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NASB | Matthew 24:14 "This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 24:14 "This good news of the kingdom [the gospel] will be preached throughout the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end [of the age] will come. |
Subject: before the Rapture or after? |
Bible Note: It wasn't fulfilled in the 1st century. 'There are two conclusions taught about Matthew 24:1-31 which are particularly troubling. Pretribulationalists argue that the Olivet Discourse applies only to the nation of Israel and has no instruction for the Church of Jesus Christ. Preterists argue that the Olivet Discourse is a prophecy concerning the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and was fulfilled in A.D. 70. These two groups attempt to base their faulty conclusions on equally faulty interpretations of specific textual details. One such error is the careless assumption that a word means the same thing regardless of where, when and how it is used in the New Testament. The technical name for this type of error is illegitimate identity transfer. The unfortunate misunderstandings and incorrect summations proposed by pretribulationalists and preterists are manifested through this error in the case of Matthew 24:14, which says, "And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come." 'In this verse, pretribulationalists and preterists rob the term gospel of its intended meaning. They insist that gospel refers to the "death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ for sin." This incorrect meaning of the term is then used to support a faulty fulfillment. In the case of the preterists, the false conclusion is that the text has been fulfilled in the events of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in A.D. 70. The pretribulationalists, on the other hand, wrongly conclude that the text finds its fulfillment during Daniel's Seventieth Week and precedes Christ's coming at Armageddon. It is the thesis of this article that the correct understanding of the word gospel in Matthew 24:14 points to a future literal fulfillment of the Olivet Discourse and that the Olivet Discourse gives a specific outline of the end-times including the timing of the rapture of the church...' To read more go to: www.solagroup.org/articles/ endtimes/et_0018.html |