Luke 2:34 - Will you Fall or Rise?

In Luke 2:34, Simeon said to Mary, Jesus’ mother, “Behold, this child is destined for the fall and rising of many in Israel.

Satan’s plan was for Jesus to “fall” from the pinnacle of the temple. In Luke 4:9, Satan set Jesus on the pinnacle of the temple, and said to him, “If you are God’s Son, throw yourself down from here.” 

God’s plan was for Jesus to rise from the tomb. Acts 13:30 But God raised him from the dead.

Will you fall?

1Peter 02:07-08, “The very stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone,” 8 and, “A stone that causes men to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.”

Or will you rise?

1Thessalonians 4:16 “For the Lord himself will descend from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.”

J. Clontz – Editor of The Comprehensive New Testament