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Understanding The End Times
Lesson Two

Matt. 24 Part Two

Watch the video and correct your answers from Lesson One. If you have any questions or comments, you may email me. Don't hesitate to review or re-read the chapter if anything is unclear to you. Take your time to understand the material.

For Lesson Two, read the following sections in your Textbook and do the questions below. The questions are in chronological order.

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Answers To Lesson One Questions

Lesson Two Questions

For Lesson Two, finish reading Chapter One, starting with the section titled Woe To The Pregnant.

Answer these questions as you read through the textbook. You may either print off the lesson or write your answers in a document or notebook with the lesson and question number. The video in Lesson Three will take up the answers to these questions and add additional comments. May the peace and grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

If you prefer to print the questions out, you can download them in PDF here.

Woe To The Pregnant

1. The fraction under _______________ had dispersed and arranged themselves under the two other leaders, John Levi and Simon.

2. _______________ were inflicted for the discover of a handful of meal.

3. Titus, touched by these calamities, in person entreated the Jews to _______________.

4. The whole number of the poor who had been cast out at the different gates was not less than _______________.

5. The Jews, by their unexampled _______________, rebellion, and obstinacy, had brought it down on their own heads.

6. _______________, in the name of Titus, earnestly exhorted John Levi and his adherents to _______________.

7. Jesus’ death was horrible, but He _______________ for the women and children of Jerusalem.

8. The history of the world does not record a _______________ instance of unnatural barbarity ever occurring during the siege of any other place in any other age or nation whatsoever.

9. Titus had determined to _______________ [the Temple] as an ornament to the empire and as a monument of his success.

10. This was the exact day on which the Temple had formerly been destroyed by the king of Babylon in _______________!

11. Jesus started His ministry to the Jews in the _______________ of the Lord, but then after three and a half years, Jesus finished the prophecy by declaring that the day of _______________ was now coming.

12. The incineration of Jerusalem is the blazing _______________ referenced in Matt. 13:42 about the wheat and tares.

13. In the royal palace the seditious Jews murdered 8,400 of their _______________ people and afterward plundered their property.

14. A multitude [of Jews] was exposed to _______________, while the purchasers were few in number.

15. This memorable siege ended on the _______________ day of _______________, AD 70.

16. After this he [Titus] commanded that the city be _______________ to its foundations, excepting only the three lofty towers Hippocos, Phasael, and Mariamne.

17. All about the age of seventeen were sent in chains into _______________ to be employed there as slaves or distributed throughout the empire to be sacrificed as gladiators in the amphitheaters; those who were under this age were exposed to _______________.

18. Of the Jews destroyed during the siege, Josephus reckons not less than _______________ and one hundred thousand, to which must be added above 237,000 who perished in other places.

19. Of the two great leaders of the Jews, John Levi was doomed to a _______________ for life, while Simon…was put to death as a _______________.

20. If the killing had not ceased in the city, then the Romans would have likely proceeded to nearby Mount Pella to attack the _______________ that had fled there.

21. In executing the command of Titus regarding the demolition of Jerusalem, the Roman soldiers not only threw down the buildings but even _______________ their foundations.

22. Terentius Rufus, captain of the army of Titus, absolutely _______________ up the foundations of the Temple with a ploughshare.

23. Today’s Western Wall [also called the _______________] in Jerusalem was never a part of the Temple that existed if Jesus’ day.

24. There is no such thing as _______________ fulfillments to a given prophecy.

25. At the siege of _______________, Eleazer the Jewish commander, instigated the garrison to burn their stores and to destroy first the woman and children and then themselves.

26. The rich territory of Judea was converted into a _______________.

27. The fidelity of Josephus as an _______________ is universally admitted.

28. He [Titus] _______________ made calm offers to the Jews and deeply lamented that they rejected them in their madness.

The Remainder Of Matthew 24
Signs In The Sky

29. Signs in the sky was a figure of speech from the Old Testament, apocalyptic language referring to the _______________ of a government or city.

30. In Matthew 24:29, Jesus’ listeners would have known He was speaking in Old Testament _______________ about the destruction of Jerusalem, not the end of the world.

Coming On The Clouds

31. Where it says _______________, the root word is ge, which means ‘land,’ as in ‘the land of Israel.’

32. The phrase ‘coming on clouds of heaven,’ was a common Old Testament symbol for God coming in _______________ upon ancient historical people and nations.

33. The ‘sign of the son of man in heaven’ is likely a reference to the… _______________ that hung in the sky for a year over Jerusalem before AD 70.

Gathering The Elect

34. The word angels simply means _______________.

35. In context, there is every reason to assume that Jesus is speaking of the worldwide _______________ and conversion of the nations, which will follow upon the destruction of Israel.

36. In New Testament language, _______________ most commonly refers to evangelism.

The Fig Tree

37. The negative fig would never be used to represent a _______________ of Israel.

This Generation

38. To the Jewish people, a generation is _______________ years.

39. Jesus said this in AD _______________, and the entirety of His Matthew 24 prophecy was fulled in AD _______________.

40. Jesus meant the _______________ would happen to the generation of Jews alive in His day.

41. After Jesus swept Jerusalem clean spiritually, Jerusalem became _______________ times worse in that wicked generation leading up to the AD 70 destruction.

No One Knows The Hour

42. To the Jewish mind, Noah’s flood was the clearest picture of utter _______________.

One Taken, One Left

43. Jesus was not speaking of a _______________ escape but of the arbitrary way in which the Romans would seize upon and kill the Jews in AD 70.

Keep Watch

44. Here, ‘_______________’ is in quotations because it did not refer to Jesus’ final return but was the Hebrew figure of speech for the judgment of God upon a city.

45. Many people between AD 30 and AD 70 thought Jesus’ coming in judgment was a long way off, and they were caught by _______________.

Summary

46. _______________ part of Matthew 24 remains to be fulfilled in our future.

Assignment
Lesson Two

1. Memorize Matt. 24:4

2. Make two columns on a sheet of paper. In the first column, write the things Jesus said would happen before His coming in Matthew 24. In the second column, write how Dr. Welton said they were fulfilled in AD 70 or the events leading up to it.

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