REVISITING MATTHEW 24

For several hundred years, people have been bombarded with predictions that “Jesus is coming soon” and that “time will end.” These predictions have failed to come to pass during the past several hundred years.

These predictions are based on the assumption that Jesus has not returned. Yet when Jesus spoke about his return, he used terms such as quickly and soon. To people living in the first century AD, he referred to “this generation” and to the fact that some of them would be alive when he returned. He also told them that “you” will hear certain things, “you” will see certain things, and “you” will do certain things.

Revisiting Matthew 24 seeks to examine what Jesus and his apostles said, without making any assumption about whether Jesus has returned or not. It asks, “What does the Bible actually say?”

-- Slade Skipper