can someone please respond to Matt. 24:20???
Good question. Many different ideas..
But pray ye that your
flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: For “then” shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no
, nor ever shall be.And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. Mat 24:20
The word flight is used one time in the scriptures. Interesting also that he uses the words :
nor ever shall be, to represent the type of tribulation. It would seem to represent the last final .
It would appear to be the end of time, the bringing in of the new heavens and earth where the Sun and Moon are no longer needed as time keepers.
I think the reference Sabbath day (singular) could represent the last day, the end of time. The Sabbath was the last day of the week. The word week does not seem to have its own Greek equivalent, not sure if there is one?
Seven times the use of the phrase “last day” are used to John to represent the rapture, the second resurrection at the end of the age. The last day seems to represent both the last resurrection and judgement day
ohn 11:24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again
in the resurrection at the
"last day".
John 12:48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same
shall judge him in the "
last day".
Sabbath is not used in the Mark account just winter.
Mark 13:18 And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.
Winter is used to represent seasons with winter representing a tempest or tribulation.
Acts 27:20 And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared, and no small tempest (winter) lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was then taken away.
In the Mathew account the Sabbath day is spoken of as plural as in the last days of tribulation. But for the elect's sake those days,plural, in respect to the last day, singular, shall be shortened.