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other two to the end of the world. Christ, hereupon, foretells the utter ruin and destruction that were coming upon this place, Mat_24:2. Their question looked no further than the event Christ now foretold about the destruction of the Temple; but it appears by other passages, that they had very confused thoughts of future events. Christ, in his answer, though he does not expressly correct the mistakes of his disciples, yet looks beyond their question, and instructs his church, not only concerning the great events of that age, the destruction of Jerusalem, but concerning his second coming at the end of time, which he enters into a discourse of events, signs and warnings that will precede the end of time. Jesus continues on through verse 13 foretelling what events and happenings to expect leading up to the end time. In verse 14, He says, "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come." That which is intended here, is, that the end of the world shall be then, and not till then, when the gospel has done its work in the world. The gospel shall be preached, and that work carried on, so that all nations, first or last, shall have either the enjoyment, or the refusal, of the gospel; and then cometh the end, when the kingdom shall be delivered up to God, even the Father; when the mystery of God shall be finished, the mystical body completed, and the nations either converted and saved, or convicted and silenced, by the gospel; then shall the end come, of which he had said before (Mat_24:6, Mat_24:7), not yet, not till those intermediate events be fulfilled. The world shall stand as long as any of God's chosen ones remain uncalled; but, when they are all gathered in, it will be set on fire immediately.

I do not see Senator's Clinton, Obama, or McCain having any effect on spreading the gospel let alone speaking of it.

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