Peace in Christ.
While the Son of man is being revealed (through those who manifest Him in their mortal flesh,) He will be rejected by the unbelievers of “this generation” (an evil and adulterous generation) in the man-based churches. “this generation” has certain attributes. See Proverbs 30:11-14 .
Pro 30:12 KJV
(12) There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
Luke 17:26-33 address His people who are going to their man-based churches while Luke 17:34-37 deals with the people who are in the outside world who are sitting in deep spiritual darkness.
The life of Jesus....the Son of man...is to be made manifest/shine in our MORTAL FLESH so that the people of the outside world shall see Him in us. We shall shine as lights to this dark world when He is revealed and they (the seeing and believing people of the outside world) shall be gathered with us. The Father will draw them toward Him/us.
2Co 4:10-11 KJV
(10) Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
(11) For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
But it will “business as usual” in the man-based unbelieving churches when the Son of man is being revealed.
They will continue on as usual in their activities until it is too late. They will reject the Son of man. They will hear His words and NOT believe nor will they believe when they will “see” Him through us.
Luk 17:25-29 KJV
(25) But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
(26) And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
(27) They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
(28) Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
(29) But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
The man-based church goers (both church leader and layperson) who will believe the Word of Truth when they will hear it must flee from them. Let them not return back to them.
Those who are on the “housetop” are those who have high positions in their churches. They must not take anything out of their church with them. They must leave it all behind.
And he that is “in the field” (that is, a worker bee that has no high position in their church, a layperson,) let him not RETURN BACK.
Luke 17:30-33 KJV
(30) Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
(31) In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
Remember Lot’s wife. Do not look back. Leave it all behind. We must lose those things completely.
(32) Remember Lot's wife.
(33) Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
Paul/Saul did not seek to “save his life” when confronted with the “excellency of the knowledge of Christ.” He counted all of his religious things that he once was zealous of as a loss in order to win Christ.
Php 3:7-10 KJV
(7) But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
(8) Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
He did not go about defending his own righteousness (which was of the law) but he was found in Him by having faith in Christ… the righteousness which is of God.
We also must be found in Him …having faith in what we hear Him saying…rather than be found by Him being contentious by defending our own “works of righteousness” which is being dictated by our church denominational handwritings of ordinances/dogmas.
(9) And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
(10) That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
Let him that is “in the field”…a church goer who does not have a high position in their church… flee from that man-based church and NOT TURN BACK AGAIN in order to “take up his garment.”
The Greek word for “garment” is “himation.” The himation is a classical Greek cloak, draped elegantly over the shoulders, symbolizing status. It is comparable to a Roman “toga” which symbolized a high status. A worker in the field does not have a high status.
Those whom we will leave behind will seek to allure you back to their churches “through the lusts of the flesh”….promising you a high position in their organization. You will no longer be a “slave” but a “free person” in them (according to their promise of “freedom.”)
Do not accept their promise and return. Do not “take up” your garment/himation that they will promise you if you return.
Mark 13:16
(16) And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment (himation).
The “himation” is symbolic of a high status. For example, the soldiers put on Jesus a purple “robe”….a purple himation....on Him.
Joh 19:2-3 KJV
(2) And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe (himation),
(3) And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.
The following verses in Luke 17 deal with the people of the outside world who will be received by Christ at His manifest PRESENCE (the revealing of the Son of man through us.) They will be received accordingly to Him. One will be “taken” or received while another will not be. They are the “great multitude” who will see and believe in Him. They are the “cloud” of eye witnesses that the Son of man comes upon. There the eagles (who see) will be gathered together wherever the "body"...the LIVING BODY of Christ...is.
Luke 17:34-37
(34) I tell you, in that night there shall be two in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
(35) Two shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
(36) Two shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
(37) And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body (SOMA = living body) is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.
When you shall see…that is, UNDERSTAND or discern…what the “abomination of desolation” is and where it is established (in the man-based churches,) we are to FLEE from them.
It is the handwriting of ordinances/dogmas that the church is “organized” around. It is structured by their “statements of faith” or “church constitutions” or “by-laws,” or “statutes,” or “creeds,” etc, etc, etc. They are "standing"....established in every organized church.
Daniel saw a “handwriting” on the wall written by a man’s hand.
Mar 13:14 KJV
(14) But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:
That organized church is void (desolate) of God’s glory for He does not give His glory to man’s gatherings around their “images”…their handwritings. He does not give His praise from those of the outside world to their gatherings. They are actively exchanging His glory for their “images” that their church scribes have written for them to keep and serve. His glory does not appear in them. His glory has departed.
We must flee from them. We must come out from among them and be separate and no longer be attached to them in their uncleanness and He will receive us. This is the “holy commandment” that is delivered to us to keep. We are to be completely separate from them to be sanctified...to be clean.
When we do His “holy commandment” and “clean escape” from them who live in error, they will try to allure us back through their great swelling words of emptiness…alluring us back through the lusts of the flesh….such as giving us a higher position in their “churches.” Do not RETURN BACK to take up your “garment”…the “himation” that they will promise you if you do go back.
2Pe 2:18-22 KJV
(18) For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
(19) While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
“For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world.” The defilements of the “world” ( the Greek word for "world": “KOSMOS” - an apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government ornament, decoration, adornment) is the abomination of desolation.
We are defiled by the “world”…that is, by the “orderly arrangement” of the church handwriting such as a “church constitution” which is an “orderly” governing document that that church is “built” upon. It is “standing” or established where it should not be found: in our places of worship of God. They are not keeping His commandments which are written upon our hearts and minds. No, instead they are keeping and serving their external writings rather than His internal writings.
In Greek, kosmos (κόσμος) fundamentally means orderly arrangement or a harmonious and well-ordered system… an apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government ornament, decoration, adornment, ie the arrangement of the stars, 'the heavenly hosts'.
It encompasses the idea of something that is arranged in a structured way, often with an emphasis on visual appearance or design.
While often translated as "world" or "universe," the core meaning of kosmos in Greek thought is rooted in the concept of order and structure, rather than just physical space
It's not just a physical space, but also the way things are arranged and organized within that space.
For if AFTER they have escaped the pollutions/defilements of the "world"....the abomination of desolation of the "orderly arrangement" of their church governing documents....
(20) For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world (the orderly arrangement....the church handwritings of ordinances)through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
Remember Lot’s wife and not look back. Let us not return back after having known the way of righteousness…to flee the man-based churches and be completely separate from them.
(21) For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
(22) But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
While the Son of man is being revealed (through those who manifest Him in their mortal flesh,) He will be rejected by the unbelievers of “this generation” (an evil and adulterous generation) in the man-based churches. “this generation” has certain attributes. See Proverbs 30:11-14 .
Pro 30:12 KJV
(12) There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
Luke 17:26-33 address His people who are going to their man-based churches while Luke 17:34-37 deals with the people who are in the outside world who are sitting in deep spiritual darkness.
The life of Jesus....the Son of man...is to be made manifest/shine in our MORTAL FLESH so that the people of the outside world shall see Him in us. We shall shine as lights to this dark world when He is revealed and they (the seeing and believing people of the outside world) shall be gathered with us. The Father will draw them toward Him/us.
2Co 4:10-11 KJV
(10) Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
(11) For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
But it will “business as usual” in the man-based unbelieving churches when the Son of man is being revealed.
They will continue on as usual in their activities until it is too late. They will reject the Son of man. They will hear His words and NOT believe nor will they believe when they will “see” Him through us.
Luk 17:25-29 KJV
(25) But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.
(26) And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
(27) They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
(28) Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
(29) But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
The man-based church goers (both church leader and layperson) who will believe the Word of Truth when they will hear it must flee from them. Let them not return back to them.
Those who are on the “housetop” are those who have high positions in their churches. They must not take anything out of their church with them. They must leave it all behind.
And he that is “in the field” (that is, a worker bee that has no high position in their church, a layperson,) let him not RETURN BACK.
Luke 17:30-33 KJV
(30) Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
(31) In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.
Remember Lot’s wife. Do not look back. Leave it all behind. We must lose those things completely.
(32) Remember Lot's wife.
(33) Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
Paul/Saul did not seek to “save his life” when confronted with the “excellency of the knowledge of Christ.” He counted all of his religious things that he once was zealous of as a loss in order to win Christ.
Php 3:7-10 KJV
(7) But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.
(8) Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
He did not go about defending his own righteousness (which was of the law) but he was found in Him by having faith in Christ… the righteousness which is of God.
We also must be found in Him …having faith in what we hear Him saying…rather than be found by Him being contentious by defending our own “works of righteousness” which is being dictated by our church denominational handwritings of ordinances/dogmas.
(9) And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:
(10) That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
Let him that is “in the field”…a church goer who does not have a high position in their church… flee from that man-based church and NOT TURN BACK AGAIN in order to “take up his garment.”
The Greek word for “garment” is “himation.” The himation is a classical Greek cloak, draped elegantly over the shoulders, symbolizing status. It is comparable to a Roman “toga” which symbolized a high status. A worker in the field does not have a high status.
Those whom we will leave behind will seek to allure you back to their churches “through the lusts of the flesh”….promising you a high position in their organization. You will no longer be a “slave” but a “free person” in them (according to their promise of “freedom.”)
Do not accept their promise and return. Do not “take up” your garment/himation that they will promise you if you return.
Mark 13:16
(16) And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment (himation).
The “himation” is symbolic of a high status. For example, the soldiers put on Jesus a purple “robe”….a purple himation....on Him.
Joh 19:2-3 KJV
(2) And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe (himation),
(3) And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands.
The following verses in Luke 17 deal with the people of the outside world who will be received by Christ at His manifest PRESENCE (the revealing of the Son of man through us.) They will be received accordingly to Him. One will be “taken” or received while another will not be. They are the “great multitude” who will see and believe in Him. They are the “cloud” of eye witnesses that the Son of man comes upon. There the eagles (who see) will be gathered together wherever the "body"...the LIVING BODY of Christ...is.
Luke 17:34-37
(34) I tell you, in that night there shall be two in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
(35) Two shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
(36) Two shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
(37) And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body (SOMA = living body) is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.
When you shall see…that is, UNDERSTAND or discern…what the “abomination of desolation” is and where it is established (in the man-based churches,) we are to FLEE from them.
It is the handwriting of ordinances/dogmas that the church is “organized” around. It is structured by their “statements of faith” or “church constitutions” or “by-laws,” or “statutes,” or “creeds,” etc, etc, etc. They are "standing"....established in every organized church.
Daniel saw a “handwriting” on the wall written by a man’s hand.
Mar 13:14 KJV
(14) But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:
That organized church is void (desolate) of God’s glory for He does not give His glory to man’s gatherings around their “images”…their handwritings. He does not give His praise from those of the outside world to their gatherings. They are actively exchanging His glory for their “images” that their church scribes have written for them to keep and serve. His glory does not appear in them. His glory has departed.
We must flee from them. We must come out from among them and be separate and no longer be attached to them in their uncleanness and He will receive us. This is the “holy commandment” that is delivered to us to keep. We are to be completely separate from them to be sanctified...to be clean.
When we do His “holy commandment” and “clean escape” from them who live in error, they will try to allure us back through their great swelling words of emptiness…alluring us back through the lusts of the flesh….such as giving us a higher position in their “churches.” Do not RETURN BACK to take up your “garment”…the “himation” that they will promise you if you do go back.
2Pe 2:18-22 KJV
(18) For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
(19) While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
“For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world.” The defilements of the “world” ( the Greek word for "world": “KOSMOS” - an apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government ornament, decoration, adornment) is the abomination of desolation.
We are defiled by the “world”…that is, by the “orderly arrangement” of the church handwriting such as a “church constitution” which is an “orderly” governing document that that church is “built” upon. It is “standing” or established where it should not be found: in our places of worship of God. They are not keeping His commandments which are written upon our hearts and minds. No, instead they are keeping and serving their external writings rather than His internal writings.
In Greek, kosmos (κόσμος) fundamentally means orderly arrangement or a harmonious and well-ordered system… an apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government ornament, decoration, adornment, ie the arrangement of the stars, 'the heavenly hosts'.
It encompasses the idea of something that is arranged in a structured way, often with an emphasis on visual appearance or design.
While often translated as "world" or "universe," the core meaning of kosmos in Greek thought is rooted in the concept of order and structure, rather than just physical space
It's not just a physical space, but also the way things are arranged and organized within that space.
For if AFTER they have escaped the pollutions/defilements of the "world"....the abomination of desolation of the "orderly arrangement" of their church governing documents....
(20) For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world (the orderly arrangement....the church handwritings of ordinances)through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
Remember Lot’s wife and not look back. Let us not return back after having known the way of righteousness…to flee the man-based churches and be completely separate from them.
(21) For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
(22) But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
