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  2. May 2, 2024 · Answer. In Matthew 24 Jesus is preparing His disciples for things to come, and He tells them that certain events are the beginning of sorrows” (Matthew 24:8, KJV), or “the beginning of birth pains.”.

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  3. May 25, 2024 · The ‘beginning of sorrows,’ as outlined in Matthew 24:4–8, is a critical juncture in the eschatological timeline. It is a period characterized by deception, conflict, natural disasters, and moral decline.

  4. Matthew 24:8-13. King James Version. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. 9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. 10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. 11 And many false prophets shall rise, and ...

  5. (8) The beginning of sorrows. --The words mean strictly, the beginning of travail pangs. The troubles through which the world passes are thought of as issuing in a "new birth"--the "regeneration" of Matthew 19:28 .

  6. Matthew 24:8 presents Jesus’ words as he describes the events that would lead to the end times, commonly referred to as the “beginning of sorrows”. In this context, “sorrows” can be interpreted as “birth pains,” a metaphor describing a period of suffering and turmoil preceding the end of the age and the coming of the Kingdom of God.

  7. Now Jesus uses a metaphor to describes these catastrophic events. They are "the beginning of the birth pains." They are not the birth, itself, or even the much-worse pains of labor, itself. In this metaphor, the delivery of the baby would represent the actual end of the age.

  8. When we looked forward to the eternity of misery that is before the obstinate refusers of Christ and his gospel, we may truly say, The greatest earthly judgments are but the beginning of sorrows. It is comforting that some shall endure even to the end.

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