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After the disciples ask their teacher the 3-fold question (Mt24:3), Yeshua replies to them with signs to look for. These signs though are regulated by a particular time reference Yeshua has already given, and will give again during the Olivet Discourse.

We think less of Yahweh's methods of getting things done, and more of our own methods. This is true in all areas of life. This lesson encourages us to quite trying to figure out something on our own and just trust in Yahweh with all of our heart.

I briefly move away from Matthew 24 to discuss a pertinent point in relation to Yeshua's judgment upon Jerusalem and the Temple. Yeshua wants His people to move their focus off of the Temple; it had become corrupt. He wants their focus to be on something greater than the Temple.

Yeshua's statements about the temple's desolation (Matthew 23:38; 24:2) prompted the disciples to ask him some questions privately. Were the questions unrelated? Did the disciples ask about things in which there were gaps of hundreds or thousands of years? Listen to learn about parallel texts of Scripture, and how they help us understand better, in relation to the questions of the disciples.

After scathing the scribes and Pharisees in his day, and pronouncing that their house would be left desolate, Yeshua exits the temple complex. His disciples realize the implications of his words and call his attention to the greatness of the temple. Yeshua's answer sets us up for the remainder of his prophetic discourse in Matthew 24.

For the most part, people do not realize that false predictions of the end of the world have been plentiful ever since Christ went to heaven. We hear someone say, "the end is near," but we don't realize someone said the same thing in the 1900's, 1800's, and 1700's. How are we to handle this? Is there anything we can do to stop the hysteria? There is. We should actually study Bible prophecy. This series is aimed at developing that skill in us all.

As we come to close this chapter in Matthew's gospel, we learn of Yeshua's tenderness to the repentant, but we also learn of his harshness upon the unrepentant. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. Thus, the house that was once Yahweh's is not called their house, and it is left solitary and waste.

All the righteous blood shed upon the earth would be charged to the scribes and Pharisees of Yeshua's generation. Why? This lesson contains pertinent information about the phrase "this generation" that is necessary to understand before moving into Matthew 24.

In this text, Yeshua says that he sends prophets to the scribes and Pharisees. I thought it was Yahweh who sent the prophets? Listen to learn what Yeshua means and how this thread runs through the entire New Testament.