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UNDERSTANDING
MATTHEW
Many Christian
love to quote the book Matthew chapter 24, saying that these
things have
never been fullfilled .
But when we
read what Jesus said about these signs of the end of the world
and His coming,
it is easy to understand that these signs were not written for
our time
but the ones who were alive in His time.
TAKEN FROM THE BOOK OF MATTHEW CHAPTER
24
24:1 And Jesus
went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for
to shew him the buildings of the temple.
24:2
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.
24:3 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?
24:4 And
Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
24:5 For
many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
24:6
And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled:
for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
24:7 For
nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there
shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
24:8
All these are the beginning of sorrows.
24:9
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.
24:10
And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall
hate one another.
24:11
And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
24:12
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
24:13
But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
24:14
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.
24:15 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:)
24:16
Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
24:17
Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of
his house:
24:18
Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
24:19
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those
days!
24:20
But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath
day:
24:21
For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning
of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
24:22 And
except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved:
but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
24:23
Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe
it not.
24:24
For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew
great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall
deceive the very elect.
24:25
Behold, I have told you before.
24:26
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.
24:27
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.
24:28For
wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.
24:29
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:
24:30
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.
24:31
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.
24:32
Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and
putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
24:33
So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near,
even at the doors.
24:34Verily
I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be
fulfilled.
24:35
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
It is very
clear this was not written for our time when you see virse 34 ....In fact
Jesus had already told His disciples once before of His coming (Matthew
16:28) Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall
not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
Christ Kingdom came into being on the day of His resurrection, when the
old world of SIN passed away and the new world Our Salvation paided for
with His blood begain. His is a Kingdom that last for ever and ever not
just 1,000 years. [A MILLENNIUM]
If you dissagree with the article above or believe todays "Jews" are
the ancestors of Israel in the Bible, or that they must rebuild the temple
that was distroyed in Jerusalem in 70 AD before a return of Christ... please
click to read the next article you may be surprised!
From Common Sense written in 1953, by: Benj. H. Freedman, Historian - Researcher
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