Salvation belongs to the LORD. Your blessing is upon Your people. Selah – Psalms 3:8 (NKJV)
(vv.36-38)
The Master was
The Master has
The Master is
The servants are to be for His
Blessed are those servants, whom the lord (master [ESV]) when he cometh shall find watching (v.37) (CWSB)
Watching: grēgoreō – to be awake, to watch, to be watchful, vigilant (MCED)
The waiting is (v.36)
His Question: am I ?
Waiting: prosdechomai – to admit (to intercourse, hospitality, credence, or endurance); by implication, to await (with confidence or patience)
… but through love serve one another. – Galatians 5:13 (NASB95)
Who gets served when the Master returns? Those who are and for His return (v.37)
Doesn’t matter when He comes, (v.38)
In our story the servants apparently know the just not the (They know the )
Jesus tells us that this parable is about (v.40)
Jesus says we won’t know the hour:
Hour: hora – hour, a time, season (CWSB Dictionary)
In the last days Israel becomes a again
…you will come up against My people Israel like a cloud to cover the land. It shall come about in the last days that I will bring you against My land – Ezekiel 38:16 (NASB)
…whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate – Ezekiel 38:8 (NIV)
As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. (37 [NIV]) It will be the same at the coming of the Son of Man. (39 [NET]) – Matthew 24:37-39
…and the earth was filled with violence (hamas) – Genesis 6:11 (NASB)
Violence: חָמַס – ḥâmas – a primitive root; to be violent (OTESD)
You must understand this: In the last days there will be violent (chalepos) periods of time. – 2 Timothy 3:1-2 (GWT)
Violent: chalepos – violent, fierce, difficult, grievous (CWSB)
Those in will not recognize the
For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night. 3 While they are saying, “Peace and safety (security [ESV])!” then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape. 4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief; – 1 Thessalonians 5:2-7 (NASB95)
People in church believe that God creation into
Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following after their own lusts, 4 and saying, “Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue just as they were from the beginning of creation.” 5 For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water – 2 Peter 3:3-5 (NASB)
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned – Romans 5:12 (NIV)