Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man: People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. It will be just like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed. On that day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions. Likewise, let no one in the field return for anything he has left behind. Remember Lot's wife! Whoever tries to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life will preserve it. I tell you, on that night two people will be in one bed: one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding grain together: one will be taken and the other left.” “Where, Lord?” they asked. Jesus answered, “Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.”
"For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.
But Lot's wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
Significance
In 17:26-37 Jesus describes "the days of the Son of Man" by twin analogies of sudden judgment — "the days of Noah" (17:26-27) and "the days of Lot" (17:28-30) — warning that life will be proceeding in ordinary security when the Day breaks in. The Old Testament texts gathered here supply that background: Isaiah 54:9 invokes "the waters of Noah" as God's own reference point for the Flood; Genesis 19:26 is Lot's wife turned to a pillar of salt, whom Jesus names directly — "Remember Lot's wife" (17:32); and Job 18:15 belongs to the imagery of the wicked man's dwelling overthrown. The method is Analogy carried along the redemptive-historical line: the flood and the fire are not designed types fulfilled in the parousia so much as prior instances of the pattern the Son of Man's Day will consummate — sudden, comprehensive, inescapable judgment on the heedless. Isaiah 54:9 adds the counter-note that anchors hope: God swore after the Flood never again to destroy the earth so, and pledges an even surer "covenant of peace" to His people ("my loving devotion will not depart from you," 54:10). The telos runs through that oath to Christ: the Day that overtakes the careless is, for those hidden in Him, the day of rescue — as Noah was shut into the ark and Lot led out by the hand, so the Son of Man comes to gather His own out of the judgment He Himself absorbs, making readiness a matter not of dread but of clinging to the One who saves through the flood.
Found via
Keil and Delitzsch, Commentary on the Old Testament (1866)
Reference Type
Allusion
Connection Method(s)
Analogy + Redemptive-Historical Progression
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