Luke 21:34

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

Your hearts

Surfeiting

Cares

Philippians 4:6

That day

Revelation 3:3

General references

Bible References

Your hearts

If that servant says in his heart, my master delays his coming; and beats the other servants and eats and drinks to excess,

Never drink beer or wine when you or your sons enter the sacred tent. If you do, you will die right there! This is a long lasting law from generation to generation.

Haughty eyes and a proud heart, and the arrogance and pride produced by the wicked are sin.

These also stagger from wine and reel from beer. Priests and prophets stagger from beer and are befuddled with wine. They reel from beer. They stagger when seeing visions. They stumble when rendering decisions.

Israel's watchmen are blind. They all lack knowledge they are all mute dogs. They cannot bark. They just lie around and dream, they love to sleep.

Prostitution, wine and new wine take away the understanding.

You know the time. It is the hour for you to awake from sleep. Now our salvation is nearer than when we became believers.

Therefore, let us not sleep like others do. But let us watch and be sober.

You have spent enough time in the past doing what unbelievers like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols (false gods).

Surfeiting

Be sure there is no one here today who hears these solemn demands and yet convinces himself that all will be well with him. He would go stubbornly on his own way. That would destroy all of you, good and evil alike.

When Abigail came to Nabal, he was holding a banquet in his home. It was like a king's banquet. He was in a good mood and very drunk, so she did not tell him anything until dawn.

Woe to the proud drunks who wear the crown of Ephraim for it is doomed! Its glory is fading like the crowns of flowers on their heads. They are at the entrance of a fertile valley. They are drunk from wine.

I wrote you not to keep company with any man who is called a brother who is a fornicator, or who is greedy, or who worships idols, or constantly gets drunk, or cheats people. Do not even eat with such a person.

nor thieves, nor covetous (greedy), nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortionists, will inherit the kingdom of God.

idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, wrath, contentions, divisions, sects,

Cares

The seeds that fell among the thorns are people who hear the word and go their own way. They are choked with the cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and do not produce fruit.

The Lord answered: Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things.

He that was sown among thorns hears the word. The cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

but the cares of the world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts for other things enter in and choke the word. So it becomes unfruitful.

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

That day

the master of that servant will come when he does not expect. He will come in an hour that he does not know. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.

Surprise them with destruction. Let the net that they hid catch them. Let them fall into their own pit and be destroyed.

They were not aware until the Flood came and took them all away. The coming (presence) of the Son of man will be like this.

Watch therefore for you do not know when the lord of the house comes. It could be in the evening, at midnight or in the morning (when the cock crows).

For you know perfectly that the Day of Jehovah will come like a thief in the night. (Zephaniah 1:14)

The day of Jehovah will come as a thief. The heavens will pass away with a great noise. The elements shall be dissolved with intense heat. And the earth and the works in it will be burned up (destroyed). (Joel 2:31) (Zephaniah 1:14)

Remember what you received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If you do not stay awake, I will come to you like a thief. You will not know the hour when I will come to you.

General references

So that night they got him drunk. The younger daughter had intercourse with him. Again he was so drunk that he did not know it.

Do not crave his delicacies for it is deceptive food.

Some seed fell among the thorns. The thorns grew up and choked it so it could yield no fruit.

Be awake (beware) (be cautious and active), watch (perceive) and pray, for you do not know the time.

You be ready! The Son of man will come at a time when you do not think he will.

It will be similar in the day that the Son of man is revealed.