Witness for Christ in very distressing days.
Mat 24:7 FOR NATION WILL RISE IN ARMS AGAINST NATION, KINGDOM AGAINST KINGDOM, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places;
Mat 24:8 but all these miseries are but like the early pains of childbirth.
Mat 24:9 "At that time they will deliver you up to punishment and will put you to death; and you will be objects of hatred to all the nations because you are called by my name.
Mat 24:10 Then WILL MANY STUMBLE AND FALL, and they will betray one another and hate one another.
Mat 24:11 Many false prophets will rise up and lead multitudes astray;
Mat 24:12 and because of the prevalent disregard of God's law the love of the great majority will grow cold;
Mat 24:13 but those who stand firm to the End shall be saved.
Mat 24:14 And this Good News of the Kingdom shall be proclaimed throughout the whole world to set the evidence before all the Gentiles; and then the End will come.
Introduction
We have looked at the beginning of the Judgements Jesus pronounced on the Jewish Temple and now we continue with the Signs of the End of the Age. Deceivers claiming to be Christ will deceive many. So keep on your watch out.
Hearing of, but not participating in, Wars and Rumours of wars are happening already. The Last days are here and cranking up fast.
Comments
Mat 24:7 FOR NATION WILL RISE IN ARMS AGAINST NATION, KINGDOM AGAINST KINGDOM, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places;
Notes
Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom - At Caesarea the Jews and Syrians contended about the right to the city, and twenty thousand of the Jews were slain. At this blow the whole nation of the Jews was exasperated, and carried war and desolation through the Syrian cities and villages. Sedition and civil war spread throughout Judea; Italy was also thrown into civil war by the contests between Otho and Vitellius for the crown.Barnes
War for those who reject peace
See here the woeful effects of refusing God’s free offers of grace. They that would have none of the gospel of peace shall have the miseries of war. They that loathed the heavenly manna shall be hunger-starved. They that despised the only medicine of their souls shall be visited with the pestilence. They that would not suffer heart-quake shall suffer earthquake. Or, as Bradford, the martyr, expresses it, they that trembled not in hearing shall be crushed to pieces in feeling. As they heap up sin, as they treasure up wrath, as there hath been a conjuncture of offences, so there shall be of their miseries. The black horse is at the heels of the red, and the pale of the black (Rev_6:4). God left not Pharaoh, that sturdy rebel, till He had beaten the breath out of his body, nor will He cease pursuing men with His plagues till they throw the traitor’s head over the wall. (John Trapp.)
These Jewish Troubles of the first Century were only the beginning of what is coming on the earth right now.
Famines, and earthquakes in divers places. A famine is prophesied in Act_11:28; others are mentioned by Latin historians. Five great earthquakes occurred in thirteen years. The best authorities omit: ‘and pestilences.’ See Luk_21:11, from which it is taken. As regards the wider fulfilment: ‘The passage combines in one view the whole of the various social, physical, and climatic crises of development in the whole New Testament dispensation’ (Lange).
Luke 21: 11 There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.
Notes
Powerful earthquake hits Myanmar. see road damage
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The Bible says there will be earthquakes in divers places. Many different places.
Chilean earthquake leaves heavy damage Wrecked homes, flooding revealed
September 17th 2015. Tsunami damage
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v. there will be famines and earthquakes in various places;
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| Indian Famine |
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| Russian famine |
Mat 24:8 but all these miseries are but like the early pains of childbirth.
Notes
The beginning of sorrows - Far heavier calamities are yet to come before the end. Barnes
Mat 24:9 "At that time they will deliver you up to punishment and will put you to death; and you will be objects of hatred to all the nations because you are called by my name.
Notes
Persecution on the Increase now.
Coptic Christians beheaded by ISIS in Lybia
ISIS chased this Christian family from their homes in Mosul Iraq
Mat 24:10 Then WILL MANY STUMBLE AND FALL, and they will betray one another and hate one another.
Notes
(CEV) Many will give up and will betray and hate each other.
Mat 24:11 Many false prophets will rise up and lead multitudes astray;
Mat 24:12 and because of the prevalent disregard of God's law the love of the great majority will grow cold;
The love of many shall grow cold - By reason of these trials and persecutions from without, and those apostasies and false prophets from within, the love of many to Christ and his doctrine, and to one another, shall grow cold. Some openly deserting the faith, as Mat_24:10; others corrupting it, as Mat_24:11; and others growing indifferent about it, Mat_24:12. Even at this early period there seems to have been a very considerable defection in several Christian Churches; see Gal_3:1-4; 2Th_3:1, etc.; 2Ti_1:15. A.C.
The meaning of Matthew 24:12, then, is that agape love will grow cold because of lawlessness, even though there may still be brotherly love, kindness, and human affection. Remember, we show agape love to God through obedience—the opposite of lawlessness—so when disobedience increases, agape grows cold. An example of this appears in the letter to the Ephesians, where Jesus says that they had left their first love—their first agape—and He commands them to repent (Revelation 2:4-5), that is, to turn away from their lawlessness. When there is compromise, or the setting aside of God's standard of righteousness and holiness, then the submissive love toward God and the sacrificial love toward man will begin to grow cold. It is a simple cause-and-effect relationship. The Forerunner Commentary.
Mat 24:13 but those who stand firm to the End shall be saved.
Notes
stand firm, endure Verb: ὑπομένω (hypomenō), GK 5702 (S 5278), 17x. hypomenōmay be rendered positively as “endure, stand firm, persevere.” As a weight-lifter...Mounce’s Complete Expository Dictionary
Mat 24:14 And this Good News of the Kingdom shall be proclaimed throughout the whole world to set the evidence before all the Gentiles; and then the End will come.
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| Preaching the GOOD NEWS OF JESUS CHRIST |
Notes.
Is it not clear that Jesus Christ came preaching the Kingdom of God(Matthew 4:17-23; 9:35; 10:7; 24:14; Luke 4:43; 8:1; 9:2, 60; Luke 16:16)? Does this not suggest that this was what He wanted to be preached at all times? It certainly seems that way! It was His only focus! He says He had to go and preach to other cities the Kingdom of God, and He sent His disciples out, saying, "You preach the Kingdom of God too." Richard T. Ritenbaugh The Forerunner Commentary
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