• Matthew 23:1-4 Jesus fingers the talk about works
• Matthew 23:5 Broad prison boxes and head shackles
• Matthew 23:6-12 Taking it to the birds
• Matthew 23:13-23 Woe to the hypocrites
• Matthew 23:24 So far as the net gain of a gnat into a canopy
• Matthew 23:25-26 Cleaning the cup and bowl
• Matthew 23: 27-32 Measured with the white tombs
• Matthew 23:33-36 Prophets and wise ones and scribes
• Matthew 23:37-39 Seeing the big house as it is



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Matthew 24 is known as the Olivet Discourse where Jesus, at the request of the disciples, talks of the End Times or "All of it".

• Matthew 24:1-2 Seeing the cites at the house of the temple
• Matthew 24:3 All of it in the Olivet Discourse
• Matthew 24:4-5 False Christs and all of it
•  Matthew 24:6-7 Wars and rumors of wars (this page)
• Matthew 24:8-14 Beginning of sorrows
• Matthew 24:15-20 Delimiting the boundary of the region of a mountain
• Matthew 24:21-24 Short day cutoff
• Matthew 24:25-31 Told before
• Matthew 24:32-35 End time fig trees
• Matthew 24:37-42 Days of Noah
• Matthew 24:36 Day and hour
• Matthew 24:43 Identity of the householder
• Matthew 24:43-51 Parable of the evil servant

The Olivet Discourse continues into chapter 25.

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The ancient Greek word "μέλλω" ≈ "likely, destined, bound" as in a "destiny". A common meaning is that of "shall".

The ancient Greek words "ἀκοή" ≈ "hear" (noun) and "ἀκούω" ≈ "hear" (verb).

The Greek word translated as "troubled" is that of the ancient Greek word "θροέω" ≈ "cry aloud, tell of, call out". That is, "see" that you do not "cry out" or "tell of" or "call out" (i.e., against).

The ancient Greek word "θροέω" ≈ "cry aloud, tell of, call out". This word is used only in the Olivet Discourse in Matthew and Mark and in Paul's letter to the Thessalonians. It appears out of place there as if a later meaning was used by someone writing as if from Paul.

The Greek word translated as "troubled" is that of the ancient Greek word "θροέω" ≈ "cry aloud, tell of, call out". That is, "see" that you do not "cry out" or "tell of" or "call out" (i.e., against).

Paul here uses the same word used in the Olivet Discourse (and only there) and is often translated as "troubled" but means "cry aloud" or "tell of". Perhaps Paul is using that meaning here. Perhaps this is not Paul and someone later, using the later definition, wrote this letter.

There are other logical issues with what is said here.

Details are left as a future topic.

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The ancient Greek word "οὔπω" ≈ "not yet, not at all" and comes from two Greek words.

• "οὐ" ≈ "not" (concrete).
• "πω" ≈ "up to this time, yet, at all, ever".

When one "hears" about "wars", and "hearings" of "wars" (not "rumors"), one is not to "cry out" that the "end" has come. How many books have been written, etc., on what one "hears" and then the "end" is come?

Think the story of chicken little. The sky is falling!

Will Jesus ever talk about the "sky" "falling"? How about the "stars" "falling"?

What is the value of the expression 2*3+5?

Math people tend to think in terms of text and parentheses.
Computer people tend to think in terms of trees without parentheses.

Changing the root changes the implicit parentheses.

A syntax tree, similar to a sentence diagram does not help decide the meaning since the syntax tree depicts the meaning as decided by the precedence rules. The usual mathematical rule is that multiplication is done first and then addition. Natural language does not have such default rules.

Without rules on operator precedence, the value is ambiguous. Mathematics tends to use parentheses to disambiguate. Computer science tends to use trees since trees are used internally for computational ordering. The parentheses disappear inside the computer. Here are two ways to parse 2*3+5.

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• The word for "rise" is that of "waking up" (first word of the verse in Greek).
• The word "nation" is that of "people". Before, 1776 "kings" waged war. After 1776, "people" and "kingdoms" waged war.

Might this have happened with the American Revolution in 1776 followed by the French Revolution in 1789 and revolutions thereafter? These were essentially people waking up on/against other people and kingdoms waking up on/against other kingdoms. The result were civilian and soldier deaths unheard of since ancient times.

The Greek words for "famine" and "plague" can be play on words. Today they would be pronounced the same.

• "λιμός" ≈ "famine, hunger, starvation".
• "λοιμός" ≈ "plague, pestilence".

Most modern "famines" are man-made and not natural phenomena. Can there be a "famine" of the truth of what Jesus actually said and meant?

Matthew records "famines", and "earthquakes". It appears that people remembered one or the other and related that to Luke who used both words. The additional word "pestilence", from the Latin, was then added in Matthew by the TR (Textus Receptus).

• "σεισμοι" ≈ "earthquakes"
• "σης" ≈ "your, yours" (genitive, used by disciples in verse 3) and "μοι" ≈ "me" (dative).

Can a "yours" with respect to "me" (Jesus is speaking) adversarial relationship cause issues? How about "earthquakes"?

Can the "yours" and "me" relationship cause spiritual "earthquakes"?

Summary of the opposition (not some long ago and far away esoteric evil):

• "wrestle" is a play on words with "again" and "of old".
• "against" is that of "to" as in taking it "to" the opposition.



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• "principalities" or "of old": generic evil at the start after the fall of the creation (base case)
• "powers" or "lack of restraint": generic powers since the fall of the creation (step case)
• "rulers" or "people power" of "darkness" in the "world": civil governments (external threat)
• "wickedness" or "oppression" in "high places" or "heavenly places": religious institutions (internal threat)

[Roman times, Nazi times, modern times (e.g., certain theologians), etc.]

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