<p>10:22&nbsp;<em>And you shall be hated of all men</em>- This again was Judaism&rsquo;s understanding of Israel&rsquo;s experience in the Gentile world (the word is used of Gentile &lsquo;hate&rsquo; for Israel in Lk. 1:71); but the Lord is teaching that His followers were the true Israel, and the Jewish orthodoxy who hated them were in fact the unsaved Gentile world.</p>
<p><em>For My Name&rsquo;s sake</em>- It is the Jews who would do this (Jn. 15:21) and yet by doing so, they would simply be doing what &ldquo;all nations&rdquo; would do the Lord&rsquo;s people &lsquo;for His Name&rsquo;s sake&rsquo; (Mt. 24:9).&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>But he that endures to the end, the same shall be saved- </em>It is only by having&nbsp;<em>hupomone</em>&nbsp;that we can be saved (Mt. 24:13 cp. Lk. 21:19). And yet Mt. 10:22 would suggest that it will be difficult to have&nbsp;<em>hupomone</em>&nbsp;in our last days; many will fall away. Our present world is ever changing; stability in work, residence, relationships etc. seems impossible.&nbsp;<em>People give up so easily.&nbsp;</em>The generation brought up on telly and Snickers bars and deregulated Capitalism seeks only immediate resolution and satisfaction; and their short-termism fuels yet further their endless quest for the new and novel. And yet&nbsp;<em>we</em>&nbsp;must endure to the end in our work for the Lord and our relationship with Him, believing the same One Faith, living the same spiritual life which those doctrines demand. He amongst us who has&nbsp;<em>hupomone&nbsp;</em>to the end of the last generation, right up to the day when the Lord comes, the same will be saved (Mt. 24:13). The Lord Jesus had&nbsp;<em>hupomone</em>, it lead Him to the cross and beyond; and we must share His spirit of&nbsp;<em>hupomone</em>&nbsp;if we would ultimately share in His salvation (2 Thess. 3:5; Rev. 1:9; 3:10).</p>
<p>The &ldquo;end&rdquo; in view may well be the Lord&rsquo;s second coming, when &ldquo;the Son of Man comes&rdquo; (:23), in the context of the latter day preaching of the Gospel during the tribulation; for this passage in Matthew 10 is repeated in the Olivet prophecy in this same context. But not all readers of these words will have lived at that time. James so often comments upon Matthew&rsquo;s Gospel, and James 5:11 is the only other place in the NT where the words for &lsquo;enduring&rsquo; and &lsquo;end&rsquo; occur: &ldquo;We count them happy which endure [an allusion to the &lsquo;blessedness&rsquo; of the Beatitudes as recorded in Matthew]. You have heard of the patience [endurance] of Job, and have seen the&nbsp;<em>end</em>&nbsp;of the Lord&rdquo;. The &ldquo;end&rdquo; may therefore refer to the end of the period of trial in some aspect which the Lord brings into the life of a believer.</p>