THE OLIVET DISCOURSE. Matt. 24, 25.

WHEN SHALL THESE THINGS BE? WHAT SHALL BE THE SIGNS OF THY COMING AND THE END OF THE WORLD? Matt. 24:3-13, Mk. 13:3-13, Lk. 21:7-19, 20-24…4

Key: SCHAFF: “When the Lord open his mouth, we should open our ears and hearts”

THE SUDDEN SMITTING OF THE GENTILE WORLD-POWER. Matt. 24:27-28

The Lord is now coming “with ten thousand of his saints, to execute judgment upon all …the ungodly for their ungodly deeds…” Jud.14-16. This is when the Lord will thrust in His sharp sickle, and reap the clusters of the vine of the earth, and gather the vine and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God Rev. 14:14-21.

  1. The sixth vial- the river Euphrates dried up Rev. 16:12-16
  2. The purpose is to give a safe passage for the kings of the East to come into Palestine to co-operate with the Anti-Christ at Armageddon.
  3. Rev. 16:13, 14 and 16-three unclean spirit. The nations will be led to Armageddon. Ez. 38:10-13 (vv. 1-9, 16… cp. 39).  
  4. The gathering of the nations of the world. Joel. 3:2—3, 9-12, Ez. 38:10-13, 16, Zech. 14:2-6. All the nations of the earth will gather under their leader, the beast and the false prophet. They will gather for the battle under the influence of the spirit of the devil. Rev. 16:12-14, 16, Eph. 2:1-3. The search for the prophecy about return of the Lord on Mount Olivet, may be similar to the direction of King Herod when Jesus was born to search where the king of the Jews will be born, and he was told Bethlehem. Matt. 2:1-10. They will all gather at the Mount of Olives for battle. Zech. 14:4
  5. He will tread the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of the Almighty God. Rev. 19:15; 14:14-21, Is. 63:1-6; 34:5-6, Joel. 3:13-17, Ez. 38:19-23, The Lord will fight the battle alone, even though all the host of heaven and the saints will accompany Him. The blood of those slain will be as high as a horse’s bridle and flow out in a stream 200 miles long. Rev. 14:20 (TLB)
  6. The supper of the Great God Rev. 19:17-21, Joel. 3:13-14, Is. 25:6, Ez. 39:4, 17-23, Matt. 24:28, Is. 34:1-3, 7-8, Zeph. 1:7-10. The Lord will give the flesh of men and beast to the fowls of the air to feed upon. Israel will be made to cleanse the land for seven months by burying the dead. Ez. 39:12-16.
  7. The doom of the Anti-Christ and the false prophet Rev. 19:20-21 they will both be cast into the lake of fire. Other details of the coming of the Lord in our next studies.