Gospel of Matthew Chapter 24 Vs. 28

 The Abomination of Desolation

Matthew 24:28 “For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.”

wheresoever the carcase... Where the dead bodies are slain at Armageddon the birds will be gathered together to eat them (Job. 39:30; Eze. 39:17-22; Luke 17:34-37; Rev. 19:17-21). The rapture will have taken place years before this. Christ is not a dead carcass nor are the saints eagles to be caught up to such a carcass. This is not in the air, but on earth (Eze. 39:17; Rev. 19:11-21).

Carcase (πτῶμα)

From πίπτω, to fall. Originally a fall, and thence a fallen body; a corpse. Compare Lat. cadaver, from cado, to fall. See Mark 6:29; Rev. 11:8. On the saying itself, compare Job 39:30.

will the eagles... The location of a carcass is visible from great distances because of the circling carrion birds overhead (Job. 39:27-30). Similarly, Christ’s return will be clearly evident to all near and far. The same point is made by the lightning in verse 27. The vulture and dead body imagery here also speaks of the judgment that will accompany His return (Rev. 19:21).

Eagles (ἀετιό)

Rev. puts vultures in margin. The griffon vulture is meant, which surpasses the eagle in size and power. Aristotle notes how this bird scents its prey from afar and congregates in the wake of an army. In the Russian war vast numbers were collected in the Crimea and remained until the end of the campaign in the neighborhood of the camp, although previously scarcely known in the country.

Wherever there is a carcass physical corruption, vultures will go there to eat it. Similarly, where there is spiritual corruption judgment will follow. The world will have become the domain of Satan’s man, the Antichrist, the lawless one (2Thes. 2:8), and many people will have been corrupted by false prophets (Mat. 24:24). But the Son of Man will come quickly in judgment (Mat. 24:27).