In the days of the Son of Man
In the intervening period from the time of Jesus’ ministry until the final age (the eschaton), what will be the dispositions of humanity?
By alluding to the days of Noah and Lot, where people were immersed in immorality and depravity, Jesus warns his disciples of the coming disaster — in Noah’s time, the great flood; in Lot’s time, fire and brimstone on the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
God punished them because they did not abandon their wicked ways.
Jesus urges his disciples to set their sights on their true destination — the Kingdom of God.
Everyone should be prepared for judgment at any time, even as they go about doing their ordinary activities: Eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, and building.
Gospel • Luke 17:26-37
Jesus said to his disciples: “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man; they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage up to the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
Similarly, as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building; on the day when Lot left Sodom, fire and brimstone rained from the sky to destroy them all. So it will be on the day the Son of Man is revealed.
On that day, someone who is on the housetop and whose belongings are in the house must not go down to get them, and likewise one in the field must not return to what was left behind. Remember
the wife of Lot.
Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will save it. I tell you, on that night there will be two people in one bed; one will be taken, the other left. And there will be two women grinding meal together; one will be taken, the other left.”
They said to him in reply, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the body is, there also the vultures will gather.”