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Picking up where volume one left off, volume two begins at chapter fourteen of Matthew. Gaebelein continues his elucidation of the text with regard to parallel passages, semantic significance, doctrinal clarification, and application of parables. The author ventures headfirst into the historical and political context at the time of Jesus.

that one must endure to the end is nowhere given to the Christian believer, who is saved and safe in the Lord Jesus Christ. It has an entirely different meaning here. Again the prayer that the flight should not take place on the Sabbath day is Jewish, for the Christian believer has no Sabbath day, but the Lord’s day. The reference to Daniel and the great tribulation, which never concerns the church, but Israel, shows us that we are not on Christian, but Jewish ground. The preaching which is mentioned
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