Category: Matthew 24-25
Olivet Discourse
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The fourth and final story in the Olivet discourse brings Jesus’ teaching on waiting to its climax. What should the church do during the waiting period? To this question Jesus has already answered through three parables: while the master is away, the bridegroom is delayed, the talents are entrusted, and after a long time the…
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We are living between the departure and the return of Jesus Christ. How should the church live faithfully in this interval? To help us answer that, Jesus tells four parables in His Olivet Discourse (Mt. 24–25). We have already seen two of them. Now let us sit with the third — the Parable of the…
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Have you ever attended a wedding engagement at 12 a.m. (midnight)? I have. A journey that was supposed to end by 4 p.m. was delayed because of a faulty bus, and we finally reached at midnight. We burst firecrackers to alert the bride’s family. They woke up, gathered themselves, and slowly the function began. The…
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The Mount Olivet discourse is a very important part of Matthew’s gospel. Many treat it as a neat chronology of last‑day events. But more than that, we need to see why it was written. Many biblical scholars place Matthew in the same period as Peter’s writings. Peter’s epistles, the general epistles, and the Gospels of…
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