What does this scripture mean?

Question

Luke 12 51-53
"Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you. I have come to separate people. From now on there will be five members in a family, each one against the other. There will be will be three against two and two against three. They will be separated. Father will turn against son and son against father. Mother will turn against daughter and daughter against mother. Mother-in-law will turn against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."

New International Readers Version

Well, being that my husband is in the process in becoming a Pastor and following the calling God has placed on his life, we have a number of bibles in our home. We check them all and see how they all compare to one another.

When the Lord Jesus Christ convicts me and tells me it's time to read a different version, then I will do that. Until then, He speaks to me loud and clear right now.
Anyways, if you want to be technical, Should'nt you, my friend, be reading in Hebrew and Greek??
God Bless

Answer 1

Simply stated:

Jesus Christ knew that people would be divided because of Him. Some would reject Him.....while others would fully trust in Him for salvation.

Even people from your own family might end up rejecting you because of your faith.......which has almost happened to me.

Answer 2

As other answerers have stated, followers of Jesus (even today) experience hostility from unbelieving family members -- particularly Messianic Jewish believers. Even today, when an Orthodox Jew becomes a believer in Jesus as Messiah, family members will often hold a mock funeral and proclaim that person "dead" to the family. That's how polarizing Jesus is. Think about it: if He was "only" a poor Jewish itinerant teacher, how could He still be so powerful today that He can break up families?

Yet, God understood that this would happen. That's one reason why the Prophet Elijah will return just before the Tribulation begins -- so that Jewish families can be healed of this divisiveness:

Malachi 4: 5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet
Before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.
6 And he will turn
The hearts of the fathers to the children,
And the hearts of the children to their fathers,
Lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”

Answer 3

Try this experiment. Tell your family that you are going to start keeping the 7th day sabbath just like Yahshua did and watch the persecution start.

Then tell them that you will not eat any of the unclean animals that the Messiah refrained from. Or inform them that you are going to the Feast of Passover and that you will never again break any one of the other 613 Laws of Yahweh, and see how well received you will be (or won't)

Rev 14:4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto Yahweh and to the Lamb.


Rev 14:5 And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of Yahweh.

May Yahweh bless your understanding.

Answer 4

Similar comments can be found in the more recent works Of Jesus like the course in miracles.

The idea is that the true teachings of Jesus will separate us from the old limiting religious beliefs of the family.

Once someone understands the truth there is no going back. This can cause upset in the family and creates division.

Still enlightenment is a good thing.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 5

This is talking abaout the last days where families will be devided because some follow Jesus and some folllow Satan.

Jesus is the answer.

John 3 16.

When the end is near.

Answer 6

Jesus came the First Time to Die on the Cross, not get rid of satan and his Invisible gang who cause all of the Trouble (read Trouble as "Opposite from Peace").

Soon, Jesus will Get Rid of that Gang and bring PEACE upon the Earth for 1000 Years.

What that Scripture Means is that Jesus Provided The Way to get Saved.

If your the First One in your Family to get Saved, satan might just use some of the Rest of your Family to give you "Hell" UNTIL you get The Rest of the Family SAVED too!!!
See?

And, That is the Rest of the Story too!
:)
(I love that Guy, what's his name? Paul Harvey!)
(love The Rest of his Story's too!)

Dit==========================to!

Answer 7

See, Jews were waiting for the Messiah. Since Jesus is the Messiah, he wanted his people to be part of this plan but they did not lesson. Jesus knew he had to continue his plan of salvation and build his new Church or a New Jerusalem. He knew this would cause division in the house of Israel. Remember the Jews are family and descended of Abraham of believers. Same goes with the New Jerusalem which is his Church of Jesus Christ but in faith a new family of believers (universal). He founded his Church on Peter Matthew 16:15-18. Peter the Rock (Peter in Hebrew is Rock on his native language) not little Rock (little Rock in Greek is female Name). His Church will last until the end of times (Mtt 16:23).

Answer 8

The Lord Jesus will separate the righteous from the unrighteous, the sheep from the goats.

Answer 9

It means that Jesus was coming to bring a division between those people in the Jewish nation who would recognize Him as the Messiah who would lay down his life as a sacrifice for their sins as prophesied in Isaiah 53 and those who would continue to trust in the filthy rags of their own self righteous deeds and seek to be justified by the law.

Isaiah 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth. 8 By oppression and judgment he was taken away; and as for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living, stricken for the transgression of my people? 9 And they made his grave with the wicked and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, and there was no deceit in his mouth.

Isaiah 64:6 We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

Answer 10

In these strange and unsettling words, Jesus revealed that his coming often results in conflict. he demands a response, so intimate groups may be torn apart when some choose to follow him and others refuse to do so. Jesus allows no middle ground. Loyalties must be declared and commitments made, sometimes to the point of severing other relationships.

Answer 11

Gods word (the KJV) says

51Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, Nay; but rather division:

52For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

53The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.

standing for Jesus will cause you problems with sinners. Even your family.

Need to get a KJV and get Gods pure words