Matthew 24

Quest. 4. When will the court sit, when will the time of Judgment be? Resp. For the Quando, or the time of the General Judgment, it is a secret kept from the angels (Matthew 24:36). Of that day and hour knows no man, no not the angels of Heaven.

This union of the dove and the serpent is hard to find. Matthew 24:45: Who then is a wise and faithful servant? On which place, says Saint Chrysostom, It is a hard matter to find one faithful and wise.

(3.) The servant is to honor his master, who is his family-father, by being faithful. (Matthew 24:45): Who then is a faithful and wise servant? Faithfulness is the chief thing in a servant.

Answ. It is so, both on the part of the elders or ministers themselves, of whom that duty is strictly required, and who principally therein labor and watch for the good of the flock; and on the part of the Church, for the furtherance of their faith, and obedience, by instruction…

Quest. 42. To whom is the power and administration of this Discipline committed by Jesus Christ? Answ. As to the authority to be exerted in it in the things wherein the whole Church is concerned, to the Elders; as to trial, judgment and consent in, and to its exercise to the who…

And this he did virtually in the sacrifice of himself, or the blood of his Cross, fulfilling and finishing of them all (John 19:30), breaking down the middle wall of partition, abolishing in his flesh the enmity, even the Law of Commandments contained in ordinances, blotting out…

And this he requires of us indispensably if we will be his disciples, or ever hope to obtain the reward (Matthew 10:38, 39). He that takes not his cross, and follows after me, is not worthy of me; and it is he who endures to the end, that shall be saved (Matthew 24:13). And to t…

Now whom God does not utterly forsake, he does not utterly fall away. And this Christ takes for granted in the elect: (Matthew 24:24) So as that, if it were possible, they should deceive the very elect. Third reason: If there be a total or utter falling away from a true faith, t…

Now, that which this Judgment of God wrought in Noah, the same effect should God's Judgments work in us; namely, they should move us with reverence. For, as Christ says, Our days are like Noah's: As it was in the days of Noah; so shall the days be before the coming of Christ (Ma…

The ministration of the letter was glorious. All this glory, says the Apostle, shall shortly disappear, shall vanish out of your sight, according to the prediction of our Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 24). (2) To the gradual removal of it.

(2) That the whole number of the elect may be gathered in. Though days of trouble are sometimes shortened for their sakes, that they may not faint after they are called (Matthew 24:22), yet are they also in general continued, that there may be time for the calling of them all. (…

And herein, in the same individual person, he shall act the properties of both his natures. For as he shall visibly and gloriously appear in his human nature exalted in the supreme place of judicature, and invested with sovereign power and authority over all flesh (Daniel 7:13,…

This I have before given an account of, and how the drawings nigh of this day were upon them when this Epistle was written, and how in a short time it broke forth upon them in all its severity. And these things were so evident, as that in the last place, the Apostle takes it for…

He was to come to destroy those murderers, and to burn their city, which fell out not long after the writing of this Epistle, and is properly intended in this place. See (Matthew 24:3, 27, 30; 2 Peter 3:4; Jude 14; Revelation 1:7; Mark 16:28; James 5:7, 8). For hereon ensued the…

Hence concerning Miracles, they give us these instructions. First, that neither if an Angel should show himself to us to seduce us, being suborned with the deceits of his father the devil, ought he to prevail against us; neither if a miracle should be done by any one, as it is s…

And look as then it was with Christ, so has it been with all his members, and will be to the end of the world. They are accounted as the offscouring of the world, men not worthy to live on the face of the earth: as Christ told his disciples, saying, You shall be hated of all nat…

That we are found faithful? 'Tis because we have obtained mercy: they would deceive, if it were possible, the very Elect (Matthew 24:24). Why is it not possible to deceive the Elect as well as others?

Thus Chrysostom upon this text of Paul says that the angels learned some things by the preaching of John the Baptist. Again, Christ says that they do not know the hour of the last judgment (Matthew 24:36) — much less do the saints know all things in God. Hence it is that they ar…

Season 11. The eleventh special season calling for this diligence to keep our hearts is when sufferings for religion come to a height. Then look to your hearts — Matthew 24:8-10: 'All these are the beginning of sorrows, and they shall deliver you up to be afflicted and shall kil…

For the first I would mourn heartily, considering that they (so continuing) must be damned eternally (2 Thessalonians 1:8-9; 1 Corinthians 6:9). For the second, I would both weep and tremble, considering that they (so abiding) must be damned doubly (Matthew 24:51). And for the t…

Superstition and profaneness usually go together, they look to other gods, and love flagons of wine (Hosea 3:1). And where there is such profaneness it is seldom without persecution also, for the evil servant (Matthew 24:49) is said to smite his fellow servants, and to eat, and…

It was this melted the hearts of the Gibeonites, one of the nations of Canaan, and brought them to a submission to Joshua as the sentiment of all their neighbors (Joshua 9:9): We are come because of the name of the Lord your God, for we have heard the fame of him and all that he…

Nothing, I confess, little or low, is spoken of him. Some say, he is the head and spouse of the Church, the Vicar of Christ, the successor of Peter, the supreme moderator of Christians, the infallible judge of controversies, and the like; others, again, that he is Antichrist, th…

Since the name is therefore the work of men of uncertain standing, let us set aside the dispute and look at the thing itself. From the time when the name "catholic church" was devised by some, it began wonderfully to please all the worshippers of true religion (since there was n…

Nehemiah 10:29: "We made a covenant and an oath to walk in the law of God." Hence perhaps is that threat against the unfaithful servant: the Lord (Matthew 24:51) will cut him in pieces on account of neglect of the covenant. And from this cutting of the victim, "to cut" among the…

So that whenever we want any office of Pastor, Teacher, Elder, Deacons, or the right calling or execution of it, in exhortation, doctrine, watching, Ecclesiastical censure, or the order of them, or the gifts fit for them, and the power of them, we must beg them according to the…

And among Christ's sufferings this is one (Hebrews 12:3): he sustained contradiction of sinners. Many false Christs shall arise (Matthew 24). There is but one heaven, and one way to heaven; and there is but one hell: but there be thousands of ways to hell: from one point to anot…

No man whatever mettle he be of, the finest of men can come, or has power to come to me, and to believe on the only begotten Son of God, except the Father who sent me draw him. We know Christ was much to extol his Father, his Father was ever in his esteem an eminent one, as (Mat…

(Romans 11:12), "If the fall of them be the riches of the world; if the casting away of them be the reconciliation of the world" — of the Gentiles, and especially of Jews and Gentiles. (Matthew 24:14), "And this Gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world, for a wit…

In the last day they will gather the bodies of Christ's redeemed ones from all parts of the world, after they have been resolved into dust, and mingled with the dust of other men, that every saint may have his own body again, wherein he has obeyed and glorified God. (Matthew 24:…

We have it from the testimony of him who is infallible, and truth itself, that there shall be signs in the Sun, and in the Moon, and in the Stars, before his last coming (Luke 21:25). The Sun shall be darkened, and the Moon shall not give her light, and the Stars shall fall from…

The Evangelist Matthew, having extolled in magnificent language the reign of Christ over the whole world, says nothing about his ascension to heaven. Mark, too, takes no notice of the place and the manner, both of which are described by Luke; for he says that the disciples were…

Matthew 24:1-8 1. And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple, and his disciples came to him, to point out to him the buildings of the temple.

Matthew 24:15-28 15. When therefore you shall see the abomination of desolation, which is described by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place, (let him that reads understand,)

Matthew 24:29-31 29. And immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Matthew 24:32-36 32. Now learn a similitude from the fig-tree.

Matthew 24:37-42 37. But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

Matthew 24:43-51 43. But know this, that if the householder had known at what hour the thief would come, he would certainly have watched, and would not have permitted his house to be broken into.

Matthew 24:9-14 9. Then will they deliver you up to be afflicted, and will kill you; and you will be hated by all nations on account of my name.

2. Five were wise. Towards the close of the former chapter, our Lord specially required steward to be wise, (Matthew 24:45) for it is reasonable, that the heavier the charge which any man sustains, and the more important the matters in which he is employed, the wisdom with which…

Christ gently reproves the disciples also, for not entertaining sufficiently honorable views of his future reign; but at the same time, by this expression he bears testimony to the calling of the Gentiles, on which our salvation is founded. In what sense the gospel must be preac…

And certainly it was proper that men of eager curiosity, who, not satisfied with lawful proof, were every day asking new miracles, should be carried away by such impostures. This is the reason why Christ, in another passage, foretold that the reign of Antichrist would be full of…

Saint Paul in the last sermon that he made to the Ephesians, when he took his leave of them, and was now ready to depart toward Jerusalem, forewarned them of these things, saying: I know, that after my departing grievous wolves shall enter in among you, not sparing the flock: An…

Indeed, at Rome and in Italy, this prophecy is long ago fulfilled: and they that come from there to us, bring with them this opinion: that what filthy and wicked life they lead there, the same do they teach us, and those countries where they chance to inhabit. But a little befor…

But with Respect to Love; it is plain by the Scripture, that Persons may have a Kind of religious Love, and yet have no saving Grace. Christ speaks of many professing Christians that have such Love, whose Love will not continue, and so shall fail of Salvation, Matthew 24:12, 13.…

And this I shall give Scripture, and reason to plead for it. Matthew 24:24: Christ tells us of error, that it came in so easily, that if it were possible, it would deceive the elect. Intimating, that it is impossible so to seduce the elect, as to make them finally fall away.

Romans 16:17, 18. Now I beseech you brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences, contrary to the doctrine which you have learned, and avoid them: For they that are such, serve not our Lord Jesus, but their own belly, and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hea…

But whereas the general notion of a sabbatical rest, is still included in such a day, a superaddition of its relation to the Lord Christ, will entitle it to the appellation of the Lord's Day Sabbath; that is, the day of sacred rest appointed by the Lord Jesus Christ. And thus mo…

(46) The Law of the Sabbath only preferred above all Ceremonial and Judicial Laws. (47) The Words of our Savior, Matthew 24:20, considered. (48) The whole Law of the Decalogue established by Christ.

An actual exercise of that principle of holy wisdom wherewith he was endued, in his infancy, as afterwards, he had not (Luke 2:52). Nor had he in his human nature an absolutely infinite comprehension of all individual things past, present and to come, which he expressly denies,…