{"id":19493,"date":"2021-09-05T07:41:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T14:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=19493"},"modified":"2021-09-09T11:15:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T18:15:28","slug":"natans-notes-on-matthew-24-where-are-we-at-in-end-times-biblical-prophecy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2021\/09\/05\/natans-notes-on-matthew-24-where-are-we-at-in-end-times-biblical-prophecy\/","title":{"rendered":"Natan’s Notes on Matthew 24\u2014Where are we at in end times biblical prophecy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Today, Shabbat, I have been busy studying<\/strong> and writing in preparation for Yom Teruah\u2014the Day of Shouting or Shofar Blasts. In several days (Thursday, Sept. 9 on the biblical crescent new moon, abib barley calendar), my family and I will be celebrating this first of four fall biblical feasts, which our rabbinic Jewish brothers incorrectly refer to as Rosh Hashanah\u2014an unbiblical name. Although Scripture gives us but scant information about this high holy day, its significance relative to the disciple of Yeshua’s cannot be overestimated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In light of the current global chaos occurring on so many fronts and the tidal wave of evil that is systematically sweeping across the earth, Yom Teruah affords the faithful saint a great opportunity to celebrate in advance a glorious upcoming event. This is because Yom Teruah not only points prophetically to the second coming of Yeshua the Messiah but to the resurrection and glorification of his righteous saints as well. (See my in-depth study article on the subject at https:\/\/www.hoshanarabbah.org\/pdfs\/yom_teruah.pdf<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In preparation for celebrating this biblical holiday, I have put together a study on Matthew 24, the famous Olivet Discourse, where Yeshua talks about end time events as they will occur in more or less chronological order. This is an excellent place to attempt to figure to where we are at in the progression of events that signify the end of the age or end times just before the second coming of Yeshua the Messiah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What follows is my best analysis of the subject based on decades of Bible study. However, I reserve the right to be wrong on anything that I write below. Regardless of biblical understanding, we are still looking through a glass darkly, and we will not fully understand end time events until they are occurring or have already occurred. This is a biblical provable fact regardless of what the profit motive driven Christian prophecy pundits and prognosticators will tell you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here is my best analysis on the first part of Matthew 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Matthew 24:1\u201351, The Olivet Prophecy and the Book of Revelation. <\/strong>See notes in Revelation entitled \u201cRevelation and the Olivet Prophecy (i.e. Matt 24 and 25) Compared.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew 24:1,<\/strong> The buildings of the temple.<\/em><\/strong>The geographical context of Yeshua\u2019s Olivet Discourse contained in Matthew chapters 24 and 25 is the Temple Mount containing Herod\u2019s Temple (vv. 1\u20132), and from the vantage point of the Mount of Olives overlooking the same (v. 3ff).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Matthew 24:3,<\/strong> Do you see?<\/em><\/strong> Yeshua\u2019s predicts the destruction of the temple\u2014a prophecy that was clearly fulfilled in A.D. 70.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew 24:3,<\/strong> Tell us.<\/em><\/strong> Yeshua\u2019s statement as to the destruction of the temple elicits further questions from his disciples. Yeshua\u2019s following discourse is in response to three questions that his disciples asked him, while on the Mount of Olives overlooking the Temple Mount. These three questions were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n