THE
ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION INITIATES THE GREAT TRIBULATION MATTHEW
24:15-28… #3
03-28-21
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TRIBULATION
Commentary:
Within the previously examined verses of Matt 24:1-14, Jesus identifies
(cause)
and describes (effect) the three major cause-effect sequential
componets
of the biblical “tribulation” period that symbolically parallels
the
first three seals of Rev 6:1-6 which are opened by Jesus Christ (John
1:14),
the Lamb of God (“come and see”) for all people who care to look and
consider.
These three seals, are rendered, as are all the six seals contained in
Rev 6,
in a logical cause-effect sequence as (1) strong delusion,
(2) war,
(3) famine and pestilence, each seal being a component of the whole
tribulation concept, and each seal birthing, accelerating, and
intensifying
the next component; the descriptions of the first three seals
altogether
concluding with the summation verse of Matt 24:14 [1].
Notably, may we mention that all people have been experiencing biblical
“tribulation”
(described in the first three seals) since the time of the first advent
of
Jesus Christ as evidenced by the statement of His companion and beloved
Gospel
writer John two thousand years ago [2].
1.
(Matt
24:14) And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached [via
computers,
et.al.] in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and
then
shall the end come.
2.
(Rev
1:9) I John, who also am your brother, and companion in
tribulation [a], and in the kingdom and patience
of
Jesus Christ, was in [confinement (banished to)] the
isle that is
called Patmos, for [because of preaching] the word of
God, and
for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
a.
tribulation
= Gk: pressure: affliction, anguish, burdened,
persecution, trouble /// to crowd: afflict, narrow, throng, suffer
tribulation,
trouble. [i.e., (horizontal) peer group pressure and/or (vertical)
governmental
pressure]
THEN
GREAT TRIBULATION
(Matt
24:15) [THE CAUSE] When ye therefore shall see
[Gk:
perceive, understand] [identify] the
abomination
[1] of desolation [2], spoken of by Daniel
the
prophet, stand [rather than kneel, i.e., a person
(ruler, leader)
of great pride] in the holy place [in the place
of our “High
Priest… Jesus Christ” (Heb 3:1), i.e., the most powerful, dominating
authority
in the world], (whoso readeth, let him understand:) [3]
1.
abomination
= Gk: detestation, (specif. idolatry) /// (to stink); be
disgusting,
detestable: abhorrent.
a.
Commentary:
“specif. idolatry” = to place oneself first before God,
before
godliness, i.e., manifest pride, e.g., Lucifer’s declaration that “I
will be
like the most High” Isa 14:14.
2.
desolation
= Gk: laid waste: (bring to, make) desolate (-ion), come to
nought.
a.
desolation
= Dict: 1. a making desolate; laying waste. 2. a desolate
condition;
ruin, waste. 3. lonely grief; misery. 4. loneliness.
5. a
desolate place.
b.
desolate
= Dict: 1. to make desolate; rid of inhabitants. 2. to make
unihabitable; lay waste; devastate. 3. to forsake; abandon. 4. to
make
forlon, wretched, etc.
3.
Commentary:
the presence of the abomination of desolation not only indicates
the Great Tribulation (Great Pride) but also initiates
the Great
Tribulation.
(Matt
24:16-20) [THE WARNING] Then let them which
be in
Judaea flee into the mountains: Let him which is on the
housetop not
come down to take any thing out of his house: Neither let
him which
is in the field return back to take his clothes. And woe
unto them
that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! But
pray ye
[a proof phrase that Christians are still here] that your
flight
be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
THE
FOURTH SEAL IS THE GREAT TRIBULATION
(Matt
24:21-24) [THE EFFECT] For then shall be great
tribulation
[1,2], such as was not since the beginning of the world to this
time,
no, nor ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened,
there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake
[another
proof phrase that Christians are still here] those days shall
be
shortened. Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ,
or
there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and
false
prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if
it were
possible, they shall deceive the very elect. [3]
1.
Commentary:
In Rev 2:20-23, “that woman Jezebel” is associated with “great
tribulation” and “death.” She shall be cast “into great
tribulation… And I will kill her children with death.”
2.
(Rev
6:7,8) And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the
voice of
the fourth beast say, Come and see. And I looked, and behold a
pale
[Gk: greenish] horse [the color and power
of
gangrene]: and his name that sat on him was Death
[strong delusion] [a], and Hell followed with him
[b].
And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to
kill with
sword [war], and with hunger [famine
and
pestilence], and with death [strong delusion,
i.e., to lie
is to die], and with the beasts [Gk: a dangerous
animal:
(venomous, wild) beast] of the earth [“men… that
they
might see that they themselves are beasts” Eccl 3:18].
a.
(2
Thes 2:10-12) And with all deceivableness of
unrighteousness in them
that perish; because they received not the love of the truth [i.e.,
they lied], that they might be saved. And for this cause
God
shall send them strong delusion [more, much more than
what they
have sent us, eye for eye, tooth for tooth], that they
should believe
a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not
the truth,
but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
b.
Commentary:
May we note that believing Christians will not ever
be
subected to Hell, Jesus Christ having already paid (suffered) that
penalty for us on our behalf. Therefore, the narrative that “Hell
followed with him [i.e., with Death]” is no longer
applicable to
forgiven Christians, but clearly indicates that believing Christians
will have
been “raptured” prior to the conclusion of the terrible
dreadful
end-time events of the Great Tribulation.
3.
Commentary:
but this deception is not possible because “ye are the temple
of the
living God” 2 Cor 6:16, and we have God the Father, God the Son, and
God the
Holy Spirit dwelling within us. Jesus said “the kingdom of
God is
within [Gk: inside] you.” Luke 17:21.
Therefore
the latter verses are purposed to expose the vast evil enormity of the
emphatically Great Tribulation as the
inconceivable weight
of escalating pressure crushing down upon the grapes from
all
quarters.
(Matt
24:25-28) Behold, I have told you before [that this
will
happen]. Wherefore if they [your peer groups]
shall say
unto you [through their fake news media propaganda
machines,
STRONG DELUSION], Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth:
behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as
the
lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west [suddenly,
instantaneously, and completely]; so shall also the coming of
the Son of
man be. For wheresoever the carcase [Gk: lifeless body:
corpse]
is, there will the eagles be gathered together
[Gk:
assembled] [above, i.e., raptured].
1.
(Exo
19:4) Ye have seen what I [God] did unto the [unsaved]
Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings [i.e.,
the opened Bible, OT and NT flying with the wind (Holy Spirit)],
and
brought [Heb: carried] you unto myself.
2.
(Isa
40:31) But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their
strength
[Heb: vigor, force, fig. capacity: power]; they shall mount
up [Heb:
ascend] with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be
weary;
and they shall walk, and not faint [ref. Joel 2:1-11].
3.
(1
Thes 4:17) Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught
up
[Gk: seized, plucked, taken (by force)] [i.e., raptured] together
with them [with the dead in Christ] in the clouds, to
meet the
Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
a.
rapture
= Dict:
1. the state of being carried away with
joy, love, etc.; ecstacy. 2. an expression of great joy, pleasure, etc.
3. a
carrying away or being carried away in body or spirit. [Exo
19:4 alludes
to a type of the “the rapture”]
Amen