Luke 17:26-37
The subject of these verses is one of peculiar solemnity. It is the second advent of our Lord Jesus Christ. That great event, and the things immediately connected with it, are here described by our Lord’s own lips.
We should observe, for one thing, in these verses, what a fearful picture our Lord gives of the state of the professing Church at His second coming. We are told that as it was in the “days of Noah,” and in the “days of Lot,” “so shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.” The character of those days we are not left to conjecture. We are told distinctly, that men were entirely taken up with eating, drinking, marrying, buying, selling, planting, building,–and would attend to nothing else. The flood came at last in Noah’s day, and drowned all except those who were in the ark. The fire fell from heaven at last in Lot’s day, and destroyed all except Lot, his wife, and his daughters. And our Lord declares most plainly that like things will happen when He comes again at the end of the world. “When they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them.” (1 Thess. 5:3)