Jesus is telling His disciples stories about the end to come. He doesn’t give dates and times but gives us some glimpses of things to come.

The most important is to know what we should be doing when He comes, which means, what we should be doing now.

We’re told how in Noah’s day people were eating and drinking and marrying and then the end came, like a flood, pardon the expression.

People are going to be continuing on like all is well, but then it’s over.

There are going to be people taken away. I don’t think that’s the rapture. I think that’s wrath. In Noah’s time the flood takes people away. That’s not a good thing.

In Jesus’s parable, it’s the servant eating and drinking that gets thrown into hell, but Jesus isn’t warning us to not get married or to not eat.

The warning is to be ready, to be found doing what you were told to do. What are you supposed to be doing? We’re to love God with our all and we’re to love our neighbors as ourselves.

In the parable, there is a specific order to the servant. The master set this servant over his household to give them food at the proper time.

What does it look like to give the household of God food in due season?

We’ve all been given gifts, which are the way we serve the body of Christ.

Giving them food, sounds like teaching them. Not everyone’s gift would be teaching, but the Great Commission tells everyone to be teaching others to obey Christ’s commands.

But I do think this could also be seen as a warning maybe pointed at the teachers, the shepherds, the leaders, elders and pastors. If you have been appointed over a flock, you have a family to care for. Feed them.