Matthew 24:1,2
THE JUDGMENT OF GOD UPON JERUSALEM AND UPON THE WORLD. Of the destruction of the Temple:... [ Continue Reading ]
THE JUDGMENT OF GOD UPON JERUSALEM AND UPON THE WORLD. Of the destruction of the Temple:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS WENT OUT AND DEPARTED FROM THE TEMPLE; AND HIS DISCIPLES CAME TO HIM FOR TO SHOW HIM THE BUILDINGS OF THE TEMPLE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS SAID UNTO THEM, SEE YE NOT ALL THESE THINGS? VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, THERE SHALL NOT BE LEFT HERE ONE STONE UPON ANOTHER THAT SHALL NOT BE THROWN DOWN. In this chapter, as Luther writes, there is described the conclusion and the end of both kingdoms, that of the Jews and that of the whole w... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS HE SAT UPON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, THE DISCIPLES CAME UNTO HIM PRIVATELY, SAYING, TELL US, WHEN SHALL THESE THINGS BE, AND WHAT SHALL BE THE SIGN OF THY COMING AND OF THE END OF THE WORLD?... [ Continue Reading ]
The question of the disciples as to details:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THEM, TAKE HEED THAT NO MAN DECEIVE YOU.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR MANY SHALL COME IN MY NAME, SAYING, I AM CHRIST; AND SHALL DECEIVE MANY. The blunt prediction of Christ made a deep impression upon the disciples, and therefore they took advantage of the fact that Christ sat down by the wayside, opposite the city, to ask Him concerning the fulfillment of this p... [ Continue Reading ]
AND YE SHALL HEAR OF WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS. SEE THAT YE BE NOT TROUBLED; FOR ALL THESE THINGS MUST COME TO PASS, BUT THE END IS NOT YET.... [ Continue Reading ]
Other external signs:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR NATION SHALL RISE AGAINST NATION AND KINGDOM AGAINST KINGDOM; AND THERE SHALL BE FAMINES AND PESTILENCES AND EARTHQUAKES IN DIVERS PLACES.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THESE ARE THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS. Christ's recital is impressive, dramatic: It will so happen, there is no question about it. he multiplicity of wars, the restlessness preceding, following wars, leading to new wars, wars in which the nations to which the Christians belong are involved, and war... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SHALL THEY DELIVER YOU UP TO BE AFFLICTED, AND SHALL KILL YOU; AND YE SHALL BE HATED OF ALL NATIONS FOR MY NAME'S SAKE.... [ Continue Reading ]
Persecutions:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEN SHALL MANY BE OFFENDED, AND SHALL BETRAY ONE ANOTHER, AND SHALL HATE ONE ANOTHER.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND MANY FALSE PROPHETS SHALL RISE, AND SHALL DECEIVE MANY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BECAUSE INIQUITY SHALL ABOUND, THE LOVE OF MANY SHALL WAX COLD.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HE THAT SHALL ENDURE UNTO THE END, THE SAME SHALL BE SAVED.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THIS GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM SHALL BE PREACHED IN ALL THE WORLD FOR A WITNESS UNTO ALL NATIONS; AND THEN SHALL THE END COME. It is a prophecy of the fate which was in store for the apostles and disciples during the generation preceding the fall of Jerusalem, as well as the persecutions that would... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN YE, THEREFORE, SHALL SEE THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION SPOKEN OF BY DANIEL THE PROPHET, STAND IN THE HOLY PLACE, (whoso readeth, let him understand,)... [ Continue Reading ]
The abomination of desolation:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN LET THEM WHICH BE IN JUDEA FLEE INTO THE MOUNTAINS;... [ Continue Reading ]
LET HIM WHICH IS ON THE HOUSETOP NOT COME DOWN TO TAKE ANY THING OUT OF HIS HOUSE;... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER LET HIM WHICH IS IN THE FIELD RETURN BACK TO TAKE HIS CLOTHES. This is true above all of the time of Jerusalem's fall. The disciples are to bear everything in mind that the Lord said, remember what promises He made them, what hopes He held out before them. Then they shall be able to maintain... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WOE UNTO THEM THAT ARE WITH CHILD, AND TO THEM THAT GIVE SUCK IN THOSE DAYS!... [ Continue Reading ]
Further advice:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT PRAY YE THAT YOUR FLIGHT BE NOT IN THE WINTER, NEITHER ON THE SABBATH DAY.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THEN SHALL BE GREAT TRIBULATION, SUCH AS WAS NOT SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD TO THIS TIME, NO, NOR EVER SHALL BE.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND EXCEPT THOSE DAYS SHOULD BE SHORTENED, THERE SHOULD NO FLESH BE SAVED; BUT FOR THE ELECT'S SAKE THOSE DAYS SHALL BE SHORTENED. Naturally, such circumstances would be especially unpleasant and dangerous for such women as were about to become or had just become mothers, since quick flight would be... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN, IF ANY MAN SHALL SAY UNTO YOU, LO, HERE IS CHRIST, OR THERE, BELIEVE IT NOT.... [ Continue Reading ]
The attack upon the faith:... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THERE SHALL ARISE FALSE CHRISTS AND FALSE PROPHETS, AND SHALL SHOW GREAT SIGNS AND WONDERS, INSOMUCH THAT, IF IT WERE POSSIBLE, THEY SHALL DECEIVE THE VERY ELECT.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD, I HAVE TOLD YOU BEFORE.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE, IF THEY SHALL SAY UNTO YOU, BEHOLD, HE IS IN THE DESERT, GO NOT FORTH; BEHOLD, HE IS IN THE SECRET CHAMBERS, BELIEVE IT NOT.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR AS THE LIGHTNING COMETH OUT OF THE EAST AND SHINETH EVEN UNTO THE WEST, SO SHALL ALSO THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN BE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WHERESOEVER THE CARCASS IS, THERE WILL THE EAGLES BE GATHERED TOGETHER. The Lord still has in mind principally the days preceding the destruction of Jerusalem, though His words may be said to find a general application. The external afflictions would become still more unbearable owing to the fac... [ Continue Reading ]
IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE TRIBULATION OF THOSE DAYS SHALL THE SUN BE DARKENED, AND THE MOON SHALL NOT GIVE HER LIGHT, AND THE STARS SHALL FALL FROM HEAVEN, AND THE POWERS OF THE HEAVENS SHALL BE SHAKEN.... [ Continue Reading ]
The signs of the Last Day:... [ Continue Reading ]
And then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.... [ Continue Reading ]
And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. The entire passage is intensely vivid. Note: A striking feature of prophetic utterances in general is the absence of the element of time ac... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW LEARN A PARABLE OF THE FIG-TREE: WHEN HIS BRANCH IS YET TENDER, AND PUTTETH FORTH LEAVES, YE KNOW THAT SUMMER IS NIGH:... [ Continue Reading ]
The lesson of the fig-tree:... [ Continue Reading ]
SO LIKEWISE YE, WHEN YE SHALL SEE ALL THESE THINGS, KNOW THAT IT IS NEAR, EVEN AT THE DOORS.... [ Continue Reading ]
VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, THIS GENERATION SHALL NOT PASS TILL ALL THESE THINGS BE FULFILLED.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEAVEN AND EARTH SHALL PASS AWAY, BUT MY WORDS SHALL NOT PASS AWAY. Even as the person with ordinary common sense and powers of observation needs no further evidence for the fact that summer is near when he sees the fig-tree's branches become soft with the swelling sap and the young leaves pushing f... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT OF THAT DAY AND HOUR KNOWETH NO MAN, NO, NOT THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN, BUT MY FATHER ONLY.... [ Continue Reading ]
The time of Judgment Day:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT AS THE DAYS OF NOE WERE, SO SHALL ALSO THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN BE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR AS IN THE DAYS THAT WERE BEFORE THE FLOOD THEY WERE EATING AND DRINKING, MARRYING AND GIVING IN MARRIAGE, UNTIL THE DAY THAT NOE ENTERED INTO THE ARK,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND KNEW NOT UNTIL THE FLOOD CAME, AND TOOK THEM ALL AWAY, SO SHALL ALSO THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN BE... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SHALL TWO BE IN THE FIELD; THE ONE SHALL BE TAKEN, AND THE OTHER LEFT.... [ Continue Reading ]
TWO WOMEN SHALL BE GRINDING AT THE MILL; THE ONE SHALL BE TAKEN, AND THE OTHER LEFT. Here is material for careful pondering, above all for those that make it a practice to predict the exact date of Christ's coming to judgment, as many sects have been in the habit of doing since the beginning of the... [ Continue Reading ]
WATCH THEREFORE; FOR YE KNOW NOT WHAT HOUR YOUR LORD DOTH COME.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE NEED OF WATCHFULNESS. A summary:... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT KNOW THIS, THAT IF THE GOODMAN OF THE HOUSE HAD KNOWN IN WHAT WATCH THE THIEF WOULD COME, HE WOULD HAVE WATCHED, AND WOULD NOT HAVE SUFFERED HIS HOUSE TO BE BROKEN UP.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE BE YE ALSO READY; FOR IN SUCH AN HOUR AS YE THINK NOT THE SON OF MAN COMETH. Therefore: Since the exact time is unknown and since faithfulness is required, watch, be on your guard, do not even for a day, an hour, a moment, relax your vigilance. Like a thief in the night His day is coming.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO, THEN, IS A FAITHFUL AND WISE SERVANT, WHOM HIS LORD HATH MADE RULER OVER HIS HOUSEHOLD TO GIVE THEM MEAT IN DUE SEASON?... [ Continue Reading ]
The faithful servant:... [ Continue Reading ]
BLESSED IS THAT SERVANT WHOM HIS LORD WHEN HE COMETH SHALL FIND SO DOING.... [ Continue Reading ]
VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, THAT HE SHALL MAKE HIM RULER OVER ALL HIS GOODS. If a master entrusts to one of his slaves, during his absence, the care of the entire household, the supervision of all the servants, such a slave will show that the trust has not been misplaced by being doubly faithful and jud... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT AND IF THAT EVIL SERVANT SHALL SAY IN HIS HEART, MY LORD DELAYETH HIS COMING,... [ Continue Reading ]
The unfaithful servant:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SHALL BEGIN TO SMITE HIS FELLOW-SERVANTS, AND TO EAT AND DRINK WITH THE DRUNKEN,... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD OF THAT SERVANT SHALL COME IN A DAY WHEN HE LOOKETH NOT FOR HIM, AND IN AN HOUR THAT HE IS NOT AWARE OF,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SHALL CUT HIM ASUNDER, AND APPOINT HIM HIS PORTION WITH THE HYPOCRITES; THERE SHALL BE WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH. The opposite side of the picture: the servant that takes advantage of the supposed delay of his master. Frivolously, exultingly, he says in his heart: There is no danger, the mas... [ Continue Reading ]