Second coming. The Second Coming of Christ (from the teaching of the Church about the final destinies of the world). -What will happen after the Last Judgment?

Prophecy of a ninety-year-old Norwegian woman from Valdres, given in 1968, about the events that will take place before the Second Coming of Christ. At one time, the evangelist E. Minos wrote down these prophecies and put them aside, considering them to be very unrealistic. Relatively recently, reviewing his notes, he was amazed to realize that what seemed “unreal” had become the norm of our society.

Here are her prophetic insights:

“I saw the times before the coming of Jesus and... I saw the world as a globe and saw Europe, land after land. I saw Scandinavia, I saw Norway. I saw certain things that would happen before the return of Jesus and disasters that we have never seen before.”

She mentioned four waves:

1. “Before the coming of Jesus and before the Third World War there will be a detente like never before. There will be peace between the superpowers in the east and west and it will be a long peace. (Remember, the prophecy was given in 1968, when the Cold War was gaining momentum - note by E. Minos). During this period of peace there will be disarmament in many countries, also in Norway, and we will not be ready when war comes. It will begin in a way that no one could have predicted – from an unexpected place.”

2. “Warmth will overtake Christians. Falling away from true and living Christianity. Christians will not want to listen to convicting sermons. They will not want to hear about sin and grace, law and gospel, repentance and restoration. There will be a replacement: Christianity of prosperity (happiness).
It will become important to be successful, to be something, to have material goods, things that God never promised us in this way. Churches and houses of worship will be empty. Instead of the sermons we are accustomed to today about taking up our cross and following Jesus, there will be sermons on entertainment, arts and culture. This will greatly increase before the coming of Christ.”

3. “There will come a moral decay that old Norway has never seen before. People will live together as married people without getting married. (I do not think that we are talking about cohabitation, which existed in 1968 - note by E. Minos). There will be a lot of impurity before marriage and godlessness will strike the marriage and this will be justified. This will even enter Christian circles and we will accept it, even a sin contrary to nature. Before the coming of Jesus there will be such television as we have not seen (Television only appeared in Norway in 1968 - note by E. Minos).”

“Television will be filled with terrible violence and will teach people how to kill, and this will make the streets unsafe. People will copy what they see. There will not be only one station on TV, but there will be many stations (She did not know the word “channel”, which we use now, so she called them stations - note by E. Minos). Television will be like radio, with many stations and will be filled with violence. People will use it for entertainment. We will see terrible scenes of murder and destruction and this will spread throughout society. Sex scenes will also be on the screen, very frank things that happen in marriage (Then I protested, saying that pornography is prohibited in our country - note by E. Minos). It will happen and you will see it. Everything that was before will be broken and many events will pass before your eyes.” .
4. “People from poor countries will flock to Europe. They will also come to Scandinavia and Norway. There will be so many of them that people will hate them and treat them badly. They will be threatened like the Jews before World War II. Thus, the entire measure of sin will be filled.

Tears rolled down this woman's cheeks. “I won’t see it, but you will. Then suddenly Jesus will come and World War III will begin. It will be a short war." (She saw it in a vision.)

“The war that I saw (World War II) will seem like child’s play compared to this one and it will end with the explosion of an atomic bomb. The air will be so contaminated that no one will be able to breathe. This will cover several continents, USA, Japan, Australia and rich countries. The water will be poisoned. The soil will be spoiled. As a result, only the remainder will remain. The remnant in rich countries will try to flee to poor countries, but there will be bad attitude as we had to them. Anyone whose sin is forgiven and who has accepted Jesus as Savior and Lord will be safe.”

An elder in the Pentecostal church in Moss, Norway, Martin Anders, heard this prophecy in 1937 in Moss:

“When oil flows from the North Sea along the Norwegian coast, the return of Jesus will draw near.”

When these words were spoken, the people in the congregation asked the man not to talk nonsense. In 1937 it was truly incredible to talk about oil along the Norwegian coast. Now all the big oil companies are operating along the Norwegian coast.

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My Christ-loving brothers, listen to the Second and terrible coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. I remembered that hour and trembled with great fear, thinking what would be revealed then. Who will describe this? What language will it express? What kind of hearing will contain what is heard? Then the King of kings, having risen from the Throne of His glory, will come down to visit all the inhabitants of the universe, make settlements with them and, as a Judge should, give a good reward to those worthy, and also execute those who deserve punishment. When I think about this, my members are filled with fear, and I am completely exhausted; my eyes shed tears, my voice disappears, my lips close, my tongue becomes numb, and my thoughts learn silence. Oh, what an urgent need I have to speak for our benefit! And fear forces me to remain silent.

Such great and terrible miracles have not happened since the beginning of creation and will not happen throughout all generations. It often happens now that if lightning flashes stronger than usual, it terrifies every person, and we all bow to the ground. How then will we bear it, how soon will we hear the voice of the trumpet from heaven, surpassing all thunder, calling out and awakening the righteous and the unrighteous who have fallen asleep from time immemorial? Then in hell human bones, hearing the voice of the trumpet, will run diligently, looking for their compositions, then we will see how every human breath will rise from its place in the blink of an eye, and everyone from the four corners of the earth will be gathered for Judgment. For he will command Great King having power over all flesh and immediately with trembling and diligence they will give - the land of their dead, and the sea of ​​theirs. What the beasts tore to pieces, what the fish crushed, what the birds plundered - all this will appear in the blink of an eye. Not a single hair will be lacking. How will we bear this, brothers, when we see a river of fire flowing with fury, like a fierce sea, eating mountains and wilds, setting the whole earth on fire and things that are on her! Then, beloved, from such a fire the rivers will become scarce, the springs will disappear, the stars will fall, the sun will darken, the moon will pass by, according to what is written, the sky scrolls like a scroll(Isa.34:4). Then the sent Angels will flow, collecting chosen from the four winds, as the Lord said, from the end of heaven to the end of it(Matthew 24:31); then we will see that, according to His promise, the sky is new and the earth is new (Isa.65:17). How will we bear it then, lovers of Christ, when we see the prepared terrible Throne and the appearing sign of the Cross, on which Christ was nailed by his will for us? Then everyone will see the terrible and holy scepter of the Great King appearing on high, everyone will finally understand and remember the word of the Lord who predicted that

the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven (Matthew 24:30), and it will become known to everyone that after this the King will appear. At this hour, my brothers, everyone will think about how to meet the terrible Tsar, and will begin to trust all their deeds; then he will see that his deeds - both good and bad - stand before him. Then all those who are merciful and sincerely repentant will rejoice when they see the prayers they have sent;

the compassionate will see that the poor and wretched, to whom they showed mercy here, plead for them and proclaim their benefits before Angels and men. Others will also see tears and labors of repentance, and they will appear joyful, bright, glorious, waiting for the blessed hope and the manifestation of the glory of the Great God and our Savior Jesus Christ(Titus 2:13). Why not tell me briefly about the most important things? When we hear this great voice and terrible cry, which from the heights of heaven will say: Behold, the Groom is coming (Matthew 25:6), - behold, the Judge approaches, behold, the King appears, behold, the Judge of judges is revealed, behold, the God of all comes to judge the living and the dead! - then, lovers of Christ, from that cry the foundations and the womb of the earth will tremble from its ends to its ends, and the sea and all the depths; then, brothers, oppression and fear will come upon every person, and frenzy from the cry and the sound of the trumpet, from fear and expectations of what is coming to the universe, for, according to what is written, The forces of heaven will move (Matthew 24:29). Then the Angels will flow, the faces of the Archangels, Cherubim and Seraphim will gather, and all the many-eyed will exclaim with strength and power: Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, Who is and is and is to come (Rev. 4:8). Then every creature in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth will cry out with trembling and strength: blessed is he who is to come (Matthew 21:9) King in the name of the Lord. Then the heavens will be torn apart, and the King of kings, our Most Pure and Glorious God, will be revealed, like terrible lightning, with great power and incomparable glory, as he preached and John the Theologian , saying: Behold, he is coming from the clouds

What soul can then find so much strength in itself to endure this? For heaven and earth will flee, as the Theologian says again: I saw the Throne great and white, and Him who sat on it, from whose presence heaven and earth fled, and no place was found for them(Rev. 20:11). Have you ever seen such fear? Have you seen such extraordinary and terrible things? Heaven and earth will flee: who will be able to stand after that? Where will we, sinners, run away when we see the Thrones set up and the seated Lord of all ages, when we see countless armies standing in fear around the Throne? Then Daniel's prophecy will be fulfilled. In vain,- it is said, - until the Thrones were set up, and the Ancient One was gray, and His clothes were as white as snow, and the hair of His head was as pure as a wave, His Throne was a fiery flame, His wheels were scorching with fire. A river of fire flows forth before Him: thousands of thousands serve Him, and ten thousand stand before Him: the Judgment is seated, and the books opened(Dan.7:9-10). There will be great fear, and trembling, and frenzy at that hour, brothers, when He gathers an impartial judgment, and those terrible books are opened, where our deeds and words are written, and everything that we said and did in this life, and that thought, as it is written, to hide from God, the testing hearts and wombs(Apoc.2:23), for the power of your head, all the essence(Luke 12:7), that is, the reasoning and thoughts in which we will give an account to the Judge have been taken into account.

Oh, how many tears we need for this hour! And we arrive in negligence. Oh, how much we will weep and groan for ourselves when we see the great gifts that those who have labored well will receive from the King of Glory! Then with our own eyes we will see the indescribable Heavenly Kingdom, and, on the other hand, we will also see terrible torment revealed, in the middle - every knee and every breath of man from the first parent Adam to the one born after all, and everyone kneels with trembling and bows down, as it is written: As I live, says the Lord: For every knee will worship Me.(Rom. 14:11). Then, lovers of Christ, all humanity will be placed in the midst of the Kingdom and condemnation, life and death, amidst security and need. Everyone will be expecting something terrible Doomsday, and no one will be able to help anyone. Then everyone will be required confession of faith , obligation of Baptism, faith pure from all heresy, seal unbroken and tunic undefiled, according to what is written: Everyone around Him will bring gifts the torture will be even stronger(Wis.6:6), - according to what is written. To everyone much will be given to him, much will be demanded from him(Luke 12:48). Measure in moderation every, will measure up to him(Mark 4:24).

However, whether someone is great or small, we still confessed the faith and accepted the holy seal. Everyone equally renounced the devil by breathing on him, and everyone equally made a promise to Christ by worshiping Him - if only you understood the power of the Sacrament of the font and the renunciation of the alien (demon). For the renunciation, which we undertake to do at holy Baptism, is apparently expressed not in many words, but in the thought contained in it, and it is very important. Whoever was able to preserve it is blessed. For in a few words we renounce everything that is called bad, which only God hates; we renounce not one, not two, not ten bad deeds, but everything that is called bad, everything that is hated by God. For example, it is said: I renounce Satan and all his works. What's going on? - Listen: fornication, adultery, uncleanness, lies, theft (robbery), envy, poisoning, fortune-telling, sorcery, irritability, anger, blasphemy, enmity, quarrels, jealousy, I renounce drunkenness, idle talk, pride, idleness, I renounce mockery, drunkenness ( playing the flute), demonic songs, child molestation, fortune-telling by the flight of birds, invoking spirits, fortune-telling writing on leaves, renouncing sacrifices to idols, blood, strangled and carrion. But why talk a lot? There is no time to list everything. Let's leave a lot and say simply: I renounce everything that happens in the sun, moon and stars, in springs and trees, at crossroads, in liquids and cups, many disorderly deeds, which it is shameful to even talk about. We renounce all this and the like - everything that we all know is the works and teachings of the devil - through renunciation at holy baptism. We learned many bad things when we were previously in darkness under the power of the devil, until the light touched us, until sold we were for sin (Rom.7:14). When the humane and merciful God was pleased to deliver us from such error, the East visited us from above, the saving grace of God appeared, the Lord gave Himself for us, redeemed us from idolatry’s flattery and deigned to renew us with water and spirit. Therefore we renounced all this,

Have you heard, lovers of Christ, how many evil deeds you have renounced in a few words? This renunciation and good confession will be required of each of us at that hour and day, for it is written: Be justified by your words(Matthew 12:37). And the Lord also says: I judge from your mouth, wicked servant(Luke 19:22).

So, it is clear that our words will either condemn or justify us at that hour. How will everyone be interrogated? Shepherds, that is, bishops, will be questioned both about their own lives and about their flock; From everyone they will demand the (good) verbal sheep that he received from the Chief Shepherd Christ. If, through the bishop’s negligence, a sheep dies, then its blood will be exacted from his hands. In the same way, the priests will give an answer for their Church, and together the deacons and all believers will give an answer for their house, for their wife, for their children, for their male and female servants: did he educate them in the discipline and teaching of the Lord,- as the apostle commanded (Eph.6:4). Then kings and princes, rich and poor, great and small, will be asked about all the deeds that they have done. For it is written that We will all appear before the judgment seat of Christ(Rom.14:10); let everyone accept what he has done with his body, either good or evil(2 Cor. 5:10). And elsewhere it is written: there is nothing that will be snuffed out of my hand(Deut. 32:39).

“We ask you to tell us what will happen after that,” they ask me. With my heart disease I will say that you will not be able to hear what will happen after this. Let’s stop talking better, lovers of Christ.

The Christ-loving ones again said: “Is this really more terrible than what was said before, which we have already heard from you?” The teacher, crying again, said: “I tell you with tears, without tears it is impossible to tell everything, because it will be the last. But since we have a commandment from the Apostle to betray this a faithful person (2 Tim. 2:2) - and you are faithful, then I pass this on to you, and you tell others too. If I am sick at heart while telling this story, then be compassionate towards me, blessed brothers.

Then, lovers of Christ, after the deeds of everyone will be examined and declared before Angels and men, and He will put all enemies under His feet(1 Cor. 15:25), will abolish all principality and all authority and power(1 Cor. 15:24) and Every knee will bow God (Rom. 14:11), - according to what is written. Then the Lord will separate them from each other, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. Those who have good deeds and good fruits will be separated from the unfruitful and sinful. And they will shine like the sun; it is those who have kept the commandments of the Lord, who are merciful, loving the poor, loving the orphans, hospitable to strangers, clothing the naked, visiting those in prison, interceding for the oppressed, visiting the sick, weeping now, as the Lord said (Matthew 5:4), who have now become poor for the sake of riches , kept in heaven, they forgive the sins of their brothers, they have kept the seal of faith, unbroken and pure from all heresy. The Lord will place these on the right hand, and the goats on the left, that is, precisely those who are barren, have angered the good Shepherd, do not heed the words of the Chief Shepherd, are arrogant, ignorant, who at the present time of repentance, like goats, play and bask, who spend the entire time of their lives in gluttony, drunkenness and hardness of heart, like the rich man who never showed pity to poor Lazarus. That is why they are condemned to stand on their feet, as unmerciful, uncompassionate, having absolutely neither the fruits of repentance nor oil in their lamps. And those who bought themselves oil from the poor and filled their vessels with it will stand at the right hand in glory and joy, holding brightly burning lamps, and will hear that blessed and merciful voice: Come, blessed of My Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world(Matthew 25:34). Those standing on the left will hear this formidable and severe sentence: Depart from Me, curse, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angel(Matthew 25:41). Just as you did not show mercy, so you yourself will not now have mercy, just as you did not listen to My voice, so now I will not listen to your complaints, because you did not serve Me: you did not feed the hungry, you did not give drink to the thirsty, you did not take in strange things. , they did not clothe the naked, they did not visit the sick, they did not come to Me when I was in prison. You have become workers and servants of another master, that is, the devil. Therefore, depart from Me, you workers of iniquity. Then these go into everlasting torment: but the righteous into everlasting life(Matthew 25:46).

John F. MacArthur

Jesus answered and said to them, “Beware that no one deceives you, for many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will deceive many. You will also hear about wars and war rumors. See, do not be horrified, for all this must happen, but this is not the end yet: for nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, pestilences and earthquakes in places; yet this is the beginning of illness. Then they will hand you over to torture and kill you; and you will be hated by all nations because of my name; and then many will be offended, and will betray one another, and will hate one another; and many false prophets will arise and deceive many; and because iniquity increases, the love of many will grow cold. He who endures to the end will be saved. And this Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations; and then the end will come" ( Matt. 24:4-14)

The actual Olivet Sermon begins in verse 4, which Jesus delivered in response to the disciples’ question: “Tell us, when will this be? And what is the sign of Your coming and the end of the age? (v. 3). As stated in the previous chapter, the Twelve “thought that the kingdom of God was about to be opened” (Luke 19:11), and the events of the last few days had cemented this thought even more firmly in their minds. They had long believed that Jesus was the Messiah and that John the Baptist was His prophesied forerunner. The cheering of the crowds at Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, the cleansing of the temple, the condemnation of the religious leaders, and His prediction of the destruction of the temple all led them to believe that the Lord would soon reveal His messianic glory, subdue the nations that rebelled against Him, and establish His eternal Kingdom. . They were unable to accept Jesus' numerous predictions that He would first suffer, die, and be resurrected.

The disciples thought that Jesus' preaching, healing, consolation, judgment, and restoration of Israel would all occur during the same period of time. Like the Old Testament prophets who spoke about the Messiah, the disciples imagined only one Coming, including a whole series of events (see, for example, Isa. 61: 1-11).

Perhaps the first key to understanding that the Coming of Christ would occur in two stages was Jesus’ reading of this passage from the book of the prophet Isaiah during a service in the synagogue of Nazareth. Jesus stopped short of reading verse 2, omitting the phrase “and the day of vengeance of our God.” Then He explained, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing” (Luke 4:18-21). Jesus emphasized that at that time He did not come to judge, but to preach the Gospel and heal diseases.

But since the disciples did not understand His prompting, as well as many other specific teachings that He came to die for the sins of the people, they expected Jesus to complete His messianic mission then, perhaps in the next few days or so. weeks The students were expecting something dramatic. They felt that the Son in Isa. 9:6 was ready to place upon His shoulders the government of the Kingdom of God, and that the stone which was cut out of the mountain without hands (Dan. 2:34) was ready to destroy the power of wicked men. The Messiah, the Prince, was ready to put an end to sin, stop iniquity, bestow everlasting righteousness, and become the anointed King, the holiest of all kings. They looked forward to how the Son of Man would soon be given an eternal kingdom and glory. They were convinced that very soon Israel would turn to the Lord and call on His name, and that the Lord would say, “These are My people,” and they would say, “The Lord is my God!” (Zech. 13:9).

But in the Olivet Sermon, Jesus makes it clear that all this will happen in the future. Chapters 24-25 of the Gospel of Matthew are a prophetic sermon that tells the twelve disciples about a time that has not yet come, about a time in which they themselves will not live.

There are at least six indications in the sermon itself that it is talking about the distant future and that it cannot be applied to events associated with the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD, as many interpreters believe, or to the era Churches, as others suggest.

The first such sign is birth pangs, where false Christs (Matt. 24:5), wars between nations (v. 6-7a), famines and earthquakes (v. 7 b) are only the “beginning” (v. 8). The figurative expression "birth pangs" was often used by ancient Jewish writers, especially in connection with lately. The great modern Jewish scholar Alfred Edersheim writes: “The Jewish scriptures very often speak of the birth pangs of the Messiah.”

The pangs of birth do not occur at the time of conception or during pregnancy, but just before birth. Therefore, the figurative expression “birth pangs” could not personify either the destruction of Jerusalem that occurred at the beginning of the Church era, or the Church era itself as a whole.

Paul reminded the Thessalonians that Christ would come as a thief comes in the night—unexpectedly, quietly, and suddenly. Using the same figurative expression that Jesus used in the Olivet Sermon, the Apostle said: “When they say, ‘Peace and safety,’ then destruction will suddenly come upon them, just as the pain of childbirth comes upon one who is pregnant, and they will not escape” (1 Thess. 5:1-3).

The pangs of birth begin just before labor, and contractions gradually become more frequent until the baby is born. In the same way, the events associated with the Lord's return will begin immediately before His Coming and will quickly increase and intensify until they turn into a series of catastrophes. This same period is depicted in the book of Revelation as the seals of judgment are broken and events unfold, probably over several years (see 6:1-8:6). Then the trumpet judgments occur in a much shorter period of time, probably weeks (see 8:7-9:21; 11:15-19), and the bowls of God's wrath are poured out on the earth, most likely over a period of days or even hours (see . 16:1-21).

The second indication that these events belong to the future is noted in Matt. 24:13-14, where Jesus talks about believers who will endure birth pangs to the end. Since the disciples clearly did not live to see the end of the age, the events of chapters 24-25 could not apply to them or to other believers, including those living today. All believers who will be alive at that time will be raptured immediately before the Great Tribulation (1 Thess. 4:17), so all these events will not affect them. These events can only apply to those who believe in Christ during the Great Tribulation, whose true faith will be confirmed by their perseverance to the end (Matt. 24:13).

The third sign is the proclamation of the Gospel throughout the world (Matt. 24:14). This event completely excludes the apostolic era, when even the Roman Empire was not entirely evangelized. This event cannot be applied to our time, when, despite the spread of the Gospel through modern means mass media There are still billions of people around the world who have never heard the gospel. In Matt. 24:14 is implied, and in Rev. 14:6-7 explains that the future proclamation of the gospel throughout the world that Jesus speaks of will happen miraculously and in an instant.

The fourth sign is “the abomination that makes desolate, [spoken] through the prophet Daniel” (Matt. 24:15). Daniel predicted that just before the Messiah would establish His Kingdom and judge the world, the Antichrist would “[stop] sacrifice and oblation, and the abomination of desolation will be on the pinnacle of the sanctuary, and the final decreed destruction will come upon the desolator” (Dan. 9:27). This has yet to happen.

The fifth sign that Jesus is talking about future events is “great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, nor will there be” (Matt. 24:21). The terrible events that Christ describes in this sermon will be the most tragic in the history of mankind, and they will occur at the end of the age, when the full and final judgment of God will be poured out on wicked people. Jesus speaks of the time prophesied by Daniel when “a time of trouble will come, such as never was since men existed until this time,” which will be accompanied by the resurrection of the righteous to eternal life and the wicked to eternal damnation (Dan. 12: 1-2).

The sixth sign is “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 the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken; then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven” (Matthew 24:29-30). These supernatural events have clearly not yet occurred.

The seventh and final sign that Jesus was talking about the distant future is shown in the example of the fig tree (Matt. 24:32-35). Just as the budding leaves of the fig tree indicate the approach of summer, so the events that Christ mentions here will be a sign of His near Coming. “This generation will not pass away,” that is, the generation that will live at the end of the age, “after all these things have happened” (v. 34). The signs described in Matt. 24-25, will take place before the eyes of one generation - the generation that will witness the Coming of Jesus Christ.

Thus, everything that Christ said in the Olivet Sermon will be fulfilled in the future. This does not mean that most of the circumstances and events mentioned here have never occurred before. There have been wars and rumors of war practically since the time of the flood; Throughout history, humanity has suffered from famine, and earthquakes have occurred throughout history. But the events recounted in Matt. 24-25 will be unique and end-time, both in description and in sequence, scope and power. Some of them, such as the destruction of the physical universe (24:29), will be completely unique.

The fact that Jesus spoke in the second person, especially in chapter 24, is not proof that He spoke to the disciples about their generation. The Old Testament prophets also often addressed their words to distant descendants. God miraculously transported the prophet to the time about which he was to prophesy. And the prophet seemed to be directly addressing people of future generations (see, for example, Isa. 33:17-24; 66:10-14; Zech. 9:9). Jesus was essentially saying, “You who live at that time...”

Since Matt. 24:4, Jesus answers the disciples' questions: “When will this be? And what is the sign of Your coming and the end of the age? (v. 3). But He gives the answer in reverse order. Jesus does not address the question of “when” until 24:36, where he declares, “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but only My Father.” In 24:4-14, Jesus answers the second question by naming the first six signs, the “birth pangs,” that will begin immediately before His Coming: the deception of false Christs (vv. 4-5), enmity between the nations of the world (vv. 6-7a) , widespread catastrophes (vv. 7b-8), the delivery of believers to suffering (vv. 9), the apostasy of professed believers (vv. 10-13) and the proclamation of the Gospel throughout the world (v. 14).

John F. MacArthur, Interpretation of the Books of the New Testament, Gospel of Matthew, 24-28, Slavic Evangelical Society, 2008



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