Mateus 24
G. Campbell Morgan · Citado em PreceptAustin
Mateus 24
Morgan asks "What does hell as destruction and death mean? Douglas Moo ably answers. Destruction and its related words in the New Testament "refer to the situation of a person or object that has lost the essence of its nature or function." Moo notes that destroy and destruction can refer to barren land (Ezek. 6:14; 14:16), to ointment that is poured out wastefully (Matt. 26:8; Mark 14:4), to wineskins with holes that no longer function (Matt. 9:17; Mark 2:22; Luke 5:37), to a lost coin (Luke 15:9), or even to the entire world that "perished," that is, ceased to be an inhabited world, in the flood (2 Peter 3:6). Moo concludes, "In none of these cases do the objects cease to exist; they cease to be useful or to exist in their original, intended state."" (What Is Hell?) See also study of verb for destroy - apollumi QUOTES RELATED TO HELL Think lightly of hell and you will think lightly of the cross. - C. H. Spurgeon The wicked in hell shall be always dying but never dead. - Thomas Watson There are no agnostics in hell. - Geoffrey B. Wilson On one occasion Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, the agnostic lecturer of the last century, was announced to give an address on hell. He declared he would prove conclusively that hell was a wild dream of some scheming theologians who invented it to terrify credulous people. As he was launching into his subject, a half-drunken man arose in the audience and exclaimed, "Make it strong, Bob. There's a lot of us poor fellows depending on you. If you are wrong, we are all lost. So be sure you can prove it clear and plain." No amount of reasoning can nullify God's sure Word. He has spoken as plainly of a hell for the finally impenitent as of a heaven for those who are saved. - George Sweeting God is ultimately unavoidable. The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. C. S. LEWIS, The Screwtape Letters Let it be considered that if our lives be not a journey to heaven they will be a journey to hell. - Jonathan Edwards He shall have hell as a debt who will not have heaven as a gift. - Anon. The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. A. W. Tozer No one is redeemed except through unmerited mercy, and no one is condemned except through merited judgment. - Augustine One of the horrors of hell is the undying memory of a misspent life—"Son, remember" (Luke 16:25). It does not require a decision to go to hell. Nothing has contributed more powerfully to wean me from all that held me down to earth than the thought, constantly dwelt upon, of death and of the last judgment. - Augustine 'Too late' is written on the gates of hell. - Anon. 'For ever' is the most solemn saying in the Bible. - J. C. Ryle Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset: eternity to the godless is a night that has no sunrise. - Thomas Watson Ever is a short word but it has no end. - Thomas Watson "Totally without hope one cannot live." To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here." - Feodor Dostoevski The wicked have a never-dying worm and the godly a never-fading crown. - Thomas Watson I desire to have both heaven and hell ever in my eye, while I stand on this isthmus of life, between two boundless oceans. - John Wesley The most awful fact in the world is the fact of hell and that some of our dearest relations and friends with whom we have lived, worked and worshipped will spend an eternity of anguish, away from God, eternally unforgiven, eternally doomed. - Isaac H. A. Ababio To believe in heaven but not in hell is to declare that there were times when Jesus was telling the truth and times when he was lying. - John Blanchard No man is entirely without inklings of judgment to come. - J. I. Packer The greatest and the hottest fires that ever were on earth are but ice in comparison of the fire of hell. - Thomas Brooks Those who hated God here will hate him there; the morally careless in daily life will be morally careless still; the defiant will continue defiant, and the unclean will remain uncleansed and unrepentant. - J. A. Motyer Eternal death is not the cessation of existence, but rather the loss of that life of fellowship with God which alone is worthy of the name. - D. Edmond Hiebert Time shall be no more when judgment comes, and when time is no more change is impossible. - C. H. Spurgeon A man who realizes in any measure the awful force of the words eternal hell won't shout about it, but will speak with all tenderness. - A. A. Hodge Would you know what makes heaven heaven? It is communion with God. And would you know what makes hell hell? It is to be forsaken of God. - R. B. Kuiper The safest road to hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without sign posts. - C. S. Lewis There are no personal relationships in hell. - C. S. Lewis If you are still unconverted, thank God that you are still not in hell. - Andrew Murray You will be a believer some day. If you never believe on earth, you will believe in hell. - Brownlow North An endless hell can no more be removed from the New Testament than an endless heaven can. - J. I. Packer As surely as God is eternal, so surely is heaven an endless day without night and hell an endless night without day. - J. C. Ryle The saddest road to hell is that which runs under the pulpit, past the Bible and through the midst of warnings and invitations. - J. C. Ryle I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word 'lost'. - C. H. Spurgeon It will be hell to a man to have his own voluntary choice confirmed, and made unchangeable. - C. H. Spurgeon Related Resources: Eternal Punishment - on site Gehenna - Holman Bible Dictionary Gehenna - Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament Gehenna - Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible Gehenna - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia Gehenna - The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia Gehenna - Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Hell - Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology Hell - American Tract Society Bible Dictionary Hell - Fausset's Bible Dictionary Scofield has a summary on Judgments in Scripture noting that seven are invested with special significance. These are: (1) the judgment of the believer's sins in the cross of Christ (John 12:31); (2) the believer's self-judgment (1Cor 11:31); (3) the judgment of the believer's works (2Cor 5:10); (4) the judgment of the individual Gentiles at the return of Christ to the earth (Mt 25:32); (5) the judgment of Israel at the return of Christ to the earth (Ezek 20:37); (6) the judgment of angels after the 1000 years (Jude 6); and (7) the judgment of the wicked dead with which the history of the present earth ends. (Rev 20:12). A VIVID WARNING OF THE HORRORS OF HELL- WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH J R Miller - The punishment of the unfaithful servant is vividly described. It is a fearful thing to live regardless (without paying attention to the present condition) of life's sacred trusts and solemn responsibilities. It is a terrible thing to die after having lived thus. We should compare these two pictures—the faithful and the unfaithful servant—and know positively which one of the two is our own portrait. (Ibid)
Mateus 24
Morgan - Military experts work day and night to keep America's armed forces at a high state of readiness. How about you? Are you living in the State of Readiness? Sixteen times in the Bible we find the phrase, Be ready. It first occurs in Exodus 19, when the children of Israel were to "be ready" for the Lord's descent onto Mount Sinai… If the Boy Scott motto is "Be Prepared," the Christian's motto is "Be Ready." We can never take a break from our Christianity nor relax our spiritual vigilance. Be ready to share, to give, to preach, to work. Most of all, be ready for Christ's return. It might be today! (Nelson's Annual Preacher's Sourcebook - 2007) W H Griffith Thomas summarizes "the sevenfold readiness depicted in the New Testament: Ready to preach (Ro 1:15). Ready to give an answer (1Pe 3:15). Ready to distribute (1Ti 6:18). Ready to every good work (Titus 3:1). Ready to be offered (2Ti 4:6). Ready to die (Acts 7:59). Ready for the coming (Mt 24.44). And it is all summed up in— Readiness of mind (Acts 17:11). Readiness of will (2Co 7:11). -- The Christian Life and How to Live It BE READY - Vance Havner - Be ye also ready… Matthew 24:44. Not only ready for His coming or ready to die but ready for anything—ready to give an answer for the hope within us (1Peter 3:15), ready to preach the Gospel (Romans 1:15). The Christian should live in a state of constant readiness to live or die, to spend or be spent. Ready to die and therefore ready to live. Ready to live and therefore ready to die. Paul had only two days on his calendar, "Today" and "That day." The Christian who is right and rich and radiant is ready, come what may! (Ed: Indeed, come Lord Jesus!)… The New Testament Christians were not only ready, they were expectant, hilariously anticipating the Lord's return. And we are bidden not only to prepare but to look for our Lord. (All the Days) Ready Ready to speak, ready to warn, Ready o'er souls to yearn, Ready in life, ready in death, Ready for His return. Ready to go, ready to stay, Ready my place to fill, Ready for service, lowly or great, Ready to do His will. —Charles Tillman (1903) Ready (prepared) (2092)(hetoimos from heteos = fitness) means to be prepared, ready. In secular Greek "The clear meaning of this word group is preparation both in the active sense of 'making ready' and in the passive sense of 'readiness', 'ability' or 'resolution'" (TDNT). It is useless to set the day and hour for Christ's coming. It is folly to neglect it. - A T Robertson For (gar) is a term of explanation explaining why we must continually be in a state of preparedness. Why? Jesus is coming when we do not expect! "It is because they do not know the time of the return that they must live in a state of constant preparedness." (Leon
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Morgan - Military experts work day and night to keep America's armed forces at a high state of readiness. How about you? Are you living in the State of Readiness? Sixteen times in the Bible we find the phrase, Be ready. It first occurs in Exodus 19, when the children of Israel were to "be ready" for the Lord's descent onto Mount Sinai… If the Boy Scott motto is "Be Prepared," the Christian's motto is "Be Ready." We can never take a break from our Christianity nor relax our spiritual vigilance. Be ready to share, to give, to preach, to work. Most of all, be ready for Christ's return. It might be today! (Nelson's Annual Preacher's Sourcebook - 2007) W H Griffith Thomas summarizes "the sevenfold readiness depicted in the New Testament: Ready to preach (Ro 1:15). Ready to give an answer (1Pe 3:15). Ready to distribute (1Ti 6:18). Ready to every good work (Titus 3:1). Ready to be offered (2Ti 4:6). Ready to die (Acts 7:59). Ready for the coming (Mt 24.44). And it is all summed up in— Readiness of mind (Acts 17:11). Readiness of will (2Co 7:11). -- The Christian Life and How to Live It BE READY - Vance Havner - Be ye also ready… Matthew 24:44. Not only ready for His coming or ready to die but ready for anything—ready to give an answer for the hope within us (1Peter 3:15), ready to preach the Gospel (Romans 1:15). The Christian should live in a state of constant readiness to live or die, to spend or be spent. Ready to die and therefore ready to live. Ready to live and therefore ready to die. Paul had only two days on his calendar, "Today" and "That day." The Christian who is right and rich and radiant is ready, come what may! (Ed: Indeed, come Lord Jesus!)… The New Testament Christians were not only ready, they were expectant, hilariously anticipating the Lord's return. And we are bidden not only to prepare but to look for our Lord. (All the Days) Ready Ready to speak, ready to warn, Ready o'er souls to yearn, Ready in life, ready in death, Ready for His return. Ready to go, ready to stay, Ready my place to fill, Ready for service, lowly or great, Ready to do His will. —Charles Tillman (1903) Ready (prepared) (2092)(hetoimos from heteos = fitness) means to be prepared, ready. In secular Greek "The clear meaning of this word group is preparation both in the active sense of 'making ready' and in the passive sense of 'readiness', 'ability' or 'resolution'" (TDNT). It is useless to set the day and hour for Christ's coming. It is folly to neglect it. - A T Robertson For (gar) is a term of explanation explaining why we must continually be in a state of preparedness. Why? Jesus is coming when we do not expect! "It is because they do not know the time of the return that they must live in a state of constant preparedness." (Leon
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Morgan asks "What does hell as destruction and death mean? Douglas Moo ably answers. Destruction and its related words in the New Testament "refer to the situation of a person or object that has lost the essence of its nature or function." Moo notes that destroy and destruction can refer to barren land (Ezek. 6:14; 14:16), to ointment that is poured out wastefully (Matt. 26:8; Mark 14:4), to wineskins with holes that no longer function (Matt. 9:17; Mark 2:22; Luke 5:37), to a lost coin (Luke 15:9), or even to the entire world that "perished," that is, ceased to be an inhabited world, in the flood (2 Peter 3:6). Moo concludes, "In none of these cases do the objects cease to exist; they cease to be useful or to exist in their original, intended state."" (What Is Hell?) See also study of verb for destroy - apollumi QUOTES RELATED TO HELL Think lightly of hell and you will think lightly of the cross. - C. H. Spurgeon The wicked in hell shall be always dying but never dead. - Thomas Watson There are no agnostics in hell. - Geoffrey B. Wilson On one occasion Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, the agnostic lecturer of the last century, was announced to give an address on hell. He declared he would prove conclusively that hell was a wild dream of some scheming theologians who invented it to terrify credulous people. As he was launching into his subject, a half-drunken man arose in the audience and exclaimed, "Make it strong, Bob. There's a lot of us poor fellows depending on you. If you are wrong, we are all lost. So be sure you can prove it clear and plain." No amount of reasoning can nullify God's sure Word. He has spoken as plainly of a hell for the finally impenitent as of a heaven for those who are saved. - George Sweeting God is ultimately unavoidable. The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. C. S. LEWIS, The Screwtape Letters Let it be considered that if our lives be not a journey to heaven they will be a journey to hell. - Jonathan Edwards He shall have hell as a debt who will not have heaven as a gift. - Anon. The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. A. W. Tozer No one is redeemed except through unmerited mercy, and no one is condemned except through merited judgment. - Augustine One of the horrors of hell is the undying memory of a misspent life—"Son, remember" (Luke 16:25). It does not require a decision to go to hell. Nothing has contributed more powerfully to wean me from all that held me down to earth than the thought, constantly dwelt upon, of death and of the last judgment. - Augustine 'Too late' is written on the gates of hell. - Anon. 'For ever' is the most solemn saying in the Bible. - J. C. Ryle Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset: eternity to the godless is a night that has no sunrise. - Thomas Watson Ever is a short word but it has no end. - Thomas Watson "Totally without hope one cannot live." To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here." - Feodor Dostoevski The wicked have a never-dying worm and the godly a never-fading crown. - Thomas Watson I desire to have both heaven and hell ever in my eye, while I stand on this isthmus of life, between two boundless oceans. - John Wesley The most awful fact in the world is the fact of hell and that some of our dearest relations and friends with whom we have lived, worked and worshipped will spend an eternity of anguish, away from God, eternally unforgiven, eternally doomed. - Isaac H. A. Ababio To believe in heaven but not in hell is to declare that there were times when Jesus was telling the truth and times when he was lying. - John Blanchard No man is entirely without inklings of judgment to come. - J. I. Packer The greatest and the hottest fires that ever were on earth are but ice in comparison of the fire of hell. - Thomas Brooks Those who hated God here will hate him there; the morally careless in daily life will be morally careless still; the defiant will continue defiant, and the unclean will remain uncleansed and unrepentant. - J. A. Motyer Eternal death is not the cessation of existence, but rather the loss of that life of fellowship with God which alone is worthy of the name. - D. Edmond Hiebert Time shall be no more when judgment comes, and when time is no more change is impossible. - C. H. Spurgeon A man who realizes in any measure the awful force of the words eternal hell won't shout about it, but will speak with all tenderness. - A. A. Hodge Would you know what makes heaven heaven? It is communion with God. And would you know what makes hell hell? It is to be forsaken of God. - R. B. Kuiper The safest road to hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without sign posts. - C. S. Lewis There are no personal relationships in hell. - C. S. Lewis If you are still unconverted, thank God that you are still not in hell. - Andrew Murray You will be a believer some day. If you never believe on earth, you will believe in hell. - Brownlow North An endless hell can no more be removed from the New Testament than an endless heaven can. - J. I. Packer As surely as God is eternal, so surely is heaven an endless day without night and hell an endless night without day. - J. C. Ryle The saddest road to hell is that which runs under the pulpit, past the Bible and through the midst of warnings and invitations. - J. C. Ryle I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word 'lost'. - C. H. Spurgeon It will be hell to a man to have his own voluntary choice confirmed, and made unchangeable. - C. H. Spurgeon Related Resources: Eternal Punishment - on site Gehenna - Holman Bible Dictionary Gehenna - Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament Gehenna - Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible Gehenna - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia Gehenna - The 1901 Jewish Encyclopedia Gehenna - Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature Hell - Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology Hell - American Tract Society Bible Dictionary Hell - Fausset's Bible Dictionary Scofield has a summary on Judgments in Scripture noting that seven are invested with special significance. These are: (1) the judgment of the believer's sins in the cross of Christ (John 12:31); (2) the believer's self-judgment (1Cor 11:31); (3) the judgment of the believer's works (2Cor 5:10); (4) the judgment of the individual Gentiles at the return of Christ to the earth (Mt 25:32); (5) the judgment of Israel at the return of Christ to the earth (Ezek 20:37); (6) the judgment of angels after the 1000 years (Jude 6); and (7) the judgment of the wicked dead with which the history of the present earth ends. (Rev 20:12). A VIVID WARNING OF THE HORRORS OF HELL- WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH J R Miller - The punishment of the unfaithful servant is vividly described. It is a fearful thing to live regardless (without paying attention to the present condition) of life's sacred trusts and solemn responsibilities. It is a terrible thing to die after having lived thus. We should compare these two pictures—the faithful and the unfaithful servant—and know positively which one of the two is our own portrait. (Ibid)