Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Matthew 24:31
They shall gather together his elect — That is, all that have endured to the end in the faith which worketh by love.
They shall gather together his elect — That is, all that have endured to the end in the faith which worketh by love.
MATTHEW 24:31 sa,lpiggoj {B} Although it is possible that copyists may have omitted fwnh/j as unnecessary, it is much more probable that they would have made the expression more explicit by adding fw...
Verse 31. _HE SHALL SEND HIS ANGELS_] τους αγγελους, _his_ _messengers_, the _apostles_, and their successors in the Christian ministry. _WITH A GREAT SOUND OF A TRUMPET_] Or, _a loud-sounding_ _trum...
AND HE SHALL SEND HIS ANGELS - “Angels” signify, literally, “messengers,” Luke 7:24; Luke 9:52. The word is often applied to inanimate objects, or to anything that God employs to rescue his people fro...
12. THE OLIVET DISCOURSE; THE KING REVEALS THE FUTURE OF THE KINGDOM. Chapter s 24-25. CHAPTER 24 1. The Destruction of the Temple Foretold. (Matthew 24:1 .) 2. The Questions of the Disciples. (Mat...
MATTHEW 24 F. THE ESCHATOLOGICAL DISCOURSE, AND THE PARABLES OF PAROUSIA (Mark 13*, Luke 21:5 *, Luke 17:23). Mt. follows Mk. fairly closely, but appends other eschatological sayings and illustrative...
THE VISION OF THINGS TO COME (Matthew 24:1-31) We have already seen that it is one of the great characteristics of Matthew that he gathers together in large blocks the teaching of Jesus about differe...
1: When Jesus had left the precincts of the Temple, he was going away; and his disciples came to him to point out to him the 2: buildings of the Temple area. He said to them, "Do you not see all these...
A GREAT SOUND OF. TRUMPET. Greek "a trumpet and. great sound". a trumpet, yea,. great sounding trumpet. Figure of speech _Hendiadys_ (App-6); not two things, but one. THEY SHALL GATHER, &C. Quoted fro...
The Second Coming of Christ Mark 13:21-27; Luke 21:24-28 The following scheme, intended to shew a parallelism between the two Predictions, is borrowed from an interesting monograph by the Rev. W. Sh...
_with a great sound of a trumpet_ Omit "sound" on high MS. authority, translate WITH A GREAT TRUMPET. The image would be suggestive to the Jews, who were called together in the camp by silver trumpets...
ΜΕΤᾺ ΣΆΛΠΙΓΓΟΣ ΦΩΝΗ͂Σ ΜΕΓΆΛΗΣ. The image would be suggestive to the Jews, who were called together in the camp by silver trumpets (Numbers 10:2 foll.). Moreover, the great festivals, the commencement...
THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST Mark 13:21-27; Luke 21:24-28...
VER 31. "AND HE SHALL SEND HIS ANGELS WITH A GREAT SOUND OF A TRUMPET, AND THEY SHALL GATHER TOGETHER HIS ELECT FROM THE FOUR WINDS, FROM ONE END OF HEAVEN TO THE OTHER." Origen: Because He had spoke...
_SIGN CONCERNING THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM MATTHEW 24:15-33:_ Jesus gave a real sign for the Jews to look for as the destruction of Jerusalem approached. The real sign Jesus gave was the fulfillmen...
ΆΠΟΣΤΕΛΕΊ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΆΠΟΣΤΈΛΛΩ (G649) посылать, ΣΆΛΠΝΓΓΟΣ _gen. sing. от_ ΣΆΛΠΙΓΞ (G4536) труба, ΈΠΝΣΥΝΆΞΟΥΣΝΝ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΈΠΙΣΥΝΆΓΩ (G1996) созывать, собирать вместе, _см._ Matthew...
AND HE SHALL SEND HIS ANGELS— This is all in the style and phraseology of the prophets, and, stripped of its figures, means, that after the destruction of Jerusalem, Christ, by his angels or ministers...
C. THE THEOLOGICAL RESULTS OF JERUSALEM'S FALL (24:29-31) TEXT: 24:29-31 (Parallels: Mark 13:24-27; Luke 21:25-28) 29 But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun shall be darkened, a...
And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. For the exposition of this wonderful Prophecy, which will be best appreh...
29-31 Compare Mar_13:24-26; Luk_21:26-27. 29 See Rev_6:12-17; Isa_13:10; Joe_2:30-31; Joe_3:15; Amo_5:20. 29 Israel goes through the great affliction, and watches for the Son of Mankind, Who will sta...
THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND THE END OF THE WORLD FORETOLD 1. Jesus went out] RV 'Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way, and his disciples,' etc. THE BUILDINGS] The magnificent...
GREAT PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, AND THE END OF THE WORLD (Mark 13:8; Luke 21:7). Many of the most serious difficulties of this great discourse disappear when it is realised that our Lo...
Usually explained of the gathering of believers into heaven at the last day. Those who think that the fall of Jerusalem is meant, explain it of the gathering of the heathen into the Church from all qu...
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 24 JESUS TELLS WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE *TEMPLE 24:1-2 V1 Then Jesus left the *Temple. He was walking away when his *disciples came u...
HE SHALL SEND HIS ANGELS. — The words are memorable as the formal expansion of what had been, as it were, hinted before in the parables of the Tares (Matthew 13:41) and the Net (Matthew 13:49). WITH A...
CHAPTER 18 The Prophecy on the Mount - Matthew 24:1 & Matthew 25:1 WE have seen that though the Saviour's public ministry is now closed, He still has a private ministry to discharge-a ministry of cou...
μετὰ σάλπιγγος φ. μ., with a trumpet of mighty sound, another stock phrase of prophetic imagery (Isaiah 27:13). καὶ ἐπισυνάξουσι τοὺς ἐκλεκτοὺς α., and they (the angels or messengers) shall collect _t...
_The coming of the Son of Man_ (Mark 13:24-27; Luke 21:25-28). Thus far the eschatological discourse has been found to bear on the predicted tragic end of Jerusalem. At this point the παρουσία, which,...
WORDS THAT MUST BE FULFILLED Matthew 24:29-39 The preceding portion of this prophecy is by all interpreters applied to the destruction of Jerusalem. But on the portion that follows there is a consid...
Passing from the city, the disciples drew their Master's attention to the stones of the Temple, and He told them that this glorious building would be demolished so that no single stone would be left u...
And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the (r) four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. (r) From the four corners of the w...
CHAPTER 20 COMING OF THE LORD Matthew 24; Matthew 25; Mark 13; Luke 21. It is now in the afternoon, on Wednesday, preceding the arrest of our Savior about midnight the ensuin
"Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:...
We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...
_And he shall send his angels. _He describes the effect of his power, that _he will send his angels to gather his elect _from the most distant parts of the world; for by _the extremity of heaven _is m...
We have already seen that the rejection of the testimony to the kingdom in grace, is the cause of the judgment that falls upon Jerusalem and its inhabitants. Now in chapter 24 we have the position of...
AND HE SHALL SEND HIS ANGELS,.... Not the angels, i.e. ministering spirits, so called, not from their nature, but their office, as being sent forth by God and Christ; but men angels, or messengers, th...
And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Ver. 31. _And he shall send his angels...
_Then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven_ Christ proceeds here in the same figurative style, and the plain meaning of his words is, that the destruction of Jerusalem and of the Jewish s...
And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. The entire passage is intensely vivid....
The signs of the Last Day:...
He leaves the temple, and in Matthew is not seen there again. What can it be now without its proper Inhabitant? But the disciples draw His attention to the ornate buildings that were really only the w...
WITH A GREAT SOUND OF A TRUMPET: Or, with a Trumpet and a great voice...
29-41 Christ foretells his second coming. It is usual for prophets to speak of things as near and just at hand, to express the greatness and certainty of them. Concerning Christ's second coming, it i...
Ver. 30,31. Mark saith, MARK 13:26,27, _And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory. And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect f...
Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments And He says again, "Then shall the Son of man send His angels, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds of heaven."[158] Didache R...
Matthew 24:31 And G2532 send G649 (G5692) His G846 angels G32 with G3326 great G3173 sound G5456 trumpet...
WORDS AFTER LEAVING THE TEMPLE ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE AND ABOUT HIS SECOND COMING (24:1-51). a Introduction in which Jesus declares that the Temple will be utterly destroyed (Matthew 24:...
THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN (24:29-31). In a remarkable contrast Jesus now brings out the glory of His coming which will make all creation pale into insignificance. It will occur when God calls time...
“And he will send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” And His first act on being reveal...
Matthew 24:31. Send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet. According to 1 Thessalonians 4:16, the angels and trumpets are distinguished, the latter coming first. The trumpet, used to call a...
WITH A GREAT SOUND OF A TRUMPET (μετα σαλπιγγος φωνης μεγαλης). Some MSS. omit (φωνης) "sound." The trumpet was the signal employed to call the hosts of Israel to march as to war and is common in pr...
ANGELS (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
CONTENTS: Destruction of the temple foretold. The course of the present age outlined; its culmination in the great tribulation and followed by the return of Christ in power and glory. Parable of the f...
Matthew 24:1. _The buildings of the temple._ Herod had gradually rebuilt the temple, taking down one part, and raising it anew, so that the worship was not interrupted. Hence it was still the second t...
SOON AFTER THE TROUBLE OF THOSE DAYS This difficult passage must be understood according to Matthew 24:34 which puts it at the time of the siege. Then it must speak of a "spiritual coming" of Jesus, r...
_Immediately after the tribulation of these days shall the sun be darkened._ THE MANIFESTATION OF CHRIST IN JUDGMENT I. There will be a manifestation of Christ in truth and unmistakable reality. Til...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 24:31 In both Jewish and Christian writings (Isaiah 18:3; Isaiah 27:13;...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 24:1 The Delay, Return, and Judgment of the Messiah. These two chapters are often called the “Olivet Discourse” because Jesus “sat on the Mount of Olives” when he spoke these w...
JESUS TELLS ABOUT HIS RETURN MATTHEW 24:29-35; MARK 13:24-31; LUKE 21:25-33; MATTHEW 24:29 Immediately after the tribulatio
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 24:29. IMMEDIATELY.—_But immediately_ (R.V.). A prophecy resembles a landscape painting, which marks distinctly the houses, paths, and bridges in the foreground, but brings to...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 24:1 PROPHECY OF THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM, AND OF THE TIMES OF THE END. ...
Now Jesus went out (Matthew 24:1), Left the house desolate. He is rejected now. They've rejected Him, now He has rejected them. Leave the house desolate; you're not going to see me again until you ar...
1 Corinthians 15:52; 1 Thessalonians 4:16; 2 Thessalonians 2:1; Acts 26:19;...
With a great sound of a trumpet [μ ε τ α σ α λ π ι γ γ ο ς φ ω ν η ς μ ε γ α λ η ς]. Some read with a great trumpet. The blowing of trumpets was anciently the signal for the host of Israel on their ma...