Section 3
Lord's coming. Lightning is concealed in a cloud, waiting for an opportunity to flash forth. Christ will also be clothed with a cloud (Rev. 10:1) in the air for a time, and then He will suddenly appear like a flash to the earth.
EXECUTING JUDGMENT ON THE CORRUPTED WORLD
In Luke 17:25 the Lord says, "But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation." Then in verses 26 through 29 He goes on to describe this generation, saying that the days of the Son of Man will be as the days of Noah (vv. 26-27) and the days of Lot (vv. 28-29). In the days of Noah certain conditions existed. People were stupefied by eating, drinking, marry ing, and being given in marriage. Furthermore, they did not know until the flood came and took them away. It will be the same in the days of the Son of Man. People will be stupefied by the necessities of this life, not knowing that God's judgment (signified by the flood) will come upon them by the Lord's coming. The believers, how ever, should be de-drugged and soberly know that the Lord is coming to execute God's judg ment upon this corrupted world.
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