doing that when his lord comes. 43 You know that if the householder had known which night-watch the thief would come, he’d have stayed alert and not let his house be robbed. Matthew 24:42-47 (my translation, compare NIV)Ĥ2 So, stay vigilant, because you don’t know which day your Lord comes. Suddenly he’s running the household instead of robbing it: You don’t expect the heaven-anointed king to come like a thief in the dark to rob the householder!īut before you can ask, “Say, what?” he flips the metaphor. He saw that they thought only about evil things all the time.”Īnd has not our society and the rest of the world done the same thing? Just like in Noah’s day we’ve experienced a total moral collapse in spite of far greater divine revelation than Noah ever had.How would you describe Jesus’ role in God’s household? Is he the master of the house, entrusted by the heavenly Father with restoring order to his earthly house? Or is he coming as a thief to take power from those who currently claim to run the world?Ī wicked sense of humour probably isn’t the right descriptor for Jesus, but he certainly spun yarns and mixed metaphors in crazy-creative ways. “The Lord saw that the people on the earth were very evil. God’s laws are written within them …” Genesis 6:5 ERV “… He will punish the heathen when they sin, even though they never had God’s written laws, for down in their hearts they know right from wrong. “Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” Romans 2:15 TLB Noah’s day witnessed universal moral collapse Genesis 6:5 NKJV ![]() Let’s look at it and see how the days of Noah measure up to our day, our culture, and our world: I. Genesis 6 expands on this and tells us that the days of Noah were very wicked. Yet we note that Jesus makes no mention of God in their life-God was out of the picture! They were doing life as usual, but it was a godless life-God had no place in their lifestyles or even in their thinking. “For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.” He said it will be just like it was in the days of Noah: Matthew 24:40-41 NKJV “But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat both the earth and the works that’s are in it will be burned up.”Īnd here is a key sign Jesus gave us to look for. “For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.” 2 Peter 3:10 ![]() Blessed is he who watches … ” 1 Thessalonians 5:2 42 Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming.Ĥ3 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.Ĥ4 Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”įour times in the New Testament (NT) the return of Jesus is likened to a thief in the night-2 times by Jesus himself, once by Paul and once by Peter. 41 Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other left. 40 Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and the other left. ![]() 38 For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, 39 and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. 37 But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.
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