Tuesday, December 3, 2002

Forefeast of Entry

Fasting: No fastJulian: November 20

Epistle

1 Thessalonians 3.9-13

Read in context

9For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;Log in to add notes

10Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?Log in to add notes

11Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you.Log in to add notes

12And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:Log in to add notes

13To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.Log in to add notes

Gospel

Luke 17.26-37

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26And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.Log in to add notes

27They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.Log in to add notes

28Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;Log in to add notes

29But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.Log in to add notes

30Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.Log in to add notes

31In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back.Log in to add notes

32Remember Lot’s wife.Log in to add notes

33Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.Log in to add notes

34I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.Log in to add notes

35Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.Log in to add notes

36Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.Log in to add notes

37And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.Log in to add notes