Matthew 24:31 Meaning

Matthew 24:31 Meaning – sound of a trumpet

The fifth sign: there shall be a great sound of a trumpet, as it were summoning all to appear before the tribunal of Christ to judgment, which teaches us that the day of judgment shall be no less terrible than the day of the promulgation of the law on Mount Sinai; as for other reasons, so for this, that as there was an audible trumpet which sounded at the giving out of the law, so shall there be an audible sound of a trumpet at the day of judging men for transgressing the law.

Dickson, David – A Brief Exposition of the Evangel of Jesus Christ According to Matthew (1651)

Matthew 24:31 Meaning – gather Christ’s elect in unto him from one end of heaven unto another

The sixth sign or evidence of Christ’s coming is, that the elect being raised from death, or instead of death changed from this mortal life to the estate of immortality, the angels shall be set on work to gather them from all the quarters of the earth whence the winds do blow, or from the utmost parts of the earth where the sight of the heavens has an end.

Although the elect be now scattered one from another in sundry respects, yet then shall they all meet together; not one shall be inlacking: for the angels shall gather Christ’s elect in unto him from one end of heaven unto another.

Dickson, David – A Brief Exposition of the Evangel of Jesus Christ According to Matthew (1651)