“…And there will be famines, pestilences,[b] and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.” (Matthew 24:7b,8) A pestilence a contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating leading to death. Famine and pestilence...
In Revelation 1:1 John specifically states that the prophecies of Revelation would begin to take place in a very short time and not in the future far away.“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show to His bond-servants,...
As we have seen in our studies so far on Matthew 24 the word “coming” here is the Greek word parousia. This word is found four times in Matthew, all of them in this same chapter 24 which is the focus...
Matthew 24:6 KJVAnd 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. When Jesus declared that this it was a time...
25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. (NKJV)...
Jesus declared that the Temple and its buildings would be destroyed, and the disciples, gripped with this stunning reality as presented by him, asked Him to tell them “when will this happen?” Jesus replied with eight signs of the coming destruction. They are:...
Today I and some of my friends from around the world celebrate a new holiday. This is one that extols the dawn of new age that was occasioned by the return of the Lord in judgment over that old city of...
The disciples believed that the coming of Messiah would be simultaneous with the destruction of the city and the temple as we have seen in the previous discussions and build up from the context based on the narrative from chapter 21....
