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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, The little procession continued ascending the Mount of Olives, until Jesus reached a resting-place from which he could see the temple. Mat_24:3. The disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? There are...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? The little procession continued ascending the mount of Olives until Jesus reached a resting-place from which he could see the temple (Mar_13:3). There he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. Jesus was always practical. The most important thing for his disciples was not that they might know when “these things” would be, but that they might be preserved from the peculiar evils of the time.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. Jesus was always practical. The most important thing for...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And they did. A large number of impostors came forward before the destruction of Jerusalem, giving out that they were Messiahs.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: And they did. The armies of Rome were soon after this on their way to the doomed city.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
See that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquake, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. One would think that there was sorrow enough in famines, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famine, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places, All these are the beginning of sorrows. One would think that there was sorrow enough in “famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places”, but our Lord said that “all these” were only “the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. Our Lord not only foretold the general trial that would come upon the Jews, and upon the world; but also the special persecution which would be the portion of his chosen followers: “Then shall they deliver you up to be...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. This would be a bitter trial for the followers of Christ, yet this they have always had to endure. Persecution would reveal the traitors within the Church as well as the enemies without. In the midst of the chosen ones there would be found successors of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. What could not be accomplished by persecutors outside the Church, and traitors inside, would be attempted by teachers of heresy: “Many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.” They have risen in all ages; in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall he saved. Again our Saviour reminded his disciples of the personal responsibility of each one of them in such a time of trial and testing as they were about to pass through. He would have them remember that it is not the man who starts in the race, but the one who runs to the goal, who wins the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. The world is to the Church like a scaffold to a building. When the Church is built, the scaffold will be taken down; the world must remain until the last elect one is saved: “Then shall the end come.” Before Jerusalem was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: As soon as Christ’s disciples saw “the abomination of desolation”, that is, the Roman ensigns, with their idolatrous emblems, stand in...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet stand in the holy place, (whose readeth, let him understand;) Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take anything out of his house: Neither let him which is in the field return back to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. They were to flee in all haste the moment they saw the Roman standards,
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: for then shall be great tribulation, such at was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. You and I would have believed that all this came true without any...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. It must have been a peculiarly trying time for the women who had...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. These were the words of the King as well as of the Prophet, and as such, they were both authentic and authoritative. Jesus spoke of what “should be”, not only as the Seer who was able to gaze into the future, but as the...