NOVEMBER 11 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#30-09 “Do you not see all these things?” (Matthew 24:02)

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NOVEMBER  11  THE JESUS QUESTIONS   JQ#30-09 “Do you not see all these things?”  (Matthew 24:02) 

365 Prayers to JESUS    

Jesus, You are my God, Lord, and Savior. Teach my soul to “be still and know that You ARE God”! Lord, I plead daily for Your Mercy for daily I fall short in my walk and in my service to You but continually I turn and I know You are the Great and Faithful I AM. Your Promises are true and Your Grace is everlasting. YOU ARE THE ONLY SHELTER for all the storms of life and only through belief and faith in Your Resurrection is there any Hope for mankind. I praise You and the Father and the Holy Spirit — Blessed Trinity!     AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

NOVEMBER  11  THE JESUS QUESTIONS   JQ#30-09 “Do you not see all these things?”  (Matthew 24:02)   Jesus has asked another of His Masterful Questions that not only teach God’s Truth for the “circumstance” to which it was originally spoken but is “universal” in its application for His Lessons are God’s Truth and as such are ONE and the same and both therefore ARE EVERLASTING! Jesus has been a Living Testimony to the Grace, Mercy, and Power of God and the Holy Trinity and now His disciples are about to see the culmination of the Prophecy concerning the Messiah as Jesus will take His Place on the Cross at Calvary and complete God’s Plan of Salvation that was determined even before the dawn of Creation! God has spoken through His Prophets and has led His Chosen People to the Promised Land by other Prophets like Moses and Joshua and now Jesus is going to both “Fulfill past Prophecy” and in this section introduced by this Divinely Inspired Question, “Do you not see all these things?” (Matthew 24:2) Jesus as the Son of God is giving a Divine Prophecy of the Future of God’s Chosen People which after His Death, Burial, and Resurrection will be extended to “whosoever believes in Him, shall not perish but will have life everlasting” (John 3:16) Jesus has just given His disciples a list of signs that “are the beginning of sorrows” (Matthew 24:8) and has warned them that the greatest danger in the future will be to avoid being “deceived” — for many will come and deny that Jesus IS the Messiah and will put for a “false gospel” which will lead men away from God and back to the “doctrines of men” which is the pathway to destruction of the body and the soul which will be doomed to eternal torment in hell. The prophet Daniel in the 6th Century B.C. had prophesied the rise and fall of four great kingdoms of the earth from a dream that proved it is God that is control of the world and it is God that controls the rise and fall of kingdoms. Scofield wrote of Daniel, “Daniel’s prophecy of the seventy “weeks” (‘sevens’) (vv. 24-27 [Daniel 9]) provides the chronological frame for Messianic prediction from Daniel to the establishment of the kingdom on earth and also a key to its interpretation…The entire prophecy is concerned primarily with Daniel’s “people” (Israel) and their “holy city” (Jerusalem) … Two princes are mentioned; the first is named the “Messiah the Prince” (Daniel 9:25); the second is described as “the prince who is to come” (Daniel 9:26), a reference to the little horn of ch. 7:8, whose “people” destroy the rebuilt Jerusalem after the cutting off of the Messianic Prince. (Daniel 9:26)” (Taken from the Centennial edition of the Scofield Study Bible, The Holy Bible, New King James Version Copyright* 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. released by the Oxford University Press, New York, 2009) So Daniel had given the Messianic prophecy of the First and Second Coming of the Messiah and Jesus is now sitting in front of His disciples 600 years after Daniel wrote his prophecy and is both fulfilling the “First Coming of the Messiah” and is giving signs of His Second Coming. Jesus continues to describe how Daniels prophecy will play out as Jesus tells His disciples: “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.” (Matthew 24:16-17) By Jesus quoting Daniel to His disciples He was making it clear that He was fulfilling the prophecy of the "First Coming” and now the disciples can more clearly understand or “see all these things” including the destruction of the great temple of Solomon and the end of the age. One cannot read Holy Scripture without “seeing all these things” that are first revealed to the most powerful but Godless man on the earth in Daniel’s time through a prophet of God and then read about the fulfillment of prophecy in God’s Perfect Timing as nations rise and fall on God’s Schedule! We live at one of those “special times” in history that our generation is witnessing the fulfillment of those prophecies, some of which were written over 3000 years ago and we should be able to appreciate that the Holy Scriptures document both the writing and the fulfilling of God's Plan as we watch ancient prophecies being fulfilled in our daily world headlines! Surely the question is as appropriate today as it was when Jesus first spoke it, “Do you not see all these things?” (Matthew 24:2)