THE HOPE OF ISRAEL - The Preterist Archive

164 The Hope of .Israel: What Is It?
rest of the world left for judgment; and so likewise
in the case of Lot and his wife and daughters. And
the whole point of the lesson is that the judgment,
which destroyed "all" that were left, came upon the
very same day that those who had believed God's warnings
were saved. For the words are: "until the day
that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came,
and destroyed them all" (v. 27) ; and again, "But the
same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire
and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all"
(v. 29). And then, to put the matter beyond all doubt,
the Lord adds these words : "Even thus shall it be in
the day when the Son of man is revealed" (v. 30)
.
Is not this teaching, which comes to us from our
Lord's own lips, as clear as words can make it? How
then say some among us that, so far from the coming
of sudden and everlasting judgment in that day upon
all who are not in the place of safety which God's
grace has provided, that is,
"the kingdom of His dear
Son" (Col. 1:13), the entire Jewish nation will then
look upon Him whom they pierced, will be granted
repentance unto life, and will be saved from the coming
wrath?
As will be pointed out more fully below, the apostle
Peter repeats this teaching of Christ in his second
Epistle (Chapter III) laying special emphasis upon
the unexpectedness of Christ's second coming and of
the prominence in those last days of a class of leaders
who would speak derisively of "the promise of his
coming."
Luke 19:11-27. In this parable also our Lord declares
what will happen at His second coming. The
part which bears upon our present inquiry is what