"WHAT JESUS SAID" Part #6

CONCLUSION
As you read this account someone might notice that the Lord did not mention the sins listed in the Old Testament. His comment on the conditions of the last days regarded some things that don't appear wrong at all. He mentioned such things as eating and drinking. He spoke of marrying and
giving in marriage. Then again how about what He said about buying, selling, planting, and building. What is wrong with any of those things? They are all necessary. What's wrong with marrying? There are a few people left today who actually go to the trouble of getting a license and having a marriage
ceremony. Now what's wrong with that? What's wrong with giving in marriage? Who gives this woman to be married to this man? I do! And he can have her. What's wrong with that? What's wrong with planting? If the farmers don't plant this year we all are in real trouble. What's wrong with that?
What is wrong with buying and selling? I would hate to think that if I went to the super market I would find the place pad locked and they could not sell and I could not buy. What is wrong with buying a house or a car or selling such things? Nothing? Then why did Jesus bring it up? There are at least two reasons. The first reason: Jesus went back to the days before the flood thousands of years ago to show us that the nature of people has not changed. They ate, drank, planted, bought, sold, married, were given in marriage, and then they committed the same sins that people do today. We are more polished. We have invented things for our life style that would have boggled the minds of the ancients, but we are no better, nothing has changed about our human nature. They ate, drank, married, gave in marriage, planted, built, bought, sold, and were on a collision course with destruction and so are we.
The second reason Jesus mentioned these things that are alright in themselves was to point out the fact that these ancients were just like us also, because to them all these good things was a way of life. They thought let the good times roll. They will never end. They go on forever. Nothing
can stop it. My house, my car, my family, my money, my sports team, my television programs, my movies, my job--this is the sum total of life. It goes on and on and on endlessly. And then one day surprise, surprise, the flood came in Noah's day and the fire fell on Sodom. The biggest sin of all
in both cases was greater than all their violence, perversion, and corruption. The greatest sin of all is that they, like us, lived with no preparation for eternity. There is one statement that Jesus made regarding Lot's wife that needs emphasis. He said it six times-twice in Matthew, once in Mark, twice
in Luke, and once in John. He repeated it more than any other statement that He made while on earth. Whosoever shall seek to gain his life shall lose it: but whosoever shall lose his life for My sake shall find it. Jesus concluded His message on His Second Coming with these words: "I tell you, in that night there shall be two men 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 and said unto him, "Where, Lord? And he said unto them, "Where so ever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together." Eagles seem to be a generic term for buzzards since the eagle does not eat dead meat. Wherever you find a dead body you will see the buzzards gather. Before a battle begins it is reported that the soldiers see buzzards roosting in the trees waiting for the feast to begin. The lesson of Jesus on the buzzards is clear. When ever this world becomes as morally rotten, putrefied, and stinking, as it was in the days of Noah, Lot, and Lot's wife, that condition will draw the Judgement of God.
In Revelation we read: "And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great." Where so ever the carcass is. Just look up, and by the eye of faith you can see the buzzards making lazy circles over the rotting carcass of humanity. How long will God endure the stench, the foul odor, of a drug infested, sports crazed, sexually perverted, shacked up, violent, pleasure mad, world? It is in regards to days such as these that Jesus promised, "I come
again."
Get right with God if you are not. God Bless until our next time.