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.

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…

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…

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…

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:…

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.…

A wise moral man, much more a wise Christian, while he is earnestly praying for good, is also carefully providing for evil. Lest the disciples should forget trouble in times of peace, Christ says to them, Behold (Matthew 24:25) I have told you before; Now you are at pretty good…

Ier. 8. 6. This was the sinne of the old world; they kn[]w nothing till the flood came, Mat. 24. 39. it may be they had now & then some conceit thereof, but they thought not seriously thereon: now as the daies of Noe were, so shalbe the daies of the comming of the sonne of man,…

The reason presses for his guiding, with a great weight; For, why (says she) should I be as one that turns aside, after the flocks of your companions? In which, these things are implied, 1. That Christ may have companions, (not who are indeed so, but) such who [reconstructed: se…

The third way he insists to urge this (for the call, and kindness comes still on his side, even when we are in the fault) is by most pressing arguments of three sorts. The first is, verse 11: Rise (says he) and come away; for there is no hazard now to travel this journey, becaus…

2. It points at his glorifying of them, which is in part, when particular believers are gathered to their fathers, as the phrase is (Genesis 25:8 and 35:29). This is, as his pulling of some lilies for his own satisfaction: and this gathering will be perfected, when all the elect…

Secondly, as there could have been no miracles performed, so neither could there be any prophecies or predictions made of contingent events, unless we acknowledge a God, who in his infinite wisdom and counsel foresees whatever shall come to pass, and reveals his secret to his se…

London has formerly abounded with hypocrites, and more lately it has not been free. If hell-fire be the portion especially of hypocrites hereafter (Matthew 24:51), no wonder then if God be angry with a place for this sin here. 4. The fourth sin of London, is formality and lukewa…

"Verily I say unto you, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom." And so it is represented in Matthew 24. The second is that which was accomplished in Constantine's time, in the destruction of the heathen Rom…

Men were changed from being Heathenish and brutish, to be the children of God; were called out of Satan's kingdom of darkness, and brought into God's marvelous light; and in almost all countries throughout the known world were assemblies of the people of God; joyful praises were…

Approving of the Covenanting of the former, but disapproving the Covenanting of the latter. As to the gathering of God's Saints, there spoken, if we consider the foregoing and following Verses, it is evidently the same with that gathering of his Elect, when Christ comes in the C…

Let me never be like those empty clouds, which deceive the hopes of thirsty souls; but let my doctrine descend as the rain and distil as the dew, and let that plot of your inheritance which you have assigned to me, be as the field which the Lord has blessed. Once more, lift up y…

Some make it a piece of their religion and zeal to dissent and be otherwise minded. Christ says love shall wax cold in the latter days (Matthew 24:12). The context shows it is meant of this dispensative love.

Why did the inhabitants of the earth rejoice when the witnesses were slain, but because those two prophets by their plain and powerful preaching tormented them that dwelt upon the earth (Revelation 11:10)? The everlasting gospel is a testimony (Matthew 24:14), either to us to co…

All eye-service is contrary to the forenamed singleness of heart: when servants are diligent so long as their master's eye is on them: like little children that will do anything their mother will have them do, while her eye is upon them; but nothing, when her back is turned. The…

Hence arose that proverb, The eye of the master makes the horse fat. The notion which the evil servant had that his master delayed his coming, and so could not see what he did, made him so unfaithful as he was (Matthew 24:48). If a master's place will bear it, it is fitting that…

Without Holiness no Man shall see the Lord. Matthew 24:13. He that endures to the End shall be saved.

He is Lord, as a master and husband; as Sarah called Abraham, Lord. As a master: good servants will look for their master's coming (Matthew 24:46). And surely such a master should be longed for, and looked for; for when he comes, he will not come empty-handed: Behold, I come qui…

Now there are more sensible characters and impressions of God left upon the word that does evidence it to be of God, than upon any part of his name. 3. This advantage we have by this notion, a testimony is a ground of self-examination, or a rule whereby we may judge of our state…

4. That their testimony and witness-bearing to God's truths, may be the more public and authentic in the view of the world. This testimony is either to them for their conviction and conversion (Matthew 24:14): And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world, fo…

If men want faith they cannot do anything with any life. So when love is dead, or love grows cold (Matthew 24:12), or when men have any abatement in their love, all languishes and grows dead in the soul (Revelation 2:4, 5). But on the contrary, it is said we live by faith (Galat…

(Matthew 5:18) Till heaven and earth pass, not one jot or tittle shall pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. (Matthew 24:30) Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. So that God's word is more stable than heaven and earth.

2. Yet generally, and for the most part, it is a great affliction to good and godly men to be forced to omit, and to be constrained to be absent from duties, though the omission of them (at such a time, and in such a case) be no sin of theirs, as in time of sickness, or in case…

Formalists and hypocrites will know the worst of hell, how can you escape, not only hell, but the damnation of hell, the hell of hell? (Matthew 23:33). The form of godliness, and the power of ungodliness, will fare alike, as (Matthew 24:51; Luke 12:46). 5 Apostates will meet wit…

But above all labor to be convinced of the mischief of an unsound heart, what an abhorrence it is to God, what certain ruin it brings upon the soul. Oh, think often of the hypocrite's hell (Matthew 24:51). Secondly, be convinced of the misery and desperate danger of a natural co…