OK here is the big one! This is the part of Matthew’s testimony of Christ I have been waiting to bring to you! Christ gives the apostles warning of the end times. Of course they wondered if these things were going to happen in their lifetimes, though it did not. It was meant FOR the last generation before the return of Christ in the second coming, which is OUR generation living. We are literally living in the end times! HOWEVER, DON’T TAKE MY WORD, BUT LOOK AT WHAT JESUS SAID.
SAINT MATTHEW CHAPTER 24 SYNOPSIS:
JESUS DEPARTED FROM THE TEMPLE AND HIS DISCIPLES CAME TO HIM TO SHOW HIM THE BUILDINGS OF THE TEMPLE.
JESUS SAID TO THEM,
“VERILY I SAY TO YOU, THERE SHALL NOT BE LEFT HERE ONE STONE UPON ANOTHER THAT SHALL NOT BE THROWN DOWN.”
(COMMENTARY: THIS PROPHECY OF CHRIST WAS FULFILLED IN A.D. 70, WHEN THE ROMAN ARMY OF TITUS DESTROYED THE TEMPLE. A PAGAN TEMPLE TO JUPITER WAS ERECTED ON THE SITE BY HADRIAN, THE ROMAN EMPEROR.)
AND AS JESUS SAT UPON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, THE DISCIPLES CAME TO HIM PRIVATELY, SAYING, “TELL US, WHEN SHALL THESE THINGS BE? WHAT SHALL BE THE SIGN OF YOUR COMING, AND OF THE END OF THE WORLD?”
JESUS ANSWERED,
“TAKE HEED THAT NO MAN DECEIVE YOU. FOR MANY SHALL COME IN MY NAME, SAYING, I AM CHRIST; AND SHALL DECEIVE MANY.”
(COMMENTARY: EVER SINCE THE EXPLOSION OF THE NEW AGE/METAPHYSICAL MOVEMENT IN THE 1960’S, ADHERENTS OF THIS BANAL MULTI-LEVEL COUNTERFEIT PHILOSOPHY HAVE CLAIMED THAT ‘THEY ARE THE CHRIST WITHIN THEMSELVES’. THEY SAY “I AM,” BUT TRULY THEY “ARE NOT“. NO ONE CAN HAVE THE IN-DWELLING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND LIVE IN THEIR SINS, PICKING AND CHOOSING WHAT THEY WILL OR WON’T BELIEVE IN THE BIBLE.)
“AND YOU SHALL HEAR OF WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS: SEE THAT YOU BE NOT TROUBLED: FOR ALL THESE THINGS MUST COME TO PASS, BUT THE END IS NOT YET.
FOR NATIONS SHALL RISE AGAINST NATION, AND KINGDOM AGAINST KINGDOM: AND THERE SHALL BE FAMINES, AND PESTILENCES, AND EARTHQUAKES, IN DIVERS (MANY) PLACES.
“ALL THESE ARE THE BEGINNING OF SORROWS.”
(COMMENTARY: PEOPLE, THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES ARE HERE AND ONLY THE BLIND CANNOT SEE. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO SAY THESE CONDITIONS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ON EARTH AND THAT BECAUSE OF A MODERN MEDIA EXPLOSION OF REPORTING EVERY LITTLE THING IN SOCIETY RECEIVES MORE COVERAGE THAN EVER BEFORE. FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT SAY THEY HAVE BEEN HERALDING THE TRIBULATION SINCE YOUR GRANDFATHER WAS ALIVE, I WOULD REMIND YOU OF SOME FACTS—
OUR WORLD HAS MOVED FROM BOWS AND ARROWS AND SINGLE SHOT RIFLES IN JUST 150 YEARS TO A VERY CAPABLE DOOMSDAY MACHINE. FAMINES AND DISEASE ARE INCREASING. EARTHQUAKES ARE UP OVER 3000% IN THE LAST DECADE ALONE. YOU SEE IT.THIS AIN’T YOUR GRANDPAPPIES TIME! THOSE OF US THAT HAVE BEEN AROUND SINCE THE 1960S EASILY SEE THE CHANGES IN THE SAFETY, SECURITY AND SANITY OF AMERICA ALONE. GLOBALLY SPEAKING, YOU ARE WITNESS TO THE MADNESS OF SOCIETY AROUND YOU, NEIGHBORS THAT DON’T TRUST, NEIGHBORS YOU DON’T KNOW, THE LAS VEGAS SHOOTING, THE INSANE HURRICANE SEASON OF 2017, THE STUPIDITY OF ANTIFA AND BLM, THE MADNESS OF CREEPING COMMUNISM, THE COLLAPSE OF BORDERS FOR TROJAN HORSE RADICALIZED REFUGEES, AND SO ON.
I KNOW THAT MANY OF US DON’T WANT THE END OF THE SECULAR WORLD BECAUSE EITHER WE DON’T CARE OR WE ARE NOT READY TO FACE CHRIST. TRUTH IS GOD LOVES EACH ONE OF US AND SIMPLY WANTS US TO RECOGNIZE OUR TRUE FATHER IN HIM.LIFE IS BETTER, RICHER AND MORE PEACEFUL WITH CHRIST IN IT. IT IS NOT GOD’S DESIRE THAT ANY ONE OF US SHOULD PERISH IN IGNORANCE OF THE TIME WE LIVE IN.)
“THEN SHALL THEY DELIVER YOU UP TO BE AFFLICTED, AND SHALL KILL YOU: AND YOU SHALL BE HATED OF ALL NATIONS FOR MY NAME’S SAKE. THEN SHALL MANY BE OFFENDED, AND SHALL BETRAY ONE ANOTHER, AND SHALL HATE ONE ANOTHER.”
(COMMENTARY: CHRIST MAKES DUAL REFERENCE TO THE FATE OF HIS DISCIPLES, A FATE OF MARTYRDOM WHICH AWAITS MOST OF THEM WITHIN THEIR GENERATION.
HE ALSO SPEAKS OF A TIME SOON TO COME, IN OUR MODERN LAST DAYS, WHEN CHRISTIANITY WILL FACE ITS GREATEST TRIAL. WHEN THE ANTICHRIST SOON COMES TO POWER, HE WILL CHANGE THE MORALITY OF THE WORLD FOR THE WORST. YES PEOPLE, IT HAS TO GET WORSE BEFORE IT GETS BETTER. CHRISTIANS WILL AGAIN BE PERSECUTED FOR THEIR TESTIMONY. IT HAS ALREADY BEGUN IN 2ND AND 3RD WORLD COUNTRIES AS I WRITE, AND NOW IN AMERICA HALF THE COUNTRY HAS EMBRACED THE LOSE LOSE LIBERAL SECULAR PHILOSOPHY AND RAGE AGAINST ALL THINGS CHRISTIAN FROM SHEER JEALOUSY AND MADNESS.)
“AND MANY FALSE PROPHETS SHALL ARISE, AND SHALL DECEIVE MANY.”
(COMMENTARY: I CAN NAME ABOUT 100 OF THEM IN THE 20TH CENTURY ALONE.)
“AND BECAUSE INIQUITY SHALL ABOUND, THE LOVE OF MANY SHALL WAX COLD.”
(COMMENTARY: MANY OF US ARE EMOTIONALLY COLD, IF YOU ARE TAKE THE TIME TO ASK YOURSELF WHY?)
“BUT HE THAT SHALL ENDURE TO THE END, THE SAME SHALL BE SAVED. AND THIS GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM SHALL BE PREACHED IN ALL THE WORLD FOR A WITNESS TO ALL NATIONS; AND THEN SHALL THE END COME.”
(COMMENTARY: WHAT DOES CHRIST MEAN BY THE “END”? THE END OF THE SECULAR WORLD OF EVIL AS WE KNOW IT!)
“WHEN YOU THEREFORE SHALL SEE THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION, SPOKEN OF BY DANIEL THE PROPHET, STANDING IN THE HOLY PLACE (THE HOLY OF HOLIES IN THE TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM) WHOEVER READS THIS, LET HIM UNDERSTAND.”
(COMMENTARY: WHAT DO WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND? BIBLE SCHOLARS HAVE WIDELY DEBATED WHAT THE “ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION” IS. SOME SAY AN IMAGE OF THE BEAST IS A STATUE, SOME SAY A STATUE OF SATAN, AND IT COULD BE ANYTHING PROFANE IN THE TEMPLE SANCTUARY. MANY SCHOLARS SAY IT WILL BE A ROBOTIC STATUE OR HOLOGRAM OF THE ANTICHRIST HIMSELF.)
“THEN LET THEM WHICH BE IN JUDEA FLEE INTO THE MOUNTAINS.”
(COMMENTARY: THIS IS THE WARNING TO THE JEWS TO FLEE JERUSALEM (RUN TO PETRA IN JORDAN) BECAUSE THE SETTING UP OF THE IMAGE IN THE HOLY TEMPLE WILL USHER IN THE SECOND SET OF 1260 DAYS OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD OR THE LAST THREE AND A HALF YEARS. THIS IS THE MOMENT WHEN THE ANTICHRIST TURNS ON THE WORLD LIKE A VAMPIRE! THIS WILL MARK THE END OF THE LESSER TRIBULATION AND BEGIN THE GREAT TRIBULATION.)
“LET HIM WHICH IS ON THE HOUSETOP NOT COME DOWN TO TAKE ANY THING OUT OF THE HOUSE: NEITHER LET HIM WHICH IS IN THE FIELD RETURN BACK TO TAKE HIS CLOTHES. AND WOE TO THEM THAT ARE WITH CHILD, AND TO THEM THAT GIVE SUCK IN THOSE DAYS!
“BUT PRAY THAT YOUR FLIGHT NOT BE IN THE WINTER, NEITHER ON THE SABBATH DAY: FOR THEM SHALL BE GREAT TRIBULATION, SUCH AS WAS NOT SINCE THE BEINNING OF THE WORLD TO THIS TIME, NO, NOR SHALL EVER BE.
“AND EXCEPT THOSE DAYS SHOULD BE SHORTENED THERE SHOULD BE NO FLESH SAVED: BUT FOR THE ELECT’S SAKE THOSE DAYS SHALL BE SHORTENED.”
(COMMENTARY: THE EARTH, DURING AN ACCELERATED CATASTROPHIC PERIOD BROUGHT ON BY LIMITED NUCLEAR EXCHANGES, A BURNING OF THE OZONE, OIL FIRES, ETC. THUS THE “DAYS SHALL BE SHORTENED” WITH MERCY. THERE ARE TWO INTERPRETATIONS OF THIS, ONE: GOD WILL SHORTEN THE INTENSE HEAT OF THE DAY FOR THE SAKE OF THE RIGHTEOUS, AND TWO: GOD WILL SHORTEN THE LENGTH OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD BY SOME MONTHS UNKNOWN. THE LIKELY INTERPRETATION IS BELIEVED TO BE THE LATTER SCENARIO BY MANY BIBLE SCHOLARS.)
“THEN IF ANY MAN SHALL SAY TO YOU, LO, HERE IS CHRIST, OR THERE; BELIEVE IT NOT. FOR THERE SHALL ARISE FALSE CHRISTS, AND FALSE PROPHETS, AND SHALL SHOW GREAT SIGNS AND WONDERS; INSOMUCH THAT, IF IT WERE POSSIBLE, THEY SHALL DECEIVE THE VERY ELECT.”
(COMMENTARY: THERE WILL BE MANY MORE FALSE PROPHETS AND CHRISTS WITH DEMONIC POWERS RUNNING AROUND IN THE COMING DAYS.)
“WHEREFORE IF THEY SHALL SAY TO YOU, BEHOLD, HE IS IN THE DESERT; DO NOT GO FORTH: BEHOLD, HE IS IN SECRET CHAMBERS; BELIEVE IT NOT. FOR AS THE LIGHTNING COMES OUT OF THE EAST, AND SHINES TO THE WEST; SO SHALL THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN BE.”
“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: THEN SHALL APPEAR THE SIGN OF THE SON OF MAN IN HEAVEN: AND THEN SHALL ALL THE TRIBES OF THE EARTH MOURN, AND THEY SHALL SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING IN THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN WITH POWER AND GREAT GLORY.
“AND HE SHALL SEND HIS ANGELS WITH A GREAT SOUND OF A TRUMPET AND THEY SHALL GATHER HIS ELECT FROM THE FOUR WINDS, FROM ONE END OF HEAVEN TO THE OTHER.
“NOW LEARN A PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE;
WHEN HIS BRANCH IS YET TENDER, AND PUT FORTH LEAVES, YOU KNOW THAT SUMMER IS NEAR. SO LIKEWISE WHEN YOU SEE ALL THESE THINGS, KNOW THAT IT (THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST) IS NEAR, EVEN AT THE DOORS.
(COMMENTARY: O.K. HERE IS A CLUE FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WILLFULLY ELECT TO MISS THE COMING RAPTURE (REFUSE TO BECOME CHRISTIAN) AND WILL TRY TO NAVIGATE THE TRIBULATION PERIOD— WHAT YEAR WILL THIS RAPTURE HAPPEN? WE DO NOT KNOW. IT IS CLOSE NOW AND OCCURS 7 YEARS BEFORE THE SECOND COMING, MINUS THE POTENTIAL ‘SHORTENING OF DAYS’.)
“HEAVEN AND EARTH SHALL PASS AWAY, BUT MY WORDS SHALL NOT PASS AWAY.
“BUT OF THAT DAY AND HOUR (THE SECOND COMING) NO MAN KNOWS, NOT THE ANGELS OF HEAVEN, BUT MY FATHER ONLY.
“BUT AS THE DAYS OF NOAH WERE, SO SHALL THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN BE.”
(COMMENTARY: NO ONE KNOWS WHEN THE SECOND COMING IS TO OCCUR. HOWEVER, ALL THE CONDITIONS OF NOAH’S DAY ARE HERE AGAIN.)
“FOR AS IN THE DAYS WERE BEFORE THE FLOOD THEY WERE EATING AND DRINKING, MARRYING AND GIVING IN MARRIAGE, UNTIL THE DAY THAT NOAH ENTERED INTO THE ARK.”
(COMMENTARY: THIS REMINDS ME OF THE CURRENT TIMES WE LIVE IN, ALMOST EVERYONE I KNOW HAS THEIR HEAD BURIED IN THE SAND ABOUT WHAT IS COMING. THE RAPTURE AND THE TRIBULATION PERIOD, IS ALMOST UPON US AND MOST DON’T WANT TO HEAR IT. SADLY, MANY PEOPLE ARE MORE INTERESTED IN SPORTS, MOVIES, AND PERIPHERY PURSUITS OF PROSPERITY AND SURFEITING TO CARE.)
“AND THEY KNEW NOTHING UNTIL THE FLOOD CAME, AND TOOK THEM ALL AWAY; SO SHALL ALSO THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN BE.
“THEN SHALL TWO BE IN THE FIELD; THE ONE SHALL BE TAKEN, AND THE OTHER LEFT. TWO WOMEN SHALL BE GRINDING AT THE MILL; THE ONE SHALL BE TAKEN AND THE OTHER LEFT.”
(COMMENTARY: THIS IS THE JUDGEMENT OF CHRIST UPON OUR WORLD. HERE CHRIST MAKES IT PLAIN THAT 50% OF ALL THE EARTH WILL BE KILLED DURING THE TRIBULATION PERIOD. 50% AT LEAST.
NO THIS PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE IS NOT A REFERENCE TO THE RAPTURE OF THE CHRISTIANS! THE SECOND COMING IS JUDGEMENT IN THE FLESH FOR THE WICKED.
REMEMBER WE CANNOT BE SAVED IN OUR SINS.)
“WATCH THEREFORE: FOR YOU KNOW NOT WHAT HOUR YOUR LORD DOES COME.”
(COMMENTARY: JESUS IS COMMANDING US TO WATCH FOR HIM!)
“THEREFORE BE YOU ALSO READY: FOR IN SUCH AN HOUR AS YOU THINK NOT THE SON OF MAN COMES.”
(COMMENTARY: THIS MEANS JESUS HAS THE WHOLE WORLD OUTFOXED ON HIS ESTIMATED TIME OF ARRIVAL! NONE OF US HERE ON THIS PLANET KNOWS WHEN HE WILL ARRIVE. WILL WE TAKE THE CHANCE OF NOT BEING READY?)
“AT THE SECOND COMING THERE SHALL BE WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH.”
(COMMENTARY: HERE IS PROOF THAT VERY FEW PEOPLE ARE PREPARING THEMSELVES FOR THE RAPTURE. TIME IS RUNNING SHORT FOR ALL OF US TO MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION TO FOLLOW CHRIST FOR OURSELVES AND OUR FAMILIES.)
SAINT MATTHEW CHAPTER 25 SYNOPSIS:
CHRIST BEGINS A PIVOTAL PARABLE —
“THEN SHALL THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN BE LIKENED UNTO TEN VIRGINS, WHICH TOOK THEIR LAMPS, AND WENT FORTH TO MEET THE BRIDEGROOM. AND FIVE OF THEM WERE WISE, AND FIVE WERE FOOLISH. THE FOOLISH TOOK THEIR LAMPS WITH NO OIL IN THEM. BUT THE WISE TOOK LAMPS WITH OIL. WHILE THE BRIDEGROOM WAITED, THEY ALL SLUMBERED AND SLEPT. AT MIDNIGHT THERE WAS A CRY, ‘BEHOLD THE BRIDEGROOM COMES, GO OUT TO MEET HIM.’
“THEN ALL THE VIRGINS AROSE AND TRIMMED THEIR LAMPS. AND THE FOOLISH SAID TO THE WISE, ‘GIVE US SOME OF YOUR OIL; FOR OUR LAMPS HAVE GONE OUT.’
THE WISE ANSWERED, ‘NO; UNLESS THERE WON’T BE ENOUGH FOR YOU AND US: BUT GO TO THE STORE AND GET SOME.’
AND WHILE THE FOOLISH WENT TO THE STORE, THE BRIDEGROOM CAME; AND THE WISE VIRGINS WENT IN WITH HIM TO THE MARRIAGE: AND THE DOOR WAS SHUT.
“LATER THE OTHER FOOLISH VIRGINS CAME, SAYING, ‘LORD, LORD OPEN TO US.’
“BUT HE ANSWERED, ‘VERILY I SAY TO YOU, I KNOW YOU NOT.’
“WATCH THEREFORE, FOR YOU KNOW NEITHER THE DAY NOR THE HOUR WHEREIN THE SON OF MAN COMES.”
(COMMENTARY: FEEL FREE TO APPLY THIS PARABLE AS A WARNING TO PREPARE FOR THE RAPTURE!)
THERE IS AN EXCELLENT PARABLE IN THIS CHAPTER ON TALENTS GIVEN TO MANKIND, AND WHAT PEOPLE DO WITH THEM. BASICALLY, THE MESSAGE IS THAT WE ARE GIVEN TALENTS ACCORDING TO OUR TRUE NATURE. WE ARE EXPECTED TO DOUBLE THE TALENTS WE HAVE BY THE END OF OUR LIVES. THOSE WHO HAVE NOT BUILT ON THIS TALENT FROM GOD WILL HAVE THEIR TALENTS (OR TALENT) STRIPPED AWAY IN THE FINAL JUDGEMENT. HELL AWAITS THE LAZY SOUL WHO IS NOT ABOUT THE PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE IN THIS LIFE. GOD WILL REWARD THOSE WHO ACHIEVE GREATLY IN THE BUILDING OF TALENTS WITH EVEN MORE TALENT IN HEAVEN.
“WHEN THE SON OF MAN SHALL COME IN HIS GLORY, AND ALL THE HOLY ANGELS WITH HIM, THEN SHALL HE SIT UPON THE THRONE OF HIS GLORY: AND BEFORE HIM SHALL BE GATHERED ALL NATIONS: AND HE SHALL SEPARATE THEM ONE FROM ANOTHER, AS A SHEPHERD DIVIDES THE SHEEP FROM THE GOATS. AND HE SHALL SET THE SHEEP ON HIS RIGHT HAND, BUT THE GOATS ON THE LEFT.”
(COMMENTARY: MEANING THE SHEEP/FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST SHALL BE ON THE FAVORED RIGHT HAND OF GOD, WHILE THE GOATS/WICKED WILL BE ON THE UNFAVORED LEFT, SLATED FOR DESTRUCTION.)
“THEN SHALL THE KING (CHRIST) SAY TO THEM ON HIS RIGHT HAND,
‘COME, YOU BLESSED OF MY FATHER, INHERIT THE KINGDOM PREPARED FOR YOU FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.'”
“FOR I WAS HUNGRY, AND YOU GAVE ME MEAT: I WAS THIRSTY, AND YOU GAVE ME DRINK: I WAS A STRANGER AND YOU TOOK ME IN. NAKED, AND YOU CLOTHED ME: I WAS SICK AND YOU VISITED ME: I WAS IN PRISON, AND YOU CAME TO ME.
“THEN SHALL THE RIGHTEOUS ANSWER HIM, SAYING, LORD, WHEN DID WE DO ALL THESE THINGS FOR YOU?”
“AND THE KING SHALL ANSWER THEM, “VERILY I SAY TO YOU, INASMUCH AS YOU HAVE DONE IT UNTO ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE MY BRETHREN, YOU HAVE DONE IT UNTO ME.
“THEN HE SHALL SAY TO THEM ON THE LEFT HAND, DEPART FROM ME, YOU CURSED, INTO EVERLASTING FIRE, PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS: FOR I WAS HUNGRY AND YOU GAVE ME NO MEAT: I WAS THIRSTY AND YOU GAVE ME NO DRINK: I WAS A STRANGER, AND YOU TOOK ME NOT IN: NAKED, AND YOU DIDN’T CLOTHE ME: SICK, AND IN PRISON, AND YOU VISITED ME NOT.
“THEN SHALL THEY ALSO ANSWER HIM SAYING, ‘LORD WHEN DID WE SEE YOU IN ANY OF THESE CONDITIONS?’
“THEN HE SHALL ANSWER THEM, SAYING,
‘VERILY I SAY UNTO YOU, INASMUCH AS YOU DID IT NOT TO ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE, YOU DID IT NOT TO ME.
“AND THESE SHALL GO AWAY INTO EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT: BUT THE RIGHTEOUS INTO LIFE ETERNAL.”
NEXT . . . THE CONCLUSION TO THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SAINT MATTHEW CHRONICLING THE CRUCIFIXION, DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF CHRIST.