Mount Olivet Prophecy

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #27

Mount Olivet Prophecy

“27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.” (Mt 24:27-28 AV)

“And 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.” (Mt 24:30 AV)

“The coming of the Son of Man”, referred to in verses 27 and 28 of Matthew xxiv., is not the same Coming as that in verse 30. Verses 27 and 28 speak of the Little Horn of the Goat standing upon the political carcase of Judah, taking away the Daily Sacrifice, and casting down the Temple and the truth to the ground in their peculiar style.

“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:” (Mt 24:29 AV)

Verse 29, the stars fall from the heaven, because

“the Little Horn casts off the stars to the ground”,

and in consequence the Jewish State is abolished. But between verses 29 and 30 there is a long interval of time. Between these two verses come in “the times of the Gentiles“, during which the Jewish State has no existence, and therefore nothing is said about it. But in “the Time of the End” of this long interval the Sign of the Son of Man appears in the heavens. . . .

The Sign may now be seen by those who know how to read the Signs of God. After the Sign is fully manifested, the Son appears with his clouds, and those in Jerusalem will see him, and receive him with acclamations, saying:

“Blessed be he that comes in the name of Jehovah”,

and the tribes will mourn, and so forth; so that the event of verse 30 is identical with that of Matt. XXUi. 39.

Dr. John Thomas

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Preceding

Great things being heard and seen, sings of God

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #1 Introduction: What is Prophecy? – Prophets, fortune-tellers and Prophecy

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #2 Shiloh

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #3 Job’s Redeemer

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #4 Judah — Gods Battle Axe

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #5 Evening Morning Period

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #6 Daniel’s Seventy Weeks

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #7 Toes of the Image

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #8 The Fourth Beast

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #9 Michael the Great Prince

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #10 Gog

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #11 King of the North

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #12 The Little Horn of the Goat

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #13 Antiochus Epiphanes

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #14 Tarshish

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #15 More about Tarshish

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #16 Weapons of War as Fuel

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #17 Temple of Ezekiel’s Prophecy

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #18 Shape of Ezekiel’s Temple

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #19 Annual Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #20 King of the South

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #21 Messiah the Prince

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #22 Micah’s Forty Years

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #22 Wounded in the House of My Friends

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #23 Elijah Before Christ

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #23 Riches of Egypt

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #24 One of a City, Two of a Family

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #25 Called My Son Out of Egypt

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #26 That it might be Fulfilled

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Additional reading

1. Seeds, weeds and kingdoms
2. Great things, Voice of God and terrors
3. Signs of the last days when difficult times will come
4. Matthew 16 Calvin’s view
5. Matthew 24 about temples or Houses of God and the end of the age
6. Matthew 24:3 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: Desolation, Oppression and the Parousia – The Apostles’ Question
7. Matthew 24:29-35 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: The Answer Part Two – Sign 2: The Parousia. A Sign after the Great Oppression
8. Matthew 24:36-41 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: About That Day and Hour
9. Matthew Henry’s commentary on Matthew 25
10. Entrance of a king to question our position #1 Coming in the Name of the Lord
11. Times of the Gentiles
12. Left in the dark or being in the dark seeing light
13. Coming together in dark days
14. Let us being filled each day by the Word of God
15. Uncovering the Foundations of Faith
16. Only once and with consequences
17. Making the time ready for Jesus to return
18. Making sure to be ready and to belong to the escaped ones
19. Signs of the times – As the Day approaches
20. The Rapture Wars
21. Jesus … will come in the same way as you saw him go

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