Matthew 24:4-348

Jesus told us wars, rumors of wars, nation against nation, and
natural disasters would happen, and ended with, “all these are the beginning of
sorrows.”
In verse 9, “then,” does not mean that the afflictions of Jesus’ disciples would
begin after verses 4-8 occurred, for in the book of the Acts of the Apostles we
learn that after Pentecost personal persecution happened for their fidelity to
Christ. In verses 9-13 Jesus gave an overview of the Gospel Age as regards the
personal experiences of his disciples. He that endures unto the end of his trial,
the same shall be saved. Verse 14 closes with the Gospel message having gone
out to all the world, which, by the Witness organization’s own declaration has
already been accomplished prior to the beginning of 2018 A.D., and according to
another source in 2017 A.D., the declaration of the Gospel message to all the
world was only a short time away from being completed.
Verses 15-22 have their application beginning in the late 1800’s when the
Seventh Messenger to the Church of Laodicea brought to the Church’s
understanding the abomination which makes desolate, the Catholic Mass in
particular, and who instituted it, Papal Rome. Therefore, “when ye (you,
personally) shall see (understand mentally what that is about)… stand in the holy
place, then…etc.” Verse 20, “But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter,
neither on the sabbath day,” quite literally, (verse 21) “for then shall be great
tribulation, (World War I, and in particular, World War II) such as was not since
the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.” (The final collapse
of this present evil order will not be a rehash or repeat of WWI or WWII, but
different in nature. Here is why: God foreshadowed in the scene of the ark with
its human inhabitants besides Noah that there would be others who are not spirit
begotten who also have faith in the Lord Jesus, and that they would pass over
also. Therefore, God having planned for this, all flesh would not and could not be
destroyed at the end of the Gospel Age, for God would go to extreme measures of
intervention using “His methods and His weapons” to preserve their lives without
shortening the days; whereas...) Verse 22, “And except those days should be
shortened, there should no flesh be saved:” (The dropping of two atomic bombs
[man’s weapons] in Japan brought the war to an end, which otherwise, by Jesus’
own declaration, would have dragged on and ended all flesh due to the effects of
global war upon the earth. Divine intervention there was in the timing of the
development of the Atomic bomb to achieve His purpose.) “But for (or, on
account of) the elect’s sake (the elect were still here and the time for the
complete sealing in their foreheads was still future) those days shall be
shortened.”
Anticipating that some of our readers will throw up a few eyebrows at what they
just read, we point out that if verses 21 and 22 (“for then shall be great
tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor
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ever shall be. And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh
be saved...”) are the last features of the close of this present evil world, then
when we come down to verses 29-31 we must conclude that these events take
place in the Mediatorial phase of the Kingdom, which then means that when the
“powers of the heavens shall be shaken, by placement of time, that must refer to
Jesus’ own power, “the heavens,” the religious order then in place, is due to be
shaken. That will not happen.
Note carefully the verses that follow verse 22! Verses 23 and 24 had partial
fulfillment in Jonestown and in David Karesh.
Verse 29 follows sequentially, “Immediately after the tribulation of those days
(WWI and especially WWII), shall the sun be darkened (the Gospel message in
the world dimly viewed and oft disregarded) and the moon shall not give her light
(the Old Testament Law and prophets are viewed as archaic, irrelevant), and the
stars (the teachings of the Apostles) shall fall from (the religious) heaven, and
the powers of the heavens (the rulers in the present religious heaven) shall be
shaken (with scandals of one sort or another).
Verse 30, “And then shall appear the sign of the son of man in heaven,” which we
understand to be something done in the physical heaven that could not be
accomplished by man. Thus, in 2017 A.D. the earth tilted on its axis about 25.5
degrees from where it was, placing the sun higher in the sky during the summer
months in the Northern hemisphere. Therefore the north end of earth’s vertical
axis tilted more towards the sun. This event would have been a partial, if not
complete undoing, or correction of the shadow going backwards on the sundial 10
degrees in Hezekiah’s day, 2 Kings 20:8-11.
As a result of the axis re-orientation, “then shall all the tribes of the earth
mourn,” because of the changes in weather patterns, climate, etc. and the results
of those changes, damage, loss, inconvenience, etc., due to floods, abundant
snow, etc.. It was of great interest to us to hear one of our neighbors declare to
us the very same day this article was drafted, that they could not wait for spring
because they were tired of the cold (we do not live up north), and neither was
that comment prompted.
The last part of verse 30, “and they shall see the Son of man coming in the
clouds of heaven with power and great glory,” refers, not at all to the masses of
humanity, but to a very special and elite group of individuals, the present day
priests of Israel.
In Matt 26:59, while Jesus was before the council, “The high priest answered and
said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be
the Christ, the Son of God. Jesus said unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I
say unto you, Hereafter shall ye (not as individuals who lived then, but
representative of the clerics of Judaism who would live at a later time) see the
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Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of
heaven.” Compare this statement with Matt 24:30, “and they shall see the Son
of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” What is the
fulfillment of this? The fulfillment is intimately tied with Paul’s statement in the
Book of Romans, chapter 11, verse 25: “...blindness in part is happened to Israel
(blindness to who their Messiah is) until the fulness (full number) of the Gentiles
be come in (to the Gospel Age High Calling, the Church).” Thus, the last part of
verse 30 is fulfilled when the clerics in Israel publicly declare who their Messiah is,
but only after the last Church members have been sealed in their foreheads, Rev.
7:1-3. And that declaration is only weeks away from today, February 14, 2018.
(The preceding sentence portrayed our first view of when the Lord Jesus would be
proclaimed Messiah by the Hebrew people. Today, March 24, 2020, we
understand that declaration by the clerics of Israel to occur at the Feast of
Weeks, Shavuot, Pentecost, beginning May 28th, 2020.)
The singular trumpet that sounds to call the heads of Israel together, Joel 2:1, is
the same trumpet here in verse 31, “And he shall send his angels (messengers)
with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the
four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” The message of the trumpet
will be carried forth to and through natural Israel dispersed throughout the earth,
and it will be carried forth to and through spiritual Israel who are also dispersed
throughout the earth. Thus the messengers are from both natural and spiritual
Israel. The end result will be the gathering together of the seven last Body
members for their role to be accomplished.
The gathering of the chosen in verse 31 is not a gathering of individuals to
become the elect, but the gathering of those who are already sealed in their
foreheads as the elect, whose sealing was accomplished prior to the public
announcement mentioned above. This gathering is not to a place, but to a
purpose, which is, performing the next step in the Divine program- receiving the
seven trumpets of Rev 8 and then sounding those trumpets at their appointed
times.
Verse 32 is the parable of the fig tree: when leaves appear, summer is nigh. In
verse 33, Jesus said that when ye see all these things, know that it (the Kingdom
of God, which is for the lifting of man out of sin, and taking him to perfection) is
“near, at the doors.” Verse 34 tells us “this generation shall not pass, till all
these things be fulfilled.” In Psalm 90:10 we read, “The days of our years
threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength, fourscore years….” It is of
great interest to us that 2018 A.D. is the 70 th year anniversary of Israel having
become a nation again in her homeland in 1948 A.D. Therefore, the Kingdom is
very near at hand.
A note of interest: 2020 A.D. marks 72 years since Israel’s founding as a nation
in 1948. The number 72 is one half of 144.
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The explanation as given above is consistent with our Lord’s great prophecy as
recorded in the Gospels of Mark 13 and Luke 21.
Copyright © G. Kuehmichel, Feb. 26- Mar. 13, 2018. Again, on Mar 24-29, 2020, regarding verses 30,31.
April 4, 2020. All rights reserved.
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