Great Suffering the like of which has never been seen before.
Mat 24:15 "When you have seen (to use the language of the Prophet Daniel) the 'ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION', standing in the Holy Place" --let the reader observe those words--
Mat 24:16 "then let those who are in Judaea escape to the hills;
Mat 24:17 let him who is on the roof not go down to fetch what is in his house;
Mat 24:18 nor let him who is outside the city stay to pick up his outer garment.
Mat 24:19 And alas for the women who at that time are with child or have infants!
Mat 24:20 "But pray that your flight may not be in winter, nor on the Sabbath;
Mat 24:21 for it WILL BE a time of great SUFFERING, SUCH AS NEVER HAS BEEN FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD TILL NOW, and assuredly never will be again.
Mat 24:22 And if those days had not been cut short, no one would escape; but for the sake of God's own People those days will be cut short.
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| When will these things be? |
Introduction
We have looked at the wars associated with nations rising against nations,the famines and earthquakes which have begun to devastate the earth. The false prophets and the falling away in the church. is a great need for perseverance in the faith. Persecution is on the rise everywhere and the spirit of Antichrist is already in the world where they ridicule and blaspheme the Word of God and the Lord Himself. Now we turn to Vv 15-22 which speak of the Abomination of Desolation.
Comments
Mat 24:15 "When you have seen (to use the language of the Prophet Daniel) the 'ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION', standing in the Holy Place" --let the reader observe those words--
Notes
When you therefore have seen…... the abomination of desolation.
This abomination of desolation, St. Luke, (Luk_21:20, Luk_21:21), refers to the Roman army; and this abomination standing in the holy place is the Roman army besieging Jerusalem; this, our Lord says, is what was spoken of by Daniel the prophet, in the ninth and eleventh chapters of his prophecy; and so let every one who reads these prophecies understand them; and in reference to this very event they are understood by the rabbins. The Roman army is called an abomination, for its ensigns and images, which were so to the Jews. Josephus says, (War, b. vi. chap. 6), the Romans brought their ensigns into the temple, and placed them over against the eastern gate, and sacrificed to them there. The Roman army is therefore fitly called the abomination, and the abomination which maketh desolate, as it was to desolate and lay waste Jerusalem; A.C.
The great judgment
This prophecy was by no means exhausted by what happened to Jerusalem. Though it begins there, it does not stop there. History repeats itself.
1. Were the last days of Jerusalem calamitous days, times of great tribulation, violence, and war-so will it be at the ending period of the present world.
2. Jerusalem’s day of judgment come on in a seemingly natural course of things-so also will it be at the coming of the great day. It will have much less of the immediately supernatural than we imagine.
3. Were those last clays of the old economy days of abounding falsehood and deception-the same is to occur again.
4. The zealots in the days of Jerusalem’s troubles would by no means believe what was before them, or what wickedness they were enacting in the name of truth. They relied on their covenant privileges. So will it be in the end.
5. We are not left without consolation and hope. There was an elect who escaped the destruction when Jerusalem fell. Jesus will save His own in the day of doom. (J. A. Seiss, D. D.)
Bible Illustrator
Mat 24:16 "then let those who are in Judaea escape to the hills;
Notes
Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains - This counsel was remembered and wisely followed by the Christians afterwards. Eusebius and Epiphanius say, that at this juncture, after Cestius Gallus had raised the siege, and Vespasian was approaching with his army, all who believed in Christ left Jerusalem and fled to Pella, and other places beyond the river Jordan; and so they all marvellously escaped the general shipwreck of their country: not one of them perished. A.C.
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This may well happen again at the end of the Age.
Mat 24:17 let him who is on the roof not go down to fetch what is in his house;
Mat 24:18 nor let him who is outside the city stay to pick up his outer garment.
Notes
v.17 Let him which is on the house top - The houses of the Jews, as well as those of the ancient Greeks and Romans, were flat-roofed, and had stairs on the outside, by which persons might ascend and descend without coming into the house. In the eastern walled cities, these flat-roofed houses usually formed continued terraces from one end of the city to the other; which terraces terminated at the gates. He, therefore, who is walking on the house top, let him not come down to take any thing out of his house; but let him instantly pursue his course along the tops of the houses, and escape out at the city gate as fast as he can.
Any thing - Instead of τι, any thing, we should read τα, the things; which reading is supported by all the best MSS., versions, and fathers.
Mat 24:19 And alas for the women who at that time are with child or have infants!
Mat 24:20 "But pray that your flight may not be in winter, nor on the Sabbath;
Mat 24:21 for it WILL BE a time of great SUFFERING, SUCH AS NEVER HAS BEEN FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD TILL NOW, and assuredly never will be again.
Notes
for it WILL BE a time of great SUFFERING WNT
for then shall be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world to this time; no, nor ever shall be.MKJV
Notes
This shows that this is a future event at the End of the Age
In the Days of Josephus he says” The account given by Josephus, the Jewish historian who witnessed and recorded the war, is almost an echo of the predictions of Christ. Women ate their own children from starvation; the Jews within the city fought each other as well as the Roman army; on August 10, A. D. 70, the city was stormed and there was a universal massacre; 1,100,00 persons perished, and 100,000 survivors were sold into slavery.PNT
What will these days be like?
In Christian eschatology, the great tribulation (Greek: θλίψις μεγάλη, thlipsis megalē) is a period mentioned by Jesus in the Olivet discourse as a sign that would occur in the time of the end.[1] At Revelation 7:14, "the great tribulation" (Greek: τῆς θλίψεως τῆς μεγάλης, literally, "the tribulation, the great one") is used to indicate the period spoken of by Jesus.[2] Matthew 24: 21, 29 usestribulation (θλίβω) in a context denoting afflictions of those hard-pressed by siege and the calamities of war.[3]
Mat 24:22 And if those days had not been cut short, no one would escape; but for the sake of God's own People those days will be cut short.
Notes
No flesh would be saved. If such awful work should continue, it would exterminate the human race.
For the elect's sake. On their account, because there is salt to save the earth, and end shall be put to the awful work of death. The elect are the believers in Christ (Rom_11:5-7).
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