The Coming of The Kingdom

The Coming of the Kingdom
Luke 17.20-37

What does the word ‘apocalypse’ conjure up to you? Hollywood fantasies? Stars falling from the sky, volcanoes and earthquakes? People in terror, panicking and rushing this way and that?

The Bible has plenty of apocalypses, and sometimes they sound like that. This passage is one of them: Noah’s flood sweeping everybody away, and fire and sulphur raining on Sodom as Lot and his family escape. That’s exactly the sort of thing many people think of when they hear the word ‘apocalypse’...

Taken from Luke for Everyone – by Tom Wright