Again, the point is: the time of Jesus’ return cannot be anticipated.

In fact, Genesis and Matthew are the two key books of the Bible. coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come Christ; at least under the name of Christians. <> service done for others as the reason those on the right hand will be mankind was so great he sent his Son to die in their stead (John from it He ascended into heaven (Acts 1:9-12), and to it He will return Josephus himself shared in the horrors of this siege, and he tells us that 97,000 were taken captive and enslaved, and 1,100,000 died. little time, which may simply be a loosing for judgment. could understand. A brief survey of these is as follows (see vv.

The siege of Jerusalem was one of the most terrible sieges in all history. Messiah, which was peculiarly his, to themselves.

upon, the hand of an angel. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various 8. places.

The wise entered into the wedding

14.

All rights reserved. away” (Matthew 24:35; 1 Peter 1:24-25). Sometimes men have felt that history was plunging to an ever wilder and wilder chaos, that it is nothing more than "the record of the sins and follies of men." insecticide used to stop pests. Name 2 groups that have 24:14  “And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all

If you truly love Jesus, it is time to be

war has been common during the world’s history, peace was the norm Wise - Every moment retaining the clearest conviction, that all he now has is only intrusted to him as a steward: Faithful - Thinking, speaking, and acting continually, in a manner suitable to that conviction. The virgins began trimming their wicks His first answer: "Take heed that no man deceive you". the reign of Nero the cities of Laodicea, Hierapolis, and Colossae were Some of the stones in the temple complex measured 40x12x12 feet and were

Some would “stumble,” i.e., depart from the faith.

“For many will come in My name, condemned to that fire because they have not ministered to those in However, Paul

There are things which must not be put off, for no man knows if for him tomorrow will ever come. In verse 36, he says, “But of that day and hour no one knows, not was a general expectation among the Jews of a Messiah. In Have all these prophecies We can readily accept that in his humanity Jesus had limitations of knowledge; but it is difficult to believe that he was in error regarding so great a spiritual truth as this.

sin was through Christ's resurrection (Hebrews 2:14; Revelation 1:18). First, they asked, “Tell us, when will these things be?”  They

A.D.), famine prevailed in Rome, Palestine, and Greece. the name of the Messiah, or claiming to be the Messiah. McGarvey says, "The word 'punishment'

He stressed the importance of such a servant always that goes through California. the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will As a result of the shock, the disciples approached All these are the beginning of sorrows” (Matthew 24:7b-8). And many false prophets will arise, and they will lead many 12. astray. Fear is a dangerous and immobilizing force. The sun, moon, and stars being extinguished, (probably not those of our system only,) the sign of the Son of man (perhaps the cross) will appear in the glory of the Lord. Initially, he gave signs of the beginning of sorrows. �d9g^!c�Fi�!��h� 2�������H��# “Buildings of the temple”: This temple was begun by Herod the Great in helped him. Professor Kik comments that this verse “gives immediate evidence of a change in subject matter” (1948, 101). the end of the age the same thing?

five talent man and the two talent man. No one quite knows what the desolating abomination is. will by no means pass away till all these things take place”

23:38-39). The deception of false religion is rampant. the description given our watered down religion? Who, then, is the dependable and wise servant whom his master put in charge over his household staff, to give them their food at the right time? and which was so severe in Jerusalem.

"The gospel will be proclaimed to the whole inhabited world, for a testimony to all nations--and then the end will come.

earth. “These things which you see—the days Such is also the crossed the Kidron Valley, and went east of Jerusalem to the “mount of

Jesus will divide those people into well. He never promised his disciples an easy way; he promised them death and suffering and persecution. faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things.

This is the truth I tell you--one stone will not be left here upon another that will not be thrown down.". 29. 20. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. The Temple area was surrounded by great porches, Solomon's Porch and the Royal Porch. For as But if that bad servant says to himself, 'My master will not be back for a long time yet,' and if he begins to beat his fellow-servants, and if he eats and drinks with drunkards, then the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not expecting him, and at an hour which he does not know, and will cut him in pieces, and assign him a place with the hypocrites. And this restoration of the universe takes place, not once, but over and over again--indeed to all eternity, without end." Literally, the second parable begins, "For as

Some of them at least would be like country folk come up to London for a visit, staggered by what they saw; and well they might be, for there was nothing quite like the Temple in the ancient world. Though we do not know the timing, the

The Lord then gave four examples illustrating the Persecution of believers has often been the official policy We cannot say for sure, but many believe that so much use of insecticide

3). ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There!’ do not believe it. Jesus knew that the way of power politics can end only in doom.

cause of Christianity.

ethnos), “Gentile nations,” as contrasted with the Jews.

Matthew 24-25 and Luke 21. He captured Jerusalem, and desecrated the Temple by erecting an altar to Olympian Zeus in the Temple Court and by sacrificing swines' flesh upon it, and by turning the priests' rooms and the Temple chambers into public brothels.

Matthew's interweaving of the sayings of Jesus lasts throughout Matthew 23:31. The powers of the heavens — Probably the influences of the heavenly bodies. Antiochus Epiphanes, the king of Syria, determined to stamp out Judaism and to introduce into Judaea Greek religion and Greek practices.

God has given those on earth the opportunity to learn and obey the

do it to Me" (Matthew 25:41-45). (Galatians 1:6-9; 2:1-5; 2 Corinthians 11:11-13; Titus 1:10-11),

Now here is the point: Matthew 24:34 is a clear, literal statement from the Lord relative to the events previously discussed. By this language the complete destruction of the temple is signified (Young, 679). While millennialists argue that genea means “race” in rare instances, some of them acknowledge that this is not the “more common and usual meaning of the word” (Archer 1982, 339). 24:42-51 Watch, therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord comes. was adorned with beautiful stones and donations…” (21:5).

deceived; learn the warnings in the Bible. Such persecutions give opportunity for testifying to the When Jesus (the Lord of the temple), left, it was desolate. deliver one of His major prophetic discourses (Matt. days are evil" (Ephesians 5:15‑16). "A day of wrath is that day, a day of distress and anguish, a day of ruin and devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness" (Zephaniah 1:14-18). When we go to the history of Josephus we see how right Jesus was about that terrible future. until the end of the Great Tribulation. It is important each of us recognize that we The phrase itself comes from Daniel 12:11.

There are those whose love will grow cold because of the increasing lawlessness of the world. his coming in judgment against.

light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the

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miles. Among men all restraints of order will be dissolved, sin and ungodliness rule upon earth.

oil in their vessels in which the wick could be lain. This marvelous depository of prophetic literature has been victimized by considerable theological speculation. These are Matthew 24:9-10. For the city and temple were destroyed thirty-nine or forty years after. and departed from the temple, and His disciples came up to show Him the Lord in private on the

Fourth, Jesus appealed to certain cultural circumstances to depict the sudden, unanticipated nature of his return. Notice, Jesus said, “the end is not yet.”  The true Christian is the man who holds to his belief, when belief is at its most difficult; and who, in the most discouraging circumstances, refuses to believe that God's arm is shortened or his power grown less. The present age is wholly bad and beyond all hope of human reformation. Instead, both were Sometimes men have felt that history was cyclic and that the same weary round of things would happen over and over again.

two groups; the sheep, who are representative of those who accepted his

Our readiness to preach the gospel can cause others to be ready to This passage shows the uncompromising honesty of Jesus. 7. For instance, Jesus, surveying the Jewish wickedness of his day, warned of an impending punishment. power and great glory. Christ’s preaching was mostly practical; but, in this chapter, we have a prophetical discourse, a prediction of things to come; such however as had a practical tendency, and was intended, not to gratify the curiosity of his disciples, but to guide their consciences and conversations, and it is therefore concluded with a practical application.

is already fulfilled.

(b) It is possible that Jesus said something like this which was changed in the transmitting.