Matthew 24:26 - In the wilderness (1st century historical fulfillment?)
Matthew 24:26 (1st century historical fulfillment?)
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Matthew 24:26: "Therefore, if they-say (to) you, ‘Behold — He-is in the wilderness’, do not go-out; ‘Behold — (He is) in the inner-rooms’, do not believe (it)."
1st century audience?
Jesus said in Matthew 24:26: "Therefore, if they-say (to) YOU, ‘Behold — He-is in the wilderness’, DO NOT GO-OUT".
Who can be the "YOU" (Matthew 24:26) addressed in this passage? 23 verses earlier, Jesus spoke to His 1st century disciples, as "the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us" (Matthew 24:3) and "having-responded, Jesus said (to) them" (Matthew 24:4) these things.
Jesus in Matthew 24:26 commanded His 1st century disciples "DO NOT GO-OUT" (Matthew 24:26) if "they-say (to) YOU" (Matthew 24:26) some things.
1st century events
The 1st century historian Josephus wrote about people who led other people in the wilderness (even specifically describing one as a "false prophet") as they were promising things that they claimed were from God.
The 1st century historian Josephus wrote in "The Wars of the Jews":
2:258 (2.13.4.258): "There was also another body of wicked men gotten together, not so impure in their actions, but more wicked in their intentions, who laid waste the happy state of the city no less than did these murderers."
2:259 (2.13.4.259): "These were such men as deceived and deluded the people under pretense of divine inspiration, but were for procuring innovations and changes of the government, and these prevailed with the multitude to act like madmen, and went before them into the wilderness, as pretending that God would there show them the signals of liberty;"
2:260 (2.13.4.260): "but Felix thought this procedure was to be the beginning of a revolt; so he sent some horsemen and footmen, both armed, who destroyed a great number of them."
The 1st century historian Josephus wrote in "The Wars of the Jews":
2:261 (2.13.5.261): "But there was an Egyptian false prophet that did the Jews more mischief than the former; for he was a cheat, and pretended to be a prophet also, and got together thirty thousand men that were deluded by him;"
2:262 (2.13.5.262): "these he led round about from the wilderness to the mount which was called the Mount of Olives, and was ready to break into Jerusalem by force from that place; and if he could but once conquer the Roman garrison and the people, he intended to domineer over them by the assistance of those guards of his that were to break into the city with him,"
2:263 (2.13.5.263): "but Felix prevented his attempt, and met him with his Roman soldiers, while all the people assisted him in his attack upon them, insomuch that, when it came to a battle, the Egyptian ran away, with a few others, while the greatest part of those that were with him were either destroyed or taken alive; but the rest of the multitude were dispersed every one to their own homes and there concealed themselves."
The 1st century historian Josephus wrote in "Antiquities":
20.8.10.188: "So Festus sent forces, both horsemen and footmen, to fall upon those that had been seduced by a certain impostor, who promised them deliverance and freedom from the miseries they were under, if they would but follow him as far as the wilderness. Accordingly those forces that were sent destroyed both him that had deluded them, and those that were his followers also."
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