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A CROOKED AND PERVERSE GENERATION" [Philippians 2:15].
If "this generation" means "this race" as some Millennialists teach, are there forty-two "races" spoken of in Matthew 1:1-17?
The use of "YOU" clearly identified the "generation" Jesus was speaking to in Matthew 24. When speaking to His disciples Jesus said:
• "Do YOU not see all these things? Truly I say to YOU, not one stone here shall be left upon another" Verse 2.
• "See to it that no one misleads YOU" Verse 4.
• "YOU will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars" Verse 6. Not someone today will hear of wars.
• "See that YOU are not frightened" Verse 6.
• "They will deliver YOU to tribulation and will kill YOU, and YOU will be hated by all nations" Verse 9.
• "When YOU see the abomination of desolation which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place" Verse 15. "When YOU see Jerusalem compassed with armies" Luke 21:20. Not when someone today sees this. JERUSALEM COMPASSED WITH ARMIES, WHICH WERE SPOKEN OF BY DANIEL [Daniel 9:27] WAS TO BE IN THEIR TIME AND SEEN BY THEM.
• "Even so YOU too, when YOU see all these things, know YOU that He is nigh, even at the door" Verse 33. Not when someone today sees all these things.
• "I say unto YOU, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place" Verse 34.
• "For this reason YOU be ready too; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when YOU do not think He will" Verse 44.
[3] THEN AN ADDRESS TO HIS DISCIPLES ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES OVERLOOKING JERUSALEM: Matthew 24:1-51. There have been thousands of speculations made on Matthew 24 over the centuries, and it has perhaps been abused more than any other passage.
THE CONTEXT OF MATTHEW 24: It is in the midst of passages about Israel.
• The Two Sons [Matthew 21:27-32] Israel believed not Christ
• The Wicked Husbandman [Matthew 21:33-46]. (a) "He will miserably destroy those miserable men" (b) The stone, Christ, rejected by Israel and Israel “scatted as dust”
• The Marriage Feast [Matthew 22:1-14] "They that were bidden (Israel) was not worthy"
• The Seven Woes [Matthew 23:1-36] "All these things shall come upon this generation." Pronounced upon the scribes and Pharisees of His day.
• Their House (the Temple) left desolate [Matthew 23:27-39]
• Not One Stone Upon Another [Matthew 24:1-2] The Temple to be destroyed
o There question about what He had just said [Matthew 24:3]
o His answer [Matthew 24:4-31]
• The Fig Tree [Matthew 24:32-36] "This generation shall not pass away, till all these things be accomplished"
• Israel The Unfaithful Servant [Matthew 24:45-25:30]
MATTHEW 24
Matthew 24:1-2 "And Jesus went out from the temple, and his disciples came to him TO SHOW HIM THE BUILDINGS OF THE TEMPLE, but he answered and said unto them, see you 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." The stones were the "buildings of the temple." THESE WORDS ARE THE REASON FOR THE QUESTIONS BY HIS DISCIPLES AND THE REASON FOR THE DISCOURSE THAT FOLLOWED. The purpose of this discourse was not to give His disciples signs of His coming at the end of the world but signs of the destruction of Jerusalem, to warn believers in that generation of the coming destruction of Jerusalem and to give them a sign for them to flee from the destruction coming in their lifetime. "But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that her desolation is nigh" [Luke 21:20; Matthew 24:15].
Matthew 24:3 "And as he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, tell us"
Matthew 24:3
Question one: "Tell us, when shall THESE THINGS be?"
Question two: "And what shall be the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?"
• Except for the bad translation of the King James Version ("end of the world") no one would see the end of the world in these two questions. The Greek says, "end of the age" (aion); not "end of the world" (kosmos). Not even the New King James Version would go along with the King James Version on this bad translation.
Mark 13:4
Question one: "Tell us, when shall THESE THINGS be?"
Question two: "And what shall be the sign when THESE THINGS are all about to be accomplished?"
Luke 21:6-7
Question one: "When therefore shall THESE THINGS be?"
Question two: "And what shall be the sign when THESE THINGS are about to come to pass?"
Question two as given in the three parallel accounts. All are the same question.
1. Matthew "And what shall be the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?"
2. Mark "And what shall be the sign when THESE THINGS are all about to be accomplished?"
3. Luke "And what shall be the sign when THESE THINGS are about to come to pass?"
"THESE THINGS" were the things Christ had just said, "And Jesus said unto him, ‘Do you see these great buildings? There shall not be left here one stone upon another, which shall not be thrown down.’ And as he seat on the Mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, ‘Tell us, when shall THESE THINGS be?’" [Mark 13:2-3]. The disciples, thinking of what the Lord had said, asked two questions, which they supposed both would be at the same time. (1) When shall THESE THINGS You speak of be (2) and what shall be the sign that THESE THINGS are about to come to pass? NEITHER IN WHAT CHRIST SAID OR IN THE QUESTIONS THE DISCIPLES ASKED IS THERE ANY REFERENCE TO THE SECOND COMING OR TO A GREAT TRIBULATON THOUSANDS OF YEARS AFTER "THESE THING." AT THE TIME THEY ASKED THESE QUESTIONS THEY DID NOT BELIEVE OR KNOW THAT JESUS WOULD BE PUT TO DEATH OR THAT HE WOULD BE GOING BACK TO HEAVEN AND COMING A SECOND TIME. THE DISCIPLES STILL THOUGHT THE CHRIST WOULD RESTORE THE EARTHY KINGDOM OF ISRAEL JUST AS ALL THE JEWS DID.
1. “And they understood none of these things, and this saying was hidden from them, and they did not comprehend the things that were said” [Luke 18:34; 19:11; 24:21-27; John 16:16-18; 20:9].
2. When they asked these two questions they did not know or believe Christ would die and be resurrected from the dead or know or believe anything about the second coming of Christ or the judgment day.
3. On the day of His resurrection they did not know it was the resurrected Christ they were talking to and said to Him, "But we hoped (past tense) that it was he who should REDEEM ISRAEL" [Luke 24:21]. Hoped that Christ was the one the Jews looked for to redeem Israel from Rome and restore it as a nation as it was under David.
4. Forty days after He was raised from the dead they still did not understand therefore, they still did not expect Christ to go away and return to earth a second time at the end of the world; they expected Him to restore the kingdom to Israel "They therefore, when they were come together, asked him, saying, Lord, do you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?" [Acts 1:6].
AT THE TIME THEY ASKED THIS, THEY DID NOT BELIEVE JUST AS THE JEWS DID NOT BELIEVE THAT THEIR MESSIAH WOULD BE KILLED, BUT THEY BELIEVED THAT HE WOULD SET UP AN EARTHLY KINGDOM OF ISRAEL. HOW COULD THEY BE ASKING ABOUT HIS SECOND COMING WHEY THEY DID NOT KNOW THERE WOULD BE A SECOND COMING? MILLENNIALISTS MUST MAKE THE DISCIPLES BE ASKING A QUESTION ABOUT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST THAT THE DISCIPLES DID NOT UNDERSTAND ABOUT OR BELIEVE AT THAT TIME, BUT THEY MUST HAVE THE DISCIPLES ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MILLENNIAL AND THE RAPTURE TO MAKE THIS CHAPTER TEACH THEIR VIEW. I have never seen where any Premillennialists explain how the disciples could know anything about the rapture and the thousand years when the same disciples did not knew that Christ was to die and be raised from the dead and forty days later ascend to Heaven. From where do they think these disciples had this knowledge?
[1] SIGNS OF THE THINGS THAT WERE TO COME TO PAST
THAT CHRISTIANS WERE TO WATCH FOR
Matthew 24:4-15: "And Jesus answered (His answer was to the questions they had asked about the destruction of the temple, not about His second coming) and said unto them, Take heed that no man lead you astray. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and shall lead many astray. And you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not troubled: for these things must needs come to pass; but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and earthquakes in divers places. But, all these things are the beginning of travail. Then shall they deliver you up unto tribulation, and shall kill you: and you shall be hated of all the nations for my name's sake. And then shall many stumble, and shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray. And because iniquity shall be multiplied, the love of many shall wax cold. But, he that endures to the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a testimony unto all the nations; and then shall the end come. When; therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that reads understand)."
[2] NATURAL DISASTERS TO ISRAEL AND ROME
(a) WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS [Matthew 24:6; Mark 13:7-8; Luke 21:9-10] with nations and kingdoms rising against each other [Matthew 24:7]. There were many conflicts and battles before A. D. 70 in which thousands of Jews were killed. In one battle with the Syrians about 5,000 Jews were killed. From A. D. 66 to 70 there were many wars and rumors of wars. Many thousands were killed in the many wars in the 5 years before the destruction of the temple and Israel in A. D. 70.
"The Jewish war began in A. D. 66, and ended five years after. During this period all the Roman Empire was filled with commotion. Nero, the emperor, was overthrown by Galba; six months after, Galba was overthrown by Otho; a few months after, Otho was overthrown by Vitelius; a little later, he was overthrown by Vespasian. All of these but the last, who ascended the throne shortly before Jerusalem was destroyed, died violent deaths...Tacitus, the Roman historian, says of this period: 'It was full of calamities, horrible with battles, rent with seditions, savage in peace itself.'" B. W. Johnson, "The People's New Testament With Notes" Gospel Light Publishing Company, 1889.
From the writing of Josephus we learn that the Jews were divided into parties fighting among themselves and Jews killed others Jews in numbers far greater then those killed by the Roman soldiers, and villages of Syria and elsewhere were burnt to the ground in the five years of war before the Romans laid siege to Jerusalem. During the siege many more Jews were killed by
If "this generation" means "this race" as some Millennialists teach, are there forty-two "races" spoken of in Matthew 1:1-17?
The use of "YOU" clearly identified the "generation" Jesus was speaking to in Matthew 24. When speaking to His disciples Jesus said:
• "Do YOU not see all these things? Truly I say to YOU, not one stone here shall be left upon another" Verse 2.
• "See to it that no one misleads YOU" Verse 4.
• "YOU will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars" Verse 6. Not someone today will hear of wars.
• "See that YOU are not frightened" Verse 6.
• "They will deliver YOU to tribulation and will kill YOU, and YOU will be hated by all nations" Verse 9.
• "When YOU see the abomination of desolation which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place" Verse 15. "When YOU see Jerusalem compassed with armies" Luke 21:20. Not when someone today sees this. JERUSALEM COMPASSED WITH ARMIES, WHICH WERE SPOKEN OF BY DANIEL [Daniel 9:27] WAS TO BE IN THEIR TIME AND SEEN BY THEM.
• "Even so YOU too, when YOU see all these things, know YOU that He is nigh, even at the door" Verse 33. Not when someone today sees all these things.
• "I say unto YOU, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place" Verse 34.
• "For this reason YOU be ready too; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour when YOU do not think He will" Verse 44.
[3] THEN AN ADDRESS TO HIS DISCIPLES ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES OVERLOOKING JERUSALEM: Matthew 24:1-51. There have been thousands of speculations made on Matthew 24 over the centuries, and it has perhaps been abused more than any other passage.
THE CONTEXT OF MATTHEW 24: It is in the midst of passages about Israel.
• The Two Sons [Matthew 21:27-32] Israel believed not Christ
• The Wicked Husbandman [Matthew 21:33-46]. (a) "He will miserably destroy those miserable men" (b) The stone, Christ, rejected by Israel and Israel “scatted as dust”
• The Marriage Feast [Matthew 22:1-14] "They that were bidden (Israel) was not worthy"
• The Seven Woes [Matthew 23:1-36] "All these things shall come upon this generation." Pronounced upon the scribes and Pharisees of His day.
• Their House (the Temple) left desolate [Matthew 23:27-39]
• Not One Stone Upon Another [Matthew 24:1-2] The Temple to be destroyed
o There question about what He had just said [Matthew 24:3]
o His answer [Matthew 24:4-31]
• The Fig Tree [Matthew 24:32-36] "This generation shall not pass away, till all these things be accomplished"
• Israel The Unfaithful Servant [Matthew 24:45-25:30]
MATTHEW 24
Matthew 24:1-2 "And Jesus went out from the temple, and his disciples came to him TO SHOW HIM THE BUILDINGS OF THE TEMPLE, but he answered and said unto them, see you 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." The stones were the "buildings of the temple." THESE WORDS ARE THE REASON FOR THE QUESTIONS BY HIS DISCIPLES AND THE REASON FOR THE DISCOURSE THAT FOLLOWED. The purpose of this discourse was not to give His disciples signs of His coming at the end of the world but signs of the destruction of Jerusalem, to warn believers in that generation of the coming destruction of Jerusalem and to give them a sign for them to flee from the destruction coming in their lifetime. "But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then recognize that her desolation is nigh" [Luke 21:20; Matthew 24:15].
Matthew 24:3 "And as he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, tell us"
Matthew 24:3
Question one: "Tell us, when shall THESE THINGS be?"
Question two: "And what shall be the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?"
• Except for the bad translation of the King James Version ("end of the world") no one would see the end of the world in these two questions. The Greek says, "end of the age" (aion); not "end of the world" (kosmos). Not even the New King James Version would go along with the King James Version on this bad translation.
Mark 13:4
Question one: "Tell us, when shall THESE THINGS be?"
Question two: "And what shall be the sign when THESE THINGS are all about to be accomplished?"
Luke 21:6-7
Question one: "When therefore shall THESE THINGS be?"
Question two: "And what shall be the sign when THESE THINGS are about to come to pass?"
Question two as given in the three parallel accounts. All are the same question.
1. Matthew "And what shall be the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?"
2. Mark "And what shall be the sign when THESE THINGS are all about to be accomplished?"
3. Luke "And what shall be the sign when THESE THINGS are about to come to pass?"
"THESE THINGS" were the things Christ had just said, "And Jesus said unto him, ‘Do you see these great buildings? There shall not be left here one stone upon another, which shall not be thrown down.’ And as he seat on the Mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, ‘Tell us, when shall THESE THINGS be?’" [Mark 13:2-3]. The disciples, thinking of what the Lord had said, asked two questions, which they supposed both would be at the same time. (1) When shall THESE THINGS You speak of be (2) and what shall be the sign that THESE THINGS are about to come to pass? NEITHER IN WHAT CHRIST SAID OR IN THE QUESTIONS THE DISCIPLES ASKED IS THERE ANY REFERENCE TO THE SECOND COMING OR TO A GREAT TRIBULATON THOUSANDS OF YEARS AFTER "THESE THING." AT THE TIME THEY ASKED THESE QUESTIONS THEY DID NOT BELIEVE OR KNOW THAT JESUS WOULD BE PUT TO DEATH OR THAT HE WOULD BE GOING BACK TO HEAVEN AND COMING A SECOND TIME. THE DISCIPLES STILL THOUGHT THE CHRIST WOULD RESTORE THE EARTHY KINGDOM OF ISRAEL JUST AS ALL THE JEWS DID.
1. “And they understood none of these things, and this saying was hidden from them, and they did not comprehend the things that were said” [Luke 18:34; 19:11; 24:21-27; John 16:16-18; 20:9].
2. When they asked these two questions they did not know or believe Christ would die and be resurrected from the dead or know or believe anything about the second coming of Christ or the judgment day.
3. On the day of His resurrection they did not know it was the resurrected Christ they were talking to and said to Him, "But we hoped (past tense) that it was he who should REDEEM ISRAEL" [Luke 24:21]. Hoped that Christ was the one the Jews looked for to redeem Israel from Rome and restore it as a nation as it was under David.
4. Forty days after He was raised from the dead they still did not understand therefore, they still did not expect Christ to go away and return to earth a second time at the end of the world; they expected Him to restore the kingdom to Israel "They therefore, when they were come together, asked him, saying, Lord, do you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?" [Acts 1:6].
AT THE TIME THEY ASKED THIS, THEY DID NOT BELIEVE JUST AS THE JEWS DID NOT BELIEVE THAT THEIR MESSIAH WOULD BE KILLED, BUT THEY BELIEVED THAT HE WOULD SET UP AN EARTHLY KINGDOM OF ISRAEL. HOW COULD THEY BE ASKING ABOUT HIS SECOND COMING WHEY THEY DID NOT KNOW THERE WOULD BE A SECOND COMING? MILLENNIALISTS MUST MAKE THE DISCIPLES BE ASKING A QUESTION ABOUT THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST THAT THE DISCIPLES DID NOT UNDERSTAND ABOUT OR BELIEVE AT THAT TIME, BUT THEY MUST HAVE THE DISCIPLES ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MILLENNIAL AND THE RAPTURE TO MAKE THIS CHAPTER TEACH THEIR VIEW. I have never seen where any Premillennialists explain how the disciples could know anything about the rapture and the thousand years when the same disciples did not knew that Christ was to die and be raised from the dead and forty days later ascend to Heaven. From where do they think these disciples had this knowledge?
[1] SIGNS OF THE THINGS THAT WERE TO COME TO PAST
THAT CHRISTIANS WERE TO WATCH FOR
Matthew 24:4-15: "And Jesus answered (His answer was to the questions they had asked about the destruction of the temple, not about His second coming) and said unto them, Take heed that no man lead you astray. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and shall lead many astray. And you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not troubled: for these things must needs come to pass; but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and earthquakes in divers places. But, all these things are the beginning of travail. Then shall they deliver you up unto tribulation, and shall kill you: and you shall be hated of all the nations for my name's sake. And then shall many stumble, and shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray. And because iniquity shall be multiplied, the love of many shall wax cold. But, he that endures to the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a testimony unto all the nations; and then shall the end come. When; therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that reads understand)."
[2] NATURAL DISASTERS TO ISRAEL AND ROME
(a) WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS [Matthew 24:6; Mark 13:7-8; Luke 21:9-10] with nations and kingdoms rising against each other [Matthew 24:7]. There were many conflicts and battles before A. D. 70 in which thousands of Jews were killed. In one battle with the Syrians about 5,000 Jews were killed. From A. D. 66 to 70 there were many wars and rumors of wars. Many thousands were killed in the many wars in the 5 years before the destruction of the temple and Israel in A. D. 70.
"The Jewish war began in A. D. 66, and ended five years after. During this period all the Roman Empire was filled with commotion. Nero, the emperor, was overthrown by Galba; six months after, Galba was overthrown by Otho; a few months after, Otho was overthrown by Vitelius; a little later, he was overthrown by Vespasian. All of these but the last, who ascended the throne shortly before Jerusalem was destroyed, died violent deaths...Tacitus, the Roman historian, says of this period: 'It was full of calamities, horrible with battles, rent with seditions, savage in peace itself.'" B. W. Johnson, "The People's New Testament With Notes" Gospel Light Publishing Company, 1889.
From the writing of Josephus we learn that the Jews were divided into parties fighting among themselves and Jews killed others Jews in numbers far greater then those killed by the Roman soldiers, and villages of Syria and elsewhere were burnt to the ground in the five years of war before the Romans laid siege to Jerusalem. During the siege many more Jews were killed by
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