Mat 24:20 And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath.
If the Sabbath was done away with, why would Messiah be expecting them to be keeping it at His 2nd coming? If they are to be done away with, then why the need to turn them from feast days in to days of mourning? They still exist, just not as they were used to having because there now is no temple in Jerusalem. Again, context is everything!
This passage was understood by the early church to refer to the darkness covering the land for three hours during Christ's passion.
Mat 24:20 And pray that your flight may not be in winter or on the Sabbath.
If the Sabbath was done away with, why would Messiah be expecting them to be keeping it at His 2nd coming?
It does not refer to His second coming, but to the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. In Luke 21 Jesus gave instructions to Christians in Jerusalem to FLEE THE CITY before the Roman armies surrounding the city destroyed it. The reason he instructed them to pray that their flight not be on a Sabbath day is that the Jews who controlled the city up until 70 AD always CLOSED THE GATES OF THE CITY ON THE SABBATH (Nehemiah 13:15-22) in which case the Christians could not get out.
The other two hindrances he mentions are pregnant or nursing mothers, for obvious reasons, and winter, because of exposure to cold temperatures and possibly snow.
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