Matthew Chapter 24 VERSE 22 “And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.” What is the thought of “for the elect’s sake”? “By means of” or “through” the elect, these days will be shortened because the Church glorified and with Jesus at this time, will stop the trouble. The word “sake” is not in the original Greek—it should be italicized in the King James as a spurious…
Without Chronology, the Interpretation Goes Astray Many of those who attempt to interpret Revelation don’t see that the time periods of 1260 days, 42 months, and 3 ½ years are NOT to be interpreted as LITERAL time periods. For that reason, they think that many of the events fall into a future 3 ½ year period, a future time frame. Time in Revelation is interpreted symbolically, and it should, as a general rule, be computed at a day for a…
Many Christians are unaware of just how important the study of Chronology is in relationship to prophecy, especially in the study of the book of Revelation, and as such have no idea of where precisely they are on the stream of time or of impending events. Bible Chronology not only confirms that we are living in “the time of the end”, when knowledge would increase and the wise would understand, but that likewise we have reached the “end of the…
THE ONENESS VIEW The Oneness view was popular in the Third century A.D. and helped lead to the Trinity. It became popular again at the beginning of this century with the Pentecostal movement. Like the Trinity, this view holds that God is one person rather than three. They explain Jesus and the Spirit as manifestations of God’s separate roles: the role of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. God reveals Himself to man as one or more of the three (but…
(Excerpts taken from the article “The TRINITY… Mystery or Confusion?” Beauties in the Truth, Volume 9, Number 3, August 1998) There are four primary theologies held by the Christianity today in respects to God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. They are the Oneness theology, the Trinitarian theology, the Arian theology and the Unitarian theology. 1) The Oneness theology is held by some Pentecostal groups such as the United Pentecostal Church, The Pentecostal Assemblies of the Word, and…
Matthew Chapter 24 VERSE 20 “And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath.” The “Sabbath day” is the 1,000-year period of the Seventh Day, beginning in A.D. 1874. It is the “Seventh Day” since the fall of Adam. The usual literal Sabbath is 24 hours long, however a Sabbath can also be seven days long or 1,000 years long (as it is here) or even 7,000 years long as in the case of God’s…
Matthew Chapter 24 VERSE 20-22 “And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath. For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened.” This gathering of the Church occurs in what is called a “harvest” time, at…
Matthew Chapter 24 VERSE 17 and 18 “Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. And let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes.” “These statements indicate the propriety of haste in flight out of “Babylon,” as soon as each SEES the abomination of desolation. The Lord’s word is, that all temporizing or parleying or human reasoning will be dangerous: no time must be lost…
Matthew Chapter 24 VERSE 15 and 16 “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.” “The Greek word rendered “mountains” may with equal or greater propriety be rendered in the singular–mountain: and it is so rendered in a majority of instances in the Common Version. Indeed, to flee out of Judea (literal) to…
Matthew Chapter 24 The Trouble in the End of the Gospel Age Matthew’s and Mark’s accounts are almost identical. Matthew says: “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place” (whoever reads, let him understand), “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house. And let him who is in the field…