Common misinterpretations include viewing the verse as a literal prophecy of birds of prey devouring bodies at a specific end-times battle like Armageddon, or conflating it with rapture teachings where believers are suddenly taken upward (ignoring the context of judgment on the wicked as in the flood), or reducing it to a mere proverb about death without recognizing its eschatological focus on Christ's unmistakable second coming and the gathering for divine accountability.
Luke 17:37
King James Version (1769)
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.
Jesus responds to the disciples' question about the location of His coming by stating that it will be as obvious and inevitable as eagles gathering to a carcass, emphasizing the certainty and visibility of the Son of Man's return in judgment, which no one will miss, much like the inescapable nature of divine intervention in the days of Noah and Lot where the wicked are swept away while the righteous are preserved.