Those days; days of distress.
No flesh be saved; all the covenant people would perish.
Elect's sake; those whom God had chosen to be his people. God orders the dispensations of providence and the manifestations of grace with special reference to his people; and in such a manner as shall secure their salvation.
Verse Matthew 24:22. _EXCEPT THOSE DAYS SHOULD BE SHORTENED_] Josephus computes the number of those who perished in the siege at _eleven_ _hundred thousand_, besides those who were slain in other pla...
EXCEPT THOSE DAYS SHOULD BE SHORTENED - If the calamities of the siege should be lengthened out. If famine and war should be suffered to rage. NO FLESH BE SAVED - None of the nation would be preserve...
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...
"When you see the desolating abomination, which was spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the Holy Place (let him who reads understand), then let him who is in Judaea flee to the mountains. Let...
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...
SHORTENED. curtailed. See App-90....
_those days should be shortened_ Several circumstances concurred to shorten the duration of the siege, such as the scanty supply of provisions, the crowded state of the city, the internal dissensions,...
Matthew 24:1-22. PREDICTION OF THE FALL OF JERUSALEM Mark 13:1–end. Luke 21:5-36 This chapter opens with the great discourse of Jesus, which is continued to the end of ch. 25. That discourse contains...
ΕἸ ΜῊ ἘΚΟΛΟΒΏΘΗΣΑΝ Κ.Τ.Λ. ‘Unless those days had been shortened.’ The event still future, is by the divine prescience looked upon as past. κολοβόω, lit. ‘to cut off,’ ‘mutilate’ (Aristotle and Polyb.)...
Ver 15. "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) 16. Then let them which be in Judaea...
_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...
ΕΊ ΜΉ (G1487; G3361) если не, кроме; вводит _conj._, которое противоречит факту, ΈΚΟΛΟΒΏΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΚΟΛΟΒΌΩ (G2856) увечить, обрезать, сокращать (BAGD). ΈΣΏΘΗ _aor. ind. pass_, ΣΏΖΩ...
EXCEPT THOSE DAYS SHOULD BE SHORTENED— "If those wars and desolations were to continue, _no flesh—_none of the _Jews,_ would escape destruction." The number of those who perished in the siege were abo...
B. SPECIFIC, TRUE INFORMATION ABOUT JERUSALEM'S DESTRUCTION (24:14-28) TEXT: 24:14-28 (Parallels: Mark 13:14-20; Luke 21:20-24) 14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world...
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...
1-14 Compare Mar_13:1-13; Luk_21:5-19. 1 The sanctuary was doomed, for it was no longer even a nominal shrine after He had left its courts. It was almost unbelievable that such buildings, with such en...
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...
The flight of the Christians before the fall of Jerusalem. 15. The abomination of desolation] i.e. the abomination which makes the Temple desolate, by causing God to forsake it (Daniel 9:27). Some def...
THOSE DAYS] i.e. of the siege of Jerusalem, which occupied less than five months. NO FLESH] i.e. no inhabitants of the theatre of war, Palestine. BE SAVED] i.e. be left alive. THE ELECT] i.e. the Chri...
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...
SHOULD NO FLESH BE SAVED. — The words are of course limited by the context to the scene of the events to which the prophecy refers. The warfare with foes outside the city, and the faction-fights and m...
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...
_he extremity of the distress_....
_The end at last_ (Mark 13:14-20; Luke 21:20-24). ὅταν οὖν, when _therefore_, referring partly to the preceding mention of the end, partly to the effect of the whole preceding statement: “This I have...
BEWARE OF FALSE CHRISTS Matthew 24:15-28 The abomination of desolation is explained in Luke 21:20, and probably refers to the Roman ensigns as the symbols of pagan and therefore unclean power. So urg...
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 except (i) those days should be shortened, there should no (k) flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. (i) Those things which befell the people of the Jews in the...
_No flesh: a Hebraism for no person; denoting that no one would have escaped death, had the war continued. (Witham) --- All the Jews would have been destroyed by the Romans, or all the Christians by A...
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
"When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) (16) Then let them which be in Judaea flee in...
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...
22_And unless those days had been shortened. _He presents an appalling view of those calamities, but at the same time mingles it with this consolation, that they would be sufficient to exterminate the...
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 EXCEPT THOSE DAYS SHOULD BE SHORTENED,.... That is, those days of tribulation which commenced at the siege of Jerusalem; and therefore cannot refer to the times before it, and the shortening of th...
And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. Ver. 22. _There should no flesh be saved_] That is, no Jew left aliv...
Mat. 24:22. "But for the elect's sake those days shall be _shortened_." Inquiry - What is meant here by being shortened? We in the Scriptures read of God's hastening the deliverance of his people; ave...
Mat. 24:21-24, etc. "For there shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should...
_Except those days should be shortened_, &c. If these wars and desolations were to continue for any length of time, none of the Jews would escape destruction; they would all be cut off, root and branc...
AND EXCEPT THOSE DAYS SHOULD BE SHORTENED, THERE SHOULD NO FLESH BE SAVED; BUT FOR THE ELECT'S SAKE THOSE DAYS SHALL BE SHORTENED. Naturally, such circumstances would be especially unpleasant and dang...
Further advice:...
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...
4-28 The disciples had asked concerning the times, When these things should be? Christ gave them no answer to that; but they had also asked, What shall be the sign? This question he answers fully. Th...
Mark hath the same in effect, MARK 13:19,20. Luke speaks more particularly, LUKE 21:23,24. For there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. And they shall fall by the edge of...
Methodius Discourse II. Theophila Would it not, then, be absurd to forbid marriage unions, seeing that we expect that after us there will be martyrs, and those who shall oppose the evil one, for whos...
Matthew 24:22 And G2532 unless G1508 those G1565 days G2250 shortened G2856 (G5681) no G3956 flesh G4561 would...
JESUS' WORDS AFTER LEAVING THE TEMPLE ABOUT THE FUTURE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE AND ABOUT HIS SECOND COMING (24:1-26). After having prepared His disciples and would be...
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:...
“And except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the elect's sake those days will be shortened.” ‘Those days' here probably refers back to all the days described in 4...
THE SECOND COMING OF THE MESSIAH IS NOT TO BE THOUGHT OF IN TERMS OF AN EARTHLY COMING OF AN INDIVIDUAL (24:22-28). Following the destruction of the Temple and the continuation of the Jewish people in...
Matthew 24:22. EXCEPT THOSE DAYS HAD BEEN SHORTENED, etc. (A prophetic past tense.) Various causes did combine to shorten the siege of Jerusalem, so that the Christians in the neighboring place of ref...
Matthew 24:15-22. These verses certainly refer to the destruction of Jerusalem. Another fulfilment is probable, in accordance with the parallel lines of prophecy we have traced in the preceding sectio...
HAD BEEN SHORTENED (εκολοβωθησαν). From κολοβος, lopped, mutilated, as the hands, the feet. It is a second-class condition, determined as unfulfilled. It is a prophetic figure, the future regarded...
Matthew 24:1. _And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciple came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily...
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...
REDUCED THE NUMBER OF DAYS. That is, The Days of Punishment' (Luke 21:20). God in his mercy did not destroy all the people of Israel....
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 24:22 IF THOSE DAYS HAD NOT BEEN CUT SHORT, NO HUMAN BEING WOULD BE SAVED. Some suggest this means that, if God’s wrath against sin were to continue unchecked, no one would sur...
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 THE FUTURE MATTHEW 24:1-28; MARK 13:1-23; LUKE 21:5-24; MATTHEW 24:1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple
1-51 CHAPTER 24 _And Jesus went out_, &c., according to His custom at eventide, to the Mount of Olives, to pass the night, and partake of food at Bethany, in the house of Martha and Mary, after He h...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 24:15. THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION.—_I.e_. “the abomination that maketh desolate,” “the act of sacrilege, which is a sign and a cause of desolation.” What special act of sa...
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...
2 Timothy 2:10; Isaiah 6:13; Isaiah 65:8; Isaiah 65:9; Mark 13:20;...
Should be shortened [ε κ ο λ ο β ω θ η σ α ν]. Rev., had been shortened. A very picturesque word. The verb is, literally, to dock, to cut off, leaving a stump, as a limb. Wyc., abridged. As a fact, va...
And unless those days were shortened — By the taking of Jerusalem sooner than could be expected: No flesh would be saved — The whole nation would be destroyed. But for the elect's sake — That is, for...