Mark 13 |
Matthew 24 |
1,2 "And as he went out of the temple,
one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner
of stones and what buildings are here! And Jesus
answering said unto him, Seest these great buildings? there
shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be
thrown down. |
1,2 "And Jesus went out, and
departed from the temple: and his disciples came to
him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus
said unto him,
(John Mark, "his disciples") Seest ye not all these things? verily I say
unto you, There
shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be
thrown down. |
10 "And the gospel must first be
published among all nations..
13 "And ye shall be hated of all men for
my names's sake: but he that shall endure until the end, the
same shall be saved.
NOTE THAT HERE IN MARK THE GOSPEL
TEXT IS FIRST, BEFORE THE "HATED OF ALL NATIONS"
TEXT.
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9.Then shall they deliver you up to be
afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all
nations for my name's sake. 13 But he that shall
endure until the end, the same shall be saved.
14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in
all the world for a witness unto all nations and then shall
the end come. |
14 "But when ye shall see the abomination
of desolation - 18-pray that your flight be not in the
winter. NOTE THAT "ON THE
SABBATH DAY" IS MISSING HERE. |
15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination
-- 20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither
on the sabbath day: |
19 "For in those days shall be
affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the
creation which
God created unto this time, neither shall be.
20 And except that the Lord had
shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the
elect's sake, whom
he hath
chosen, he hath
shortened the days." |
21 For then shall be great
tribulation, such as was not since the
beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there shall no
flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall
be shortened. |
24 'But in those days after that tribulation,
the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her
light, 25 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers
that are in heaven shall be shaken. |
29 "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 the heavens shall be shaken." |
26 "And then they shall see the Son of
man coming in the clouds with great power and glory. 27 And
then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his
elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the
earth to the uttermost part of the heaven." |
30 "And then shall appear the sign of the
Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the
earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the
clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31
"And he shall send his angels with a great
sound of a trumpet, and
they shall gather his elect from the four winds, from
one end of heaven to the other. |
LET ME HERE PAUSE:
AND POINT OUT FOUR OBSERVATIONS:
THE FIRST IS: The
Effect: in my case, (and perhaps in yours), is that Mark, by
omitting something that appears to be new and different in
Matthew, has emphsized this
item! My curiosity is stimulated, and I try to
discover why. Such was the case with the "one
disciple"--"his desciples" of verse
1. And of changing the order of the
"gospel" text. And leaving out the "neither on
the sabbath day" of Matthew 24:20.
THE SECOND IS: Mark's
observations, almost a sermonette, of verses 9-11, with the
"gospel" text verse 10 sandwiched in the middle.
Which reads in full-- "But watch out
for YOURSELVES, for they will deliver YOU up to the councils,
and ye shall be beaten in the synagogues. YOU will be
brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony for
them. 10 And the gospel must first be preached to all the
nations. 11 But when they arrest YOU and deliver YOU up, do not
WORRY before hand, or premeditate what YOU will speak. But
whatever is given YOU IN THAT HOUR, speak that: for it is not
YOU who speak, but the Holy Spirit." Such
a series of seven (7) YOU's in such a short span of words seems
highly unusual -- and -- the entire
"sermonette" appears to be missing from the Matthew 24
discourse!
THE THIRD IS: Until
yesterday, 9-25-2011, I assumed that the "voice of
God" that I had found previously in Isaiah 66:6 and in
Ellen White's 1844 vision was MISSING in both Mark 13 and
Matthew 24, but suddenly here it is in a slightly different form
in Matthew 24:31 as "And he shall send his angels with a great
sound of a trumpet,--", and
as before, Mark draws attention to it by OMMITTING IT. Now
it jumps out at me, as if to illustrate Mark 13:9-11 with it's
seven (7) YOU's and its promise that the Holy Spirit will cause
me to speak what I really had no way of knowing!
THE FOURTH IS: Mark
13:9-11 seems to be as much a promised BLESSING to someone
willing to speak out "hidden truths" revealed by these
little-noticed details as Revelation 22:18,19 appears to be a
curse on anyone who attempts to change (or perhaps hide or cover
up?) these details! |
Isaiah 66
6 "A voice
of noise from the city, a voice
from the temple, a voice
of the Lord that
rendereth recompence to his enemies. 18--I will gather all
nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my
glory."
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Matthew 24
31
"And he shall send his angels with a great
sound of a trumpet, and
they shall gather his elect from the four winds, from
one end of heaven to the other. |
Mark 13
27 "And
then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his
elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the
earth to the uttermost part of the heaven." |
The question all along has not been "When will the WORLD
end?", but "When will the AGE end?" And GOD,
like everyone else watching world events from a safer distance than
we do, knew when the AGE ended. It ended on August 6,
1945 at 8:16 AM when an atomic bomb was exploded over the Japanese
city of Hiroshima.
The explosion of this bomb made a SOUND, and to the prophetic
Essenes writing both Isaiah 66:6 and prompting Ellen G. White in her
book Early Writings (page 15 and 285) that sound was the "Voice
of God". Before the atomic device was detonated no one knew the
hour and the minute, but some may have known the day.
Isaiah 66:6 (interestingly, there's that number -- 666)
"A voice of noise from the city (Hiroshima), a voice from the
temple (the atom, the "temple" of the Creator-God), a
voice of the Lord (YHWH, God of the Jews) that rendereth recompence
to his enemies (Japan as the wartime partner of the Nazis who were
exterminating all the Jews of the world.)
Early
Writings (page 15) "Soon we heard the voice of God like many
waters, which gave the day and the hour (Aug. 6, 1945 at 8:16 AM) of
Jesus' coming. The living saints (Jews that survived the
Jewish holocaust), 144,000 in number, knew and understood the voice
(deliverance from total annihilation), while the wicked (including,
sad to say -- Seventh-day Adventists) thought it was thunder and an
earthquake (symbolic of the Atomic Bomb)."
Here Ellen White has given us the major clues to the overall
meaning of Mark 13:32-37 that the "Second Coming" was to
save the Jews from extinction, and that the "Day and Hour"
that this WAS (not is to be) accomplished was when the "voice
of God" -- the "thunder and earthquake" of the Atomic
Bomb accomplished this goal --- August 6, 1945, at 8:16 AM.
That's one of 4 "Second Comings", and it turns out it was
the second of the 4. Ellen White gives us the clue to
this also, on page 285.
"It was at midnight that God chose to deliver His
people. As the wicked were mocking around them
(anti-Semitism), suddenly the sun appeared (again the Atomic
explosion), shining in his strength, and the moon stood still.
(A few years later, a moment in prophetic time, men were walking on
the moon -- so symbolically it "stood still"). The
wicked looked upon the scene with amazement, while the saints
(the Jews, now returning to Israel in the 1960s) beheld with solemn
joy the tokens of their deliverance. etc.)
NOW BACK TO OUR COMPARISON
BETWEEN MARK 13 AND MATTHEW 24 |
Mark 13
28 "Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When
her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that
summer is near. 29 "So ye in like manner, when ye shall
see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the
doors.
30 "Verily I say unto you, that this
generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.
31 "Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my
words shall not pass away. |
Matthew 24
32 "Now learn a parable of
the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth
leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: 33 "So likewise ye,
when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at
the doors.
34 "Verily I say unto you,
This generation shall not pass, till all these things be
fulfilled.
35 "Heaven and earth shall
pass away, but my words shall not pass away. |
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Mark 13
32 "But of that day and that
hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven,
neither the Son, but the Father.
33 "Take ye heed, watch and
pray: for ye know not when the time is.
34 "For the Son of man is as
a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave
authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and
commanded the porter to watch."
35 "Watch ye therefore:
for ye know not when the master
of the
house cometh,
at even,
or at midnight,
or at the cockcrowing,
or in the morning.
36 "Lest coming suddenly he
find you
sleeping.
37 "And what I say unto you
I say unto all,
Watch."
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Matthew 24
36 "But of that day and hour
knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father
only."
37 "But as the days of Noe
were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 38
"For as in the days that were before the flood they were
eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day
that Noe entered into the ark. 39 "And knew not until
the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of
the Son of man be."
40 "Then shall two be in the
field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 41
"Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be
taken, and the other left."
42 "Watch therefore: for ye
know not the hour your Lord doth come."
43 " But know this, that if the
goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come,
he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be
broken up--etc.
50 "The lord of that servant
shall come in a day when he
looketh not for
him, and in an hour
that he is not aware of, 51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint
him his portion with the hypocrites: ---" |
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2 Jesus
Jokes of
Matthew
24:42-50
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The Thief
Matthew 24:42
"Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth
come."
Refers to
Mark 13:35 in which text the "Watches" are listed that
were important "Watches" to the Essenes. And Yes,
they did refer to specific times -- evening (6 PM), midnight
(12), cock-crowing (3 AM), and morning (6 AM).
Matthew 24:43
"But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known
in what watch the thief would
come, he would have watched---" the
thief is
none other than Jesus Christ, who never intended to bring the
Christians any pork-chops, but from the very beginning planned to
see to it the Jews got Israel back as their
home-land. To the Jews a "Messiah", to the
Christians a "Thief".
The House Broken Up
Matt. 24:43 (continued)
"----and would not have suffered his house to be broken
up." "Broken up" not in the
sense of physical damage to a building, but instead "broken
up" or separated into separate groups expecting
Christ's coming to occur in a different way. Thus we had the
Millerites and Adventists expecting a public "second
coming" seen by "every eye" and others expecting a
"secret rapture" at various DIFFERENT TIMES during a 7
year TRIBULATION PERIOD. None of these expectations were
honored. Jesus had intentionally done this as an immense
PRACTICAL JOKE, while he instead worked behind the scenes to
ensure the Old Testament promises to Israel were honored.
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