This chapter is loaded with valuable insight from Jesus pertaining to His return at the end of the age. I have been reading and meditating on this chapter for a while and what I began to notice is that Jesus laid out 4 distinct time frames for us to watch for. The great thing about this is that Jesus gives us the order of which this will happen. Verses 5-8 are the “Beginning of Sorrows” which is stage 1. Stage 2 is described in verses 8-14, these are the “increased labor pangs”, Stage 3 is found in verses 15-28 which are the “hard labor pangs” and finally the 4th stage is described in verses 29-31, this stage is the coming of the Son of Man. For me, this made the concept of studying the end times so much more approachable. The fact is that Jesus used a common event to make it easy to understand the approaching of the end of the age......childbirth. Everyone was familiar with the process of a woman going into labor and birthing a child. Revelation describes these events in much greater detail. We need to be living with an urgency concerning the hour that we live in, not fear. Fear is a result of our lack of knowledge concerning Jesus’ plan at the end of the age. If we know Him and believe what He said, and give ourselves to Him in radical consecration now ,then we won’t be offended by His leadership in that day. My wife put it perfectly the other day as we were talking, I’m not sure if she heard this from someone else or not but it impacted me greatly. The statement was that Jesus was not recognized as the messiah at His first coming by many because they were expecting a warrior king and He came as the servant of all....... many will not recognize Him at His second coming because they will be expecting a humble servant but He will come as a warrior king and judge. Jesus said these haunting words many times and we should feel the same urgency that He was conveying.........Watch therefore!
In Christ,
Brian Jones
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