Does 'marrying and giving in marriage' in Matthew 24:38 point to the LGBT movement as a sign of the end?
A viewer asks whether the timing of Matthew 24:38, marrying and giving in marriage at the coming of the Son of Man, can now be understood through the sacrilege of same-sex 'marriage' among Christians.
Answer
No, the marriage in Matthew 24 is not the sign; there are other reasons LGBT issues would be a sign. Matthew 24 is giving the picture of normalcy: when Jesus returns, it will not be amid obvious cataclysms, but during ordinary life, and marriage is the very pinnacle of normalcy, because people marry when things are stable. The message is that you will have no clue when Christ is coming, because everything will seem as normal as the day before; they will be marrying, drinking, and partying, just as in Noah's day up to the moment the flood came, with no indication until it happened. That is the point of marrying and giving in marriage. The real sign is elsewhere, for example Apocalypse 11:8, where Jerusalem, a symbol of the church, is said to have become like Sodom and Egypt, which does describe the corruption of the church today. So same-sex unions are a sign of the corruption of the church, but Matthew 24:38 itself is about the deceptive normalcy in which Christ will return.