p. 2 | Readings in Matthew

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 13, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 36.

Readings in Matthew

OUR readings are wholly in the book of Matthew, beginning with chapter 9, ending with chapter 24. Note the miracles. See in them just what God designs that we should see in them—evidence of His power to save from sin. We would not be understood by this that He is not just as willing to heal now as He ever was, for He is; He has the same power to heal in answer to faith as when He personally touched the blind eyes, laid His hand upon the withered form, spoke to deaf ears, and full and complete healing came; but He would have us understand also that the greatest of all diseases that afflict humanity, the very root and foundation of them all, is sin, and He who healed the palsied man is also able to say, "Thy sins are forgiven thee."

MATTHEW 24 is a threefold prophecy in answer to the disciples' questions as to the second coming of the Master; the first having to do with the various events which would take place before the consummation of the age or the end of the Christian dispensation. Verses 15-20 are especially upon the destruction of Jerusalem, tho there are references to it elsewhere. Then from that time we are carried on through the great tribulation which comes upon God's people to the second coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Special signs are given of that coming; and so far as this chapter is concerned the shaking of the powers of heaven and Christ's coming are the next great events awaiting us.