The Sunday School Lesson Know the Truth about Jesus' Return by David M. McGee
Aug 24, 2025
Know the Truth about Jesus' Return (32:50)
Referenced Scriptures: Matthew 24:23-44; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12
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The scriptures below are from the WEB Bible.
Matthew 24:23-44
23) Then if any man will tell you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,‘ or, ‘There,‘ don‘t believe it.
24) For there will arise false Christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
25) Behold, I have told you beforehand.
26) If therefore they tell you, ‘Behold, he is in the wilderness!‘ don‘t go out; ‘Behold, he is in the inner chambers,‘ don‘t believe it.
27) For as the lightning comes forth from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
28) For wherever the carcass is, there will the vultures be gathered together.
29) But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give her light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
30) and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.
31) He will send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
32) "Now from the fig tree learn her parable. When its branch has now become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that the summer is near.
33) Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
34) Most assuredly I tell you, this generation will not pass away, until all these things are accomplished.
35) Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
36) But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
37) As the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
38) For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,
39) and they didn‘t know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
40) Then will two men be in the field: one is taken, and one is left;
41) two women grinding at the mill, one is taken, and one is left.
42) Watch therefore, for you don‘t know in what hour your Lord comes.
43) But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
44) Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don‘t expect, the Son of Man will come.
2 Thessalonians 2:1-12
1) Now we beg you, brothers, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our gathering together to him,
2) to the end that you won‘t be quickly shaken in your mind, nor yet be troubled, either by spirit, or by word, or by letter as from us, saying that the day of Christ had come.
3) Let no one deceive you in any way. For it will not be, unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of destruction,
4) he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
5) Don‘t you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?
6) Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.
7) For the mystery of lawlessness does already work. Only there is one who restrains now, until he is taken out of the way.
8) Then will the lawless one be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nothing by the brightness of his coming;
9) even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10) and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn‘t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11) Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;
12) that they all might be judged who didn‘t believe the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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