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  • Matthew 24:34 Meaning

    Matthew 24:34 Meaning – Verily I say unto you …both these signs and the destruction of Jerusalem with the temple should all come to pass in the days of them that were then living It is hard to our misbelieving hearts to give that credit to Christ’s words whereof they are worthy: but by so…

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  • Matthew 24:33 Meaning

    Matthew 24:33 Meaning – He is nigh Luke 21:31 has “the kingdom of God is nigh.” What is it that will be, as the fig leaves are a sign of summer, a sign of the coming of the kingdom? Is it the destruction of Jerusalem? If so, does Jesus mean that the end of the…

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  • Matthew 24:32 Meaning

    Is the parable about the destruction of Jerusalem, the second coming of Jesus, or both? The matter is not perfectly clear. Robertson, A.T. – Commentary on Matthew  in The Bible for Home & School  (1911) After he has given the signs of the destruction of Jerusalem and of his own second coming, he confirms them in the…

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  • 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…

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  • Matthew 24:30 Meaning

    Matthew 24:30 Meaning – the sign of the Son of Man shall appear in heaven The second sign or evidence of Christ’s coming is the glorious shining of Christ’s person approaching, called the sign of the Son of Man, because as the light of the sun approaching is a sign of the present appearing or…

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  • Matthew 24:29 Meaning

    For further satisfaction of his disciples, our Lord gives six signs [Sign 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6] of his second coming. Dickson, David – A Brief Exposition of the Evangel of Jesus Christ According to Matthew (1651) Matthew 24:29 Meaning – immediately after the tribulation of those days All the time before the…

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  • Matthew 24:28 Meaning

    [Christ] meets with an objection: if he come in the east or in the west, how shall those elect persons come to him who shall be so far removed from that place as is the west from the east. He answers, and teaches that as the eagles from all quarters are shortly gathered to the…

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