The scribes and Pharisees were the ultimate hypocrites, teaching others to do what the Mosaic Law prescribed yet not practicing it themselves, and even laying burdens upon people that were far beyond what God expected. What were those burdens?
Todays Scripture: Matthew 23:1-4
When Jesus predicted the complete destruction of the temple at Jerusalem, stone by stone, His disciples knew that what He was foretelling would require an event of catastrophic proportions. Naturally, they wanted to know more details, and so they asked Him.
Todays Scripture: Matthew 24:1-3
The establishment of Israel as a sovereign nation in 1948 was, according to Jesus’ words in the Olivet Discourse, a monumental prophetic event. It reveals to us that the “times of the Gentiles” is coming to close…
Todays Scripture: Matthew 24:15
As we read the first part of the Olivet Discourse in Matthew 24, are we reading about signs that would predate the destruction of the temple, Jesus’ second coming, or both?
Todays Scripture: Matthew 24:3
Comparing history with Daniel 11, one would think that Daniel’s “abomination of desolation” prophecy was fulfilled hundreds of years before Christ was born. Jesus told His disciples, however, that the abomination of desolation was yet to be witnessed in the future. How can this apparent contradiction be reconciled?
Todays Scripture: Matthew 24:15
An angel revealed to Daniel 400 years of future Middle Eastern history that included the conquests of Alexander the Great, the rule of Cleopatra, and someone who set up the “abomination of desolation.” Who was that?
Todays Scripture: Matthew 24:15
If we compare Mark and Luke’s rendition of the Olivet Discourse, believers are told to flee Jerusalem when they witness two different events. Do those events occur simultaneously?
Todays Scripture: Matthew 24:15-21
Jesus said that gospel will be preached in the whole world and then the end will come. So is it possible that Jesus might never return if we don’t take the gospel to the entire world?
Todays Scripture: Matthew 24:14
In the ends times, what will motivate children to betray their own parents to death, and parents their own children to death?
Todays Scripture: Matthew 24:13
Jesus foretold that, before He returns, there will bwe a great “falling away,” something that the apostle Paul referred to as a future “apostasy.” Why will so many professing believers turn from faith?
Todays Scripture: Matthew 24:10