OCTOBER 07 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#30 “Do you not see all these things?” (Matthew 24:02)

 

OCTOBER 07  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#30 

“Do you not see all these things?”  (Matthew 24:02)

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer   

JESUS, Lord of lords, Savior, Redeemer, the Good Shepherd, King of kings,

 praise be to the One that came in the Name of the LORD, and was

 the Sacrificial Lamb of God. The Only Begotten SON of the Father 

that became flesh and dwelt among us not as a conquering king but 

as an innocent Babe who grew up as we grow up, who was tempted by 

the world as we are tempted yet Jesus did not yield to temptation but was

 obedient to the Father even unto death on the cross to complete the 

Plan of Salvation. Lord Jesus we know You LIVE today for You are 

still changing lives and resurrecting those dead in their sin to a 

New Life in Christ — 

we praise Your Holy Names and bow before You with a Repentant Heart

 seeking both Your Mercy and Your Grace. Lord, I anxiously await 

the appointed day when I stand face-to-face with the One

 that gave His Life for mine.

 Even so, Come LORD Jesus!!!     

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus starts His Olivet Discourse on the Mount of Olives after He 

and His disciples had left Jerusalem just after Jesus had pronounced 

the “Seven Woes” against the scribes and Pharisees because their 

“hypocrisy” had become a deadly cancer which had infected the

 whole nation of Israel! Jesus entered the City on Palm Sunday and

 demonstrated His Messiahship after His Triumphal Entry when He 

went straight to the temple and restored it to a house of prayer as 

it was intended by God where Jesus began immediately healing the

 lame and the blind that came to Him in the temple. 

But now several days later, 

“Jesus went out and departed from the temple” (Matthew 24:1) 

and when the disciples stopped and looked back at the temple buildings

 that were among the greatest structures in the world, Jesus asked them,

 “Do you not see all these things?” (Matthew 24:2)

 then Jesus told them that the grand temple and all its buildings 

would be utterly destroyed and 

“not one stone shall be left here upon another…” 

which was a complete shock to His disciples for the nation’s identity

 was this grand temple in Jerusalem! As they left the city I am sure the 

disciples were silent and were contemplating their lives without a temple

 in the City of David! Once they arrived at the Mount of Olives they 

approached Jesus and began to question Him about His comment

 for they knew that Jesus “spoke” and then things happened just like

 He said they would — and there were NO EXCEPTIONS! 

(Matthew 24:1-2) 

His disciples asked Jesus,

 “Tell us, when will these things be?…”

 which started Jesus on His Olivet Discourse which started with a warning,

 “Take heed that no one deceives you. 

For many will come in My name,

 saying. ‘I am the Christ’, and will deceive many.”

 (Matthew 24:3a-5)

 Jesus then started answering the other questions

 asked privately by His disciples,

 “…And what will be the sign of Your coming, 

and of the end of the age?” 

(Matthew 24:3b) 

Just by looking at the disciples questions we can assume that Jesus 

has been talking to them about two very specific events

 that will happen in the “future”:

 

(Future Event 1) 

Jesus is going to “Come again” for the disciples are sitting talking to

 Jesus and asking “What will be the sign of Your coming…” and 

(Future Event 2) 

Jesus has talked about the “end of the age” for the disciples 

used that very phase when asking for “signs” to know also

 when the “end of the age” was coming? 

Just the fact that the disciples are asking these two questions about

 the “future” is a Lesson we often miss,

 the Truth of God is that He has a Plan 

and that God always tells us what is required of us —

 then God “provides” whatever tools and information 

that are necessary for us to complete the task 

or instructions He has given us! 

The disciples could not have come to the knowledge that Jesus

 is “coming again” or that the “age is coming to an end” 

without getting that information from God! 

This is information that God

 revealed through the Holy Spirit 

to the disciples like when Jesus asked Peter,

 “Who do you say I am?” 

and the Holy Spirit revealed to Peter that Jesus was the Son of God:

 “Simon Peter answered and said, 

‘You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.’”

 and Jesus replied,

 “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, 

for flesh and blood has not

 revealed this to you,

 but My Father who is in heaven.” 

(Matthew 16:15-17) 

So now that Jesus has told them the temple would be destroyed,

 the disciples were certain that Israel’s golden age was drawing to an end.

 Jesus had already mentioned several times that in Jerusalem 

that He (the Messiah) would be 

“betrayed into the hands of men and killed” 

(Matthew 17:22)

 

so 

if His death as the Messiah was imminent 

then His “coming again” as the Christ 

would certainly be a miracle 

performed by God the Father Himself 

for His Son Jesus Christ!!! 

This is something that each of us should keep foremost in our daily lives

 and our daily thoughts:

 

(Daily Thought 1) 

Jesus IS Christ, the SON of the LIVING GOD 

 

(Daily Thought 2) 

Jesus came once and died for our sins 

and Jesus IS “Coming Again” 

(Daily Thought 3) 

we should all “Take heed that no one deceives [us]” 

Remember, “The LORD of hosts has sworn, saying,

 

‘Surely, as I have thought, so it shall come to pass, 

and as I have purposed, so it shall stand.’” 

(Isaiah 14:24) 

and 

“So shall My WORD be that goes forth from My mouth; 

it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish 

what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” 

(Isaiah 55:11) 

Remember the words of Jesus at the beginning of His Lessons,

 “Seek first the kingdom of God 

and His righteousness 

and all these things will be added to you.”

 (Matthew 6:33)

OCTOBER 06 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#30 “Do you not see all these things?” (Matthew 24:02)

 

OCTOBER 06  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#30 

“Do you not see all these things?”  (Matthew 24:02)

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer    

JESUS, Lord and Savior, my Redeemer, I bow before You today

 again seeking Your Mercy and Grace for my soul is calling out

 Praise to Your Holy Name! You Lord, You alone are the Way,

 You alone died on Calvary’s cruel cross for my iniquities, 

You alone have been given the Authority by the Father to Forgive sin! 

You are the Creator of all things and I pray that the Father God

 restore unto You Your Glory as it was before the creation existed. 

Lord, I place my soul and my physical being in subjection to Your Will

 and Your Way. Grant it Lord that the remainder of my eternity

 be of good and faithful service to You alone!   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus and His disciples are leaving Jerusalem much like they had done

 after Jesus had first entered the city on Palm Sunday and Jesus had

 gone to the temple and “drove out all those who bought and sold 

in the temple and overturned the tables of the money changers 

and the seats of those who sold doves.” 

(Matthew 21:12) 

Jesus returned the temple to a “house of prayer” and 

“the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, 

and [Jesus] healed them.” 

(Matthew 21:14) . 

Here the confrontations with the “chief priests and scribes” surfaced again

 and Jesus had to address the fact that the religious rulers over Israel

 were the “source” of the cancer of “hypocrisy” that had crippled and

 blinded the entire nation Israel which Jesus had come on a mission to heal!

 After the confrontation with the chief priests and scribes on Palm Sunday,

 Jesus and His disciples left the city through the Eastern Gate going

 to the Mount of Olives and Bethany. Jesus has completed addressing

 the problem and pronounced judgement on those that had chosen

 to follow the “defiled doctrines and traditions of men” instead of following

 God and His Commands and He and His disciples are again going 

to leave the city. It is of significance that His disciples stopped and

 admired the temple and commented on the “buildings of the temple” 

(Matthew 24:1) 

before leaving the city this time and Jesus asked

 

JQ#30 “Do you not see all these things?”

 Matthew 24:2) 

Then Jesus immediately started a series of prophetic statements 

beginning with the total destruction of the temple that His disciples 

were admiring on their way out of Jerusalem. 

Their departure signifies

 the completion of the “Work” 

Jesus had come to Jerusalem to accomplish — 

Jesus had started this Jerusalem mission days earlier 

“when they drew near Jerusalem, and came to Bethphage, 

at the Mount of Olives…” and Jesus had sent two of His disciples

 “into the village” to retrieve “a donkey tied, and a colt with her…” 

which Jesus then used to make His Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem. 

 (Matthew 21:1-12)

 Now the circle is completed as Jesus has cleansed the temple 

both “physically” and “spiritually”  and now they are departing Jerusalem

 after Jesus the Son has completed the task given Him by God the Father.

 Jesus again departs out the Eastern Gate and goes a second time

 to the Mount of Olives where Jesus gives His disciples a series

 of prophetic statements including the prophet Daniel’s seventieth week

 of years of the end times, including the Abomination of Desolation

 and the Great Tribulation and ends with the Return of Jesus the KING

 to earth at the end of the Great Tribulation. This series of Prophecies 

by Jesus given on the Mount of Olives is commonly referred to as the

 Olivet Discourse 

and started with a couple of questions from the disciples who 

were probably still contemplating what Jesus had just told them 

about the total destruction of the “temple” and its grand “buildings” 

as they were leaving the city! 

“Now as [Jesus] sat on the Mount of Olives, 

the disciples came to Him privately, saying, 

‘Tell us, when will these things be? 

And what will be the sign of Your coming, 

and of the end of the age?’” 

(Matthew 24:3) 

So Jesus had peaked His disciples interest when He asked,

 “Do you not see all these things?”

 (Matthew 24:2) 

and had announced the total destruction of the temple in Jerusalem 

which for the Jews would be symbolic to the end of their national identity

 because the nation of Israel was built around God’s Temple in Jerusalem

 in the City of David. This section of Jesus’ Teaching is very, very important 

so let us start by “understanding” that Jesus has asked the question

 “Do you not see…” to focus our attention on what He is about to Teach

 us regarding 

“…all these things <<the past, the present, and the future>>”!!!

 

So this is a good time 

to get in a quite place with the Holy Spirit 

and  carefully read Matthew 24:1-31 

and 

LISTEN TO HIM!!!