Then Shall the Sanctuary Be Cleansed - Donald K. Short

Likewise when He pled with His hearers, "pray ye
that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the
sabbath day," was His chief concern with the
hardships of cold weather and of breaking the
Sabbath? All this is in the setting of the
Apocalypse when the "abomination of desolation"
has reached its climax.
Is there not a deeper truth? Was Jesus telling
His people then, and more important is He telling
us now, that children still on mother's milk are in
peril and cannot survive when the the woes of the
end-time fall? Only those in the unity of the faith
having a true knowledge of the Son of God, those
who are fully grown, mature, and who attain unto
the full stature of Christ, will be able to stand in
that great tribulation such as was not since the
beginning of the world (Ephesians 4:13; Matthew
24:21).
And when He said "winter" was His concern
with snow and ice rather than a time when truth is
dormant, there is no growth, no blossoms, no fruit,
a barren time? A people who had to flee in such a
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