| Luk 21:34 | “But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly |
| Luk 21:35 | For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. |
| Luk 21:36 | Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.” |
“Watch therefore” the key word here is to watch. 1) to be sleepless, keep awake, watch 2) to be circumspect, attentive, ready.
It seems to me that the #2 definition of watch is mostly what the Lord Jesus was referring to ”to be circumspect, attentive, ready. ” Circumspect means: careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences.
“Pray Always” – 1) to want, lack 2) to desire, long for 3) to ask, beg a) the thing asked for b) to pray, make supplications
Mark 13:33-37 “ Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is. It is like a man going to a far country, who left his house and gave authority to his servants, and to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to watch. Watch therefore, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming – in the evening, at midnight, at the crowing of the rooster, or in the morning- lest, coming suddenly, he find you sleeping. And what I say to you, I say to all, WATCH!“
WATCH:
1) to watch 2) metaph. give strict attention to, be cautious, active a) to take heed lest through remission and indolence some destructive calamity suddenly overtake one
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1 Tammy // Jul 19, 2010 at 10:33 pm
Luke 12:40-46
Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
41 Then Peter said unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable unto us, or even to all?
42 And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?
43 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
44 Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.
45 But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
46 The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
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