MATTHEW 24:26 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.”
So, if they say to you: look, he is in the wilderness, do not go out. If they say: look, he is in the inner rooms, do not believe it. The two specific false messiah scenarios — the wilderness messiah and the inner-room hidden messiah — are the two characteristic models of first-century messianic expectation. The wilderness messiah echoes Moses and the Exodus; the hidden messiah echoes the Jewish tradition of the concealed deliverer. Both scenarios should be rejected.
Church Fathers on Matthew 24:26
When the Lord had finished all that related to Jerusalem, He came in the rest to His own coming, and gives them signs thereof, useful not for them only, but for us and for all who shall be after us.
Wherein He shews that His second coming shall be not in lowliness as His first, but in glory; and therefore it is folly to seek in places little and obscure for Him who is the Light of the whole world. [marg note: John 8:12]
Notwithstanding, by reason of the great tribulation in which men shall be cast, false prophets promising to shew aid present from Christ, will falsely affirm that Christ is present in divers places, that they may draw into the service of Antichrist men discouraged and distracted.
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