Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Matthew 24:7
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in (b) divers places.
(b) Everywhere.
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in (b) divers places.
(b) Everywhere.
MATTHEW 24:7 limoi. kai. seismoi, {B} Although the words kai. loimoi, may have been accidentally omitted because of the similarity of ending, it is more likely that they were added at various places...
Verse Matthew 24:7. _NATION SHALL RISE AGAINST NATION_] This portended the dissensions, insurrections and mutual slaughter of the Jews, and those of other nations, who dwelt in the same cities togeth...
NATION SHALL RISE AGAINST NATION, AND KINGDOM AGAINST KINGDOM - At Caesarea the Jews and Syrians contended about the right to the city, and twenty thousand of the Jews were slain. At this blow the who...
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...
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...
,29-31 "You will hear of wars and reports of wars. See that you are not disturbed; for these things must happen; for the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingd...
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...
FOR NATION, &C. See App-117. Quoted from Isaiah 19:2. FAMINES, AND PESTILENCES. Figure of speech _Paronomasia_. Greek. _limoi kai loimoi._ Eng. dearths and deaths, in divers. Greek. _kata_. in [diffe...
_famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes_ The commentators enumerate instances of all these calamities recorded by the contemporary historians....
ΚΑῚ ΛΟΙΜΟΊ, omitted after λιμοί. Probably an insertion from Luke, not in the oldest MSS. 7. ΛΙΜΟῚ ΚΑῚ ΣΕΙΣΜΟῚ ΚΑΤᾺ ΤΌΠΟΥΣ. The commentators enumerate instances of all these calamities recorded by the...
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...
VER 6. "AND YE SHALL HEAR OF WARS AND RUMOURS OF WARS: SEE THAT YE BE NOT TROUBLED : FOR ALL THESE THINGS MUST COME TO PASS, BUT THE END IS NOT YET. 7. FOR NATION SHALL RISE AGAINST NATION, AND KINGDO...
_QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM MATTHEW 24:1-14_ : As Matthew twenty-three ends Jesus laments the terrible things which would come upon that generation. (Matthew 23:36) He knew that even...
ΈΓΕΡΘΉΣΕΤΑΙ _fut._ md. _pass. от_ ΈΓΡΕΊΡΩ (G1453) _pass._ подняться, снова встать, ΈΘΝΟΣ (G1484) народ, нация, ΛΙΜΌΣ (G3042) голод. ΣΕΙΣΜΌΣ (G883) землетрясение, ΚΑΤΆ ΤΌΠΟΥΣ (G2596; G5117) в разны...
FOR NATION SHALL RISE, &C.— Here, as Grotius observes, Christ declares, that greater disturbances than those which happened under Caligula should fall out in the latter times of Claudius, and in the r...
II. THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND ITS TEMPLE (24:4-35) GENERAL WARNING AGAINST MISLEADING SIGNS NOT RELATED TO THE END (24:4-13) TEXT: 24:4-13 (Parallels: Mark 13:5-13; Luke 21:8-19) 4 And Jesus...
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...
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 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...
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...
NATION SHALL RISE AGAINST NATION. — Some of the more memorable of these are recorded by Josephus: one at Seleucia, in which 50,000 Jews are said to have perished (_Ant._ xviii. 9, §§ 8, 9); others at...
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...
_Signs prelusive of the end_. (Mark 13:5-13; Luke 21:8-19). Matthew 24:4. βλέπετε : again (_vide_ Matthew 24:2), but here = see to it,
urther development of the war-portent, possibly here the prophetic range of vision widens beyond the bounds of Palestine, yet not necessarily. In support of limiting the reference to Palestine Kypke q...
BE READY TO ENDURE Matthew 24:1-14 Successive generations have pored over these words of our Lord with great eagerness, endeavoring to extract from them a clear forecast of the future. In the case o...
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 there shall be, according to the proverb, Greek: loimos meta limon, plague after famine, both natural daughters of war, with intestine divisions, earthquakes, and other calamities; the third sign....
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
"And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? (4)...
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...
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...
Ver. 7 FOR NATION SHALL RISE AGAINST NATION, AND KINGDOM AGAINST KINGDOM,.... This seems to be a distinct and third sign, foreboding the general calamity of the Jews; that there should be not only sed...
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. Ver. 7. _For nation shall rise, &c._] See here the w...
_And ye shall hear of wars_, &c. This is the second sign. That there were wars and rumours of wars, appears by all the historians of those times, and above all by Josephus. To relate the particulars w...
Other external signs:...
FOR NATION SHALL RISE AGAINST NATION AND KINGDOM AGAINST KINGDOM; AND THERE SHALL BE FAMINES AND PESTILENCES AND EARTHQUAKES IN DIVERS PLACES....
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...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 24:8"....
Matthew 24:7 For G1063 nation G1484 rise G1453 (G5701) against G1909 nation G1484 and G2532 kingdom G932 against...
“For nation will rise against nation, and kingship against kingship, and there will be famines and earthquakes in many different places.” Indeed the regular disasters that face men, and have always fa...
THE BEGINNING OF BIRTH PAINS (THE EARLY CONTRACTIONS) (24:5-8). Jesus begins by describing the turbulent future that the world must face. This should not have been surprising to anyone who knew the Sc...
1) OUTLINE OF THE GENERAL FUTURE OF THE WORLD DESCRIBING THE INITIAL BIRTH PAINS OF THE NEW AGE (24:4-8). Jesus begins by outlining the coming initial sufferings of the world, the ‘birth pains' of th...
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:...
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...
Matthew 24:7. NATION SHALL RISE AGAINST NATION, etc. Primarily, national uprisings of the Jews ; then, wars of races, political revolutions, migrations, etc. Even the times preceding the dissolution o...
Matthew 24:6 The Storm and Strife of Life. I. It was with the clearest prevision of the course of the development of Christendom that the Saviour uttered this dark prediction. He knew that strife wou...
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...
Matthew 24:1. _And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple._ Ah, me! the rejected king took but slight interest in the...
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...
YOU ARE GOING TO HEAR THE NOISE OF BATTLES. All the world seemed to be at war during this time. Tacitus, the Roman historian, says: "It was full of calamities, horrible with battles, rent with seditio...
_For nation shall rise against nation._ WAR FOR THOSE WHO REJECT PEACE See here the woeful effects of refusing God’s free offers of grace. They that would have none of the gospel of peace shall have...
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 24:1. TO SHOW HIM THE BUILDINGS OF THE TEMPLE.—Was that glorious house indeed to be left “desolate”? Would not the sight of its glories lead Him to recall those words of evil...
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 Chronicles 15:6; Acts 11:28; Acts 2:19; Ezekiel 14:21; Ezekiel 21:2