SATURDAY- LAST WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME –A
Gospel: Luke 21:34-36: Stay awake,
praying for the strength to survive all that is going to happen.
I Reading: Daniel 7:15-27:
Sovereignty and kingship will be given to the people of the saints of the Most
High.
The Warning: Watch and Pray for the Day of
Jesus’ Return, 21:34-36
The world is to going to suffer and will experience
disasters and calamities due to lack of faith in God, injustice, corruption,
violence, inequality, oppression etc.; therefore the believers must watch and
pray always.
1. It demands taking care (v.34-35)
a. By not engaging in worldliness
1) partying and
drunkenness
2) anxieties of
life
b. Reason: Lest the believer be caught
unaware-snared-trapped
2. It demands watching and praying always (v.36)
a. To be counted worthy
b. To escape the things coming to earth
c. To stand justified
Thought: The
believer to be careful, to guard him/herself against these things because the
day of the Lord’s return, can catch him unexpectedly and unprepared. (Mt
24:38-39; Eccl 9:12)
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