
The Gospel According to Matthew - Week 34
This teaching is from Matthew 24:6-28.
Today's class continues with Jesus' discussion with His disciples on the last days. In verse 6 He tells of wars and rumors of wars with the encouragement to not be alarmed, to not live in fear, because even in the most uncertain of times believers know that God is in control. Jesus goes on to mention famines and earthquakes with nation against nation and calls this the beginnings of birth pains.
Jesus uses the analogy of a woman giving birth and the birth pains to represent the coming of the last days. Birth pains start slowly - far apart and then grow…
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