Ezekiel 41:23-26

41:23 The outer sanctuary and the inner sanctuary each had a double door. 41:24 Each of the doors had two leaves, two swinging ¹  leaves; two leaves for one door and two leaves for the other. 41:25 On the doors of the outer sanctuary were carved cherubim and palm trees, like those carved on the walls, and there was a canopy ²  of wood on the front of the outside porch. 41:26 There were narrow windows and decorative palm trees on either side of the side walls of the porch; this is what the side chambers of the temple and the canopies were like.

Matthew 13:41-42

13:41 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom everything that causes sin as well as all lawbreakers. ³  13:42 They will throw them into the fiery furnace, ⁴  where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 13:49-50

13:49 It will be this way at the end of the age. Angels will come and separate the evil from the righteous 13:50 and throw them into the fiery furnace, ⁵  where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 24:34-35

24:34 I tell you the truth, ⁶  this generation ⁷  will not pass away until all these things take place. 24:35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. ⁸ 

[41:24]  ¹ tn Heb “turning” leaves.

[41:25]  ² tn Or “railings.” See L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:218.

[13:41]  ³ tn Grk “the ones who practice lawlessness.”

[13:42]  ⁴ sn A quotation from Dan 3:6.

[13:50]  ⁵ sn An allusion to Dan 3:6.

[24:34]  ⁶ tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amhn), I say to you.”

[24:34]  ⁷ sn This is one of the hardest verses in the gospels to interpret. Various views exist for what generation means. (1) Some take it as meaning “race” and thus as an assurance that the Jewish race (nation) will not pass away. But it is very questionable that the Greek term γενεά (genea) can have this meaning. Two other options are possible. (2) Generation might mean “this type of generation” and refer to the generation of wicked humanity. Then the point is that humanity will not perish, because God will redeem it. Or (3) generation may refer to “the generation that sees the signs of the end” (v. 30), who will also see the end itself. In other words, once the movement to the return of Christ starts, all the events connected with it happen very quickly, in rapid succession.

[24:35]  ⁸ sn The words that Jesus predicts here will never pass away. They are more stable and lasting than creation itself. For this kind of image, see Isa 40:8; 55:10-11.