Matthew 24:4-8

Matthew was a Jew and was desperate to prove to his fellow members that Jesus’s deity could be proven and traced. He also connected the gentile Church to the salvation that would be given them through Jesus. These warnings of old sound way to familiar to the state of the world today. Shout it from the rooftops Jesus the Christ is Lord and place your trust in Him alone!

False messiahs and wars and rumors of wars are characteristic of the fallen world in which we live. When the Lord said all these things must come to pass, He used a word for must that indicates a divine or logical necessity. Such activities are necessary because of the people’s sin.

The earth continually has birth pangs today (see Rom. 8:22); during the tribulation, these “sorrows” will increase in intensity and frequency until Jesus returns in glory.

Matthew 24:4-8

⁴ And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. ⁵ For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. ⁶ And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. ⁷ For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. ⁸ All these are the beginning of sorrows.