The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 24:9
The Lord passes to the fate of his followers, or the corporate Church. Then . St Mark does not note the time; St. Luke writes, "before all these things." Hence we gather that the calamities now announced will precede, accompany, and follow those before mentioned. That which befell the apostles and early believers is an emblem of what Christianity will undergo at the hands of an antagonistic world. St. John, in the Revelation, has shadowed forth these things as doomed to fall upon the Church... read more
The Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 24:4-41
The first portion of the great prophecy. read more