This week’s readings are all from Matthew 24-25. Click here to see a full listing of each day’s reading and the full chapters of Matthew 24-25. Full readings of each day’s smaller segments of the readings will be posted on this site during the week.
Today's Reading
24 Now as Jesus was going out of the temple courts and walking away, his disciples came to show him the temple buildings. 2 And he said to them, “Do you see all these things? I tell you the truth, not one stone will be left on another. All will be torn down!”
3 As he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, his disciples came to him privately and said, “Tell us, when will these things happen? And what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” 4 Jesus answered them, “Watch out that no one misleads you. 5 For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will mislead many. 6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. Make sure that you are not alarmed, for this must happen, but the end is still to come. 7 For nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these things are the beginning of birth pains.
9 “Then they will hand you over to be persecuted and will kill you. You will be hated by all the nations because of my name. 10 Then many will be led into sin, and they will betray one another and hate one another. 11 And many false prophets will appear and deceive many, 12 and because lawlessness will increase so much, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But the person who endures to the end will be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole inhabited earth as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
“And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.”
Matthew 24:14 NIV
https://matthew.bible/matthew-24-14
Take courage because the gospel will still be preached to the whole world. What good news even in uncertain times.
What are other thoughts on these verses?
Vickie…for me, I have compartmentalized “The End Times”…I have found that the topic can be all consuming in the wrong way as I my thoughts turn to the worldly way to view “The End Times”, I would rather lean into my Faith in God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit trusting that if I prepare myself the way Jesus prescribes, I will be with God for an eternity in Heaven..