OCTOBER 13 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#30 “Do you not see all these things?” (Matthew 24:02)

 

OCTOBER 13  THE JESUS QUESTIONS  

JQ#30 

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

LIVING FOR JESUS - Daily Prayer   

JESUS, thank You for answering our prayers and I thank the 

Holy Spirit for putting my concerns before God for I know that I had

 been going through a period in my prayer life that I was fully aware 

of the danger of praying for an answer that would reflect my selfish

 desires so I prayed that the Holy Spirit would pray the Father for me

 so that the answer would be in His Perfect Time 

and His Perfect Will for my life. 

I know that I am a sinner and as such my prayers are from a “worldly”

 perspective and I am impatient and want things “my way” and 

I want them “now” — but God wants only “good things” for me 

and His Ways are not what I could possibly imagine 

and truly His Ways are BEST! 

Hopefully, I am now understanding a little better about my 

prayer life as this time I turned my need over to the Holy Spirit 

and I had one desire — not my will but Thine be done — 

and then in His Perfect Timing He has answered my prayer 

in a Way that far exceeds any answer that I could have imagined!!!

 Thank You Jesus!!!   

AMEN

THE JESUS QUESTIONS

Jesus gave His disciples a list of signs when they had asked Him

 “what will be the sign of Your coming, 

and of the end of the age?” 

(Matthew 24:3) 

and then Jesus introduced a term that the modern church debates,

 but both sides agree that the “Tribulation” will occur because 

Jesus Himself used the term when He told His disciples:

 

“Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you,

 and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake.” 

(Matthew 24:9) 

Jesus completed His “List of Signs” and announced

 “…then the end will come.” 

 (Matthew 24:14) 

It was at this point that Jesus referred to the prophet Daniel and added

 a very specific detail to identifying the “Tribulation” when Jesus stated:

 

“Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ 

spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place…” 

(Matthew 24 :15)

 

Jesus was describing what the ‘abomination of desolation,’  

looks like from Daniel’s question that Daniel had asked during his vision of the

 “little horn” that had overtaken the “Glorious Land” and his power

 had grown “up to the host of heaven; and it cast down 

some of the host and some of the stars to the ground and trampled 

them. [The little horn] even exalted himself as high as the Prince of 

the host; and by him the daily sacrifices were taken away, and 

the place of His sanctuary was cast down 

{?the destruction of the Millennial Temple?}. 

Because of transgression, an army was given over to the horn

 to oppose the daily sacrifices; and he cast truth down to the ground…

 [And Daniel asked in his vision] ‘How long will the vision be, 

concerning the daily sacrifices and the transgression of desolation,

 the giving of both the sanctuary and the host 

to be trampled underfoot?” 

(Daniel 8:9-13)  

Therefore Jesus is describing a future event of the “end time” when

 a non-believer will stand in the place of God and defile God’s Holy Sanctuary

 and the desolation of the Holy Place will be from “abominations”, 

hence the term “abomination of desolation” which will be recognized 

when the world sees someone claiming to be the “Prince of the host” 

and he will be standing in God’s Holy Place in the land of Judea offering

“abominations” instead of “acceptable” daily sacrifices to the 

God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob! 

Jesus makes it clear that the “abomination of desolation” is not to be

 taken lightly  for after warning those that are in Judea to flee, Jesus then

 connects the “abomination of desolation” to the “Great Tribulation”

 as Jesus states:

 “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.” 

(Matthew 24:21) 

Jesus has been very clear and has given great detail on 

“all these things” that will happen leading up to and in the “end time”

 and so if we refuse to “see all these things” then it will not be God’s fault

 because He has given us every chance to remove the scales 

from our spiritual eyes in order that we can answer “Yes” when we

 finally hear with our hearts when Jesus asks each one,

 “Do you not see all these things”

(Matthew 24:2)

 which “the Son of God” has so plainly shown us in

 God’s Holy Scripture!!!???!!!

OCTOBER 12 THE JESUS QUESTIONS JQ#30 “Do you not see all these things?” (Matthew 24:02)

 

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)