Matthew 24 42-44 Essay

The charity I picked to receive the $1000 is Matthew 25 Ministries. It is a disaster relief charity and much more. It’s location is 11060 Kenwood Rd, Blue Ash, OH 45242. I picked this charity because it is a worthy organization that provides resources to those who are in need of food, clean water and cleaning supplies, etc. This charity helps prevent diseases by supplying clean water to rural places. It also helps improve the economy of these places by teaching the people skills and sustainable practices.

Jesus tells of how the lord will send a messenger to prepare the way for the second coming. He also explained the importance of tithing and how we will receive blessings.

Throughout the first half of the book of Matthew, Jesus hinted at a forthcoming death but the first time Jesus blatantly predicted his death and warned his disciples was in chapter 16:21. The second time Jesus foretold the upcoming crucifixion was in 17:22 and third and final time was in 20:17. Concurrently in this unit, there is a transfer of power. Jesus was taken to Pontius Pilate because as the governor, he was responsible to make tough judgments for the state.

Hebrew poetry is used to express various things in the Bible. Hebrew poetry is used to “express emotion, facilitate worship, and to instruct in wisdom” (Hindson, 2012). God uses Hebrew poetry to teach us how we can better live our lives. Within Hebrews the terms laziness, diligence, folly and wisdom are utilized. God’s plan for us to apply some of these terms and to give terminology to the way we should be living against.

     Matthew next describes Jesus through his passionate and loving ministry. The many stories of his work among the people are evidence of who he was as a person. He was a teacher, preacher, and healer to everyone who knew of God’s righteousness. Jesus had strong faith in his Father, and it was important to him that others did as well. Jesus spoke of the proper way to live life in order to be granted eternal life. Some of the first teachings that Matthew mentions in his gospel are of Jesus’

The beatitudes are just a sample of the many teachings that this book has to offer.

Matthew 24, as a whole, is a chapter covering the end times and what this will entail. For example, Mt. 24:29-31 illustrates to the reader a beautiful picture of what it will look like when the Son of Man returns. To better understand the parable in versus 24:45-51, it is necessary to look at 24:36-44 and 25:1-12. These verses will give a better understanding as to what the writer is trying to say in this synoptic gospel. In doing so, we can draw out three major concepts the writer is expressing. (1 The second coming of Jesus will be swift and sudden, something that no one will be able to anticipate (Mt. 24:36-39,46; 25:5) (2 Jesus will in fact return some day as the Son of Man (Mt. 24:42). (3 When Jesus returns, he will do so to gather those who are his servants, exalting them and making them his bride, the Church (Mt.

13 When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, "Who do people say the Son of Man is?" 14 They replied, "Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets." 15 "But what about you?" he asked. "Who do you say I am?" 16 Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." 17 Jesus replied, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven. 18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it.

Jesus is, as the Messianic Servant, shown to be the fulfilment of further Isaianic prophecy, that of the suffering Servant. Throughout Matthew’s gospel there are six direct allusions to Isaiah 53 indicating a definite link and identification by Matthew with this Israelite and Messianic hope. Further, Farmer suggests that direct allusions notwithstanding in 20:20-28 and especially 26:26-30 Isaiah 53's redemptive hope is supposed to be fulfilled through Jesus’ description of the outcome of his crucifixion.

In today’s Gospel, we read about Matthew 20:1-16. A man hired laborers for his vineyard. The men started at 9 o’clock, and agreed to usual daily wage. Around 5 o’clock, the man met more people standing around. He asked them, “Why do you stand here and idle all day?” The men replied, “Because no one has hired us.” He then told them to work in his vineyard. Later, the man told his foreman, “Summon the laborers and give them their pay, beginning with the last and ending with the first.” When the men who started at 5 o’clock came, they received the usual daily wage. When the the man who started at 9 o’clock came, he received the same wage. The man who worked earlier started to complain about how he worked more, but received the same wage.

After the story of the Centurion, these multitudes of people follow Jesus around as he heals peters mother-in-law (Matthew 8:14-17) and challenges a few people who profess that they want to follow him (Matthew 8:18-22). until he gave orders to sail to the other side of the lake with his disciples. This is when Jesus calms a

Genesis 1-3 offered the very first outline of societal norms and therein introduced interpretations of norms related to family, gender, and sex. In our now-progressive society, the constraints of indubitable religion are removed and the differing interpretations of gender, sex, and family within religion are freely debated. Since the text of creation is divine and human logic cannot fully interpret or understand God’s word, there are copious, varying interpretations of the text. An essential starting point for interpreting the Bible is the understanding that misinterpretations are bound to happen. The difference in time and context alone is causation, let alone the factors of translation and transcription. Susan T. Foh and Carol Meyers, both graduates of Wellesley College, have very differing strategies regarding how to interpret divine texts. Meyers, a professor at Duke, directed attention towards the context in which the text was written. Since our societies are constantly in flux, the context from when the text was written is often different from the context in which predominant and accepted interpretations were fabricated. Foh’s strategy of interpreting and understanding the text is to utilize latter parts of the text, which were written with more recent contexts, in order to understand the text. Both of these methodologies set up the text to be re-interpreted, however, Foh’s methodology is more complete because it allows the text to speak for itself rather than bring in

Truly in Matthew 24 we find Jesus, the Lord Himself, revealing what those days will be like. Below I have attempted a line-by-line interpretation of Mr. Yeats vision in “The Second Coming”. Please note - NOT ALL prophesy scriptures have been used, only those I felt would be in relation to this poetry work. Also some prophesies are not in order, but are arranged to follow Mr. Yeats poetry verses.

Jesus is portrayed as a compassionate healer and teacher in Luke's gospel. Luke also portrays Jesus as a saviour in the image of a divine man. Like was a well educated jew that was struggling with the christians new faith. Luke is one of the synoptic gospels in the New Testament whose audience appears to be gentiles. Luke portrays Jesus as a person who reaches out to the poor and brings Justice to all. In Luke 10:38-42 Jesus visited Martha and Mary. Martha was disrespectful to Jesus as she put cleaning before Jesus, where as Mary sat down at Jesus’ foot and stayed with him. Jesus then says “Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things” Jesus is showing compassion and love even though Martha was showing disrespect towards Jesus. Overall,

Privately, Jesus warns the disciples three times that not everything will happen the way they expect: "the Son of Man will be betrayed and they will kill Him, and the third day He will be raised up" (Matthew 17:22-23).