“From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near. So also, when you see al these things you know that he is near, at the very gates.” Matt. 24:52-53 Matthew 24 and other apocalyptic literature …
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“Immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.” Matt. 24:29 In the Ancient Near East, the use of sun, moon, and stars …
One of the most perplexing phrases in the bible is “the abomination that causes desolation.” Is it a pig sacrificed on the altar in a newly built Temple like I had always heard? Or, the antichrist setting up an image of himself to worship? Is it even in our future? The first mention …
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With the telling of three parables and a polemic litany of accusation(Matthew 21-23), Jesus had just pronounced judgment on Jerusalem and the religious leaders of Israel. Imagine the disciples listening to all this in the temple…and then they hear the words, “Your house is left to you desolate.” These were …
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I have spent most of my life afraid of the “great tribulation” prophesied to come sometime in the future, but likely in my lifetime…a great distress that would be unlike anything history had ever seen. While I was still in high school, it was said that the decade of the …