Matthew 24

Which worship songs are based on Matthew 24?

  1. I've Got News for You — 11th Hour (2024) Matthew 24:3-44

    The song points to Jesus’ recorded prediction of troubled future days and his eventual return. Its reference to Christ’s words being printed in red strongly indicates the Olivet Discourse, where Jesus describes signs preceding the coming of the Son of Man.

  2. Nos Últimos Dias - Ao Vivo — fhop music (2024) Matthew 24:4-13

    The opening closely follows Jesus’ Olivet Discourse, including increasing deception, persecution and hatred of disciples, the cooling of love, the necessity of these events, and the call to endure.

  3. False Realities — Eric Cohen (2022) Matthew 24:6-8

    The description of nations rising against one another amid war and expectations of the approaching end closely follows Jesus’ end-times discourse.

  4. Word of God — Peyton Parrish (2025) Matthew 24:6

    The opening verse closely reproduces Jesus’ warning that reports of international conflict will precede the end but do not themselves mark its arrival.

  5. No Country — John Mark McMillan (2017) Matthew 24:6-7

    The opening and bridge adopt Jesus’ apocalyptic language about reports of warfare and surrounding upheaval. The song relocates those signs to the speaker’s doorstep as an image of social collapse.

  6. Casket Place — ApologetiX (2018) Matthew 24:6-12

    The accumulation of violence, earthquakes, moral breakdown, and expectation of Christ’s sudden return closely follows Jesus’ end-times discourse. The repeated contrast between spiritual sleep and alertness also reflects his command to remain watchful because the time of his coming is unknown.

  7. Burn — Impending Doom (2018) Matthew 24:6

    The song directly adopts Jesus’ warning about reports of warfare as a sign within his end-times discourse.

  8. Ever Almighty [Live] — Passion & Melodie Malone (2018) Matthew 24:6

    The song directly uses Jesus’ distinctive description of military conflict and reports of conflict during his discourse about coming upheaval.

  9. Many Will Fall Away — Bryann T. (2018) Matthew 24:10-13

    The chorus and closing refrain closely follow Jesus’ warning that many will abandon the faith, betray and hate one another, and that the person who endures to the end will be saved.

  10. Leão de Judá — Julliany Souza (2025) Matthew 24:12

    The opening describes increasing lawlessness accompanied by the cooling of human love, closely reproducing Jesus’ end-times warning.

  11. Son of Man — Michael Sweet (2019) Matthew 24:27-31

    The song closely follows Jesus’ description of the Son of Man’s return: worldwide visibility, cosmic darkness, mourning nations, arrival on heaven’s clouds with power and glory, a trumpet call, and the gathering of the elect from every direction.

  12. No More Hell To Pay - acoustic — Stryper (2024) Matthew 24:29

    The cosmic imagery of the sun and stars losing their normal light at the end of the age closely reflects Jesus’ description of celestial upheaval preceding his return.

  13. Your Love — Blessing Offor (2022) Matthew 24:29

    The prediction that the stars will eventually fall uses the specific cosmic-collapse imagery from Jesus' eschatological discourse.

  14. My Lord What a Morning — Joan Baez (2019) Matthew 24:29-31

    The falling stars, sounding trumpet, and glorious arrival of Jesus closely follow Christ’s description of the coming of the Son of Man and the gathering of his people.

  15. Moon — Daniel Caesar & Bon Iver (2025) Matthew 24:30-31

    The combined imagery of Jesus arriving on a cloud, a loud trumpet, and the gathering of people evokes Jesus' description of the Son of Man's return and the gathering of the elect.

  16. Glory Hallelujah — TAYA (2022) Matthew 24:30

    The final chorus portrays the King arriving with the clouds, closely invoking Jesus’ description of the Son of Man coming upon the clouds in glory. The change from anticipated assistance to the arrival of a sovereign King reinforces the Second Coming context.

  17. Hope for Everyone — Matt Maher (2018) Matthew 24:30-31

    The expectation of Christ coming on the clouds accompanied by a trumpet closely follows Jesus' description of the Son of Man's visible return.

  18. Be It Unto Me — Don Moen (2023) Matthew 24:35

    The contrast between the passing world and the permanence of Christ’s words closely follows Jesus’ declaration that creation will pass away while his words endure.

  19. The Word (Live) — Anna Golden (2023) Matthew 24:35

    The final verse contrasts the passing of the earth and human powers with the permanence of God's Word, closely restating Jesus' teaching about the endurance of his words.

  20. Ovelhinha - ao vivo — Isadora Pompeo (2024) Matthew 24:35

    The opening and closing contrast the transience of created life with the permanence of God's word, closely following Jesus' declaration that creation will pass away but his words will endure.

  21. The Kingdom of Jesus — The Porter's Gate (2024) Matthew 24:35

    The closing contrast between everything passing away and Christ’s enduring word paraphrases Jesus’ statement about the permanence of his words.

  22. Can We Go Home Now — Brandon Heath (2024) Matthew 24:36

    The acknowledgment that God alone knows the day and hour of the coming return specifically paraphrases Jesus' teaching about the unknown timing of his coming.

  23. Jesus Is Coming Back — Jordan Feliz (2020) Matthew 24:36

    The call to remain awake because the timing of Christ’s return is unknown closely paraphrases Jesus’ instruction to keep watch since no one knows when the Son of Man will come.

  24. Bible Going Viral — Caleb Gordon & Mike Teezy (2021) Matthew 24:36

    The song combines uncertainty about the timing of Jesus’ return with a declaration of readiness, closely reflecting Jesus’ teaching that the hour is unknown and his followers must remain prepared.

  25. Thief in the Night — Josiah Queen (2025) Matthew 24:43-44

    The song draws on Jesus’ image of an unexpected thief entering a guarded house while its owner is unprepared. It repurposes that warning about the Son of Man’s unexpected coming as a metaphor for grace disrupting material security.

  26. Out of the Dark — Mandisa (2017) Matthew 24:43

    The nighttime thief who forcibly enters a house evokes Jesus’ image of a thief breaking in during the night. The song deliberately reverses the image’s threatening force, presenting the unexpected intrusion as divine rescue.

Matthew 24 (King James Version)

1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.

2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.

7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.

10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)

16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

25 Behold, I have told you before.

26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:

33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?

46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.

48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;

49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;

50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,

51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.