Daily Inspiration

Jesus said to his disciples: “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man; they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage up to the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. Similarly, as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building; on the day when Lot left Sodom, fire and brimstone rained from the sky to destroy them all. So it will be on the day the Son of Man is revealed. On that day, someone who is on the housetop and whose belongings are in the house must not go down to get them, and likewise one in the field must not return to what was left behind. Remember the wife of Lot. Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will save it. I tell you, on that night there will be two people in one bed; one will be taken, the other left. And there will be two women grinding meal together; one will be taken, the other left.” They said to him in reply, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the body is, there also the vultures will gather.” —Luke 17:26-37

Sometime in the 1830s, John Darby developed the idea of the rapture, and this passage is one of the verses used to illustrate it. But when I read this passage and others that he referenced, I do not see the righteous being taken away. With Noah, the righteous remained, and the wicked were taken. The same happened in the time of Lot; the righteous remained while the wicked were taken.

The enemy knows the value of trials and tribulation. The enemy knows what great blessings are placed there by Our Lord. He whispers to encourage weakness, so that we will turn and run from Christ’s blessings. Those who pick up their cross and follow Jesus will be saved, because the vultures gather in the world of the enemy, not in God’s Kingdom.

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