Matthew 24:8 - Birth-pains (1st century biblical fulfillment?)

Matthew 24:8 (1st century biblical fulfillment?)


Matthew 24:7 - Famines and earthquakes (1st century biblical & historical fulfillment?):
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Matthew 24:8

Matthew 24:9 - Affliction, killed, hated (1st century biblical & historical fulfillment?):
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Matthew 24:8: "But all these (things are a) beginning (of) birth-pains."


Birth-pains?

The same Greek words that are used in the various passages will be CAPITALIZED.

Jesus said in Matthew 24:8: "But all THESE (THINGS are a) beginning (of) BIRTH-PAINS."

What would be "all THESE (THINGS)" (Matthew 24:8) that Jesus would refer to? 

In the previous verses, Jesus said: "many will-come on-the-basis-of My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ’. And they-will-deceive many. And you-will-be-about (to) hear(-of) wars and rumors (of) wars. See (that) you are not alarmed! For (they) must take-place, but it is not-yet the end. For nation will-arise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there-will-be FAMINES and earthquakes in various-places" (Matthew 24:5-7). This is then that Jesus added: "But all THESE (THINGS are a) beginning (of) BIRTH-PAINS" (Matthew 24:8). 

Jesus then added: "At-that-time they-will-hand you over to AFFLICTION, and THEY-WILL-KILL you" (Matthew 24:9) and "the LOVE (of) the majority will-grow-cold" (Matthew 24:12).


Later in the 1st century, Paul wrote to His 1st century audience: "we-know that the whole creation is-groaning-together and SUFFERING-BIRTHPAINS-TOGETHER until the present" (Romans 8:22). The Greek word here for "SUFFERING-BIRTHPAINS-TOGETHER" (Romans 8:22) is in the present tense, thus referring to an event that was happening at this time when Paul was writing this. This Greek word is only used 1 time in the entire New Testament: only in Romans 8:22.

The Greek word for "SUFFERING-BIRTHPAINS-TOGETHER" [sunódinó 4944 in Greek, verb] used in Romans 8:22 comes from the Greek word for "with" [sun 4862 in Greek, preposition] and the Greek word for "to-suffer-birth-pains" [ódinó 5605 in Greek, verb] which comes from "BIRTH-PAINS" [ódin 5604 in Greek, verb] which is used in Matthew 24:8.

Paul wrote about "SUFFERING-BIRTHPAINS-TOGETHER until the present" (Romans 8:22) in the context of writing about similar things that Jesus said in Matthew 24:5-12, as for example Paul then added: "Who shall-separate us from the LOVE (of) Christ? AFFLICTION, or distress, or persecution, or FAMINE, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? Just as it-has-been-written that “For-your-sake WE-ARE-BEING-PUT-TO-DEATH the whole day" (Romans 8:35-36). 

This can be similar to what Jesus said in the context of "BIRTH-PAINS" (Matthew 24:8), that "the LOVE (of) the majority will-grow-cold" (Matthew 24:12), "they-will-hand you over to AFFLICTION" (Matthew 24:9), "there-will-be FAMINES" (Matthew 24:7) and "THEY-WILL-KILL you" (Matthew 24:9).

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Birth-pains in the context of the destruction of a city?

It is written in Matthew 24:8: "all these (things are a) beginning (of) BIRTH-PAINS".

The "BIRTH-PAINS" (Matthew 24:8) is an expression that can be used to refer to things happening in the context of the destruction of a city. 

For example, regarding the destruction of Babylon it was written: "A vision which Isaiah son of Amoz saw against Babylon" (Isaiah 13:1), "Be wailing, for the day of the LORD [is] near, and destruction from God will come!" (Isaiah 13:6), "the elders will be troubled, and BIRTH-PAINS will seize them, as of a woman giving birth" (Isaiah 13:8). 


1st century events

In the 1st century, the city of Jerusalem was destroyed with its temple, around AD 70. 

The 1st century historian Josephus wrote about the destruction of Jerusalem in the 1st century in "The Wars of the Jews":

(6.10:1): "And thus was Jerusalem taken, in the second year of the reign of Vespasian, on the eight day of the month Gorpieus [Elu]. It had been taken five times before, though this was the second time of its desolation".

(7:1:1): "Now as soon as the army had no more people to slay or to plunder, because there remained none to be the objects of their fury, (for they would not have spared any, had there remained any other work to be done,) Caesar gave orders that they should now demolish the entire city and temple, ...it was so thoroughly laid even with the ground by those that dug it up to the foundation, that there was left nothing to make those that came thither believe it had ever been inhabited. This was the end which Jerusalem came to by the madness of those that were for innovations; a city otherwise of great magnificence, and of mighty fame among all mankind."



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