Sermons and radio broadcasts from Ministers of the New Covenant Fellowship located in Georgia. A congregation that holds to faith in Yeshua and keeping the commandments of Yahweh.
After the disciples ask their teacher the 3-fold question (Mt24:3), Yeshua replies to them with signs to look for. These signs though are regulated by a particular time reference Yeshua has already given, and will give again during the Olivet Discourse.
We think less of Yahweh's methods of getting things done, and more of our own methods. This is true in all areas of life. This lesson encourages us to quite trying to figure out something on our own and just trust in Yahweh with all of our heart.
Some key verses and teachings through the epistle are touched upon, and then we read the entire book as a congregation.
I briefly move away from Matthew 24 to discuss a pertinent point in relation to Yeshua's judgment upon Jerusalem and the Temple. Yeshua wants His people to move their focus off of the Temple; it had become corrupt. He wants their focus to be on something greater than the Temple.
Yeshua's statements about the temple's desolation (Matthew 23:38; 24:2) prompted the disciples to ask him some questions privately. Were the questions unrelated? Did the disciples ask about things in which there were gaps of hundreds or thousands of years? Listen to learn about parallel texts of Scripture, and how they help us understand better, in relation to the questions of the disciples.
After scathing the scribes and Pharisees in his day, and pronouncing that their house would be left desolate, Yeshua exits the temple complex. His disciples realize the implications of his words and call his attention to the greatness of the temple. Yeshua's answer sets us up for the remainder of his prophetic discourse in Matthew 24.
For the most part, people do not realize that false predictions of the end of the world have been plentiful ever since Christ went to heaven. We hear someone say, "the end is near," but we don't realize someone said the same thing in the 1900's, 1800's, and 1700's. How are we to handle this? Is there anything we can do to stop the hysteria? There is. We should actually study Bible prophecy. This series is aimed at developing that skill in us all.
As we come to close this chapter in Matthew's gospel, we learn of Yeshua's tenderness to the repentant, but we also learn of his harshness upon the unrepentant. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. Thus, the house that was once Yahweh's is not called their house, and it is left solitary and waste.
All the righteous blood shed upon the earth would be charged to the scribes and Pharisees of Yeshua's generation. Why? This lesson contains pertinent information about the phrase "this generation" that is necessary to understand before moving into Matthew 24.
In this text, Yeshua says that he sends prophets to the scribes and Pharisees. I thought it was Yahweh who sent the prophets? Listen to learn what Yeshua means and how this thread runs through the entire New Testament.
The actions of the scribes and Pharisees were a self-incriminating testimony. They were sons of their fathers, and would fill up the measure of their fathers sins. How would they do this?
The Pharisees claimed they were not like their fathers. Their fathers murdered the prophets. Who were their fathers? The answer to this question is easy, if we allow the Bible to interpret the Bible. This begins the last of 8 woes upon the scribes and Pharisees of Yeshua's day.
The Pharisees were so focused on the small things that they neglected the big things. So focused on washing the outside of the cup that they forgot to make sure the inside was washed. We are pros at making ourselves look good, but looking good is not what matters. We need to be changed from the inside, out.
Yeshua begins to pronounce the woes of a prophet upon the scribes and Pharisees. He does not ease up on them, but calls them hypocrites, blind guides, and fools. Why such harshness?
Holiness is not outward show. Outward show can be performed without there ever being a inward change of heart. Our good deeds should flow from the inside out, but we should always give ALL of the glory to our heavenly Father that enables us.
It's good to have leaders, teachers in a community, but leaders can become corrupt. Corrupt leaders leads to corrupt citizens and lopsided teaching. Listen to learn about the corrupt, first century leaders, and about their incorrect method in teaching Biblical law.
People confess Christ, but walk away from the faith. When that happens, those of us who remain in the faith should see such a person as a lost sheep that needs to be found and brought back into the fold.
My entire life I have heard people in church say that we are currently living in the last days (or the last of the last days). How do they know? What Bible verses have they shown us to prove this? It may surprise you to discover what the Bible has said all along about the last days.
When we begin to understand the judgment language in the Old Testament, we will begin to understand what the prophet Joel was speaking of (Joel 2:28-32), and how Peter applied Joel's prophecy in the first century (Acts 2:16-21).
Recognizing the symbolic language in Scripture concerning the sun, moon, and stars will aid greatly in understanding what Joel's prophecy (Joel 2:28-32) means.
In church, you may have seen someone suffering physically ask to be prayed for. A preacher then touches their forehead with a dot of oil and prays for them in obedience to James 5:14. Or is it obedience to James 5:14? Have we misunderstood this text?
What is a "blood moon" tetrad? This lesson answers that question in detail and discusses the need for our hearts to be set ablaze for Holy Scripture rather than fanciful sensationalism and extra-biblical fluff.
Each year the Day of Atonement reminds us of our need for forgiveness. That reminder is not something that stopped with the Old Covenant. We continue, under the New Covenant, to need a reminder that we are sinners in need of forgiveness. The great thing is that we can also be reminded that as Christians, we have been forgiven of our sin.
What does "swear not at all" mean? Listen to learn about truthful speech and what it means to let your yes be yes and no be no.
Our faith should not be in our faith, it should be in the strong Savior, the Messiah - Son of Yahweh.
Yeshua uses an encounter with his natural family, his close kin, to teach a spiritual point. Salvation is not determined solely by the natural or physical.
We shouldn't take a light and cover it with a basket or put it under a bed, but rather set it on a lamp stand. But what did Yeshua mean when he said this as recorded in Luke's gospel? What you think this verse means may not actually be what it means.
Some days, it may seem like the Lord is never going to come back. But we aren't called to complain, we are called to be patient and suffer willingly.
An expository lesson on the meaning of the four types of soil, centering primarily on the good soil - the good and honest heart. Why do some men have good and honest hearts while others don't? How is it that two brothers with the same parents go separate ways; one with faith and one without faith?
At this point in his ministry, Yeshua began to speak in parables. Why? What was the purpose for his use of parable stories rather than direct, literal communication with everyone?
