OCTOBER 12 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#30
“Do you not see all these things?” (Matthew 24:02)
LIVING FOR JESUS -Daily Prayer
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
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 His Questions are “universal” in their application —
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.
Soon 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 “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 with these “signs”
Jesus has warned all “believers” that the greatest issue
in the future will be to avoid being “deceived” —
for many will come and deny that Jesus IS the Messiah and these
false prophets will put forth 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 —
souls that are “deceived” will deny Christ
and reject God and 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 God is in control of the world and it is God that controls
the rise and fall of nations and 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 Daniel’s
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 and 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 this JESUS Question is as appropriate today
as it was when Jesus first spoke it,
“Do you not see all these things?”
(Matthew 24:2)
