[Propertalk] Quotes for Luke 21:25-36 for 1 Advent - Part 1

[Joe Parrish]

In the Revised Common Lectionary, the season of Advent (Latin for coming to) begins with a look to the future coming (???????? - parousia in Greek) of the Son of Man. (NOTE: the phrase "second coming" doesn't occur in scriptures!) The subsequent Sundays in Advent focus on the past coming of Jesus as a baby in Bethlehem.

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These signs "in the sun and moon and stars" allude back to the prophets.

 

Isaiah 13:9-10

            See, the day of the LORD comes,

                        cruel, with wrath and fierce anger,

            to make the earth a desolation,

                        and to destroy its sinners from it.

            For the stars of the heavens and their constellations

                        will not give their light;

            the sun will be dark at its rising,

                        and the moon will not shed its light.

 

Ezekiel 32:7-8

            When I blot you out, I will cover the heavens,

                        and make their stars dark;

            I will cover the sun with a cloud,

                        and the moon shall not give its light.

            All the shining lights of the heavens

                        I will darken above you,

                        and put darkness on your land,

                                    says the Lord GOD.

 

Joel 2:30-31

I will show portents in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD comes.



These heavenly signs do not just point forward to the coming, but also backwards as fulfillment of the prophets' word. 

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Apocalyptic literature is written primarily to give hope and assurance to people in the midst of suffering. 



http://www.crossmarks.com/brian/luke21x25.htm



Brian Stoffregen

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Whereas Mark seems to tie these events to the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, Luke - writing nearly two decades later - distances the promised end of history and the Temple's destruction. Luke is, in fact, down right vague about when Jesus will return, refusing to offer any hint of a timetable. 



http://www.workingpreacher.org/preaching.aspx?lect_date=11/29/2009&tab=4



David Lose, 2009



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Then there will be "wars and insurrections" (v. 9), but "the end will not follow immediately" (as people expected). Disastrous natural phenomena, cause for great distress, will occur (v. 11), and when Jerusalem is surrounded by armies (v. 20), the city will soon fall: either physically or spiritually. Again the end will be delayed: the killing and deportation of citizens will continue "until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled" (v. 24), i.e. until non-Jews have had the opportunity to come to Christ.



http://montreal.anglican.org/comments/archive/cadv1m.shtml



Chris Haslam

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Verse 27: "they will see 'the Son of Man coming ...'": Daniel 7:13 says "As I watched in the night visions, I saw one like a human being coming with the clouds of heaven. And he came to the Ancient One and was presented before him." 

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Verses 34-36: <> The terminology is so akin to Paul's that perhaps Luke is using a fragment from some lost epistle written by Paul or one of his disciples: for v. 34, see 1 Thessalonians 5:1-3; for v. 34a, see 1 Thessalonians 5:7; for v. 36, see 1 Thessalonians 5:8-10, 18. Even the rare Greek word agrypneo appears here and in 1 Thessalonians.

http://montreal.anglican.org/comments/archive/cadv1l.shtml

Chris Haslam

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