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When Will These Things Happen?: A Study of Jesus as Judge in Matthew 21–25 is unavailable, but you can change that!

This study by Alistair Wilson seeks to allow Matthew’s carefully constructed presentation of Jesus to be given full weight in the modern evaluation of Jesus’ eschatology. Careful analysis of the text of Matthew 21–25 reveals Jesus to be standing firmly in the Jewish prophetic and wisdom traditions as he proclaims and enacts imminent judgment on the Jewish authorities; then boldly claims the...

The Father is the one who must ‘forgive our debts’ (6:12) and who may withhold such forgiveness (6:14–15). In the case of reward, the Father is identified on several occasions as the one who rewards.41 The first instance we may cite is the statement of John that the ‘coming one’ (ὁ ἐρχόμενος) would clear his threshing floor with the winnowing fork (3:11–12).42 The parable of the wise and foolish builders (7:24–7) may indicate that Jesus is the judge. What is clear
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