⁶ While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper, ⁷ a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table. ⁸ When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. “Why this waste?” they asked. ⁹ “This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor.” ¹⁰ Aware of this, Jesus said to them, “Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me. ¹¹ The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me. ¹² When she poured this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial. ¹³ Truly I tell you, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.” (Matthew 26:6-13)
Here it talks about a woman with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, she came and poured it on the head of the Lord Jesus. Here it does not say who this woman was.
Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. (John 12:3)
The parallel passage John says that this woman is Mary, Martha’s sister. Earlier it said that she poured the ointment on Jesus’ head, and here it says that she poured the ointment on Jesus’ feet. Matthew 25:12 says that she poured the ointment on the Lord’s body, that is, the whole body. The disciples were very unhappy when they saw what Mary did, thinking it was too wasteful. The ointment could be sold for a lot of money to help the poor. Jesus said: You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me. There is always a chance to help the poor, because Jesus will soon leave the world, and there will not be many opportunities to do it directly on Jesus.
Mary poured the ointment on Jesus’ body for the Lord’s burial. She did this to express her love and gratitude to the Lord. wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will be remembered.
³⁸ As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. ³⁹ She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. ⁴⁰ But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!” ⁴¹ “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, ⁴² but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.” (Luke 10:38-42)
Here we see that Martha was distracted by all the preparations, but Mary was listening to the Lord’s words attentively, she knew the Lord’s will and the heart of the Lord, the Lord said that Mary has chosen what is better.
May God bless you and your family.

³¹ “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. ³² All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. ³³ He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. ³⁴ “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. ³⁵ For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, ³⁶ I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ ³⁷ “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? ³⁸ When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? ³⁹ When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ ⁴⁰ “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ ⁴¹ “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. ⁴² For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, ⁴³ I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’ ⁴⁴ “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ ⁴⁵ “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’ ⁴⁶ “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.” (Matthew 25:31-46)
The Son of Man here is the Lord Jesus, and the above parable is about what will happen when the Lord Jesus comes again. From the prophecies in the Bible and what is happening in the world, we know that the day of the Lord’s return is near. At that time, all nations will be gathered before Him. He will separate them, just as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. The sheep are those who help their brothers when they are in need, and the goats are those who do not help their brothers when they are in need. The Lord Jesus said that what you do to the least of your brothers is what you do to Him. When the least of your brothers is in need, what we do to them is what we do to the Lord, and we will receive the blessings and reward from the Heavenly Father.
⁴⁰ “Anyone who welcomes you welcomes me, and anyone who welcomes me welcomes the one who sent me. ⁴¹ Whoever welcomes a prophet as a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and whoever welcomes a righteous person as a righteous person will receive a righteous person’s reward. ⁴² And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones who is my disciple, truly I tell you, that person will certainly not lose their reward.” (Matthew 10:40-42)
Here we see that anyone who welcomes the disciples welcomes the Lord, and anyone who welcomes the Lord welcomes the Heavenly Father. Whoever welcomes a prophet or a righteous person will receive their rewards. Doing things for one of the little ones who is the Lord’s disciple, is doing things for the Lord. Even if you do small things, like giving a cup

¹⁴ “Again, it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them. ¹⁵ To one he gave five bags of gold, to another two bags, and to another one bag, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. ¹⁶ The man who had received five bags of gold went at once and put his money to work and gained five bags more. ¹⁷ So also, the one with two bags of gold gained two more. ¹⁸ But the man who had received one bag went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money. ¹⁹ “After a long time the master of those servants returned and settled accounts with them. ²⁰ The man who had received five bags of gold brought the other five. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with five bags of gold. See, I have gained five more.’ ²¹ “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’ ²² “The man with two bags of gold also came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with two bags of gold; see, I have gained two more.’ ²³ “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!’ ²⁴ “Then the man who had received one bag of gold came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. ²⁵ So I was afraid and went out and hid your gold in the ground. See, here is what belongs to you.’ ²⁶ “His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? ²⁷ Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest. ²⁸ “‘So take the bag of gold from him and give it to the one who has ten bags. ²⁹ For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. ³⁰ And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ (Matthew 25:14-30)
The man, the master in the parable is the Lord Jesus, and his servants are the servants of the Lord Jesus, that is, Christians. There are three servants here. The master gave them gold according to their ability: one given five bags of gold, one given two bags of gold, and one given one bag of gold. What does this mean? Here the Lord Jesus is not talking about he gave them the money to do business, but about the different gifts He gave to each servant. Some were given more, some were given less. Some used the gifts given by the Lord to serve the Lord, while some buried the gifts and did not use them. Because of the faithfulness of the first two servants, the master said: You good and faithful servant, you have been faithful in a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; come and share your master’s happiness. This is the master’s reward to the faithful servants when they meet the Lord in the future, and they can share the master’s happiness.
Luke 19:12-27 is similar to the above parable, but there are some differences. It talks about ten servants, and the master gives each servant a mina. The master gives different rewards to each servant for their different profits.  He gives us different rewards based on how faithfully we use the gifts  Here it says that whoever has, more will be given to him; whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. What does this mean? This is a summary of

1 “At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. ² Five of them were foolish and five were wise. ³ The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them. ⁴ The wise ones, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps. ⁵ The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep. ⁶ “At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’ ⁷ “Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps. ⁸ The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’ ⁹ “‘No,’ they replied, ‘there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.’ ¹⁰ “But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut. ¹¹ “Later the others also came. ‘Lord, Lord,’ they said, ‘open the door for us!’ ¹² “But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I don’t know you.’ ¹³ “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour. (Matthew 25:1-13)
Who is the bridegroom here? The Lord Jesus is the head of the church, and the church is the body of Christ. The bridegroom is the Lord Jesus, and who are the virgins? The virgins are Christians. Here it is about Christians waiting and preparing for the second coming of Lord Jesus. Here it says that the foolish virgins took their lamps but did not take any oil with them, while the wise took their lamps with oil in their jars. That is to say, the foolish did not prepare themselves in advance, while the wise prepared themselves in advance to welcome the arrival of the bridegroom. Here it says that the bridegroom’s arrival will be delayed. He will come at midnight, and the time of his coming is unexpected, so we must prepare ourselves now. This parable shows that the Lord knows the five wise virgins, but not the five foolish virgins. Knowing represents an intimate relationship, that is, the five wise virgins have an intimate relationship with the Lord, while the foolish virgins do not have an intimate relationship with the Lord. In the Bible, oil represents the Holy Spirit, the presence of the Holy Spirit, and the presence of the Lord.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. (Psalm 23:5)
The oil here represents the Holy Spirit. To anoint my head with oil is to anoint my head with the Holy Spirit.
²⁴ “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. ²⁵ The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. ²⁶ But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. ²⁷ The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.” (Matthew 7:24-27)
Here it says that the wise are those who listen to the Lord’s words and obey, just like building a house on a rock. This rock is the Lord Jesus, that is they have an intimate relationship with the Lord. Those who do not listen to the Lord’s words are foolish, just like building a house on the sand.
We must be wise virgins, holding lamps with oil. Always obey the Lord and seek the presence of the Holy Spirit and the Lord. The Lord Jesus wants us to be alert because we don’t know when he will come. The coming of the Lord Jesus is unexpected, so we must prepare in advance and be

³² “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. ³³ Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. ³⁴ Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. ³⁵ Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. ³⁶ “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. ³⁷ As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. ³⁸ For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; ³⁹ and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. ⁴⁰ Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. ⁴¹ Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left. ⁴² “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. ⁴³ But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁴ So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him. (Matthew 24:32-44)
Here the Lord Jesus said that when you see the branches of the fig tree become tender and leaves come out, you know that summer is near. When you see all these things, you know that the Son of Man is near. What are all these things? All these things are what the Lord Jesus said earlier about the things will happen before his coming. The Lord Jesus continued to say: This generation will not pass away until all these things are fulfilled. What does this generation mean? This generation is obviously not the generation of the Lord Jesus’ audience at that time, because the Lord Jesus has not come yet. The Lord Jesus meant that the signs before His return mentioned earlier will occur in a generation, that is, when you see these signs, the Lord will come again in your generation. But no one knows that day or hour, not even the angels know, and the Lord Jesus himself does not know either, only the Heavenly Father knows. The Lord Jesus continued to say that the day of His return will be as unexpected as the day of Noah. At that time, two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other will be left; Two women will be grinding at a hand mill; one will be taken and the other will be left. This is talking about the rapture, one of the two will be raptured and the other will be left behind.
¹⁶ For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. ¹⁷ After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. ¹⁸ Therefore encourage one another with these words. (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18)
This is talking about the rapture, the Lord’s coming again, he will descend from heaven, and believers will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the clouds and will be with the Lord forever.
The Lord Jesus said that his return is unexpected, so we must be alert, be prepared, prepare ourselves.
May God bless you and your family!

¹⁵ “So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand— ¹⁶ then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. ¹⁷ Let no one on the housetop go down to take anything out of the house. ¹⁸ Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak. ¹⁹ How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! ²⁰ Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath. ²¹ For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again. ²² “If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened. ²³ At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or, ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. ²⁴ For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. ²⁵ See, I have told you ahead of time. ²⁶ “So if anyone tells you, ‘There he is, out in the wilderness,’ do not go out; or, ‘Here he is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. ²⁷ For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. ²⁸ Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather. ²⁹ “Immediately after the distress of those days “‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’ ³⁰ “Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.³¹ And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. (Matthew 24:15-31)
The Lord Jesus said that in the last days, you will see the “abomination that causes desolation” mentioned by the prophet Daniel standing in the holy place. That is, the abomination of desolation will occur in the holy place, in Jerusalem.
²⁷ He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’  he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple  he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him. (Daniel 9:27)
The Book of Daniel predicts that the Antichrist will appear in the last days. He will make a firm covenant with many people within seven years. Three and a half years later, he will stop the sacrifices in the temple and setup the abomination of desolation.
³¹ “His armed forces will rise up to desecrate the temple fortress and will abolish the daily sacrifice. Then they will set up the abomination that causes desolation. (Daniel 11:31)
This also speaks of what will happen in the holy place of Jerusalem, where the daily burnt offering is removed and the abomination of desolation is established. The prophecy of the abomination of desolation is fulfilled three times.
In 167 B.C. Antiochus erected a statue of the Greek god Zeus in the Jerusalem temple. He also ordered that swine, biblically unclean animals, be offered on the temple altar, desecrating the holy place (fulfilling Daniel’s prophecy). These acts were loathsome, abhorrent and detestable to the Jewish people and were the first fulfillment of the abomination of desolation.
A second fulfillment of the abomination of desolation occurred in A.D. 70 when Roman armies under Titus sacked the city of Jerusalem. In the process, Titus’ forces destroyed the temple building and altar. It has not been rebuilt to this day.
¹¹ “From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination that causes desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. ¹² 

³ As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?” ⁴ Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. ⁵ For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many. ⁶ You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. ⁷ Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. ⁸ All these are the beginning of birth pains. ⁹ “Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. ¹⁰ At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, ¹¹ and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. ¹² Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, ¹³ but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. ¹⁴ And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. (Matthew 24:3-14)
The disciples asked Jesus in private what was the sign of his coming and the end of the age, and Jesus spoke of the appearance of many false Christs and false prophets.
There is a sect in China called Eastern Lightning or The Church of Almighty God, which was founded in China in 1991. The core doctrine is that Jesus Christ has returned to the earth and lives as a Chinese woman. The sect even kidnaps people and is considered a cult.
Another sect that is very popular in North America is Jehovah’s Witnesses. Their beliefs are also very different. They do not believe that people have spirits, saying that heaven is full and they will live on earth forever. They do not believe in the divinity of the Lord Jesus, and do not believe that the Holy Spirit is one person of the Trinity God. They are also called heretics.
This is what the Lord Jesus said about the appearance of false Christs and false prophets in the last days, wars and rumors of wars, nation against nation, kingdom against kingdom, famines and earthquakes in many places, and Christians will be persecuted. Because of the increase of lawlessness, the love of many people will grow cold. Another very important sign is that the gospel of the kingdom of heaven will spread throughout the world. With the emergence of the Internet, the gospel is more easily spread. We know that the day of the Lord Jesus’ return is near.
There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven. (Luke 21:11)
In the Gospel of Luke, it predicts that there will be earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in many places in the last days. The global pandemic a few years ago also shows that the day of the Lord Jesus’ return is near.
May God bless you and your family!

³⁷ “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. ³⁸ Look, your house is left to you desolate. ³⁹ For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’” Jesus left the temple and was walking away when his disciples came up to him to call his attention to its buildings. ² “Do you see all these things?” he asked. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.” (Matthew 23:37-39/24:1-2)
We see from the history of Israel, they often killed the prophets sent by God, and later they crucified the Son of God, the Lord Jesus on the cross. Here the Lord Jesus said: “How often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing.” They did not take refuge under the wings of God, the wings of the Lord, so they could not get the protection from God, from the Lord, so their house became desolate. The nation of Israel was destroyed in 722 BC. Here the Lord Jesus predicted the destruction of the temple, the second temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 AD, and the first temple was destroyed in 586 BC. But God did not forget his people, and Israel was restored as a nation in 1948 after more than 2,000 years of destruction.
²⁵ I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, ²⁶ and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written: “The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob. (Romans 11:25-26)
The Bible predicted that when the number of us non-Israelite Gentiles who are saved is full, all Israel will be saved. That is, at the end of the age, when the time of the Gentile ends, all Israel will be saved.
May God bless you and your family!