Matthew 24 Explained: What Did Jesus Teach about the End Times?
Matthew 24 Explained: What Did Jesus Teach about the End Times?
In this video we discuss the Abomination of Desolation, the Rapture, the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD, and the Return of Christ.
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Jehovah’s Witnesses are the true worshippers of YHWH
No part of Matthew 24 applies beyond 70 A.D.
End of the AGE…. Not ‘ world. ‘ That end happened almost 2000 years ago.
I shall be in listening to, reading and in deep meditation in the spirit on what our Master warned of in Matthew 24. Father Most High give to discernment in the Name of Jesus by The Holy Spirit, as well as all brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus in this age. As brother Paul stated, "world without end. Amen".
Both first and second comings of Christ were prerequisites necessary for eternal soul salvation and therefore completed in the first century.
Matthew 10:23; 16:26-28; 26:63-64
Thank you for a clear understanding.
All trumpets, prophecy, promises, parables and eschatology has already been fulfilled by Jesus Christ and the prophetic office ceased 2000 years ago.
6:09 I thought so
This is happening right now.
I know you are in Matthew but Luke 21 is where I finally see the break from Jesus talking to them and Jesus pointing to the end. The fulness of the Gentiles is what we are waitibg for now, and then He speaks of how it ends. The preterist get this wrong. I’d love to hear your comments.
Luke 21:24-28 KJV
[24] And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled. [25] And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; [26] men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. [27] And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. [28] And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
You are showing us a white false supremacy jesus that your race created and decieve the world you are the seed of the serpent the devil jesus was born in Israel north east Africa when your race the Romans European want to kill the baby the angel told Joseph to flee into Egypt with the child you are aset of liers the first white man is Cain the murderer
Read ISAIAH 24, and weep.
Dear Jesus, thank you for giving us signs of your second coming. Help me to prepare myself for your second coming so that I am not left behind. In Jesus’s name AMEN
Good series of videos. My only critique would be to steel-man the other views. I hold to a partial-preterism view but understand that like all other views its has some problems. I don’t think any one eschatological view gets everything right. God bless.
Jesus was him.
Amen, JC already came, second coming is Trump. Repent all dems!
But the anti christ comes first pretending to be christ. To deceive us..
Ask yourself this why was Enoch taken off of the planet BEFORE the flood, and Noah was told to build an ark ? Both were righteous in Gods eyes. Therefore one was no greater than the other. YET, one is taken away and does not go through Gods judgement. While the other has to endure the judgement. This was all symbolic of what God will do again. Some taken off the planet before the tribulation. Others will go through it but God will preserve THAT remnant.
I think you are on the right path – I encourage to keep studying and ask for for Holy Spirit revelation in regards to Gods heart for Israel. These are great verses to start with: Romans 11, Luke 2 (the prophecy of baby Jesus regarding the Gentiles and Israel) , Ezekiel 36. These help to bring those prophecies in Daniel you are referencing a deeper meaning. Blessings to you.
My 2 cents worth… Mt.24:20,21a. "But pray ye that your flight be not in the ~winter,~ neither on the sabbath day: For ~then~ shall be great tribulation…" I started pondering as to >when< the Great Tribulation will begin and then it came to me that considering the war between Ukraine and Russia, Russian threatening nuclear strikes even on America, France, England and Germany, and the war between Israel and his many foes… we are coming into winter in the Northern Hemisphere. Just connect the dots. "For ~then~ shall be great tribulation," in the winter, like "this" winter. Also, "men fainting from fear and the expectation of the things which are coming upon the world." Lk.21:26. Fear is the nature of the great Tribulation. Comments any?
Complete mix of Dispensationalism and his own ideas!!
I believe the rapture will happen pre tribulation but we should all be willing to endure the suffering of it if we must after what Jesus went through for us.
Donald Trump is the anti Christ!
If you’re reading the buybull, you’re worshipping the sun god: Caesar titus flavius Vespasian. And his son, the son of the sun god: titus flavius Vespasian ii. You’ve been duped.
Are we living in the Time of Sorrow’s? Or the pre tribulation?
Matthew 24:44 (ESV) "Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect."
This statement is not for those in the Tribulation Period, for we DO KNOW its 7 years of Weeks = 2520 days from the signing of the 7-yr Covenant, and 1260 days from the Abomination of Desolation… EXACTY.
If there is no Rapture, how do you explain this statement (prophecy) by Jesus?
I love when these guys tell what’s gonna happen lololol he knows how many days also lololol
All I know is Donald Trump embodies pretty much the exact opposite
Matthew 24:1-34 Fulfilled
Matthew 24 is where we get the teaching of the second coming. In it Jesus foretells all the events that would take place in the “last days.” However, if we go through it, verse by verse, we see clearly that all of it has taken place, including the second coming.
V. 2 “…not one stone will be left upon another…”
Fulfillment: “…It is certain that when from the upper city they watched the temple
burning they did not turn a hair, though many Romans were moved to tears” (The Jewish War, pg. 292)
v. 5 “Many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ…’”
Fulfillment: “Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, EVEN NOW many antichrists HAVE appeared; from this we know that it is the LAST hour.”
1 John 2:18 NASB1995
V.6 “And you will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars…”
Fulfillment:
“NOW Caius (Caligula) Caesar did so grossly abuse the fortune he had arrived at, as to take himself to be a god, and to desire to be so called also, and to cut off those of the greatest nobility out of his country. He also extended his impiety as far as the Jews. Accordingly, he sent Petronius with an army to Jerusalem, to place his statues in the temple, and commanded him that, in case the Jews would not admit of them, he should slay those that opposed it, and carry all the rest of the nation into captivity: but God concerned himself with these his commands. However, Petronius marched out of Antioch into Judea, with three legions, and many Syrian auxiliaries. Now as to the Jews, some of them could not believe the stories that spake of a war; but those that did believe them were in the utmost distress how to defend themselves, and the terror diffused itself presently through them all; for the army was already come to Ptolemais” (Wars of the Jews, book 2, Chapter 10:1).
v. 7 “there will be famines and earthquakes in various places…”
Fulfillment:
“then it was also that there was an earthquake in Judea, such a one as had not happened at any other time, and which earthquake brought a great destruction upon the cattle in that country. About ten thousand men also perished by the fall of houses” (Jewish Wars, 121)
v.9 “Then they will hand you over to tribulation and kill you…”
Fulfillment:
• Stephen (a church deacon, Acts 6:5) — was stoned to death in Jerusalem with Saul, the persecutor and Pharisee, standing by and approving of his martyrdom (Acts 7:54-60)
• Nicanor (a church deacon, Acts 6:5) — he suffered martyrdom in AD 34.
• James (a disciple & brother of John) — James was put to death with a sword by the edict of Herod Agrippa I in AD 44 (Acts 12:1-3).
• Timon (a church deacon, Acts 6:5) — suffered martyrdom at Philippi in AD 44.
• Parmenas (a church deacon) — was martyred in the region of Macedonia in AD 44.
• Philip (a disciple) — labored in Upper Asia and was scourged, imprisoned, and crucified at Hierapolis in Asia Minor in AD 54.
• Matthew (a disciple) — various traditions have him laboring throughout Macedonia, Parthia, & Persia. He wrote the Gospel of Matthew and was slain with a spear or an axe in Nadabah, Ethiopia, in AD 60.
V.11 “And many false prophets will rise up and mislead many people.”
Fulfillment:
(Acts 13:6).
v.14 “This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end shall come”
Fulfillment:
“because of the hope laid up for you in heaven, of which you previously heard in the word of truth, the gospel which has come to you, just as in all the world also it is constantly bearing fruit and increasing, even as it has been doing in you also since the day you heard of it and understood the grace of God in truth; if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel that you have heard, which was proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and of which I, Paul, was made a minister.”
Colossians 1:5-6, 23 NASB1995
Also see: Romans 1:8; 10:18; 16:26-27; 1 Timothy 3:16
v. 15 “Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation which was spoken of through the Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place…”
Fulfillment:
“The calamities which at that time overwhelmed the whole nation in every part of the world; the process by which the inhabitants of Judaea were driven to the limits of disaster; the thousands and thousands of men of every age who together with women and children perished by the sword, by starvation, and by countless other forms of death; the number of Jewish cities besieged and the horrors they endured – especially the terrible and worse than terrible sights that met the eyes of those who sought refuge in Jerusalem itself as an impregnable fortress; the character of the whole war and the detailed events at all its stages; the last scene of all when the Abomination of Desolation announced by the prophets was set up in the very Temple of God, once world-renowned, when it underwent utter destruction and final dissolution by fire – all this anyone who wishes can gather in precise detail from the pages of Josephus’ history” (Eusebius, The History of the Church, pg., 68 & 69)
v. 16 “Then whose who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.”
Fulfillment:
“Furthermore, the members of the Jerusalem church, by means of an oracle given by revelation to acceptable persons there, were ordered to leave the City before the war began and settle in a town in Peraea called Pella. To Pella those who believed in Christ migrated from Jerusalem; and as if holy men had utterly abandoned the royal metropolis of the Jews and the entire Jewish land, the judgement of God at last overtook them for their abominable crimes against Christ and His apostles, completely blotting out that wicked generation from among men” (Eusebius, The History of the Church, pg., 68)
v. 21 “For then there will be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will be again” [Jesus cites Daniel 12:1].
Fulfillment:
“To give a detailed account of their outrageous conduct is impossible, but we may sum it up by saying that no other city has ever endured such horrors, and no generation in history has fathered such wickedness. In the end they brought the whole Hebrew race into contempt…” (The Jewish War, p. 292).
v.24 “for false Christ and false prophets will arise and will provide great signs and wonders…”
Fulfillment:
"In the months during which Vespasian was waiting at Alexandria for the periodical return of the summer gales and settled weather at sea, many wonders occurred which seemed to point him out as the object of the favour of heaven and of the partiality of the Gods. One of the common people of Alexandria, well known for his blindness, threw himself at the Emperor’s knees, and implored him with groans to heal his infirmity. This he did by the advice of the God Serapis, whom this nation, devoted as it is to many superstitions, worships more than any other divinity. He begged Vespasian that he would deign to moisten his cheeks and eye-balls with his spittle. Another with a diseased hand, at the counsel of the same God, prayed that the limb might feet the print of a Caesar’s foot. At first Vespasian ridiculed and repulsed them (Tacitus, History IV.81).
V. 29 “But immediately after the TRIBULATION of THOSE [not ours] days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken”.
Parenthetical note: This isn’t literal. Same type of language was used in Isaiah 13:10 concerning Babylon’s judgement (which was fulfilled way before Jesus was even born), and the literal earth wasn’t destroyed: “Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, Cruel, with fury and burning anger, To make the land a desolation; And He will exterminate its sinners from it. For the stars of heaven and their constellations Will not flash forth their light; The sun will be dark when it rises And the moon will not shed its light.”
Isaiah 13:9-10 NASB1995
v.30 “…they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of they sky with power and great glory”
(notice how it is IMMEDIATELY AFTER the tribulation of THOSE days the Son of Man will come).
And indeed the son of man did come, in the same way that the LORD had come in judgment against his adversaries in the Old Testament (Isaiah 19:1f; Jeremiah 4:13; Ezekiel 30:3). And all these passages refers to an invading army being sent by the Lord to judge a people and completely destroy them. And that’s precisely what you have in the first century when the Romans defeated the Jews during the “days of vengeance” to “Fulfill all that has been written” (Luke 21:20-24), all for the shedding of the blood of the prophets (Matthew 23:32-38).
In addition, verse 34 makes it clear “ALL THOSE THINGS” would take place before the “passing of that generation”, which is only 40 years (Psalm 95:10). That’s precisely how long it was from the time of Jesus’ ministry and preaching of repentance, to the fall of Jerusalem (30ad-70ad).
And lastly, one simply cannot get around all the other time texts in the Bible where Jesus made it clear that he was going to return in their lifetime (Matthew 10:23;16:27-28; 24:30, 34; Mark 9:1; 14:62; Luke 21:27, 31-32; Revelation 1:1; 3:3; 22:7, 10, 12, 20). Therefore, Jesus had already had come in 70ad.
How do you explain the last half of the Tribulation period that is 1260 days versus the 1290 and 1335 days mentioned by Daniel? Daniel mentions extra days. How can we reconcile those days?
I was waiting for you to come to verse 34…… this Generation Shall not pass until all these things happen……. Your Interpretation is not consistent you are doing EISEGESIS
The modern state of Israel formed in 1948 hass nothing whatsoever to do with Bible prophecy getting fulfilled.
Yes but there is no scripture showing that Rapture before the tribulation and yet there is scripture showing a rapture after the tribulation when the two end time witnesses are raised from the dead in the clouds at the last trumpet I just wish you could show me a rapture in the Bible before the tribulation.Rev10:7But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
Rev11:And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.
Who was Daniel speaking to? The Jews or Christians…
Days were shortened
I always thought the Abomination that causes desolation is the dome of the rock on the temple mount.
This is a spiritual war you have other beings within your vessel that you will be separated from sex is in the spiritual world
So are we to expect to see the temple rebuilt only to be desolated? The Jews in that first 70 years went through an incredible horrible tribulation which was within a 7 year time frame.
I understand the temple is now within us if Christ lives in us. I believe the death and resurrection of Jesus was the end of the covenant with Israel. Why would the tribulation to be carried out against the church, the bride of Christ.
Very good
Daniel and Revelation were fulfilled in the first century.
There’s nothing embarrassing about saying I don’t know.!!!