Re: Verse reading–Luke 21:5-24 (day four)
Jesus is talking about end times. He is giving the disciples some signs to watch for that will signal the end. He forewarns that persecution will come. Persecution will: fulfill prophecy, signal the end times, lead to an opportunity for your testimony, and gain salvation by persevering through it. All good, right! Verse 16 says, “But you will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death.” Then Jesus says something peculiar…”Yet not a hair of your head will perish.” How can that be? How can we be put to death and still not lose even a hair to death? Jesus is giving us assurance of God’s perfect control over our lives. There is more to our lives than our physical body. We are assured of eternal life. We need have no fear! God is able to grant perfect peace, even in the face of unspeakable persecution.
