Being Watchful and Beseeching to Escape
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Bible Verses~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Luke 21:34 But take heed to yourselves lest perhaps your hearts
be weighed down with debauchery and drunkenness and the
anxieties of life, and that day come upon you suddenly as a
snare. (35) For it will come in upon all those dwelling on the
face of all the earth. (36) But be watchful at every time,
beseeching that you would prevail to escape all these things
which are about to happen and stand before the Son of Man.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Words of Ministry~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The word "escape" in 21:36 signifies being taken, raptured,
before the great tribulation (Luke 17:34-36), which will be a
severe trial upon the whole inhabited earth (Matt. 24:21). To
be thus raptured is to be kept "out of the hour of trial which
is about to come on the whole inhabited earth, to try them who
dwell on the earth" (Rev. 3:10). Furthermore "all these things"
are the things of the great tribulation. To stand before the
Son of Man corresponds to the standing of those in Revelation
14:1. It indicates that the raptured overcomers will stand
before the Savior on Mount Zion in the heavens before the great
tribulation.
In verse 36 the Man-Savior charges us to be watchful. Instead
of being stupefied or drugged, we need to be vigilant.
Furthermore, at every time we need to beseech. This is not to
pray in a general way; it is to pray in a particular way that
we may prevail to escape the things that are about to take
place. As we have pointed out, to prevail in this way is to
have the strength and ability to escape the great tribulation.
We should not be caught in the trend of today's world. Instead,
we need to escape this trend. The strength and ability to
escape come from being watchful and from beseeching.
Whether or not we shall be raptured before the great
tribulation and be taken away to meet Christ on the throne does
not depend on Him. It depends on our watchfulness and on our
praying in a particular way. Constantly we need to be watchful
and beseeching that we may prevail to escape the great
tribulation. We need to pray that we may have the strength and
ability to escape the things that will take place on earth.
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(c) 2007 Living Stream Ministry. Bible verses are taken from
the Recovery Version of the Bible (RcV) and Words of Ministry,
from Witness Lee, Life-study of Luke, pp. 414,417. Both are
published by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, CA. (Repeat
4/12/02)
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