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Luke 17:30
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The destruction of Sodom is a picture of the second coming. Many of the circumstances will be the same when the Lord Jesus Christ returns. Life will continue in its daily patterns, as if the world expects no answer from heaven to all its wickedness. Man will be acting as if he is going to live forever, and as if nothing could stop the onward march of human progress: knowledge and ingenuity and discovery. Man proceeds with such confidence to walk into the future. That which ought to be obvious to him is hidden from him because he is wilfully blind. He has blinded himself by suppressing his conscience, and refusing to accept his guilt. But the world will be trapped and unable to escape; the people of God will be removed out of the way, ‘for the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord’ (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17). The Son of man will be revealed with equal suddenness to a flash of lightning, and to the destruction of Sodom, and God’s people will be removed first, and then the rest will be unable to escape.
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These are solemn warnings of the Lord. They are recorded to make men fear, and to give them due warning. Fear will not bring them to the Lord, but it may cause them to start to seek him. Who that was not completely insensitive would not fear to arrive at that day unprepared? Christ tells us to look ahead, and to imagine what it would be to let that day come upon us unexpectedly. We receive these warnings from the only one who knows the future.
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