A Different Course or Is There a Way to Avoid Mat.24 Events?

1. Why the Olivet Discourse

1. Uttered outside the city Mat.24:1-3

2. Predicted happenings are because of His rejection Mat.23:39-Mat.24:3

3. Then Jesus answered (Mat.24:4) 

1. What if Jesus was not rejected

1. The arrival of Elijah

   Mal.4:5-6 (ExeGeses Companion Bible) Behold, I send you Elijah the prophet before the face of the approaching of the great and awesome day of YAHWEH: and he turns the heart of the fathers to the sons and the heart of the sons to their fathers lest I come and smite the earth with destruction.

1. Awsome -  ירא (yare), to fear; morally to revere; causatively to frighten: - affright, be (make) afraid, dread (-ful), (put in) fear (-ful, -fully, -ing). (be had in) reverence (-end), X see, terrible (act, -ness, thing).

2. Lest - פּן (pen), lest, not, beware lest

1. John the Baptist and Elijah Mat.11:13-14, Lk.1:17, and Mat.17:10-13

Thus begins “the restoration of all things (pertaining to restored and regathered Israel). Acts 3:21 and Mat.13:24-30,36-43 fulfilled.

1. The re-birth of Israel Isa.11:11, Jer.23:1-8, Joh.3:1-12

2. God pours out His Spirit Isa.32:13-18, Eze.39:28-29, Joel 2:28-31, Acts 2:17-21

3. World Peace begins Ezekiel chapters 40-48; Isa2:1-4, Isa.11:10; Mic.4:1-4, Hos.3:5