7. What did He say of the wars, famines, pestilences, and earthquakes which were to precede these
events?
Answer
"All these are the beginning of sorrows." Verse 8.
NOTE - These were to precede and culminate in the great calamity and overthrow, first, of
Jerusalem, and finally of the whole world; for, as already noted, the prophecy has a double application,
first, to Jerusalem and the Jewish nation, and secondly, to the whole world. The destruction of Jerusalem
for its rejection of Christ at His first advent was a type of the destruction of the world _at the end for its
rejection of Christ in refusing to heed the closing warning message sent by God to prepare the world for
Christ's second advent.
What change is wrought in conversion, or the new birth?
What is revealed by the law?
19. Upon returning from a feast at Jerusalem how came Joseph and Mary to lose Jesus when He was twelve years old?
Because of the interest which this miracle created in Him, what did the Pharisees say?
When tempted to bow down and worship Satan, what reply did Christ make?
What are the meek to inherit?
4. And when the new heavens and the new earth have appeared, and the holy city, New Jerusalem, then he made?
Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle