I appreciate this video! I hope you continue to do more videos like this. This is the first video I've seen from y'all but it's helped me get a deeper understanding of what I would say is a particularly difficult chapter! I know the views are super high on this video but I just wanted to let you know your making a difference! Even if it's just in the lives of a few people! Your helping people like me develop and grow my understanding of Christ and that cannot be understated! Thank you so much!
MATTHEW 23 AND 24 SIMPLIFIED In MT 23 Jesus and his disciples are talking to the scribes and Pharisees in the temple itself as to the things that were going to happen to them. He says that THEIR temple was going to be destroyed! MT 23:38. And he told them that it ALL was going to happen to THEM in their generation. MT 23:36. And it included all of Jerusalem itself. MT 23:37 It was THAT generation, those guys right there in front of him that he was talking to, that were going to experience the events he described!!! THOSE GUYS! They understood what he said. They knew what it meant. Then, Jesus and the disciples came out and walked a ways, and then Jesus said to his disciples that THAT same temple was going to be destroyed down to the ground it was standing on. MT 24:2 They wanted to know when. He told them the same thing he told those Pharisees and scribes. But he added many more details for his disciples. He goes down through a long list of things that would occur, finally coming to completion and fulfillment with the coming of the Lord in MT 24:34 “Truly, I say to you, this generation WILL NOT PASS AWAY till all these things take place.” THAT generation did pass away, after THAT temple had already been destroyed. Recorded history proves beyond any debate that THAT VERY TEMPLE was destroyed by the Romans in 70AD, in the timing and manner that Jesus foretold! What could be more clearer? Jesus could not, and would not, make a mistake that huge! He was God in flesh! To think that Jesus was referring to a generation more than two millennia in the future, is completely nothing his disciples would want to know, or even be able to understand! And it does gross violence to the word of God! If Jesus was dead-on on the timing of that temple being destroyed in Jerusalem (in that generation); why couldn't He also be right on the timing of His coming? Think of it like this; Jesus did not know the precise day and hour that temple was going to be destroyed right down to the ground it was standing on. But He did know the generation. THAT one! And history records that 40 years later the temple was destroyed. So, when He foretold His coming as also being in THAT generation, why then suddenly does His not knowing the precise day and hour disqualify His prophecy? If “this generation” in MT 23, means their generation, when Jesus was foretelling the destruction of their temple to those Pharisees and Scribes; then why does “this generation” in MT 24, not mean their generation when Jesus was speaking to His disciples about the destruction of their temple, (same one), and His coming?
I appreciate this video! I hope you continue to do more videos like this. This is the first video I've seen from y'all but it's helped me get a deeper understanding of what I would say is a particularly difficult chapter! I know the views are super high on this video but I just wanted to let you know your making a difference! Even if it's just in the lives of a few people! Your helping people like me develop and grow my understanding of Christ and that cannot be understated! Thank you so much!
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MATTHEW 23 AND 24 SIMPLIFIED
In MT 23 Jesus and his disciples are talking to the scribes and Pharisees in the temple itself as to the things that were going to happen to them. He says that THEIR temple was going to be destroyed! MT 23:38. And he told them that it ALL was going to happen to THEM in their generation. MT 23:36. And it included all of Jerusalem itself. MT 23:37 It was THAT generation, those guys right there in front of him that he was talking to, that were going to experience the events he described!!! THOSE GUYS! They understood what he said. They knew what it meant.
Then, Jesus and the disciples came out and walked a ways, and then Jesus said to his disciples that THAT same temple was going to be destroyed down to the ground it was standing on. MT 24:2 They wanted to know when. He told them the same thing he told those Pharisees and scribes. But he added many more details for his disciples. He goes down through a long list of things that would occur, finally coming to completion and fulfillment with the coming of the Lord in MT 24:34 “Truly, I say to you, this generation WILL NOT PASS AWAY till all these things take place.” THAT generation did pass away, after THAT temple had already been destroyed. Recorded history proves beyond any debate that THAT VERY TEMPLE was destroyed by the Romans in 70AD, in the timing and manner that Jesus foretold! What could be more clearer? Jesus could not, and would not, make a mistake that huge! He was God in flesh!
To think that Jesus was referring to a generation more than two millennia in the future, is completely nothing his disciples would want to know, or even be able to understand! And it does gross violence to the word of God!
If Jesus was dead-on on the timing of that temple being destroyed in Jerusalem (in that generation); why couldn't He also be right on the timing of His coming? Think of it like this; Jesus did not know the precise day and hour that temple was going to be destroyed right down to the ground it was standing on. But He did know the generation. THAT one! And history records that 40 years later the temple was destroyed. So, when He foretold His coming as also being in THAT generation, why then suddenly does His not knowing the precise day and hour disqualify His prophecy?
If “this generation” in MT 23, means their generation, when Jesus was foretelling the destruction of their temple to those Pharisees and Scribes; then why does “this generation” in MT 24, not mean their generation when Jesus was speaking to His disciples about the destruction of their temple, (same one), and His coming?