Welcome to Studies with Stearman.

Join us as we look deeper into the Bible.

Strengthen your faith with us, even as we see the day approaching.

And now, here's Gary.

Matthew 24 is one of those chapters in the Bible.

It gets read and reread and read and reread, and we're going to read it again today.

And as we do, I want to remind us once again of the three rules of Bible interpretation.

Sort of like the three rules of purchasing interpretation, sort of like the three rules of

purchasing real estate or investing in real estate, location, location, location.

The three rules of Bible study are context, context, and context. And that is never more true than in Matthew 24. The context is

everything in Matthew chapter 24. In Matthew 23, which we looked at last week and the

week before, Jesus completely cut himself off from the leaders of national Israel in one fell swoop.

He pronounced eight woes over them, followed by the lamentation over Jerusalem.

But in verse 34, and I wanted to look at this again, in verse 34 of Matthew 23, he said to these leaders of Israel, whom he referred to as

dragons and poisonous snakes, he says, how can you escape the damnation of hell? Wherefore,

behold, I send unto your prophets, wise men, scribes, and some of them you shall kill and crucify

some of them you shall scourge in your synagogues and persecute them from city to city

that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of

the righteous Abel under the blood of Zachariah son of barakaya whom you slew

between the temple and the altar,

barely I say unto you, all these things shall come upon this generation.

This generation is a phrase that has been argued back and forth for as long as people have read

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