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Sounds like the makings of a good thread.
Fulfilled in 70AD Jerusalem/Judea....................
"WHERE THE BODY is, there the EAGLES be gathered" Matt 24 Luke 17-- and Revelation
Acts 1:8
But ye will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you,
and ye will be My witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Matthew 24:28
for wherever the corpse<4430> may be, there shall the eagles/vultures be gathered together<4863>.
Revelation 11:
8 And their corpse/s<4430> shall lie in the street<4113> of the great City, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt,
where also our Lord was crucified.
9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their corpse/s G4430 three days and an half,
and shall not suffer their corpses G4430 to be put in a tomb<3418>
Luke 17:37
And they answering say to him, 'Where, sir?'
and He saith to them, 'Where the body<4983> is, there will the eagles/vultures<105> be gathered together<1996>.'
Revelation 18:13
“and cinnamon and incense, fragrant oil and frankincense, wine and oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots,
and bodies<4983> and souls of men.
Revelation 19
17 And I saw one messenger standing in the sun, and he cries-out in great voice, saying to all the birds, the ones flying in mid-heaven, "hither! be ye being gathered!<4863> into the Supper<1173> of the Great God.
18 That ye may be eating fleshes of kings......[Zeph 1:17/Ezekiel 39:19]
LittleLambofJesus said: ↑
Sounds like the makings of a good thread.
Fulfilled in 70AD Jerusalem/Judea....................
"WHERE THE BODY is, there the EAGLES be gathered" Matt 24 Luke 17-- and Revelation
Acts 1:8
But ye will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you,
and ye will be My witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Matthew 24:28
for wherever the corpse<4430> may be, there shall the eagles/vultures be gathered together<4863>.
Revelation 11:
8 And their corpse/s<4430> shall lie in the street<4113> of the great City, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt,
where also our Lord was crucified.
9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their corpse/s G4430 three days and an half,
and shall not suffer their corpses G4430 to be put in a tomb<3418>
Luke 17:37
And they answering say to him, 'Where, sir?'
and He saith to them, 'Where the body<4983> is, there will the eagles/vultures<105> be gathered together<1996>.'
Revelation 18:13
“and cinnamon and incense, fragrant oil and frankincense, wine and oil, fine flour and wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots,
and bodies<4983> and souls of men.
Revelation 19
17 And I saw one messenger standing in the sun, and he cries-out in great voice, saying to all the birds, the ones flying in mid-heaven, "hither! be ye being gathered!<4863> into the Supper<1173> of the Great God.
18 That ye may be eating fleshes of kings......[Zeph 1:17/Ezekiel 39:19]
Just showing members here where those particular Greek words are used in certain chapters of Revelation in relation to the 70AD Olivet Discourse.........You seem to be mixing the two witnesses together with the wicked, in this post.
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In executing the command of Titus, relative to the demolition of Jerusalem, the Roman soldiers not only threw down the buildings, but even dug up their foundations, and so completely levelled the whole circuit of the city, that a stranger would scarcely have known that it had ever been inhabited by human beings. Thus was this great City, which only five months before, had been crowded with nearly two millions of people, who gloried in its impregnable strength, entirely depopulated, and levelled with the ground. And thus, also was our LORD'S prediction, that her enemies should "lay her even with the ground," and "should not leave in her one stone upon another, " (Luke xix. 44.) most strikingly and fully accomplished ! --LLoJ..
Revelation 19:17 And I saw one messenger standing in the sun, and he cries-out in great voice, saying to all the birds, the ones flying in mid-heaven, "hither! be ye being gathered! into the Supper of the Great God. 18 That Ye may be eating fleshes of kings......[Zephaniah 1:17/Ezekiel 39:19]
Just showing members here where those particular Greek words are used in certain chapters of Revelation in relation to the 70AD Olivet Discourse.........
I will be more than happy to discuss that on this other thread........Just because the same word is being used, does not mean it applies equally to the same group of people.
Will the two witnesses be eaten by vultures?
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The source is found below.
Rev 11:8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
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Which is what I have told them umpteen times. The Harlot = All False Religion of ALL TIME. And the Beast of course represents All False Governance of ALL TIME {Statue with head of Gold etc.}This "great city" is not literal. It is referring to symbolically, "Babylon the Great"-the "harlot." (Rev. 17:5, 15) This city is also so compared symbolically to the "woman sitting upon a scarlet-colored wild beast"-Rev. 17:3.
What symbolic entity could have a "kingdom over the kings of the earth"? (Rev. 17:18) It certainly is not human. Such "city," "woman," "harlot," or "Babylon the Great" is nothing other than the World Empire of False Religion.
It is also that spiritual Sodom and Egypt into whom the fear of God enters after a series of events takes place. No such thing happens in Babylon.
there shall be two men on one couch[/QUOTE]
35 two women shall be grinding
34 ‘I say to you, In that night, there shall be two men on one couch, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;
35 two women shall be grinding at the same place together, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;
36 two men shall be in the field, the one shall be taken, and the other left.’
LittleLambofJesus said: ↑
Luke 17:34 there shall be two men on one couch
35 two women shall be grinding
Luke 17..............What are you quoting here??? Two men on a couch and two women grinding?
==================================Luke 17:34-https://biblehub.com/commentaries/luke/17-34.htm35. But the decision at the Parousia, what a separation it will be!—a separation of those who are in the temporal life united in a perfectly common position. This is symbolically represented in two examples. Comp., moreover, on Matthew 24:40 f.
ταύτῃ τῇ νυκτί] which Bengel, in opposition to the context, explains: in this present night, is neither to be interpreted in tempore illo calamitoso (Kuinoel, who says that the night is imago miseriae; Micah 3:6; comp. Grotius and Bleek), nor to be pressed to the conclusion that the Parousia is definitely ordained to take place by night (de Wette, who finds the ground for this view in the comparison of the Messiah with a thief in the night), in respect of which the following grinding at the mill as an occupation of the day-time is held as left standing inappropriately from Matthew, but the horror of the night belongs to the imagery of the concrete representation.[221] At Luke 17:35, however, there is again a departure from this feature, because a graphic touch of a different kind is added to the idea. Day and hour, even the Son knoweth not, Matthew 24:36; comp. Acts 1:7.
ἐπὶ κλίνης μιᾶς] not in general: they shall be bed-fellows (Lange), but, according to the words and the concrete representation: they shall find themselves on one bed. A warning against precipitate separation of mingled domestic relations (Lange) is altogether foreign to this passage.
[221] It is not on account of the example of the two in bed together that the night is named (Hofmann, Schriftbew. II. 2, p. 626), but conversely the idea of the night-time suggested that illustration.
==============================Luke 17:34-37. The final separation (Matthew 24:40-41).
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
34. two men in one bed] Not necessarily men; but human beings, e.g. man and wife. The numerals are of course masculine, because the man might be either the one ‘taken’ or the one ‘left.’
=====================Luke 17:34. Ταύτῃ τῇ νυκτὶ, in this night [not as Engl. Vers. “in that night”]) He does not say, ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ “in that day,” comp. Luke 17:31 : Matthew 26:31 [ἐν τῇ νυκτὶ ταύτῃ, “All ye shall be offended because of Me this night”]. There are in our own day, saith He, persons who shall reach those times so widely different. Comp. the here in ch. Luke 9:27 [“There be some standing here,” etc., speaking of an event about to happen presently]. The event followed in the same generation: Matthew 24:34 [“This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled”].—εἷς) [the one]. So very many MSS.: and the expression, εἷς—ὁ ἓτερος, is used just as ἑνὸς—τοῦ ἑτέρου [the one—the other], ch. Luke 16:13; and πέντε—καὶ αἱ πέντε in Matthew 25:2.[192] Presently after, in Luke 17:35, Mill has omitted to notice, that in Luke 17:35 ἡ has also been omitted before μία, and that too in the text of Stephens’ Edition.[193]
[192] “The one set of five—and the other set of five.” So Scholz reads, αἱ πέντε; but Lachm. and Tisch. omit αἱ.—E. and T.
[193] In Luke 17:34 AD read εἷς. B (judging from the silence of the collations) and Rec. Text, ὁ εἷς. In Luke 17:35 ALXΔ read μία: and so Tisch. BD and Rec. Text (Elzev.), ἡ μία: and so Lachm.—E. and T.
===================Verses 34, 35. - 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, the other left. How taken? Not, as some scholars have supposed, taken only to perish, but taken away by the Lord in the way described by St. Paul in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, where he paints how the faithful servant who is living when the Lord returns in glory, will be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. The other will be left. Thus, as it has been strikingly observed, "the beings who have been most closely connected here below shall, in the twinkling of an eye, be parted for ever."
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary(34, 35) Two men in one bed.—See Notes on Matthew 24:40-41. The one to be “taken” is probably here, as there, the man who is rescued from destruction. Here there is a variation enough to prove independence, the “two in one bed” being prefixed to the examples given in St. Matthew as an instance of even closer companionship.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible17:20-37 The kingdom of God was among the Jews, or rather within some of them. It was a spiritual kingdom, set up in the heart by the power of Divine grace. Observe how it had been with sinners formerly, and in what state the judgments of God, which they had been warned of, found them. Here is shown what a dreadful surprise this destruction will be to the secure and sensual. Thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. When Christ came to destroy the Jewish nation by the Roman armies, that nation was found in such a state of false security as is here spoken of. In like manner, when Jesus Christ shall come to judge the world, sinners will be found altogether regardless; for in like manner the sinners of every age go on securely in their evil ways, and remember not their latter end. But wherever the wicked are, who are marked for eternal ruin, they shall be found by the judgments of God.
Matthew Poole's CommentarySee the notes at Matthew 24:40-41. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary34. two in one bed—the prepared and unprepared mingled in closest intercourse together in the ordinary walks and fellowships of life, when the moment of severance arrives. Awful truth! realized before the destruction of Jerusalem, when the Christians found themselves forced by their Lord's directions (Lu 21:21) at once and for ever away from their old associates; but most of all when the second coming of Christ shall burst upon a heedless world.
Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleVer. 34-36. See Poole on "Matthew 24:40", See Poole on "Matthew 24:41". These verses seem to respect the day of judgment, and that dreadful separation which shall be in that day between the sheep and the goats. It is true also of Christ’s day in the preaching of the gospel; but that seemeth not to be the sense of this text. They can hardly be applied to the destruction of Jerusalem; it was so universal as hardly any were there left.
Geneva Study BibleI tell you, in that night,.... Of affliction and calamity, that shall be upon the Jewish nation, and which is before called that day, Luke 17:31 and therefore is not to be understood literally of the night:
there shall be two men in one bed; this is said agreeably to the time, the night before mentioned, that being the time to be in bed, at rest and asleep; for they that sleep, sleep in the night; and still suggests the security the people of the Jews would be in, at the time of their destruction. The word "men" is not in the text, it is only, "there shall be two in one bed"; and may as well be understood of a man and his wife, since it is not so usual for two men to lie in one bed; and this the rather more strongly expresses the distinguishing providence of God in saving one, and suffering the other to be taken and lost: the words may be rendered, "there shall be two upon one couch": that is, sitting together at supper, which was also in the night season: it was the custom of the ancients to sit upon beds, or couches, at meals; and they had a bed, or couch, which held two persons only, and was called Biclinium (h): and so this likewise intimates, that the destruction of the Jews would be at a time when they were thoughtless of it, and were eating and drinking, as in the days of Noah and of Lot, Luke 17:27.
The one shall be taken; by the Roman soldiers:
and the other shall be left; being, by one providence or another preserved; which is mentioned, to show the distinction God will make in his providence, and to encourage believers to trust in it.
(h) Vid. Alstorph. de Lectis Veter. c. 15. p. 90, 91.
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.
Luke 17..............
Luke 17:34 Commentaries: biblehub
EXEGETICAL (ORIGINAL LANGUAGES)
Meyer's NT Commentary
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Expositor's Greek Testament
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Bengel's Gnomen
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Pulpit Commentary
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EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Matthew Poole's Commentary
Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
Geneva Study Bible
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EXPOSITORY (ENGLISH BIBLE)
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary
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