if you have read news headings in the last few years – you will clearly see that the world is in bad shape. In fact, it is likely the worst the world has ever been. At least thats what…
A proper understanding of Jesus’s prophecy in Matthew 24 requires that we consider carefully the context in which Jesus is speaking. As Matt. 21-23 show, Jerusalem has been visited by …
When the authors speak of the last days – what do they mean? Is it the end of all time? Is it the end of an age or an era? In light of all of the end times conversations that are happe…
We begin with the first 8 verses of Matthew 24. Jesus warns his apostles not to be deceived. They will witness, within their generation, the “beginnings of birth pangs”, which co…
Jesus promises that his disciples will experience severe persecution, but that all who endure to the end will be saved. The Temple’s destruction, the end of the age, and the coming of …
Jesus continues, with these next few verses in his Olivet Discourse, to warn his disciples about the things to come. This tribulation and affliction that they experience immediately precedes…
Jesus comes on the clouds and judges apostate Jerusalem, but by doing so he makes a way for his church to build and spread his kingdom to every nation. Though he comes once in AD 70, he come…
