Wheresoever the Carcase is

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #41

Wheresoever the Carcase is

“ For wheresoever a dead carcass is,
thither will the Eagles be gathered together.” (Mt 24:28 GenevaBible)

 

This (Matt. xxiv. 28) is an expression used to designate the Jewish State, or nation. It is so used in Deut. xxviii. 26, where Moses says, speaking to Israel:

“Thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air”;

that is, thy nation shall be a prey to all other nations; and in the same chapter, verse 49, a particular nation is designated which should come against them from far (Italy) “as the Eagle flieth”, the Eagle being the symbol of the Roman Power, as is well known. The figure used by Jesus and Moses is the same; the latter says:

“Thy carcases shall be meat for the fowls of the air”,

and Jesus declares that

“Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together”.

Dr. John Thomas

 

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“ And thy carcass shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and none shall fray them away.” (De 28:26 GenevaBible)

“ The Lord shall bring a nation upon thee from far, even from the end of the world, flying swift as an Eagle: a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand:” (De 28:49 GenevaBible)

 

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Preceding

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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

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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

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #27 Mount Olivet Prophecy

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Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #29 The Sign of the Son of Man

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #30 Sacrifices in the Millennium

Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #31 Transport to the Judgment Seat

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Answers Concerning Prophecies and things future #33 Sheep and Goats at the Judgment

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Please find also the note [36] in: Matthew 24:15-28 – The Nazarene’s Commentary: The Answer: Sign 1: Encamped Armies. The Sign Great Oppression Is Near

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