The Coming Of The Son Of Man

Please turn your Bibles to Luke chapter 21 that can be found on page 881 if you're using the pew Bible. Luke chapter 21. Please go ahead and stand when you have that. I'll begin reading in verse 25 and there will be signs in sun and moon and stars and on the earth the stress of nations and perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world for the powers of the heavens will be shaken and Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power in great glory.

Now when these things begin to take place. Straighten up and raise your heads because your redemption is drawing near. Amen. You may be seated. Dear Heavenly Father. We thank you today for your word. We thank you today for this promise of Christ.

That he is coming again. We know that this is not information that is owed to us. But that Christ has called us friend. That we are not merely servants being told what to do with no explanation of what the plan is.

But that we have been told the plan and so we thank you for this friendship of Christ. And we pray that we would grow closer friends with him as we learn more what he has told us of the future. We pray that it would strengthen us for the present in Jesus name.

Amen. Well, I have good news for you. Jesus is coming again. He came once 2 ,000 years ago and he is coming again. The unbelieving world is not anticipating this and they will be surprised when it happens as this explains.

There are some who even would claim the name of Christ and say that he is not returning. Perhaps you have heard of hyper preterists or full preterists those who claim that Jesus has already come back.

And is never coming again. Yet we have his promise that he is returning and when he does it will be worldwide. And a worldwide announcement. It will be great and mighty. It will be unmissable and it will be something that happens at the final end of all that we have seen here in Luke 21 and it will usher in.

Judgment.

In verse 25, he says and there will be signs in sun and moon and stars and on the earth. Distress of nations and perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves. So he describes these signs as existing in the heavens and on the earth.

These are great signs and they seem to be linked to one another. When he talks about the roaring of the sea and the waves. We know from more modern science and observations that that the moon is linked to the tide seems that these are related events the Signs in the heavens and the signs on the earth.

These will be great. This is not describing the same things that were spoken of earlier. Verse 11 it talked about there will be great earthquakes and in various places famines and pestilence. There will be terrors and great signs in heaven.

These are describing things that happen Throughout the time when Christ is coming on verse 11. It's describing those things that would take place up into the fall of the temple and even in a way foreshadowing all those things that take place.

Now in our own time as we anticipate the return of Christ, there are still earthquakes. There are signs in heaven as there are meteors and eclipses and all kinds of things showing God's power. But what is being described here is something much more greater much greater in catastrophic than that.

Because what it describes here is a global response to that thing describes perplexity. Because of the roaring of the sea distress of nations. Verse 26 it says people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world.

For the powers of the heavens will be shaken. People will recognize that something is going on. This is not like just now when there are meteors or there are eclipses. Where people see these things and they go out to watch them and there's no real fear or foreboding.

Earthquakes and hurricanes upset people in some relative measure in local spaces and across single nations but not across Multiple nations as a worldwide thing that it is describing here. There will be perplexity for the very very powers of the heavens will be shaken.

It will be known that something great is coming. If you imagine the heavens darkening in ways that are not entirely explainable or even if they are Entirely explainable but in ways that go beyond the heavenly signs that we are used to.

It would cause a lot of people to wonder what is going on even just the small things that we have seen. The small things the the relatively small thing of COVID the relatively small thing of. If you remember back, I guess it was during 2020 also when there were a lot of fires.

Maybe it was a year after I don't remember there were a lot of fires and the whole sky around here was just orange or red. You know, it's just very foreboding. That was very localized. If you think about how much that would do how much more something that was in the heavens and not just a little smoke on.

Earth.

Continues on in verse 27. And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And so what will take place. The Son of Man will come. Will come in a cloud. He'll come riding from the heavens.

With power is the ability to conquer. He will be conquering as he comes. He will come with authority it's not just standing there passively, but rather he will come with power and great glory. Splendor.

We see little hints of this in Scripture and Revelation when it describes Jesus Christ He being the Son of Man. Describes him as being bright describes his eyes like fire etc. Right? There are things that lets you know that he is there is a splendor about him and.

This vision that John received probably pales in comparison to what will be known then Jesus at his transfiguration. Gave his disciples some peek into that glory. But what will happen when it is fully manifest.

When that glory is fully manifest it will Exceed the splendor that has seen before. Verse 28 it says now when these things begin to take place. Straighten up raise your heads because your redemption is drawing near.

Now what does it mean when it says straighten up raise your heads. This contrasting working with. With ceasing to work someone has their head down and they're working and they cease to work. This contrasting shame with with pride.

It seems to be contrasting the response of the nations in fear and trembling to the response of God's people. The nations will Be confused. They will be in perplexity because of the chaos in the world.

God's people Instead will respond with this with their heads Upheld because they will know what is taking place. That the hour of their redemption is drawing near. It will be reason for them not to fear while the whole world is in fear.

God's people will Will rejoice. They will have their heads held up high Knowing that Christ is coming and that he is Redeeming his people. Now, of course, he has already provided Redemption through the cross that man may be forgiven yet that freedom from sin the freedom from the Penalty of sin the guilt of sin all those things.

Are.

True yet There is a manifestation of that truth that we have not seen because our bodies are still affected by sin we still suffer from death and disease. But on that day when God's enemies are completely defeated and he comes for his people all those things will be rid of so that we will his kingdom will be manifest in its power and The redemption that he provides will be fully manifest.

Thus. It is spoken of as redemption. Likewise Similarly in Hebrews, it says that he will come again to save this time unto salvation. The idea is that not that before it wasn't unto salvation. But that the kind of salvation that he's bringing is a different kind of salvation than the one that he has already brought.

It is one that will be fully manifest and will take people out of the distresses that they still experience. As we Contemplate the truths that are given to us. Here think it will be helpful to break this up into three different categories that is the who of this passage the what of the passage and the wind of the passage is who being Son of man the what being judgment and the wind being the end.

The who.

Being the Son of Man. This speaks here of the Son of Man. So I've already said the Son of Man is Jesus Christ. I Did a search through the ESV found that 26 times in the ESV. He is called the Son of Man.

It's a very frequent title that he uses for himself.

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I don't know if you've ever considered the interesting fact that he uses it So frequently in third person of himself when he speaks of the Son of Man. He does not say I will come he says the Son of Man will will be coming in a cloud With power in great glory.

Who is it in Scripture that speaks this way of himself? It is God who speaks this way of himself while the Son of Man on one hand is Speaking of a human thus the title Son of Man. It is clear that this is one who has divine quality.

Especially as he speaks of himself in third person indicating Divine status he speaks of himself as God speaks of himself Saying that the Lord will do various things Etc. Now, what is The significance of the title Son of Man.

Why is it that this is an appropriate title for Jesus beyond the fact that he is Born of man that the Christ is born of the Virgin Mary. It means something much more than that that title it refers to one who is a representative of Mankind who functions as a as a leader and representative of mankind and we see this especially in two different prophets.

Those are Ezekiel and Daniel. Ezekiel and Daniel are Contemporary prophets they are prophets that prophesied at the same time. Ezekiel even mentions Daniel. This is something that surprises a lot of people because you usually don't have Prophets talking about each other as great men as Ezekiel talks about Daniel one who has not yet died.

But they are contemporaries and Ezekiel even talks about Daniel his contemporary. God often gives Individual prophets, but occasionally he gives contemporary prophets to give complementary messages. Perhaps you're familiar with Elijah and Elisha who Prophesy and complimentary ways against the problems of the house of Ahab.

Less known in the minor prophets there are Haggai and Zechariah. In Zechariah those two give Give complimentary prophecies about the need to rebuild the temple. Well Daniel and Ezekiel are likewise Contemporary prophets and they speak both of This son of man with Ezekiel that term son of man is applied Repeatedly to Ezekiel that God calls him repeatedly son of man son of man son of man.

So it would be helpful to think what makes Ezekiel a distinct kind of prophet. What is it that distinguishes his? His prophecies from others his status his office from others. He is a priest he is of the tribe of Levi and his job is to prophesy the the corruption in the temple the the destruction of the temple the the fact that it will not last and Instead that the God's glory is going to be removed from it and instead in the final chapters of Ezekiel that a greater Temple will be built and notice.

What is Jesus talking about in this passage? What kicked off this whole passage it is the fact that the temple will be destroyed. And so Ezekiel is a priest who is concerned about the temple. It's notable that in the very first verse of Ezekiel Ezekiel 1 1 says in the 30th year in the fourth month in the fifth day.

Different theories have been proposed for what that 30th year is being measured from but one interpretation that has been common since the early church and I find the most tenable of all is that it is simply speaking of the years of Ezekiel's life that's not an often way of measuring things, but you do see some instances in Noah's life where things are measured by Hit how many years since his birth?

So when Ezekiel starts everything off in the 30th year that's significant because Ezekiel being a priest the 30th year is the year for priests to begin their ministry, but he is a prophet. That is operating as a priest who has no Who's not in the temple who is in exile, but prophesying about the corruption of the temple it's glory being removed and that glory being restored in a different temple and this is Exactly what Jesus is doing is Jesus not son of man in the same sense representing the people as a priest beginning his His ministry and the 30th year of his life.

Telling the people about the destruction of the temple about how if they tear his body down He will raise it up again in three days speaking of the temple of his own body, but then likewise Him building a temple his church where his glory dwells.

Jesus is the son of man as a representative of God's people as a priest. Now the other time that the son of man is used with great significance like it's used in Ezekiel is In his contemporary prophet Daniel.

I would like you to go ahead and turn there to Daniel chapter 7 in Daniel 7 Daniel receives a vision of four different beasts. These represent the different kingdoms that will come.

There's.

Babylon and then there's There's Babylon and then there's Persia and then there's Greece and then there's Rome and out of Rome One arises that there's a horn that grows up out of that final beast. Daniel chapter 7 beginning in verse 9 will read about the ancient of days and then the son of man the ancient of days and Verse 9 it says.

As I looked thrones were placed and the ancient of days took his seat. His clothing was white as snow and the hair of his head like pure wool. His throne was fiery flames its wheels were burning fire a stream of fire issued and came out from before him.

A Thousand-thousand served him and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The court sat in judgment. The books were opened. Now skipping down to verse 13 I saw in the night visions and behold with the clouds of heaven there came one like the son of man and He came to the ancient of days and was presented before him and to him was given dominion and glory.

And a kingdom that all people's nations and languages should serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away in this kingdom one that shall not be destroyed. So when it talks about the son of man coming on the cloud of heaven and Jesus speaks of the son of man coming on the cloud of heaven is Jesus not alluding to this very passage.

That he is coming with the strength of the king described here one who is given dominion. So while the term son of man and Ezekiel refers to one who represents man as a priest Here it speaks of one who?

Represents man as a king ruling with might. Dominion coming on a cloud with strength disconnecting the passages. Psalm 104 verse 3 says he lays the beams of his chambers on the waters. He makes the clouds his chariot.

He rides on the wings of the wind. Describing God it talks about him and his power and his authority in this picture of him riding on the clouds believe that's there's a literal sense in which that is meant not that God has a.

Body.

But in Christ God does have a body and he will ride on the clouds and it is right to say that God is the God of heaven exercises power over all creation and the son of man receiving all power from the father rules over his people.

So when Jesus calls himself the son of man and talks about him coming He is speaking of himself as a representative of mankind in general as both a priest But then also a king who will rule over mankind then we have the what of Is being described.

This is judgment is describing judgment. He is coming with dominion. He is coming with power. The signs of the heavens Darkening etc. The heavens Having great signs that This corresponding to the great signs on the earth Shows a great power that Christ is coming with a great power in order to judge all things.

Once again, if you just imagine what that would be like so many people go about their lives Just very consumed by the things of this world consumed by their own their own anxieties thinking about their own needs and Trying to meet them themselves and many people feel quite competent in that especially in our area.

Is there really? Any area with more affluence than ours? It's it's incredible how much affluence is Concentrated here. And what does Jesus say about the rich man? It is harder for him to enter heaven than for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.

Why it's because he trusts himself. He does not feel the need to contemplate the greater things in life. He's focused on his own ability to meet his own needs but once the heavens start shaking and it is clear that the Powers on which people rely thinking that they're relying on their self.

But really they're relying on God upholding all things once that begins shaking the degree to which people will begin questioning everything asking themselves questions about the Finitude of their own life and the death that they will eventually face all of that will Create a great foreboding recognizing the need to to contemplate the fact that judgment is coming.

Now I've mentioned darkness a couple of times that is because I have in my mind Matthew where the parallel passage in Matthew he focuses particularly on darkness. I'll go ahead and read for you Matthew 24 verses 29 through 31.

Immediately after the tribulation of those days The Sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light. And the stars will fall from heaven and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man and all the tribes of the earth will mourn.

And they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call and they will gather his elect from the four winds from one end of the heaven to the other.

So Matthew tells us that the trip that what happens After the tribulation of those days and remember last time we looked at the tribulation Corresponding to what Luke calls the time of the Gentiles. So the tribulation here not referring to something just at the end but talking about the difficulty that God's parents experienced throughout the whole inter Advent period between his first advent when he came 2 ,000 years ago and his His advent yet to come.

What happens after all that the world? The Sun Darkening. The moon not giving its light. The stars falling from heaven. This is a picture of judgment. This is a picture that's used throughout scripture of judgment.

It's used several times to talk about judgment on particular nations that are representative of the kingdom of the enemy. In Isaiah 13 10 speaking of Babylon. It says for the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light.

The Sun will be dark at its rising. The moon will not shed its light. This is talking about God's judgment on Babylon and Later on in the next chapter. He talks about the king of Babylon Using the name which is translated in the King James Version Lucifer.

This has been recognized By people for a long time by Christians for a long time while it speaks of Babylon. It represents this final judgment on the on the kingdom of darkness on Satan then Ezekiel 32 7 through 8 Speaking of Egypt says when I blot you out, I will cover the heavens and make their stars dark.

I will cover the Sun with the cloud and the moon shall not give its light all the bright lights of earth. I will make dark over you and put darkness on your land declares the Lord God. Judgment in both of these is Symbolized by darkening of the Sun and Moon.

So what is Christ talking about when he's talking about the Sun and Moon being darkened? What will people recognize as they see these signs? What is the foreboding of they will recognize whether they recognize it explicitly or not that judgment is coming and Why does that represent?

Judgment. Well on one hand it seems quite obvious if God Makes his son to shine on the just and the unjust as this represents a general love He has for his creation then the taking away of that is a taking away of that Love.

That final judgment will be the taking away of that love and only letting them feel his wrath. But in addition to that we also are told repeatedly of the powers of the heavens as Demonic entities such that a shaking of the powers of the heavens Represents a final destruction of God's enemies demonic powers.

Just to read you two passages Ephesians 2 2 says in which you once walk following the course of this world following the prince of the power of the air. The spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience the prince of the power of the air.

What are the powers of the heavens? What are the power of the air now. God is God of the heavens. This is how Daniel speaks of him. But there is a power of the air that is a demonic power. Ephesians 6 12 says for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against the rulers against the authorities against the cosmic powers over this present darkness.

They are cosmic powers over darkness now. Interesting that God in judging them essentially gives them over to that darkness so the.

The.

Tremblings of the heavens the darkness in the heavens represents God's judgment on the powers of the heavens which represents a Judgment on those who all belong to that kingdom rather than to the kingdom of the Son of Man.

That one who is king and priest. This is the this is what all that represents now when. When will this take place this takes place at the end? This is not something that happens and then there's several more stages.

The Bible speaks of this age and the age to come this return of the Son of Man. It was what ushers in the age to come there is no time after. There is no time after that return now this to walk through the passages that we've had before and give you a reminder of the Of the text before and how they have spoken of.

What will take place? Let's just begin with verse 9 in verse 9. It says of Luke 21. It says and when you hear of wars and tumults do not be terrified for these things must first take place. But the end will not be at once.

Nation will rise against nation kingdom against kingdom earthquakes, etc. Okay, so he says that the end will not be at once as different sign different Wars rumors of wars earthquakes, etc. Those things go on for Just the whole of the interadvent period and they have.

You can look throughout history and there have been all kinds of calamities. There have been all kinds of wars. These are things that go on throughout. These are not things that Signal the very end the way that he's describing these signs signal the very end, but then after this.

He talks about what we read about last week in verse 24 the time of the Gentiles. Until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled now times meaning multiple eras this being all the different eras of.

The.

Gospel going out to the Gentiles in between those two advents. Now what happens in the middle of that. Likewise we have covered these things before both in recent weeks and also when we did the sermon series on the implications of the Antichrist.

But both of those things are mentioned in the text of Daniel 7 which speaks of the Son of Man and so I think it would be helpful for us to turn once again to Daniel chapter 7 and look at what he says about these things.

And I will not be able to go in depth to give you all the proofs of the of the timing and of the characters that he speaks of. But if you have been following along then hopefully this will hopefully this will connect a few dots even if I'm not able to build the entire case is up for you again.

And Daniel chapter 7 if you look at Beginning at verse 23 Daniel has asked for an interpretation of the fourth beast that fourth beast Representing Rome and this is something that is recognized by most Christians.

This is not something that's very contingent on Eskitt camp of eschatology. What version of the end times you believe on. Most believe it's Rome, but then they will have different ways of explaining the significance of that.

So in verse 23 thus he said as for the fourth beast. There will be a fourth kingdom on earth which shall be different from all the kingdoms. It shall devour the whole earth and trample it down and to break it to pieces as.

For the ten horns out of the ten kings and king king king shall arise and another shall arise after them. He shall be different from the former ones and shall put down three kings shall speak words against the Most High and shall wear out the saints of the Most High and shall think to change the times and the law and They shall be given into his hand for a time times and half a time but the court shall sit in judgment and his dominion shall be taken away to be consumed and destroyed it to the end and the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High.

His kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom and all dominions shall serve and obey him. Here's the end of the matter as for me Daniel my thoughts greatly alarmed me and my color changed. But I kept the matter in my heart now as we look last week at the end of Daniel.

Daniel was instructed to seal up the testimony because it is not for his time. He wasn't supposed to understand it all but then we looked at the end of Revelation which spoke of similar things. And found that Christ.

Instructs.

John.

That he should not seal up the testimony because it is for him to understand these things at this time are for us to understand. These things are difficult, but they're not so hidden that we cannot understand them.

So when he speaks of time times and half a time remember that's a Idiom for three and a half years and we looked at how that was used in both Daniel and Revelation last week. It refers to the inter Advent period it refers the time between Christ's first coming and time of his second coming.

And so he's describing something that takes place over that whole period. This is what Matthew calls the tribulation just that time between the two judgments. Then he says but the court shall sit in judgment in his dominion.

This is the dominion of that little horn this one. Representing the Antichrist shall be taken away to be consumed and destroyed till the end. Now if you remember several months ago when we went through second Thessalonians 2 we saw that the that this man of lawlessness is one who was operative in Paul's own time.

But would only be revealed later and it was one who would come from Rome and call himself head of the church. But yet persecute God's true followers. And what is this? This is one who comes from Rome persecutes God's true followers and Somewhere in the middle of those three and a half years his power is taken away.

We saw in second Thessalonians 2 that was prophesied that the breath of Christ would come and take away his power. This happened in the greatest event that of Western history or really all history since since Christ and That is the Reformation.

So the greatest thing in history is the cross and then since that time the greatest thing in history has been the Reformation. That has been that is that point that this is talking about. It's not necessarily a dead sinner point.

But it's somewhere in the midst of this three and a half years. So we lie on the second half of that now if you're coming in new to all this then I'm sorry that I'm not able to build up the case for all these things, but if you Go back and you look at the archive of sermons.

I'm hoping that you can find the discerning the Antichrist.

Syria.

Message that will explain where that is coming from.

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Evidently enough this is talking about one who is different from the kings that comes before him that comes up out of Rome and persecutes God's people and whose power is consumed until the end once it is taken away from him and.

This is what is happening. Is that. Roman Catholicism is declining and his power the Pope's power is being consumed. So this is this is where we are now going back to Luke 21.

After.

After the time of the Gentiles, then we have this end now we saw that the Judgment that would come on Jerusalem to destroy the temple foreshadows the judgment that comes at the very end which involves God's people being surrounded right.

Jerusalem will be surrounded by enemies. What we were told in Revelation 20 is that God's people would be surrounded and That Satan would be released. Once more he would be able to deceive the nation's how that's Described here is at the time of the Gentiles comes to an end.

In other words, the gospel stops going forward in the same measure that it's going forward now and God's people are surrounded now. The difference between that former time when God's people were surrounded at Jerusalem in 70 AD in this future time is that the temple was destroyed.

What happens at the final time as God's temple his church Is surrounded. Meaning that there is persecution everywhere in the kingdom ceases to advance in the same measure that it was before He will come Miraculously to save his people and this is what we see here that the very final thing that happens so there's a the the signs that lead right up to the immediate end are Surrounding persecution then signs in heaven and then seeing Christ in his power now.

I don't know how immediate each of these signs are. I don't know if that final persecution Of the people last ten years. I don't know if the last one year. I don't know if it lasts one month. I don't know if the signs in heaven last a year if they last a month, etc but these are the things that come immediately before the end when Christ returns and they are and this is a.

This is a sign that will happen Soon with little warning or excuse me. It is a this sign that once it happens Christ return happens soon thereafter. There is little warning. The Bible frequently speaks of this as him being a thief in the night.

I'd like to read to you a catalog of verses about this because it is such a frequent picture Luke 12 39 through 40 but know this that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming He would not have left his house to be broken into.

You also must be ready for the Son of Man is coming at an hour. You do not expect First Thessalonians 5 2 through 3. For you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

While people are saying peace and safety destruction will come on them suddenly as labor pains on a pregnant woman and they will not escape 2nd Peter 3 10, but the day of the Lord will come like a thief.

The heavens will disappear with a roar the elements will be destroyed by fire and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare. Revelation 3 3. Remember then What you received and heard keep it and repent.

If you will not wake up I will come like a thief and you will not know what hour I will come against you. That's to the church. Sardis. Revelation 16 5 behold I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who stays awake keeping his garments on that he may not go about naked and be seen exposed.

So while there may be some foreboding there will not be time to respond and repent and defend. There be no such things once this happens there. There will be no chance for people who are found on the wrong side of his kingdom.

Being found against his kingdom rather than in his kingdom. This will likewise be something that is seen universally. This is not something that will just be seen in one place. Jesus said that earlier in Luke in Luke 17 23 through 24 and they will say to you look there look here.

Do not go out and follow them for as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other. So will the Son of Man be in his day? So in other words, he's warning about what he warns earlier in this chapter of Luke 21.

There will be people coming and saying that Christ has returned when he returns. It will not be something that's only seen in one place it will be seen across the the signs and the heavens will make it evident across the world.

And this universal sign will be a sign of the reversal of the of Situations. Those who have been humbled under persecution will be exalted. Those who are proud and resulting themselves over God's people will be humbled.

This has been the theme in Luke in many ways. Something that I've been Mentioning a lot as we have read the first chapters of 1st Samuel is Mary's song. Mary's song. Really in a lot of ways kicks off this whole book of Luke before that you see that Elizabeth and Zechariah are waiting for the Redemption of the people.

And then what is it that sets apart? Simeon and Anna and the temple it's they're waiting for the consolation of Israel. These people who are poor in spirit and Waiting for an exaltation. Waiting for the proud to be humbled and the humbled to be exalted.

This is all. This is all Canonized in Mary's song as it were Mary sings my soul magnifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior. For he has looked on the humble estate of his servant for behold from now on all generations will call me blessed.

For he was mighty has done great things for me and holy is his name and his mercy is for those who fear him from generation to generation. He has shown great strength with his arm. He has scattered the proud in the thoughts of their hearts and he has brought down the mighty from their thrones and Exalted those of humble estate.

He has filled the hungry with good things and the rich he has sent away empty. He has helped his servant Israel and remembrance of his mercy as he spoke to our fathers to Abraham and his offspring forever.

He sends away the rich. He fills the hungry and is this not what Jesus has been doing throughout his ministry. Those who are proud the Pharisees do not want. No, why he's going to the centers and tax collectors.

But he is eager to raise up those who are truly humble and spirit those who are coming to him for mercy. But those who are proud and think they have everything in themselves. He humbles on that day. There will not be time.