Monday, January 16, 2012

Read Luke 17:37. What do you think this means?

As we know, there are so many views on this verse, Luke 17:37 (the eagles be gathered together) that no one really knows what the meaning, including myself.  Let me give a very remote possibility as I kind of see it.  First, the word “eagle” in the KJV and “vultures” in the NIV and ISV, to me does not really make a difference.  Both are bird of prey.  What leads up to this, but individuals are taken or flee, depends on how you understand it. Why are they fleeing, because the great battle of Armageddon is coming.  You notice, they asked, where, Lord, will this take place.  Then Jesus said, wherever  the corpse (dead people), there the vultures will gather (to eat the flesh of dead people).   God call the birds together for the great supper to eat the flesh of dead people.  I kind of look at this when Jesus sets up His Kingdom right before the millennium starts.  See the following scriptures.

Blessing

Stephen

Luk 17:37  Then they asked him, "Where, Lord, will this take place?" He told them, "Wherever there's a corpse, there the vultures will gather."

(Luke 17:37 KJV)  And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord?  And he said unto them, Where so ever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.

(Luke 17:37 NIV)  "Where, Lord?" they asked. He replied, "Where there is a dead body, there the vultures will gather."

Eagle:  105. aetos, ah-et-os'; from the same as G109; an eagle (from its wind-like flight):--eagle.

Gathered together:  4863. sunago, soon-ag'-o; from G4862 and G71; to lead together, i.e. collect or convene; spec. to entertain (hospitably):--+ accompany, assemble (selves, together), bestow, come together, gather (selves together, up, together), lead into, resort, take in.

(Rev 16:16 NIV)  Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.

(Rev 16:14 NIV)  They are spirits of demons performing miraculous signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty.

(Rev 19:17-18 NIV)  And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in midair, "Come, gather together for the great supper of God, {18} so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and mighty men, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, small and great."




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