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KINGDOM COME<\/u><\/b><\/h1>\n

Luke 17: 20-37<\/b><\/h2>\n

by Rev. Richard Jones<\/b><\/h2>\n

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Observable<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Luke 17:20-21 (ESV) <\/b>
\n20 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them, \u201cThe kingdom of God is not coming in ways that can be observed,<\/span>
\n21 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0nor will they say, \u2018Look, here it is!\u2019 or \u2018There!\u2019 for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.\u201d<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

Joel 2:30-31 (ESV) <\/b>
\n30 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0\u201cAnd I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.
\n31 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the LORD<\/span> comes.<\/p>\n

John 3:3 (ESV) <\/b>
\n3 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Jesus answered him, \u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Obvious<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Luke 17:22-25 (ESV) <\/b>
\n22 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And he said to the disciples, \u201cThe days are coming when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it.<\/span>
\n23 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And they will say to you, \u2018Look, there!\u2019 or \u2018Look, here!\u2019 Do not go out or follow them.<\/span>
\n24 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day.<\/span>
\n25 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.<\/span><\/p>\n

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 (ESV) <\/b>
\n16 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
\n17 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.<\/p>\n

Matthew 24:29-30 (ESV) <\/b>
\n29 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0\u201cImmediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.<\/span>
\n30 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

John 1:11 (ESV) <\/b>
\n11 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.<\/p>\n

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Oblivious<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Luke 17:26-30 (ESV) <\/b>
\n26 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Just as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of Man.<\/span>
\n27 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.<\/span>
\n28 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot\u2014they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building,<\/span>
\n29 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0but on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, fire and sulfur rained from heaven and destroyed them all\u2014<\/span>
\n30 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0so will it be on the day when the Son of Man is revealed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Occasion<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Luke 17:31-33 (ESV) <\/b>
\n31 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0On that day, let the one who is on the housetop, with his goods in the house, not come down to take them away, and likewise let the one who is in the field not turn back.<\/span>
\n32 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Remember Lot\u2019s wife.<\/span>
\n33 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will keep it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Matthew 24:15-22 (ESV) <\/b>
\n15 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0\u201cSo when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),<\/span>
\n16 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.<\/span>
\n17 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Let the one who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house,<\/span>
\n18 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak.<\/span>
\n19 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days!<\/span>
\n20 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath.<\/span>
\n21 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.<\/span>
\n22 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Occurrence<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Luke 17:34-37 (ESV) <\/b>
\n34 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed. One will be taken and the other left.<\/span>
\n35 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0There will be two women grinding together. One will be taken and the other left.\u201d<\/span>
\n37 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And they said to him, \u201cWhere, Lord?\u201d He said to them, \u201cWhere the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Matthew 13:40-43 (ESV) <\/b>
\n40 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Just as the weeds are gathered and burned with fire, so will it be at the end of the age.<\/span>
\n41 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers,<\/span>
\n42 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.<\/span>
\n43 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.<\/span><\/p>\n

2 Peter 3:8-11 (ESV) <\/b>
\n8 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
\n9 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
\n10 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.
\n11 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,<\/span><\/p>\n

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