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NASB | Matthew 24:28 "Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 24:28 "Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will flock together. [Job 39:30] |
Subject: What does Matthew 24: 28 mean? |
Bible Note: Dear Kalos, When I said that the messages which I hear in Christian churches always deal with those same six "elementary things" which Paul spoke of as a "foundation" which Christians ought not to lay again, and again and again, but rather that they should "press on to maturity", I was saying that there is nothing in those messages about the elementary things which I would need to examine in my Bible at home. The examination of the Holy Prophecy of verses 27 and 28 of Matthew is always a theme which I present to church members, not something about which they have prepared any discussion or message. I also ask church members to explain for me their understanding of Isaiah 22:22-25 and Isaiah 19:18-25, which are also Holy Prophecies concerning which no Christian on Earth is able to provide the accurate explanation of their fulfillment, in the same manner that no Christian could provide the accurate explanation of the fulfillment of Mat.24:27,28. The group of Christians who were the forerunners of the Seventh Day Adventists were knocking on the door of the true understanding in the early 1840's, however they faltered and ceased knocking, thus the door never opened for them. His Holiness the Christ exhorted: "Keep on asking, and it will be given you; keep on seeking and you will find; keep on knocking and it will be opened to you." (Mat.7:7) Only don't ask clergypersons, because they don't know. If they did know, they would step down and cease to be clergypersons. It is time for them to step down now, and to desist from permitting their flocks to place their trust in them. When I ask questions of church members in churches, almost 10 times out of 10, the first thing I am told is "you should go and ask the Pastor". Churchgoers display the attitude that if there were anything which they need to understand, surely the Pastor would have explained it to them. They have not been taught the principle of "independent investigation of Truth". When I ask questions to Christians in churches I am attempting to stimulate their consciousness of their spiritual need. His Holiness the Christ spoke: "Happy are those conscious of their spiritual need, since the kingdom of the Heavens belongs to them." I am very well aware that Christians are incapable of providing the correct answers to those questions. Yet they fancy themselves to be spiritually rich even as the Laodiceans of whom The Lord Christ said as recorded in Rev.3: "...you do not know you are miserable and pitiable and poor and blind and naked." They did not know. Cordially, Ross |