Luke 17 - Where are they taken?

Interesting thread KJV1611, the phrase was used in Matthew also but about eagles gathered around a carcase

"For wheresoever the carcase is,
there will the eagles be gathered together."
(Matthew 24:28, KJV)

I’ve read the eagle could be a statement about the Romans the ensign of the Roman Empire was a eagle.

It's been the subject of many commentaries across time and seems most likely Jesus is quoting Job 39:30.

Thanks for your reply JamOn. I know a lot of people think this is a rapture verse and I have always thought that too. I don't think that anymore based on Luke 13:37 - "Where Lord?". Now we now WHERE they were taken, they were taken to the place where the dead body was or is. As I said earlier, I think it's talking about the dead body of Christ.... but that's all I know, I don't know what that means.

I don't think it has anything to do with the Roman empire, why would anyone be taken to the Roman army? Especially believers, which I think is what the ones taken are.

Jesus was taken to the romans, but I get what your saying, I got that info from this place not sure if you have visited the site but it may be of interest in your endeavors.

http://www.kjvtoday.com/home

http://www.kjvtoday.com/home/eagles-or-vultures-in-matthew-2428-and-luke-1737

I think you are right.

Job 39:30 Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.

Tie that to eating the flesh and drinking the blood of Christ.

I think Job 39:30 is speaking of literal eagles, but I think it is foreshadowing also. Good add to the thread, thanks!

If you see vultures you know there's a dead body around. You don't have to physically see it but the knowledge of times is what Jesus was talking about here. End times has some indicators that will let people know it is end times, it had nothing to do with rapture. You don't have to see people flying but thou shall know it is end times but only if you are keen.

What do you think the dead body is?

Who do you think the ones taken are? Is being taken a good thing or a bad thing?

My thoughts are; Jesus was talking of signs of end of age so the dead body represented the end of age that people need to understand as opposed to seeing physically.

Luk 17:34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
Luk 17:35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Luk 17:36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Luk 17:37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.

I wish I could remember who pointed this out to me so I could give them credit for it, but someone on CC showed me this a year or two ago and I got busy and kind of forgot about it. That person showed me that the ones that were taken, were taken to the dead body in verse 37.

I believe the dead body was the body of Christ and the eagles are believers. One reason I believe this is because we mount up with eagles wings and we feed on the body of Christ... there are other reasons to, but now I have satisfied the requirements of p_rehbein, I've given my thoughts lol.

What are your thought?
What is the dead body and what do the eagles represent?

But aren't you starting with the assumption that the end of the age is the end of time rather than letting the verse reveal what the end of age means?

What do you think the dead body is?

I would offer that parable is teaching God is not served by human hands as a will. .

The dead bodies are natural unconverted mankind . Where the eagles are is in a place of unbelief . Eagles represent unclean food to represent unbelief ( no gospel). That I believe shows us God is not served human hands (will) in respect to the corrupted mankind .

Those who do not hear the gospel do not rise.

He uses Balaam' Ass in that way to stop the madness of that false prophet .which according the cerinimoinal law . . . a Ass when born if not redeemed by a lamb break its neck as in falling backward.

From my studies, I've come to believe the dead body is the valley of dry bones in Ezekiel 37.

They are the whole house of Israel that is prophesied to resurrect at the word of the "Son of Man" when Christ returns (i.e. the same as "the dead in Christ" that Paul speaks about rising).

Does this mean it's also Christ's body? Yes I think so. I think you could say that.

Matthew 24 says "wherever the dead body is there the eagles will be gathered". I take this to mean wherever the slain Israelites are in the world. Recall that Israel was scattered to the four corners of the world and is prophesied to be regathered when The Messiah comes back.

I think all of this ties together.

Luk 17:34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
Luk 17:35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Luk 17:36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Luk 17:37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.