NT Text: Luke 17:26-27
OT Source(s):
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Typology
Significance: Luke's parallel to Matthew 24 records Jesus reading the Flood typologically: "Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man" (17:26). Drawing on Genesis 7, Jesus depicts the antediluvian generation immersed in ordinary life — "eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark" — when "the flood came and destroyed them all" (17:27). The correspondence meets the five marks of a valid type: analogical correspondence (sudden judgment breaking into unsuspecting normalcy), historicity (the Flood is treated as real event), escalation (a past deluge becomes the universal day of the Son of Man), pointing-forwardness (the account stands as standing warning), and retrospective interpretation (Christ himself supplies the reading). Luke's wider context (17:28-30) pairs Noah with Lot at Sodom, doubling the witness that judgment falls suddenly on the careless. Yet the type carries its own gospel: in the days of Noah, God shut a remnant safely into the ark and brought them through the waters of judgment. So the coming of the Son of Man is not only a day to be feared but, for those found in him, the day of final deliverance — Christ the ark, salvation through judgment, making readiness for that day a matter of trusting the One who saves.