Biblical teaching - T81

The Lord is warning you : He is coming very soon

Will He find you like Noah or like Lot ?

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            The Lord is deeply grieved, for He will be rejected by the whole of this last generation. He is not speaking of the Church, of His Bride who is waiting for Him. In verse 26 He says : « As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be also in the days of the Son of man ». When he says "the days of the Son of man", He means the days preceding His return. In these days, it will be as before the flood, which came as soon as the ark was built. « They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all ». All those who were outside the ark perished.

 

            The Lord also gives another instance : « Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot : they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; but the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. It will be thus in the day when the Son of man is revealed. In that day, he who will be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away (too late, that would be useless !), and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. Remember Lot's wife (her heart was still set on Sodom, so she became a pillar of salt). Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it ; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. (The one whose life is abandoned to Christ, who does not seek to save it by human means, and whose heart is not set on earthly things, this one will be alive in Christ) I tell you, in that night, there shall be two people in one bed : the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left ; two women shall be grinding together : the one shall be taken, and the other left ; two men shall be in the field : the one shall be taken and the other left. And they answered : Where, Lord ? And He told them : wherever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together ».

 

            The Lord says : "wherever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together" : This can be interpreted in different ways, for instance : the eagles represent the Lord's angels who will come in the last days to separate the good seed from the tares, God's sons from the devil's sons, in the field, that is to say the world. When the time comes for the final harvest, they will separate the Lord's harvest and gather it into the barn. The body mentioned here is Christ's body. The Lord mentions dead bodies, corpses : eagles swoop down on carcasses and carry them off. They also carry off living bodies. In other translations, the term "vultures" is used. They are birds of prey which carry off carcasses. Spiritually speaking, these eagles are actually angels who will carry off the Church, Christ's body, which on earth is as a corpse, for its members are dead to the things of this world (but alive in Christ). The Church is no longer alive to earthly things, it has died and been raised from the dead. The angels will carry off the Church which has indeed died and indeed been raised. We must be wholly dead to earthly things, so that Christ's resurrection life may be manifested through us. Christ is speaking about the end times and the time when His Bride will be caught up. And He sets two examples : Noah and Lot.

 

            This evening I would like to tell you some more about these two men. One of them, Noah, was a righteous man ; he and his whole family were saved by entering into the ark. He was the only righteous man at that time. And so was Lot in Sodom, but Noah and Lot are very different. Lot did not save his whole family, and he himself was barely saved. He was a righteous man, but he had chosen to go and live in the midst of Sodom, where he should not have been. In spite of that, the Word calls him a righteous man. However, these two men are very different. Noah was a righteous man who lived in the Spirit, walked in the Spirit, and lived in the Lord's victory. Lot was simply righteous, but there were so many compromises in his own life that he lived right in the midst of an ungodly city, although he himself remained a godly man.

 

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