and planted and built; but on the day Lot left Sodom, God made fire and
sulfur rain down from heaven, which destroyed them all.
So will it be on the day the Son of Man is revealed. On that day,
if you are on the rooftop, don’t go down into the house to get your belongings;
and if you happen to be in the fields, do not turn back.
Remember Lot’s wife! Whoever tries to save his life will lose it,
but whoever gives his life will be born again. I tell you, though two men are
sharing the same bed, it might happen that one will be taken, and the other left;
though two women are grinding meal together, one might be taken and the other left.”
Then they asked Jesus, “Where will this take place, Lord?”
And he answered, “Where the body is, there too will the vultures gather.”
REFLECTION:
In the first reading, the Apostle has met with some of the elect lady’s children
(or some members of the particular Church addressed), probably in one of his
Apostolic visits to some Church in Asia Minor. Their Christian life delighted him and
apparently prompted him to write this letter.
What St. John had witnessed is that some of the children proved their adherence
to the truth by their daily conduct. So, the Epistle begins with the assurance of
joy at the conduct of those to whom it is addressed.
Eat… married… planted… all the ordinary occupations and enjoyments of life are
repeatedly mentioned in the gospel. Though the antediluvian world and the cities
of the plain were awfully wicked, it is not their wickedness, but their worldliness,
their unbelief and indifference to the future, their unpreparedness,
that is here held up as a warning.
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