tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88693838815593216842024-03-27T17:15:34.206-07:00Matthew: Chapter 24Below is a verse by verse interpretation of this prophetic book, according to the scriptures.
Please make good use of the "mouse-over". For, the scriptures are the value of the article.Pearl Doxseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281232149590681155noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8869383881559321684.post-41003529201555211282012-02-07T10:07:00.010-08:002023-04-26T19:40:43.500-07:00A Verse by Verse Scriptural Examination<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">I will add each verse of Matthew 24 with commentary, in order of verse. Some verses will be missing if not written yet. Some will be added if I have been asked about a particular verse and have written an explanation about that verse.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><b><u>Matt.24:1</u></b> </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">"<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" id="vs1">Departing now, Jesus was on his way from the temple, but his disciples approached to show him the buildings of the temple."</span></span><br />
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<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> Our scene begins with Jesus leaving the Jewish temple, likely for the last time</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> due to his disgust with the corruption of the religious leaders (see Matt.23:38,39;</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> Psalm26:4,5). </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">His disciples </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">may be perplexed and shocked by Jesus' decision to abandon the </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">religious system </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">of his day. </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">They try calling his attention to the stature and meaning </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">of the Jewish </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Temple, </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">perhaps hoping to reason with what they may view as </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">a rash, drastic, </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">and dangerous </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">decision on Jesus' part.</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> Jesus' disciples were not only trying to make Jesus look at the physical</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> architecture. They well knew that he had already seen that, countless times</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> throughout his life (Luke2:27,41,46,49).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> Jesus once referred to this Temple before.....</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" id="vs19">“Break down this temple, and in three days I will raise it </span></span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">up.”</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><a class="vsAnchor" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8869383881559321684&postID=4100352920155521128" name="bk20" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", Helvetica, "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-top;">20</a><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" id="vs20">Therefore the Jews said: “This temple was built in forty-six years, and will you </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">raise </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">it up in three days?”</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><a class="vsAnchor" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=8869383881559321684&postID=4100352920155521128" name="bk21" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", Helvetica, "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: text-top;">21</a><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" id="vs21">But he was talking about the temple of his body." </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">(John2:19-21)</span></span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> According to an accuser, Jesus had said, </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> “We heard him say, ‘I will throw down this temple that was made with hands </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> and in three </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">days I will</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">build another not made with hands.’” Mark14:58 </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> Jesus was going to cause the system of worship symbolized by the literal temple,</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> to collapse. <b>H</b></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", Helvetica, "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif;">e himself</b><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> was going to "throw down" </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">the </span></span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">"temple made with hands". </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> Yet as we will see, he also referred to his own physical body as the Temple. </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> While Jesus did freely surrender his flesh as </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">a ransom </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">(John2:19; 10:17,18)</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">,</span></span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><u>he </u></span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><u>did not kill himself</u> (nor throw down the temple of his body). </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> Nor did he "raise" <i>himself</i> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">(see </span><a href="http://pearl-raiseitup.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", Helvetica, "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif;" target="_blank">pearl-raiseitup.blogspot.com</a><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> ).</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">The temple being thrown down then </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">(the one "made with hands"), was</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">not his </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">physical body. </span></span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">So then, according to scripture, what "temples" are being </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> "thrown down" and "raised up"?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> [for the meaning of this, see 1Cor.3:16; Col.1:18; Eph.1:22; 4:15; 5:23; 1Pet.2:5;</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> 2Cor.5:1; Hebrews11:10; 1Cor.3:9) </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> From these previous scriptures, we see that the temple which would be</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> "raised up" would be the "temple" of God, the 144,000 holy priesthood. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> These are, at the same time, Christ's body, with Jesus as Head of that body.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> Therefore, when we read Mark14:58 and John2:21...</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span></span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> "</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">I will throw down this temple that was made with hands and in three </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">days I will</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">build another not made with hands." and "</span></span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">But he was talking about the</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">temple of his body." ...we see that according to the scriptures, that Temple/Body,</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> are the Chosen Ones who faithfully conquer Satan's tests, and enter in among </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">those </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">144,000 who become sealed. These "living stones" form God's "temple".</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> That "holy priesthood" would become the new place of pure worship, in accord</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> with "spirit and truth" John4:24; Rev.7:4; 1Pet.2:5.</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> These scriptures also indicate, that the "temple" made with hands that was </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">due</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> to be "thrown down", </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">was the</span></span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> Jewish System </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">of worship and the Law </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Covenant.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span></span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">(Matt.21:43; Romans11:17,24; 9:25; Gal.4:9,10,11,24,25,30; 5:3,4,6).</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> Jesus </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">established this new "temple", by means </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">of the ransom. </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> Through his blood, a New </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Covenant would be </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">inaugurated</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> for a </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">new "temple" </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> of his "body" (Matt.26:28)...a temple for </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">"God to inhabit" (Eph.2:21,22; </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">2Cor.6:16)...the one </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">built upon the </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">True Cornerstone (Acts4:11), </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> the </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">"foundation" of </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">the </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">Twelve Apostles and prophets </span></span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">(Eph.2:20)</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">, </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> and the</span></span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">144,000 </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">"living stones" ..."parts" </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">belonging to </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Christ's </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">"body".</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> (1Cor.12:12; Eph.4:16) Even with the interpretation of Jesus' "thrown down"</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> "temple" being his literal flesh, that ransom sacrifice was the means by which</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> the temple of 144,000 would be "raised up" to become Christ's "body".</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span></span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">When this temple becomes completed (Rev.14:1; 6:10,11; 12:10,11), </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">it will </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">become Jesus' "bride" (Rev.21:2; 22:17), who will be "one flesh" </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">with </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">her Lord and Head, the </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Christ. (Eph.5:23,27,29,30,31,32</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">; John17:21)</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> This great </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">consummation between Christ and New Jerusalem, will result in</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">the</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> restoration </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">of Creation, to everlasting life in perfect peace. (Romans8:22,19,21)]</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span></span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Jesus was on his way from a temple made with physical stones, constructed </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> by human </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">hands. </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">According to the disciple's actions in Matt.24:1, these men were</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> impressed by </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">the</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">accomplishment of these stately temple buildings, and the </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">authority they </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">represented. The Jewish Temple also represented YHVH's </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> Covenant with His chosen nation. Did Jesus need to be reminded of this?</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> Was his abandonment of the Temple an act of rebellious unfaithfulness? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><u><b><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">Matt.24:2</span></b></u></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" id="vs2">"In response he said to them: “Do <span class="small" style="font-size: 12px;">YOU</span> not behold all these things? Truly I say to <span class="small" style="font-size: 12px;">YOU</span>, By no means will a stone be left here upon a stone and not be thrown down.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> Here we receive confirmation that the "temple" to be "thrown down", is indeed</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> the physical temple in Jerusalem (not Jesus' body). "All these things" that were </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> to be thrown down, were the stones the disciples were "beholding"; ...confirming</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> again that this was the temple buildings, and not Christ's literal flesh.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> Yes, for a certainty, it was the Jewish system that was about to expire...to be </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span></span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">replaced </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">by the gathering of a spiritual temple of righteous men, made perfect </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span></span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">(Heb.12:22,23) ["perfect", </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">according to a mature stature of Christ (Eph.4:13,15; </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span></span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">1Pet.5:10; </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">2Tim.4:6,7,8; </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Rev.12:11; Gal.3:27; 2Thess.2:14; Rev.20:4; Rom.6:3)].</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> We now today, also have in place a religious age, a "temple" of "stones"...</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span></span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">a system </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">of worship that has emerged</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span></span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">(Matt.13:39,40) </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">and is f</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">lourishing </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span></span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">in this world </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">(</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Luke16:8)</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">. </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">These too, are prophesied to reject and persecute </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">the </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span></span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">true </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">and faithful seed (Gal.4:29; Rev.13:7,8; 2Thess.2:4,9,10,2; Rev.16:13,14; </span></span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> Matt.24:15,24)</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span></span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">These "stones" too, will</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">suffer </span></span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">destruction (Nahum1:6; Rev.20:10; 14:9,10,19,20;</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> Rev.8:8;</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> Matt.24:51;</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> Matt.7:27)</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span></span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">This present system of worship </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">is also due to be replaced (2Thess.2:8;</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Zeph.1:4,14)</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Jesus compared the end of the Jewish system </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">of worship, </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">to the end of the system</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span></span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">of worship in the last days (Matt.24:3). </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> (This will </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">be examined fully as we continue our </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">hike</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> through Matthew chapter 24.)</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span></span><br />
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<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">The heavenly </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Jerusalem,</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> is </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">not based in an organization of imperfect men (Rev.21:2). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"> There is not one imperfect man who can rightly direct the steps of another (Jer.10:23). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"> To </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">obey an imperfect man, is to become <em>his</em> slave (Rom.6:16). In order to be a loyal </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"> <strong>slave of </strong></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><strong>God</strong> </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">; we must obey God, Christ, and the </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">Bible (Col.3:24) <em><u>exclusively</u>.....</em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><em> </em>and <em>not </em>men (1Cor.7:23; Ex.20:5; Gal.1:10; Ps.146:3) </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">whose doctrines dare to </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"> <u><strong>go beyond</strong></u> the teachings of the true God </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">(1Cor.4:6; 2Thess.2:2; 2Cor.11:13; </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"> Mark7:7; </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">Rev.2:2). </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">It is God's spirit which "<u>completely</u> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"><u>equips us</u> </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">for <u>every</u> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"> good </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">work" (2Tim.3:16,17), </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">that we may worship Him <span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">in spirit and truth (John4:24)</span>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"> <u><strong>Men of truth</strong> do not deviate from it</u> (John7:18; 14:6; 8:47).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"> Only God, Jesus Christ (John14:6), and his completed, <i><b>glorified</b></i> "Bride" can </span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"> provide </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">everlasting life. </span><span style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';">(Job 14:4; 1Cor.15:50; John4:14; Rev.22:17; Isa.43:11).</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span></span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">When the </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">Kingdom government </span></span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><strong>truly </strong><em>does</em> <strong>arrive</strong>, it will "crush, and put an end</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> to all other kingdoms, and it itself </span></span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">will stand to times indefinite" Dan.2:44; 1Cor.15:24.</span><br />
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<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> It will "come down out of heaven from God" (Rev.21:2), not rise up from </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">the "earth" </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> while <span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">Satan </span></span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">still holds dominion and authority over this world (</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">Rev.13:11; </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">1John5:19</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">). </span><br />
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<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">Soon the New </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">Covenant </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">will </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">also expire and be fulfilled, just as the Law Covenant did. </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">This is why the </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">symbols </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">of the New Covenant (the partaking of the bread and wine) </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">cease when Christ </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">arrives (1Cor.11:26). </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">Once 144,000</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> of the "seed" </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">are all sealed (Gal.3:29; Rev.7:4), the</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">living stones </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">are</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">placed </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">in the Holy Temple,</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> the "trees of life" are in the Holy City, and 144,000</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">are </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">seen with the Lamb on Mt. Zion; the New Covenant is fulfilled. (Rev.22:1,2; 14:1)</span><br />
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<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">God's "Chosen Nation" </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">of literal, </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">physical Israel </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">were in Covenant with God, for </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">the </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">bringing forth of </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">the seed, Christ. </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">When </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">this was fulfilled, so was that Covenant. </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> (Romans 10:4; Hebrews 8:6,7,8,9,10; Gen.28:14; Gal.3:16).</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> (</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">The Jews had the </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">choice to move forward </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">to keep pace with God's </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">progressive</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">purpose (Matt.15:24; 10:6).</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">Those who did not, by </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">rejecting</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">the</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">promised seed, </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">were </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">left behind.</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> (Acts2:36,37,38,39; </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">Rom.11:20,21,23)</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> From this we see that if any physical </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">descendant of Abraham accepted Christ,</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> he would automatically receive an anointing,</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">and become one of the 144,000.</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> This invitation went out to them first. But there were </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">not 144,000 Jews who</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> accepted Jesus. So this invitation became extended to those </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">of the Gentiles,</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> who became circumcised <i>in heart</i>. Heb.8:10; Romans2:28,29; 4:9-14; </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> Matt.23:26. (read parable, at Matt.22:1-14).</span><br />
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<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> The same is true of the New Covenant. It's purpose? To bring forth the secondary</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> part of the seed (Gal.3:29)...the Heirs of the Kingdom, the 144,000 who will rule with</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">the Christ. (Rev.20:4) ...all <i>spiritual</i> offspring of Abraham (spiritual Jews)...but not all </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> Jews according to the flesh (Rom.2:29). </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">Once the full number of this seed of the </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> New Covenant </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">is "born" (Rev.12:5; 2Cor.5:17), this Covenant also will change...</span><br />
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<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">God's </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">progressive </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">purpose, </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">will </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">then bless the physical Creation with his </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> Kingdom of completed Kings...the </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">New Temple arrangement of </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">worship (Rev.21:3), </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">manifested by the birth of <i>New</i></span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> <b>Jerusalem</b>...the materialization of what had been </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">only</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> a Covenant </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">promise in heaven (Gal.4:26). With her members made complete and the</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> covenant promise fulfilled, the newly inaugurated </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">Holy City will descend </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> "<b>out of heaven</b>"</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">"<b>from God</b>", to rule the entire earth, forever. </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">(see </span><a href="http://pearl-holycity.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: "Arial Unicode MS", Helvetica, "Lucida Sans Unicode", sans-serif;">pearl-holycity.blogspot.com</a> )<br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">(This Kingdom is not in an earthly organization of </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> imperfect </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">flesh, </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">previous </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">to God's Kingdom</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> 1Cor.15:50).</span><br />
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<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> In the meantime, the present system of worship still exists.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> Those anointed "stones" who comprise systemized religion, are</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> dead (1Pet.4:5; 2Tim.4:1; Eph.2:1). Those who are "dead",</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif"> </span></span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">will be disassembled, and </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">"thrown down" (Rev.6:13; Matt.7:27; Luke11:35; </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> Luke19:41,42,44; 3:9,17;</span> <span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Matt.25:30; </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Luke19:40) </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">just as the temple in Jerusalem was (Luke19:43).</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> The "<i>living</i> stones" are a part of the <i>spiritual</i> Temple of the Body of Christ </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> (1Pet.2:5; Eph.2:20,21,22; John2:19,20,21; 1Cor.12:27).</span><br />
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<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">All man-rule will soon end (1Cor.15:24; Rev.6:14; 2Pet.3:13). </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> No men have been sanctioned to </span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> enslave</span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">, </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">dominate, rule over, or control the worship of </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">their anointed brothers...</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> no matter what their claim.</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">(1Pet.5:3,5; Jer.10:23; Ec.8:9; </span><span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">Mark10:14,42,43; 1Cor.4:8; Matt.7:15,21,22; 24:49)</span><br />
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<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;">(Gap from Matt.24:3-18)</span></span><br />
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<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif" style="background-color: #ead1dc;"><b><u>Matt.24:19</u></b> reads;</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif" style="background-color: #ead1dc;">"<b>But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!</b>"</span><br />
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<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">We know that this sign did have a literal fulfillment in 70 C.E., when the religious system under the Old Covenant was abandoned by God (due to the unfaithfulness of the Jews) and given to Chosen ones <b>from all nations</b> (Matt.23:31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38; 21:42,43,45; Exo.19:5,6; Jer.11:10,11; 14:2,12; Eze.16:59; Zech.7:13; Acts13:45,46,47) </span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">(1Pet.2:5,9,10; Rev.5:9,10). </span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">This change of favor was due to the Jew's general rejection of the foretold Messiah, Jesus Christ (Matt.27:1,20,22,25; John19:15,16; Acts4:10,11,12).</span><br />
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<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">There are two covenants (Gal.4:22,23,24,25,26). The first one (with literal Israel/Jews) came to a conclusion when it's purpose was fulfilled (Matt.5:17; Gal.3:18,19,16,29; 2:21; Heb.8:7,13). </span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">The second (with spiritual Israel/Jews -Gal.6:15,16; Rom.2:28,29; Gal.3:29) will also conclude, when it's purpose is fulfilled (Eph.1:10; Col.1:20; 1Cor.11:26; Rev.7:3,4; 14:1; 10:7; Dan.7:18,22,27; Matt.16:27; Rev.11:16,17,18,19)</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif"><u>For more information on this, please consider:</u></span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">(<a href="http://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/01/in-response-to-jan.html">4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/01/in-response-to-jan.html</a>)</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">and</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">(<a href="http://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-second-system-to-end.html">4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-second-system-to-end.html</a>)</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">and</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">(<a href="http://4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/01/imagine-yourself-back-in-first-century.html">4womaninthewilderness.blogspot.com/2013/01/imagine-yourself-back-in-first-century.html</a>)</span><br />
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<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">My point, is that the present religious system based upon God's <i>New</i> Covenant with His chosen nation; whose expanded <i>surrounding system</i> and age/era, has been arranged and constructed by men,</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">will also come to a conclusion when it's central purpose is fulfilled.</span><br />
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<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">This is compared to a harvest at the end of the age (conclusion of system/arrangement/era) that will segregate the faithful from those who are rejected as unfit for inheriting God's Kingdom.</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">(Matt.25:31,32,33,34,41; Rev.20:10,12,15; Matt.13:36,37,38,39,40)</span><br />
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<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">The question is, </span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">how should all the <u>signs</u> ("birth pangs") Jesus gave to indicate the nearness of the end,</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">be interpreted now? How will their meaning be fulfilled, regarding the present age/arrangement/era/system, today?</span><br />
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<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">We know those signs had a literal fulfillment in first Century Jerusalem.</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">We know that the "Jerusalem" of the <i>New</i> Covenant is symbolic and spiritual (Gal.4:26; Rev.21:2).</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">If you read the article mentioned above (<a href="http://pearl-sign.blogspot.com/">pearl-sign.blogspot.com</a>)</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">you have examined the scriptural evidence that the signs, illustrations, and parables Jesus gave us in Matt.24 concerning the end we face, are now to be interpreted in a spiritual sense.</span><br />
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<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif"><u>What then, is the spiritual, symbolic meaning, of Matt.24:19?</u></span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">How will symbolic women be "pregnant", have "labor pains", and "nurse" their children</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">in a <i>spiritual</i> sense? How will such a spiritual situation cause woe, as the "end of all things" arrives? (Matt.13:34,35,13,16; 1Pet.4:7; Matt.24:21,22,19)</span><br />
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<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">As with all true interpretation, we must find our answer in the scriptures.</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">Who are the "pregnant women", and who are symbolized by the babes they carry?</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">Please consider:</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">(Gal.4:24,26; Rev.12:1,2,5; Rev.2:26,27; Eph.2:6; 1:3; 3John1:4; Gal.4:19; Eph.4:13; John3:3,4,5,6,7; 1:13)</span><br />
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<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">Not all who are invited and called, become chosen and sealed (Matt.22:14; 1Cor.9:24,25,26,27; Rom.8:28; Eph.4:30; Rev.7:4; 17:14; Phil.3:14; Gal.5:7,8; 1:6)</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">Those who <i>do</i> become sealed to inherit the promises of God made to Abraham (Gen.17:1,2; 28:12,13,14,17; Gal.3:29),</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">become members of the Bride/Covenant/Jerusalem above (Isa.62:6; Rev.3:12; Jer.1:18; Isa.42:6,7; 49:6,8; 60:1,2,3; Acts13:47, Zech.12:3; Dan.2:34,35).</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">Having gained their citizenship in heaven (Eph.2:6; Phil.3:20; 1Cor.15:48; Col.3:1; Heb.12:22,23) they have become the New Creation (2Cor.5:16,17; Gal.6:15; James1:18; 1Pet.1:3,23; Rom.8:29,30,31), possessing an unseen eternal spirit within their body of flesh (John3:15,16,36; 5:24; 6:47,50; 11:26; 8:51; 10:28; 1John3:14; 5:11,12,13). </span><br />
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<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">These sealed ones, nurture and care for those <i>not</i> yet sealed (John21:17), as Paul labored to care for others spiritually, until they were brought to their spiritual birth (1Tim.1:2; Titus 1:4; Philemon 1:10). </span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">The sealed ones are used to impart life, as a literal mother would carry an unborn child.</span><br />
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<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">After these are brought to "birth" (Gal.4:19; Rev.12:5; 2:26,27);</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">they must continue under the care of the mature, until their perceptive powers become firm (2Tim.3:14; 1:13; 2Thess.3:7; Rom.15:1; 1Cor.3:1; 14:20; 9:22; 4:16; 11:1,2; Col.1:28,29; 2Pet.3:18; 1:8,11; Phil.1:9; Heb.5:14; 6:1; Philemon 1:6; 1Thess.1:5,6; 2:8; 3:12; 4:1; Eph.1:17,18; 1Pet.5:10)</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">During the time that their "children" in the Lord are still "babes",</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">those mature can be illustrated as those "nursing a babe" (1Thess.2:7; 1Pet.2:2; Matt.24:19) and their babes as "needing breast milk" (Heb.5:13; 1Cor.3:2).</span><br />
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<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">Understanding these symbols,</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">we then perceive that during the Great Tribulation of Matthew chapter 24;</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">the faithful Chosen Ones would have great difficulty and "woe" in caring for those in their charge. </span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">(Rev.12:1,2; Luke23:29; John16:20,21,22; Isa.21:3; 26:17)</span><br />
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<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">Because of the hostile spiritual climate surrounding them...</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">teaching the immature and weak would be with great difficulty.</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">Why?</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">Jesus warns of a competing presence of false prophets, successful false teachers,</span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">convincing and misleading false doctrines inspired by demons, with every Satanic sign and portent designed to mislead, if possible, even those of the heavenly calling (Matt.24:4,5,24,25; 1Tim.4:1; Rev.16:13; 13:7,11,14; 2Thess.2:9,10; 2Tim.3:13; Rev.2:20,24,25).</span><br />
<span face="'Arial Unicode MS', Helvetica, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', sans-serif">All this would occur while the true and faithful are being depicted and <i>mis</i>represented, as shameful, false, and evil </span><br />
<span face="Arial Unicode MS, Helvetica, Lucida Sans Unicode, sans-serif">(John16:2; Isa.66:5; Luke21:16,17; Matt.10:22; 5:11,12; 24:9; Heb.13:13).</span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The cross reference in Luke 21:23,24 helps to make this clearer...</span><br />
<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br />(23) "Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days; for there will be great distress upon the land and wrath to this people; (24) and <u>they will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations</u> ("Jerusalem's" children) (Rev.13:10); and <u>Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the Gentiles</u> (mother "Jerusalem")(Rev.11:2) until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled."</span><br />
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<span face="Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">It is while under this pall of spiritual famine, disrepute, persecution, and unjust slander that this agonized "mother" must try to save and nurture her children, while these are enslaved and captive to Satanic deception.</span><br />
<span face="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">(Rev.13:6,7,10; 11:2; Dan.7:25; 12:7,4,10,3; Rev.12:2)</span><br />
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<span face="'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Matt.24:21-- Dan.9:12</span><br />
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