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Matthew 24:42-44 meaningOctober 25, 2022
Jesus ends His answer of the three questions with an admonition to the disciples to be ready at all times.
Matthew 24:36-41 meaningOctober 25, 2022
Jesus gives His answer to the disciples' first question about "When will these things happen?" He tells them even though the signs He gave will indicate His approach is very near, that "No one knows the day or hour of His return, but the Father alone." He parallels His return to the Days of Noah. The judgment will suddenly come upon those who are not ready just like it did at the flood.
Matthew 24:32-35 meaningOctober 25, 2022
Jesus begins His answer to the disciples’ first question, “When will these things happen?” He shares the parable of the fig tree as a way to say: pay attention to the signs and seasons so that you will be ready when the day is near. Jesus promises that this generation that sees the signs will not pass away until these things occur. Heaven and Earth will literally pass away, but Jesus’s words will endure forever.
Matthew 24:29-31 meaningOctober 25, 2022
Jesus finishes the answer to the second question about the sign of His coming. Jesus will gather His elect, shake the powers of the heavens, and come to earth on the clouds of glory. He will be seen by those on the earth, and the tribes of the earth will mourn.
Matthew 24:21-28 meaningOctober 25, 2022
Jesus continues to answer the disciples’ second question regarding the sign of His coming and identifies the second precursor as the great tribulation. It will be a time of unprecedented peril. He makes it clear that no guessing will be needed. If there is any doubt, then it isn’t Him. When He comes, everyone will know it.
Matthew 24:15-20 meaningOctober 25, 2022
Jesus begins His answer to the disciples' second question about the sign of His coming. He refers them to the prophecy from the Book of Daniel called "the Abomination of Desolation." This is not the sign of His return, but it is a precursor to it. He warns His disciples to flee Jerusalem as soon as they see the sign in order to escape the bloody danger that will instantly follow.
Matthew 24:6-14 meaningOctober 25, 2022
Jesus answers the disciples’ third question first. Their question was “What will be the sign of the end of the age?” He answered that it will come after greatly increased lawlessness, and after the gospel of the kingdom is preached in the entire world as a testimony to all the nations.
Matthew 24:4-5 meaningOctober 25, 2022
Jesus prefaces His response to the disciples’ three questions with a warning. He warned them to not be deceived by the many false Messiahs who would appear and lead many people astray.
Matthew 24:1-3 meaningOctober 25, 2022
Matthew begins his record of Jesus’s Olivet Discourse. As Jesus and His disciples leave the temple He tells them that it will be destroyed. This causes the disciples to ask three questions concerning future events. Jesus will answer the questions in the verses that follow.
Revelation 2:11 meaningOctober 20, 2022
Jesus calls for the believers to pay close attention to what He is saying. If they are faithful witnesses, even to the point of death, if they overcome the world and live in obedience to God, they will not suffer loss at the judgement seat of Christ.
Revelation 2:10 meaningOctober 20, 2022
Jesus encourages the Smyrna believers to be courageous in the face of their coming trial. They will be imprisoned, and it will test their faith, but the test will ultimately end. If they are faithful even to the point of dying, Jesus will reward them greatly in Heaven.
Revelation 2:8-9 meaningOctober 20, 2022
Jesus, conqueror of death, addresses the church in Smyrna. He tells them He knows their sufferings and their worldly poverty, but reminds them they are rich in spiritual wealth. They are being persecuted by Jewish enemies.
Matthew 23:37-39 meaningOctober 16, 2022
Jesus’s final public teaching before His arrest was a lament and acknowledgment of His people’s rejection of Him as the Messiah. It was coupled with a prophetic promise that He would be received by His people upon His return to earth at His second coming.
Matthew 23:29-36 meaningOctober 16, 2022
Jesus's final woe of warning to the scribes and Pharisees was condemning. In it He demonstrated how they were just like their fathers who murdered God's prophets when they killed John the Baptist. He also said they would get their fill of even more prophet's blood—so much so that they would become as guilty as though they killed every righteous person from Abel to Zechariah.
Matthew 23:27-28 meaningOctober 16, 2022
In His seventh woe, Jesus compared the scribes and Pharisees to whitewashed tombs which appear clean on the outside but are full of rotting corpses.
Matthew 23:25-26 meaningOctober 16, 2022
In His sixth woe, Jesus compares the scribes and Pharisees to a cup that is spotlessly clean on the outside but filthy and unfit for use on the inside. He admonishes them to clean the inside first so that the outside may become clean also.
Matthew 23:23-24 meaningOctober 16, 2022
In His fifth woe to the scribes and Pharisees, Jesus chastises the Pharisees for paying attention to tiny aspects of their rules even as they ignored the larger principles that God’s law pointed toward.
Matthew 23:16-22 meaningOctober 16, 2022
In His fourth woe, Jesus condemns blind guides who wrongly teach others a legally justified way to lie. Using their own rationale, Jesus demonstrates how their entire thinking is backwards and wrong.
Matthew 23:15 meaningOctober 16, 2022
In His third woe, Jesus rebukes the scribes and Pharisees for seeking to make converts to enhance their personal following and status.
Matthew 23:14 meaningOctober 16, 2022
Jesus speaks the second of eight woes to the scribes and Pharisees. It is issued because they pretend to take care of widows, but actually seek to take great advantage of them.
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