MATTHEW 24:28 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.”
Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather. The proverb about the corpse and the vultures communicates the inevitability of the gathering: just as vultures gather wherever a carcass lies, the Son of Man's coming will inevitably follow the carcass of the collapsing age. The image is stark but the logic is clear: the end will be as obvious and as irresistible as scavenging birds circling carrion.
Church Fathers on Matthew 24:28
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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