Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
There is a false and misleading teaching that there will be, in the end days, a Great Worldwide Revival…
That teaching is based entirely on this one verse, Matthew 24:14, because it is the one and only verse in Scripture that would appear to almost, sort of, kind of like, support that teaching…
The problem is that, read and understood in context, even this verse says no such thing… I challenge you to read the verse as a part of the entire chapter and to try to understand it in its full context.
In order to make this verse speak of a massive, end times revival, one must rip it from context, isolate it, enlarge and inflate it, and with great eisegetical form, reinterpret it, adding a great deal of wishful thinking…
Scripture, including Matthew 24, speaks of an end times struggle and a small remnant of Christians who endure to the end and refuse the Mark of the Beast… It speaks to the suffering, death, and martyrdom of the Saints.
Scripture speaks of the Martyrs under the throne being told to wait a little longer until THE FULL NUMBER OF SAINTS HAVE BEEN KILLED, EVEN AS THEY WERE!
Scripture says of the Beast that “HE WAS GIVEN AUTHORITY TO MAKE WAR AGAINST THE SAINTS AND TO OVERCOME THEM”!
It is “HE WHO ENDURES TO THE END WHO WILL BE SAVED”
Modern preachers simply do not like endurance, or suffering, or martyrdom… It lowers attendance and empties the collection plates… So, they fill their churches with itchy eared people and they preach happy and imaginative sermons based on isolated happy verses, and full of fear calming, wishful thinking…
Fear calming, happy sermons, full of wishful thinking, built with careful eisegesis, will damn many a wannabe Christian to a Devil’s Hell…
The Bride of Christ will be refined, as gold, in the refiner’s fire… God wants a pure and holy bride for his Son, not a big one…
But preachers, more than anyone else, hate the refiner’s fire!
Think about it!
David…
End Time Thinker 