07/29/2024 – Day 057 – Matthew – Chapters 23 – 25 / “Jesus looked to the 2nd coming as a definite historical event” / The horrific “reality of hell”.
We have for postings from the last two cycles on this Day 057 reading:
‘- 09/13/2020 – 1 of 3 – Re: Ch. 24 and “End Times” / – 09/13/2020 – 2 of 3 – Re: 70 A.D. – The Destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem / – 09/14/2020 – 86 bible verses on “The Day of the Lord”. 04/25/2022 – “End Times”.
Here is a paragraph excerpt from Haley’s Bible Handbook – “His Second Coming”, Chapter 24″:
“Neither is his coming to Jerusalem in judgment (A.D. 70); nor the coming of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost; nor our going to him in death; none of these can exhaust the meaning of Jesus’ words as to his Coming again.
It is best not to be too dogmatic as to certain concomitant events connected with his Coming. But if language is a vehicle of thought at all, certainly it takes a good deal of explaining and interpreting to make anything else out of Jesus’ words than that he himself looked forward to His Coming Again as a definite historical event in which He Himself personally and literally will appear to gather to Himself and to Eternal Glory those who have been redeemed by His blood.”
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Under the section: “Chapter 25 – “The Son of Man Will Judge the Nations”:
“Then He will also say to those on the left hand. ‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels: for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you have Me no drink; I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’ Then they also will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’ Then He will answer them, saying, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me. And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but he righteous into eternal life.” Matthew 25: 41 – 46
note – Jesus is NOT saying we are saved by works. But if we have accepted Him as our Lord and Savior, works are evidence of saving faith. It is not possible to be saved by faith, and not have any evidence of good works that result from it.
Commentary – The Evidence Study Bible – 25:41 Hell: For verses warning of its reality, see Mark 9: 43-48.
“Now observe, brethren, if I, or you, or any of us, or all of us, shall have spent our lives merely in amusing men, or educating men, or ,moralizing men, when we shall come to give our account at the last great day we shall be in a very sorry condition, and we shall have best a very sorry record to render; for of what avail will it be to a man to be educated when he comes to be damned? Of what service will it be to him to have been amused when the trumpet sounds, and heaven and earth are shaking, and the pit opens wide her jaws of fire and swallows up the soul unsaved? Of what avail even to have moralized a man if still he is on the left hand of the judge, and if still, ‘Depart, ye cursed,’ shall be his portion?’ ” Charles Spurgeon
Soli Deo Gloria!