Luke chapter 17

vs 23

It doesn't matter who the men are, or how convincing their arguments or their attitudes. Jesus says "Don't bother chasing after such people". So don't.

vs 24

My understanding is that he's saying Jesus will reappear in a fashion so obvious that everyone will see it, like you see huge flashes of lightning. And I think that's cool.

vs 25

He's got to be persecuted and then rise from the dead, and then leave before this cool thing can happen. The disciples still aren't really clear on that.

vs 26-27

I guess we tend to think of the days of Noah as full of immorality and vice and horribleness. They were, but the truth is that they weren't that out of the ordinary. Because they were just people. It's not like the antideluvians were all Hitler.

vs 28

Basically, people don't do evil all the time, because people need to do all these everyday things. But what does Genesis say? That "every inclination of the thoughts of people's] heart was only evil all the time." It was the thoughtlife of humanity that caused the flood!

Now, Sodom was a little different, but the fact is that the people there were still just people.

vs 29

The result was the same though - judgement. God judges evil, even if it doesn't look all that evil to us. Of course, it's not all fire and floods - but all evil will be judged.