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I'm excited about this series that we're gonna start into

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future things, Jesus tells the future.

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And when I teach typically on Sunday morning especially,

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but obviously whenever I teach,

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I'm excited about helping you guys understand

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the word of God.

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I'm excited about the word of God that you hear

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actually impacting your life.

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So the Bible is not just for knowing,

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the Bible is for doing, the Bible is for obedience.

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Okay, we want you to live out what you learn in here, amen.

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And so that's part of what I'm trying to do.

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I'm also trying to help you understand the text.

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I'm not making up stuff.

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I'm going to the text and trying to figure out

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what did God mean when he wrote this book?

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And what did God mean when he wrote this particular passage?

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Because I believe that the whole Bible was inspired

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by the Holy Spirit, that holy men of old spake

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as they were moved by the Holy Ghost is what the Bible says.

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And so when we come to different passages,

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I want the point of the passage to be the point of the message.

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Who thinks that's a good idea?

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The point of the passage ought to be the point of the message

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and the point of the message ought to be the point

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of the passage, right?

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That's what we're trying to do.

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And I also know that as we come to different particular texts,

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there's different kinds of literature in the Bible.

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The Bible isn't just one type of literature.

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It's a lot of different kinds of literature.

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There's actually a song book in the Bible.

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Did you know that?

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The book of Psalms is like the hymnal, the Psalms,

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the songs of praise poetry that was written

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by the Jewish people.

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Some were by Moses, some were by David,

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some were by people we don't even know.

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But there's poetry in there.

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There's all kinds of literature.

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There's historical narrative.

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There's people, the Bible is a history book.

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It tells it, gives real history.

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And so that's part of it.

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About a third of the Bible is prophecy.

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About a third of the Bible is prophecy.

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So if I never cover prophecy,

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I would skip like a third of what the Bible has to say.

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Who thinks that's a bad idea?

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Right, that's a bad idea.

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And what's amazing about the Bible is that

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when it comes to this idea of prophecy,

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some prophecies have yet to be fulfilled,

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but there's a lot of prophecy that's already been fulfilled.

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There's prophecy that was made in the Old Testament

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about something that would happen in Old Testament times

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and it was fulfilled.

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It's already been fulfilled.

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Not talking about Jesus,

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not talking about anything in the New Testament,

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talking about what would happen 100 or 200 or 400 years

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after the start of it,

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and then it actually was fulfilled.

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So the Bible has this incredible track record

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about fulfilled prophecy.

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In fact, if you think about the Bible,

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you have the Old Testament and the New Testament.

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It starts in Genesis and it goes through

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into the New Testament.

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not totally, but somewhat,

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you have things in the beginning

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and leading up to the inter-testamental period.

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where Jesus shows up in the gospels.

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and John are all accounts of Jesus' life and ministry.

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the Gospel of John, stands for Acts of the Apostles.

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So this is what the Apostles did after Jesus left.

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And then the epistles are basically the writings of Paul

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and the other Apostles to churches

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to give them instruction,

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some some also to people who were pastors

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and people that were set as leaders

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in this new thing that God was doing called churches.

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because of what Jesus did in this time that there are churches.

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And then you have at the end of the book, Revelation.

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And Revelation is clearly about what's gonna happen

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in the future.

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It's a foretelling of what's gonna happen.

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So I say all that to say this.

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There's this other thing that's going on in our world.

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And that is that a lot of people have a lot of interest

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in what's gonna happen in the future.

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experienced over the last few years.

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When you read, if you're interested in all about the Bible,

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how many of you guys have noticed this about,

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about like movies and stuff?

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There's a lot of end of the world movies

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coming out right now.

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Like a lot of post-apocalyptic kind of stuff

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and that can get weird.

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I think there's a preoccupation with what's gonna happen

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in the end.

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And a lot of people think it's not gonna be good.

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I wanna tell you this, I've read the back of the book

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and it's gonna be great.

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It's gonna be awesome.

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There's gonna be some stuff that happens in between.

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But Jesus is coming back.

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And so you've got a couple of things going on.

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Like even this last week, you look at things happening

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in our world, you look at just this last week.

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a US official saying that there's a chance that Iran

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is going to attack Israel like any moment now.

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So Iran is on, would be on the east side of Israel.

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They've already been attacked on October 7th

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by the west side, by the Palestinians and Hamas.

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of the Old Testament, some of the things

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we're gonna look at today, you'll realize that Israel's

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very much in play in the in times.

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In fact, it's really all, it's in a lot of ways

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all about Israel.

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We have a war in Russia.

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We have, Russia is very much in times prophecy.

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Jesus' predictions about some of the things

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that would happen.

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One of the things that's named is earthquakes.

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You guys have heard about an earthquake this week, right?

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And so I just timed it just right, the series.

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And then we also have, it talks about pestilences

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and even in our country, and it wasn't just in our country,

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but in the whole world, we had this pandemic.

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You guys heard about COVID-19, or am I pronouncing it right,

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COVID? I'm joking.

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Obviously, we've all kind of endured that.

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there's a one world government imposing mandates on people

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about how they're gonna do things economically.

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with in our country, but that's definitely something

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that's happened, and I don't care where you stand

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on any of that stuff in the sense that it just is happening.

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okay, there's a future, what's coming?

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So you've got all that going on.

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And here's the good news.

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The Bible has an incredible track record

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about predicting the future.

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Jesus has an incredible track record

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about saying he will do things,

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and then those things being done.

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No man lays down, takes my life for me.

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I'll lay it down that I can take it up again.

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And last week, that's exactly what we celebrated.

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Wasn't it?

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That Jesus was resurrected.

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In Jesus' ministry, we find ourselves in Matthew 24

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at what some call Holy Week.

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It's the week leading up to Jesus' crucifixion,

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his burial and his resurrection.

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And in this week, Jesus has a conversation.

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We call it the all of it discourse.

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Everybody say that with me, all of it discourse.

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One more time.

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All of it discourse.

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It's called discourse because this is not a public sermon.

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Discourse is a conversation.

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This is not a public sermon.

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He's having like what I'm doing now,

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talking to a lot of people.

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This is him having a one on one conversation,

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not one on one, a private conversation with his disciples.

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So it's discourse in that sense.

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It's also called all of it

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because it's on a place called the Mount of Olives.

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There's the weird way why we call it the all of it discourse.

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And we'll see how that the Mount of Olives

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is actually interesting in this whole thing.

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But Jesus in this particular passage,

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answers a question that the disciples ask.

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And he gives the longest answer that he gives

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to almost anything he's ever asked in Matthew 24 and 25,

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answering this question that the disciples ask.

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Now, there's a lot of people who believe a lot of things

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about this particular passage.

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And what it means and how it means

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and how you can apply it and interpret it.

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Who agrees with me that if Jesus says something's gonna

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happen, we ought to know what he's talking about.

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And so here we are at Matthew chapter 24

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and he gives us this answer,

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but he gives the answer to a specific question.

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What's the question?

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We've already read it this morning,

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but I want you to see it on the screen here.

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Here's the question.

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It's in Matthew chapter 24.

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And we're gonna find it in verse number,

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I believe it's verse number four, isn't it?

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Go ahead and put that verse up there.

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Verse number three, here it is.

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And as he sat upon the Mount of Olives,

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the disciples came to him privately saying,

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here's the question, tell us,

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when shall these things be

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and what shall be the sign of thy coming

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and of the end of the world?

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Now, how many of you guys have ever seen a press conference?

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And every press conference, they do something

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that I wish they would change.

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you hear the person giving the press conference

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and then they go into a Q and A time, right?

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there's no microphone with the person

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not answering the, asking the question.

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How many of you guys have ever seen that?

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So you hear,

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yes, you should probably do that.

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And that's the answer.

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Who agrees that it's important sometimes

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to have the question right

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so you can understand the answer.

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So that's kind of what's going on here.

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What I wanna do today is to help you understand

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the context of the question

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so that when we read the answer that Jesus gives,

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we'll understand what he's thinking about

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and what he's trying to answer.

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He's answering the questions that the disciples gave him.

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And so for us to understand

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what Jesus is saying about the end times,

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we have to understand the teaching.

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We can understand Jesus's teaching

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of the Olivet discourse

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by understanding three critical components

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of the question that leads to Jesus's answer.

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If you don't understand the question,

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you won't understand the answer.

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So let me give you how we understand this question

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in this particular way.

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First thing you're gonna see

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is the context of the question.

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Where did this question come from?

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Why are the disciples asking this question?

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Well, I wanna give it to you.

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The disciples, write this down, this is amazing,

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they were Jewish.

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And Jesus was Jewish.

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So they asked this question from a Jewish perspective.

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The disciples had a view of eschatology.

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Now I know that's a big word, say it with me, eschatology.

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Eschatology, it comes from two words, eschaton,

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which means last things, and ology is study of.

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So it's a study of, or belief about,

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or doctrine about, last things, future things.

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The Jews and the Christians

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are not the only ones that have an eschatology.

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Everybody has a prediction about what,

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even people who are non-religious have a view

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of what could happen in the future.

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What do you think global warming's all about?

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Okay, so people have a view of,

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there's something that could happen in the future,

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and we should respond now in light of that.

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Okay, so they have a view of eschatology.

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So what we do too, even if you're not a Christian

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and a church-going person, being in a Christian nation,

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you have at least some kind of thought

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about what happens at the end.

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And it includes, because you're in a church today,

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it includes history that's happened now.

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You guys are all in a place where you're gathered

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with the assembly, the church at Glacia.

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What did the view, what did the disciples' view

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of eschatology, their view of last things,

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not include that we know.

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They didn't know this, we know it.

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Okay, here's a couple things.

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They did not have a concept of the assembly

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in human history and eschatology.

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What do I mean?

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They did not have a concept of the church, the assembly.

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What they understood about Jesus' teaching about the church

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was that it was his assembly that was there,

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the people that he assembled, right?

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Ephesians 5.31 says this.

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This is so important for you to understand.

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Ephesians 5.31 says,

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For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother

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and shall be joined unto his wife,

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and they too shall be one flesh.

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He's quoting Genesis chapter number three,

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and in quoting Genesis chapter number three,

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in Ephesians he's saying, hey, God's doing this thing.

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Husbands love your wives,

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and his Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.

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Wives submit to your husbands as the church submits to Christ.

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And so he's making this picture of husbands being like Christ

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and wives being like the church.

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And he says, For this cause a man will leave his father

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and mother, be joined to his wife,

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and unto him too shall be one flesh.

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This is a great, say the next word, mystery,

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but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

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What he's saying is, this is Ephesians.

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Ephesians comes after, it's written by Paul.

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Paul at this time is not even a Christian.

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Okay, when the disciples are having this conversation

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with Jesus, Paul's the guy that's studying

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at the field of the Gamelial,

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he doesn't even believe in Jesus.

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Later on, he tries to be a Christian serial killer.

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So this is not written yet.

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And what Paul's saying is God revealed to me something

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that was not revealed before.

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A mystery is something that was previously not revealed

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that I'm now revealing, and that's this.

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That when God set up marriage, when he planned marriage,

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by the way marriage is God's idea.

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When he planned marriage, he planned male and female,

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husband and wife, and he planned it in such a way

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that later he can point to Christ in the church

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as a picture of marriage.

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Not marriage as a picture of Christ in the church,

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but Christ in the church as a picture of marriage.

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But what he's saying is, it was something

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that was previously not revealed.

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People didn't know about this assembly

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that he was going to do.

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The church was a mystery, meaning it was not revealed

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to them at this time.

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They also had no concept of what we call the rapture.

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Have you guys ever heard of the rapture?

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Okay, the rapture is described in two places

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that I'm gonna show you.

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1 Corinthians 15-50 says this,

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now I say this, brethren, that the flesh and blood

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cannot inherit the kingdom of God, neither does corruption,

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and it can't inherit incorruption.

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Behold, I show you a mystery,

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something that's previously not been revealed

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that is now being revealed.

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We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.

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Meaning, not everybody that goes to be with God

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is gonna die.

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There's gonna be some that are alive.

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But everybody's gonna get changed.

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I'm getting a new body.

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And all God's people said, and the old people said, amen.

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Right?

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Right.

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And it says, we're gonna all be changed.

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How?

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In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,

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at the last trump, for the trump shall sound,

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and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,

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and we shall be changed.

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First Thessalon, again, 1 Corinthians wasn't written yet.

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This was a mystery.

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Something previously not revealed.

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What does that mean?

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It's not in the Old Testament that they understood

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without having the New Testament to describe it to them.

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First Thessalonians 4, 17,

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then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up.

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That's the word that we use for rapture,

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caught up together with them in the clouds who are them,

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those are the dead in Christ that will go first,

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to meet the Lord in the air,

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and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

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Who wants to go now?

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That'd be awesome.

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I wouldn't even mind not finishing the sermon.

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So they had no concept,

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real concept of the future of the church.

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They had no real concept of the rapture yet

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when they asked this question.

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They also had no instruction from Revelation

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because Revelation, again, wasn't written yet.

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What did it include?

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What did the, so all they knew about last things,

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they knew from the Old Testament.

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So what does the Old Testament, how did that inform?

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What did they believe about?

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What was their question?

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When will all these things be?

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What shall be the end of the age?

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When are you coming?

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What'll be the sign of your coming?

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Well, it included a few things.

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One thing it included was the Davidic covenant.

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Have you guys ever heard of the Davidic covenant?

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The covenant God made with David.

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What was that?

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Second Samuel chapter seven says this,

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and when thy days be fulfilled,

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this is God talking to King David.

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Have you guys ever heard of David and Goliath?

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David was a good king of Israel that God had,

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and God made a covenant with David,

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and this is it, a promise to David.

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When that is be fulfilled,

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thou shalt keep sleep with thy fathers,

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I will set up thy seed after thee.

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That means you're gonna have people that follow you,

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which shall proceed out of thy bowels,

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and I will establish his kingdom.

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He shall build a house for my name,

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and I will establish the throne of his kingdoms forever.

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So he's talking about Solomon,

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who does establish the temple of Solomon, correct,

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the temple of God, Solomon's temple.

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He established, he says verse 13,

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he will show build a house for my name,

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that's Solomon building the temple.

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God had told David that he couldn't build the temple,

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but so David just got all the,

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he went to Home Depot and got all the stuff.

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There was no Home Depot, you get my point.

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I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

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I will be his father, he shall be his son.

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If he committed aniquity, I will chase him

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with the rod of men, and with the stripes

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of the children of men, but my mercy shall not

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depart away for him as I took it from Saul,

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whom I put away before thee.

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And thine house, here it is, and thy kingdom

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shall be established forever before thee,

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thy throne shall be established forever.

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So he's saying, there's gonna be someone in charge

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of your throne, it's gonna be the line of David,

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and it's going to be forever, more on that in a minute.

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So they are thinking, David's son is supposed

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to sit on the throne.

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At the time of the disciples, who was king of Israel?

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Nobody except the Romans had taken over, who's with me?

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Okay, so are they kind of excited about someone

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being in charge other than Rome?

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Who agrees that if Canada took us over,

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we'd want those Canadians out of here, right?

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They have mediocre bacon, it's just not good.

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This is how they're feeling.

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So what are they thinking about last time?

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There's gonna be someone who comes and sits on a throne

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and it's David's throne.

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They also included a forerunner like the Messiah

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to come before the Messiah.

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They knew that when the Messiah came,

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there's gonna be someone that comes before him

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to prepare his way.

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Isaiah 41 to 5 says this, the voice of him that comes

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before him, that cries in the wilderness,

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prepare ye the way of the Lord and make straight

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the desert a highway for our God.

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Every valley shall be exalted, every mountain and hill

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shall be made low, and the crooked shall be made straight,

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and the rough place is plain, and the glory of the Lord

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shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together

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for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

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Now you may think, well, that sounds like John the Baptist.

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Well, yes, but that's not, this particular thing

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is not talking about what happens in Jesus' first coming,

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it's talking about what happens in his second coming.

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So there's another forerunner to come, interesting.

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Malachi 4, 5 and 6, behold, I will send you Elijah,

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the prophet before the coming,

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and great dreadful day of the Lord.

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You see what I'm saying?

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The day of the Lord is not Jesus' first coming,

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it's Jesus' second coming.

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So he's saying there's gonna be someone coming

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that's like Elijah before God comes back to clean house,

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come back in judgment, right?

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And he shall turn the heart of the fathers of the children

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and the heart of the children to their fathers,

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lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

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So they think, okay, there's gonna be a Messiah,

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he's gonna be David's son, he's gonna sit on David's throne,

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there's gonna be a forerunner coming.

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They also believe that there was a time of trouble

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or tribulation, they knew that there was gonna be a time

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of trouble before this day of the Lord,

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that Jerusalem and Israel would be the center of the world

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and that there would be a regathering of the people

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of Israel together towards Jerusalem.

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Well, where did that come from?

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Well, here, let me give you a couple of verses.

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Zechariah chapter 14 verses two to four.

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I'm gonna put all my notes on our website

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because I know it's a lot.

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Verse two, for I will gather all nations against Jerusalem

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to battle and the city shall be taken

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and the house is rifled

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and the women ravished and half of the city

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shall go forth into captivity

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and the residue of the people shall not be cut off

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from the city of the Lord, then shall the Lord go forth

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and fight against those nations as when he fought

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in the day of battle.

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Crazy.

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Jeremiah 30 verses seven through nine.

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Alas, for that day is great so that none is like it.

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It is even the time of Jacob's trouble.

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This is a reference I believe to the tribulation

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that is coming.

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But he shall be saved out of it for it shall come

523
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to pass in that day, say to the Lord of hosts,

524
00:23:49,360 --> 00:23:51,360
that I will break his yoke from off thy neck

525
00:23:51,360 --> 00:23:52,720
and I will burst thy bonds

526
00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:55,040
and the stranger shall no more serve themselves of him,

527
00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:59,360
but they shall serve the Lord their God and David,

528
00:23:59,360 --> 00:24:03,800
their king whom I will raise up unto them.

529
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,640
He's saying that at the end of this tribulation,

530
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:10,640
the Messiah, the son of David is gonna sit on David's throne

531
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,240
and this time of Jacob's trouble will be resolved.

532
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:17,040
That's what they knew, that's what they were looking for.

533
00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,480
They also believe that the Messiah was coming

534
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,840
to establish a kingdom in Jerusalem.

535
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,120
I mean, you guys have ever heard this verse

536
00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:31,360
at the time of Christmas,

537
00:24:31,360 --> 00:24:36,360
for unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given

538
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:40,480
and the government shall be upon his shoulder

539
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:44,120
and his name shall be called wonderful counselor,

540
00:24:44,120 --> 00:24:48,400
the mighty God, the everlasting father,

541
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:50,720
the prince of peace of the increase of his government

542
00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:54,640
and peace there shall be no end upon the throne of,

543
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:57,440
whose throne is it?

544
00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,400
David and upon his kingdom to order it

545
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,040
and to establish it with judgment and justice

546
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,480
from henceforth even forever,

547
00:25:05,480 --> 00:25:09,360
the zeal of the Lord of armies.

548
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:15,480
That's what hosts mean, shall perform this.

549
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:18,000
This is what they're thinking,

550
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,240
it's what we believe about the second coming,

551
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:26,600
that Jesus is gonna be on the throne of David in Jerusalem

552
00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:27,880
to rule and to reign.

553
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:29,600
That's what they believed.

554
00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,360
Now think about this,

555
00:25:32,360 --> 00:25:34,520
that's all part of their eschatology and more.

556
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:36,880
They also had it, not just a view of eschatology

557
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:40,080
or in things that was informed by all that I just told you.

558
00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:42,320
They also had a view, now think about now,

559
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:46,000
with all of that how they viewed Jesus' ministry.

560
00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,960
Who agrees the disciples were eyewitnesses of his ministry?

561
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:53,720
They saw things happen, for instance,

562
00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:56,120
they viewed John the Baptist as this forerunner

563
00:25:56,120 --> 00:25:59,800
that was coming, Matthew 3, 1-3.

564
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:01,320
And those days came John the Baptist preaching

565
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:02,800
the wilderness of Judah and saying,

566
00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,400
Repent ye the kingdom of heaven is at hand,

567
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,200
for this is he that I was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah,

568
00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,280
saying the voice of one crying in the wilderness,

569
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,960
prepare ye the way the Lord make his paths straight.

570
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:17,160
Some of the disciples were actually disciples of John

571
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,160
before they were disciples of Jesus.

572
00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,880
So this is fitting right in with their eschatology,

573
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,160
their view of what was gonna happen,

574
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:27,520
that there was a Messiah coming

575
00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,160
because there was somebody like Elijah

576
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,920
that's now saying, prepare the way the Lord.

577
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:35,840
It's the same message, so they thought that.

578
00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:39,800
Then think about the, of course, from that time

579
00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:42,680
to then the week that I'm talking about,

580
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:44,360
what did they see Jesus do?

581
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:47,920
They'd seen Jesus do all kinds of miracles.

582
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:51,760
He taught like nobody could teach, he taught with authority.

583
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:56,040
He taught, he healed blind people, he healed the sick,

584
00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:58,720
he healed the lame, he raised the dead.

585
00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:02,720
And they're excited because he picked them, right?

586
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:06,160
This Messiah that's coming,

587
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,760
who's gonna be the king on a throne,

588
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:13,120
is now here and he's doing things that,

589
00:27:13,120 --> 00:27:16,440
maybe even more than we thought would happen, right?

590
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,800
Then it comes to the week right up to

591
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:24,360
the week, Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection,

592
00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:27,440
and it starts with this triumphal entry.

593
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,000
In Matthew 21, 1-11, it says this,

594
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:31,840
all this was done that it might be fulfilled,

595
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:33,680
which was spoken by the prophets saying,

596
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:35,880
tell you the daughter of Zion, behold,

597
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:39,160
thy king cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass,

598
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,520
and a cult, the fold of an ass, and the disciples went

599
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:43,320
and did as Jesus had commanded them.

600
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:46,160
They understood that passage and said, now the Messiah,

601
00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:50,480
Jesus is telling us to go get a cult,

602
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:53,840
a donkey, and he needs it to fulfill prophecy.

603
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,440
Woo-hoo, it's starting.

604
00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,600
This is why they said what happened, right?

605
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:02,240
So they're excited and they brought the ass,

606
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:03,400
the cult, and put them on their clothes,

607
00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:04,560
and they set them there on,

608
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,680
and a very great multitude spread the garments in the way,

609
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:09,320
others cut down branches from the trees

610
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:10,240
and straddled them in the way,

611
00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:11,840
and the multitude that it went before,

612
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:13,680
and that followed cried saying,

613
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:18,320
Hosanna to the son of David, did you catch it?

614
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,000
Hosanna, save us now we pray.

615
00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:22,560
That's what Hosanna means.

616
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:27,080
Save us, deliver us from what?

617
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:28,440
From Rome.

618
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:30,880
That's what they were saying.

619
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,840
Deliver us from our trouble.

620
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:36,760
We have certainly gone through Jacob's trouble.

621
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:38,960
We're not in charge.

622
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:40,240
We should be in charge.

623
00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:42,520
We need David back.

624
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:44,280
Where's David's son?

625
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:45,120
Here he is.

626
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,200
This is a guy who's raising the dead.

627
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,280
Let's save us now we pray.

628
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:50,120
Are you with me?

629
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:53,320
And the multitudes that went before and followed,

630
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:54,840
cried saying, Hosanna to the son of David,

631
00:28:54,840 --> 00:28:56,560
blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.

632
00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,320
That is the actual, that blessed is he

633
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:00,720
that comes in the name of the Lord,

634
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:04,560
is a quote from a Psalm and from other parts

635
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:05,920
of the Old Testament that's talking about

636
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:07,360
the coming of the Messiah.

637
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:09,880
Hosanna in the highest.

638
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:11,960
And when he was coming to Jerusalem and the city was,

639
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:16,960
all the city was moved saying, who is this?

640
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:20,120
And the multitudes said, this is Jesus,

641
00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,760
the prophet of Galilee.

642
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:27,120
Then he moves right from that to going to the temple.

643
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:28,720
If you read, I won't take time to read it.

644
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:30,000
I'm running out of time.

645
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,160
But in Matthew 21, Jesus goes into the temple

646
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:34,880
and he cleanses out the temple and says,

647
00:29:34,880 --> 00:29:38,320
you're making my father's house like a den of thieves.

648
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:43,320
He says in verse 13, 21, I will read it.

649
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:45,080
Here we go.

650
00:29:45,080 --> 00:29:47,120
And said unto them, well, verse 12,

651
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:48,560
and Jesus went into the temple,

652
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:50,560
cast all of them that sold about in the temple

653
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:52,720
over through the tables, the money changers

654
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:54,480
and the seats of them that sold does

655
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:55,640
and said unto them, it is written,

656
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:57,240
my house shall be called the house of prayer.

657
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,600
But ye have made it the den of thieves.

658
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:01,160
What does he call it?

659
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:04,440
In verse 13, my house.

660
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:08,640
You're messing with my house.

661
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:11,160
And the blind lame came to him in the temple, he healed him.

662
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:12,960
And the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things

663
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:14,680
that he did and the children of crying in the temple

664
00:30:14,680 --> 00:30:17,080
and saying, Hosanna to the son of David.

665
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:19,760
And they were really excited

666
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:21,400
because they believed he was the Messiah.

667
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:23,320
No, they did not, they rejected him.

668
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:27,560
And he said unto them, here's what these say.

669
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,080
And Jesus said unto them, ye have never,

670
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,520
ye have ye never read out of the mouths of babes

671
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,520
and secondlings that has perfected praise.

672
00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:36,760
They're saying, you should say that you're not the Messiah.

673
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,320
And he's saying, actually, I think they're right.

674
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:42,440
And he left them and went out of the city of Bethany

675
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:43,280
and he lodged there.

676
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,240
Later on, he's arguing with them

677
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:48,600
about who the son of David is.

678
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,720
Again, he's doing that in Matthew 23, 1 through 36.

679
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:52,840
This is all leading up to it.

680
00:30:52,840 --> 00:30:57,480
He pronounces in 36 verses woes against the Pharisees.

681
00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:00,960
He's calling them out for their unbelief.

682
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:02,200
Okay.

683
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,600
And who agrees with me?

684
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,560
23 comes right before 24.

685
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:08,520
Okay.

686
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:11,440
At the end of 23, got your Bible, go to the end of 23.

687
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:13,440
This is right before he asks the question.

688
00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:14,560
You gotta get this.

689
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:20,520
He pronounces woe to the Pharisees.

690
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:22,960
He pronounces judgment to them, right?

691
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:27,240
And when you get to verse 37,

692
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,600
you see him say this,

693
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:32,840
Oh, Jerusalem,

694
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:34,520
Jerusalem,

695
00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:36,560
thou that killest the prophets

696
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:39,760
and stonest them which are sent unto thee,

697
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:44,360
how often would I have gathered thy children together,

698
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:48,120
even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings?

699
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,320
And ye would not.

700
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:52,440
What he's saying is,

701
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:57,440
in the second coming it says that when the Messiah comes,

702
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,200
he's gonna, he's like, they will be my people

703
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:03,760
and I will be their God.

704
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:06,400
And what he's saying is,

705
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:10,440
I've come to be your God and you've rejected me.

706
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:16,440
He had just told parables about how that there was a master

707
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:19,040
who had a vineyard and he kept sending people,

708
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:20,760
sending servants to the vineyard

709
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:22,760
and they kept rejecting the master

710
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,320
and they were rejecting his servants.

711
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:26,480
That was a picture of the prophets.

712
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:29,840
And then he sent his son and it says that in the story

713
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,840
that they killed the son, right?

714
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:36,160
And he basically says, you guys are stupid

715
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:37,520
because you think that I'm,

716
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:40,840
we're gonna get the vineyard if we kill the son.

717
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:44,200
No, you're gonna get in jail if you kill the son, right?

718
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,800
And they perceive that they were talking about

719
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:48,120
that Jesus was talking about him

720
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,320
and here Jesus kind of comes to this point

721
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:53,120
and he pronounces Jerusalem, hey, you've rejected me.

722
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,560
And then he says this, verse 38,

723
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:58,520
behold your house.

724
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,680
Now this is interesting, before he called the temple, what?

725
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:08,200
My house, now he calls it your house.

726
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:12,640
Your house is left desolate.

727
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:17,680
A few days earlier, Christ had referred to the temple

728
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:21,160
as his father's house, but the blessing and glory of God

729
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:24,680
were being removed from Israel at this time.

730
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:28,240
When Christ here departs from the temple,

731
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:33,080
as we see in verse one of 24, the glory of God goes with him.

732
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:37,080
Ezekiel 11, 23 describes Ezekiel's vision

733
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:40,240
of the departure of the Shekinah glory

734
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:41,920
and that it goes from the temple

735
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:46,200
to the Mount of Olives in this vision.

736
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:49,360
Jesus leaves the temple and where does he go?

737
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:53,600
Through the temple to the Mount of Olives.

738
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:58,000
Exactly the same route Christ follows here.

739
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,920
And then he says this, before he goes, he says this,

740
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:04,880
for I say unto you, your house is left desolate,

741
00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:07,800
Iqabahd, you've rejected me,

742
00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:11,160
so now there's this rejection, verse 39,

743
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:14,080
for I say unto you, you shall not see me henceforth

744
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:17,720
until ye shall say, blessed is he that cometh

745
00:34:17,720 --> 00:34:19,800
in the name of the Lord.

746
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:21,560
I'm not coming back to you Israel

747
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:23,800
until you recognize me as the Messiah.

748
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:24,840
That's what he's saying.

749
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:28,800
I want you to hear clearly from me

750
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,400
that the church has not replaced Israel.

751
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:37,080
I will bless them that bless thee

752
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:38,880
and curse them that curseeth thee,

753
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:40,680
the Bible says to Abraham.

754
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:42,440
And I think we're in a dangerous place

755
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:46,560
if we as a nation go against Israel.

756
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:48,320
That doesn't mean they're perfect.

757
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:49,960
Clearly they've messed up.

758
00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:53,440
But this is what Jesus said.

759
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:56,560
Now, get this, do you understand the way

760
00:34:56,560 --> 00:34:58,200
that the disciples are thinking?

761
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:02,400
Here is the Messiah, he's coming,

762
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:04,840
he's clearing out, he's pronouncing judgment.

763
00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:07,080
That's exactly what the Old Testament says

764
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:09,640
is gonna happen and we've got the inside track.

765
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:11,800
You remember stories that we learned

766
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,360
where the disciples were arguing with each other

767
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:16,920
about who would be greatest in the kingdom?

768
00:35:16,920 --> 00:35:18,240
Remember that?

769
00:35:18,240 --> 00:35:20,960
They're not arguing over who's like the coolest

770
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:22,880
or who's the best or whatever.

771
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:25,400
They're saying who's gonna get the best positions

772
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,080
because Jesus is coming to set up his kingdom,

773
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,600
his administration, his authority,

774
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:34,280
and we wanna be in charge, right?

775
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:35,480
That's what they're talking about

776
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,160
because they believe the kingdom is coming

777
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,120
and they believe he's coming any minute.

778
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:40,600
Then Jesus says one more thing

779
00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:43,000
and he asks him a question, look at 24.

780
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:47,600
This is Matthew 24, look at verse one and two.

781
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:49,600
And Jesus went out and departed from the temple

782
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:51,280
and his disciples came to him

783
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,840
for to show him the buildings of the temple

784
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:55,760
and Jesus said unto them,

785
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:58,360
seeing not all these things.

786
00:35:58,360 --> 00:35:59,720
Now this is interesting.

787
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:02,760
Anybody ever watched the movie Hoosiers?

788
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:04,920
Remember that movie?

789
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:08,320
And it's about this like small town farm basketball team

790
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:12,720
and the guys are saying, hey, how are you preparing your team

791
00:36:12,720 --> 00:36:14,760
to go to the big city in Indianapolis

792
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:16,120
to play in this huge gym?

793
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:20,120
And the coach says, well, my team hasn't hardly been out

794
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:21,120
of this county.

795
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:22,960
They've never seen a house that was more

796
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:24,920
than two or three stories tall.

797
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,120
So I'm just taking them to the big city

798
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:29,720
and they've never seen something like that, right?

799
00:36:29,720 --> 00:36:31,320
I think of that when I think of this.

800
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:34,880
The disciples who are living in these small rural areas

801
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,320
and galley coming to the temple and they see

802
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:41,320
they see Herod's temple and this is gigantic monstrosity

803
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:42,320
of a thing.

804
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:47,320
Some had said that to not see Herod's temple

805
00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:50,720
is not to not have ever seen a fine building in ancient times.

806
00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:52,320
I mean, it was an incredible place,

807
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:54,720
taller than anything that they've ever seen.

808
00:36:54,720 --> 00:36:57,320
This amazing thing and Jesus says to them,

809
00:36:58,720 --> 00:36:59,720
seeing all these things,

810
00:36:59,720 --> 00:37:02,320
verily I say unto you, there shall not be left here

811
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:06,120
one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down.

812
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:11,120
So not only has he said that he's the Messiah

813
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:13,120
and shown himself to be that,

814
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:16,120
now he's saying that the temple's gonna get destroyed.

815
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:20,120
So they are just like, how excited are the disciples?

816
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:23,120
They are really excited.

817
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,120
So that's where we get to number two,

818
00:37:25,120 --> 00:37:27,120
the wording of the question, I will be quick.

819
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:29,120
Here's the wording.

820
00:37:29,120 --> 00:37:31,120
And as he sat upon the Mount of Olives,

821
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:34,120
the disciples came unto him privately.

822
00:37:34,120 --> 00:37:36,120
So is this a public sermon?

823
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:39,120
No, this is just him talking with his disciples,

824
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:44,120
saying, tell us when shall these things be?

825
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:48,120
And what shall be the sign of the coming

826
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:50,120
and the end of the world?

827
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:53,120
When, think about this word, when.

828
00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:55,120
The disciples thought at this moment

829
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,120
that the when would be very soon.

830
00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:59,120
They thought that these things would be immediate.

831
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:02,120
When are you gonna, is this gonna be Tuesday, Wednesday,

832
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,120
Thursday, Friday, like next week?

833
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,120
When are you coming?

834
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:08,120
Could it be tomorrow?

835
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:10,120
Could it be by the end of Passover?

836
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,120
They were thinking it was immediate.

837
00:38:12,120 --> 00:38:14,120
Then it says these things.

838
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:16,120
This referred to what Jesus was talking about,

839
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:19,120
the desolation and destruction of the house of God in Jerusalem,

840
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:23,120
the final work of the Messiah to bring to a culmination

841
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:25,120
his own kingdom.

842
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:28,120
The disciples had seen Jesus have authority over nature.

843
00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:30,120
Peace be still.

844
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:34,120
What man or a man is this, even the winds and the seas obey him?

845
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:40,120
They had seen him have authority over demons.

846
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,120
Right?

847
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:43,120
What is your name?

848
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:45,120
My name is Legion, for me or many.

849
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:48,120
Hey, don't, if you're gonna throw us out, throw us into the pigs.

850
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:50,120
Right?

851
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:53,120
Over sickness, over even death.

852
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:55,120
Lazarus come forth.

853
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:57,120
They had seen all that.

854
00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:00,120
And so they expect a nation to rise up against him

855
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:03,120
and for him to usher in that new kingdom.

856
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,120
When are you coming?

857
00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:07,120
When are you gonna stop being an itinerant preacher

858
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:10,120
and when are you gonna be king?

859
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,120
What is the sign of your coming?

860
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:16,120
How will we know when this is happening?

861
00:39:16,120 --> 00:39:19,120
The darkness, the stars, the angels, the trumpets.

862
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:21,120
See, here's the thing.

863
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:23,120
They say, you're gonna be king.

864
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:27,120
They saw this as a single coming.

865
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:31,120
Even though Jesus had told them about the cross and the resurrection,

866
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:32,120
they didn't see that.

867
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:34,120
They didn't see the church age.

868
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:36,120
Can you imagine how excited they were?

869
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:39,120
This may have been the most excited these guys ever were

870
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:40,120
when they were following Jesus.

871
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:43,120
They thought over who would be the greatest to the point that Jesus

872
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:46,120
had dressed it in the upper room, not long after the events of

873
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:49,120
Matthew 24.

874
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:53,120
They argued about that back in Matthew chapter 20.

875
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:56,120
Even after the resurrection, even after Jesus came back,

876
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:58,120
they were asking these kinds of questions.

877
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:01,120
If you look at real quick at Acts 1-6, he says, write that down.

878
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:02,120
I'll tell it to you.

879
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:20,120
1-6, when they were therefore come together, they asked him,

880
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:35,120
when shall these things be?

881
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:39,120
They are literally asking the word coming is the word peruse.

882
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:42,120
The idea of the presence and the arrival.

883
00:40:42,120 --> 00:40:46,120
What will be the indication that you are finally here in your

884
00:40:46,120 --> 00:40:50,120
full and permanent presence as the Messiah king sitting on

885
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:51,120
David's throne.

886
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,120
That's what they are asking.

887
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:54,120
You get it?

888
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:56,120
That's the question.

889
00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:57,120
What is the end?

890
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:58,120
Last word.

891
00:40:58,120 --> 00:41:00,120
The end of the age.

892
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:04,120
The word is son Talia, which is used of a completion or a final

893
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:07,120
culmination of a series of planned events.

894
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:11,120
The disciples would have seen this as Jesus' full manifestation

895
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:13,120
of the end of the age.

896
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:17,120
The disciples would have seen this as Jesus' full manifestation

897
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:21,120
of his messianic power and glory ushering in his kingdom.

898
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:25,120
The phrase end of the world was also used in Matthew 1339-49

899
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:27,120
talking about the parable of the wheat and the tares.

900
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:30,120
It is also used at the end of the Great Commission where Jesus

901
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:36,120
tells them, and lo, I am with you even to the end of the age.

902
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,120
So what was their question?

903
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:42,120
Their question is, when are you coming back to be king?

904
00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:46,120
They are not in the mind of the fact that you are coming back to

905
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:47,120
be king.

906
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:50,120
Their question wasn't about the rapture because they didn't know

907
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:52,120
anything about the rapture.

908
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:56,120
Their question was a Jewish question about the end of the

909
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:57,120
world.

910
00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:00,120
So what is the application of the question?

911
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:03,120
Number three, the application of the question.

912
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:09,120
There is this really crazy part.

913
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:13,120
Do you remember when Jesus started his ministry, one of the

914
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:15,120
things he does is he goes back to his hometown.

915
00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:17,120
You guys remember that?

916
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:21,120
And he goes into the synagogue in his own town and they ask him

917
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:22,120
to speak.

918
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:26,120
And so they bring the scroll of Isaiah to him and he reads

919
00:42:26,120 --> 00:42:28,120
Isaiah 61.

920
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:30,120
This is what he read.

921
00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:37,120
The spirit of the Lord is upon me because the Lord has

922
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:40,120
anointed me to preach the good tidings unto the meek.

923
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:43,120
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty

924
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:46,120
to the captives and the opening of the prison unto them that are

925
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:50,120
bound, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.

926
00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:57,120
When Jesus gets up and he reads that and he stops there and he

927
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:03,120
closes up the scroll and says, today this is fulfilled in your

928
00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:04,120
ears.

929
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:07,120
What does he not read?

930
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,120
Look at what he doesn't read.

931
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:16,120
Verse two, and the day of vengeance of our God to come for

932
00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:18,120
all that mourn.

933
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:21,120
Isaiah has this messianic proclamation.

934
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:25,120
When Jesus comes he quotes it but he doesn't say to proclaim

935
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:31,120
vengeance because that's coming at the second coming.

936
00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:35,120
See, they didn't understand that Jesus was coming two times.

937
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:39,120
They thought he was just coming one time.

938
00:43:39,120 --> 00:43:41,120
Does that make sense?

939
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:45,120
And when Jesus came the first time he wasn't coming to bring

940
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:48,120
vengeance and wrath and condemnation.

941
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:52,120
He was coming to give forgiveness.

942
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:55,120
He was coming to offer himself as a sacrifice.

943
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:58,120
He wasn't coming to condemn the world but that all the world

944
00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:00,120
through him might be saved.

945
00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:03,120
He became wrath on the cross.

946
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:06,120
He came the object of God's wrath on the cross.

947
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:08,120
Does that make sense?

948
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:11,120
God poured out his wrath for your sin and mine on Jesus on the

949
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:12,120
cross.

950
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:16,120
When he comes back the second time he's coming in judgment.

951
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:18,120
He's coming in judgment.

952
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:22,120
He's coming to restore and to keep the promises that he made to

953
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:23,120
Israel.

954
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:28,120
That's why he's coming.

955
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:32,120
When the disciples see Jesus coming into Jerusalem on a donkey

956
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:36,120
and pronouncing judgment on Jerusalem, they believe Jesus is

957
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:39,120
about to set up his program of judgment and kingdom building

958
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:40,120
into place.

959
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:44,120
Jesus told them the building of the temple is going to be torn

960
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:47,120
down and keeping with their theology.

961
00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,120
They thought this was a sign among others of what could happen

962
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:51,120
quickly.

963
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:55,120
The answer to the question to the disciples, when are you going to

964
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:59,120
say that you will be able to see the true true fruition of your

965
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:03,120
kingly rule and reign making wrong, right and judging the

966
00:45:03,120 --> 00:45:04,120
nations.

967
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:08,120
And that's when Jesus says this, Jesus answered and said to

968
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:11,120
them, take heed that no man deceive you.

969
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:15,120
For many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and shall

970
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:18,120
deceive many and hear of wars and rumors of wars, see that you

971
00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:22,120
be not troubled for all these things must come to pass but the

972
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:26,120
nations that come in your name say I am the very cause of

973
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:31,120
the kingdom and there shall be famines and pestilences in

974
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:34,120
diverse places and all these things are the beginning of

975
00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:35,120
sorrows.

976
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:40,120
Then shall they deliver up to you to be afflicted and kill you

977
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:44,120
and be hated of all nations for my name sake and many be

978
00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:49,120
offended and betray one another and hate another and many fall

979
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:50,420
And the same shall be saved.

980
00:45:50,420 --> 00:45:54,320
And this gospel, here it is, of the kingdom,

981
00:45:56,260 --> 00:45:58,380
shall be preached into all the world for a witness

982
00:45:58,380 --> 00:46:02,940
unto all nations, and then shall the end come.

983
00:46:03,820 --> 00:46:04,980
That's Jesus' answer.

984
00:46:04,980 --> 00:46:08,340
He goes on to say much more, but I'll stop there.

985
00:46:09,380 --> 00:46:11,260
When is that?

986
00:46:11,260 --> 00:46:15,420
Well, there's multiple views on when this is being described.

987
00:46:15,420 --> 00:46:18,660
Okay, some people think, now this is according to us,

988
00:46:18,660 --> 00:46:20,140
from our perspective.

989
00:46:20,140 --> 00:46:22,300
What Jesus just described, when did this happen?

990
00:46:22,300 --> 00:46:25,340
Some people believe that it already happened in the past.

991
00:46:26,580 --> 00:46:29,140
Okay, there are some people that teach

992
00:46:29,140 --> 00:46:32,740
that all that Jesus just described already happened.

993
00:46:32,740 --> 00:46:34,780
Because here's what it did happen.

994
00:46:34,780 --> 00:46:36,860
The temple did get destroyed.

995
00:46:36,860 --> 00:46:40,740
In 8070, exactly what Jesus said would happen happened.

996
00:46:40,740 --> 00:46:43,100
There's not one stone upon another.

997
00:46:43,100 --> 00:46:46,500
They literally, the history tells us that the gold

998
00:46:46,500 --> 00:46:49,020
that was in the temple melted down because of the heat

999
00:46:49,020 --> 00:46:50,020
when it got invaded.

1000
00:46:50,020 --> 00:46:55,020
And they literally plucked up every stone from that temple

1001
00:46:55,180 --> 00:46:56,900
to get the gold out of from in between,

1002
00:46:56,900 --> 00:46:58,100
and it was just leveled.

1003
00:46:58,100 --> 00:47:00,540
The only thing that is there standing there today

1004
00:47:00,540 --> 00:47:02,460
is the western wall.

1005
00:47:02,460 --> 00:47:04,020
Have you guys ever heard of the western wall?

1006
00:47:04,020 --> 00:47:05,380
It's the retaining wall.

1007
00:47:05,380 --> 00:47:06,620
It's not even the wall of the temple.

1008
00:47:06,620 --> 00:47:09,180
It's the wall of the retaining wall under the temple.

1009
00:47:09,180 --> 00:47:10,340
That's all that's left.

1010
00:47:12,220 --> 00:47:14,660
So there are some that say when that happened back then,

1011
00:47:14,660 --> 00:47:17,500
that was Jesus, that was the fulfillment of what Jesus said.

1012
00:47:17,500 --> 00:47:21,060
There are some people who think that it's describing

1013
00:47:21,060 --> 00:47:23,780
the whole church age, that what Jesus is describing

1014
00:47:23,780 --> 00:47:27,020
in this passage is right now.

1015
00:47:27,020 --> 00:47:29,740
And you look at it, how many, this talks about earthquakes,

1016
00:47:29,740 --> 00:47:30,900
are there earthquakes?

1017
00:47:30,900 --> 00:47:31,820
Are there pestilences?

1018
00:47:31,820 --> 00:47:33,340
All those other things.

1019
00:47:33,340 --> 00:47:34,420
So there are some that say, well,

1020
00:47:34,420 --> 00:47:36,060
we're going through the tribulation now,

1021
00:47:36,060 --> 00:47:39,020
and then eventually the tribulation is gonna come to an end,

1022
00:47:39,020 --> 00:47:41,660
and Jesus is gonna come back in his second coming.

1023
00:47:41,660 --> 00:47:44,900
That this would be what many call the post-tribulational

1024
00:47:44,900 --> 00:47:47,420
rapturous position.

1025
00:47:47,420 --> 00:47:49,540
That Jesus is gonna come back,

1026
00:47:49,540 --> 00:47:52,140
and really they kinda have to merge Israel

1027
00:47:52,140 --> 00:47:54,980
and the church together to do this.

1028
00:47:56,020 --> 00:47:57,100
There's no rapture of the church,

1029
00:47:57,100 --> 00:47:59,740
it's the rapture of Jews in anyway.

1030
00:48:00,700 --> 00:48:03,980
This is a replacement theology a lot of times.

1031
00:48:03,980 --> 00:48:07,420
So that's people who think that it's present.

1032
00:48:07,420 --> 00:48:09,340
Here's what I believe the Bible's teaching,

1033
00:48:09,340 --> 00:48:12,860
and this is what I'm gonna teach you the next couple of weeks.

1034
00:48:12,860 --> 00:48:15,820
I believe that Jesus is describing something yet future.

1035
00:48:16,900 --> 00:48:17,740
Okay.

1036
00:48:19,100 --> 00:48:21,860
This view is that the rapture of the church will happen

1037
00:48:21,860 --> 00:48:25,060
before what happens, and Jesus' answer to the disciples.

1038
00:48:26,340 --> 00:48:28,380
And I'm gonna give you biblical reasons for that.

1039
00:48:28,380 --> 00:48:30,820
These predictions are seen as predictions

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of the end of the Jewish age, and that's still being future.

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It's a prediction of how God will come,

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and will make all things right.

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Jesus is coming to make all things right.

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Jesus is coming to make all things right.

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Jesus is coming to make all things right.

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Even so, come Lord Jesus.

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And it's a prediction of what's gonna happen yet

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in the future.

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You come to the end of a sermon like this.

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I know that's a lot of context to get to the answer,

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but how should you live as a result of some of the things

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I told you today?

1053
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I wanna tell you this, God has got it under control.

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God has it under control.

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He's not up in heaven going,

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how am I gonna get this to work out?

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What am I gonna do?

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Oh no, there's a war in Israel.

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Ah, ah, ah.

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God doesn't sweat.

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He doesn't twiddle his thumbs.

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He's not there ringing his hands.

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He's got a plan.

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And there are might be some of you even today,

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you're like, this guy kind of maybe sounds a little bit crazy.

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He thinks that he can tell you what's gonna happen

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in the future.

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Can I tell you, you're in the Bible too.

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I want you to look at one last passage.

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You guys ready?

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Second Peter.

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Second Peter.

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Chapter three.

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Peter says this.

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One of Jesus' disciples, by the way.

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This second epistle, beloved, I now write into you

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in both which I stir up in your pure minds

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by way of remembrance.

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That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken

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before by the holy prophets

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and of the commandment of us, the apostles,

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of the Lord and Savior, of the Lord and Savior.

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Knowing this first, that there shall become,

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that there shall come in the last days, scoffers.

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What are scoffers?

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Scoffers are people that like mock.

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People that don't believe.

1088
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People that make fun.

1089
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Walking after their own lusts and saying,

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where is the promise of His coming?

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For since the fathers fell asleep,

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all things continue as they were

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from the beginning of creation.

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He's saying, people say, you said a Messiah's coming,

1095
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you say that God's coming back.

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They've always said that.

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He's never come back in judgment, is what Peter says.

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For this they are willingly ignorant of

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that by the word of God, the heavens were of old

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and they are standing out of the water and in the water,

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whereby the world that then was being overflowed

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with water perished.

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He's saying, you don't think God comes in judgment,

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don't you remember Noah?

1105
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Don't you remember the worldwide flood?

1106
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Verse seven, but the heavens and the earth which are now,

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by the same word are kept in store,

1108
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reserved not into water, what?

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00:51:44,820 --> 00:51:49,180
Reserved unto fire against the day of judgment

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and perdition of ungodly men.

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But beloveded, be not ignorant of this one thing,

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that one day is what the Lord has a thousand years

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and a thousand years as a day.

1114
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The Lord is not slack concerning his promise.

1115
00:52:02,140 --> 00:52:03,660
What's the promise?

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00:52:03,660 --> 00:52:05,500
That he's coming back in judgment.

1117
00:52:06,380 --> 00:52:08,740
The Lord's not slack concerning his promise.

1118
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He's not up in heaven owing you anything

1119
00:52:11,260 --> 00:52:13,860
because you're like, oh, he's never coming back.

1120
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Why has he not come back yet?

1121
00:52:15,260 --> 00:52:16,620
Here it is, are you ready?

1122
00:52:16,620 --> 00:52:21,620
He is long suffering to usward,

1123
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not willing that any should perish,

1124
00:52:28,020 --> 00:52:32,140
but that all should come to repentance.

1125
00:52:33,460 --> 00:52:36,260
Why is Jesus not come back?

1126
00:52:36,260 --> 00:52:38,460
Because he wants people to be saved.

1127
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Because he wants people to be saved.

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But you need to be saved.

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00:52:48,820 --> 00:52:50,860
Jesus promised that he would come.

1130
00:52:50,860 --> 00:52:53,100
It was promised that Jesus would come.

1131
00:52:53,100 --> 00:52:55,860
And it was promised and foretold that when he came

1132
00:52:55,860 --> 00:52:58,940
that he would be crucified, that he would be killed,

1133
00:52:58,940 --> 00:53:02,100
that the chastisement of our peace would be upon him

1134
00:53:02,100 --> 00:53:04,180
and by his stripes we would be healed.

1135
00:53:05,300 --> 00:53:08,060
It was also prophesied that he would resurrect

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00:53:08,060 --> 00:53:12,580
and that by faith in him our sins could be forgiven.

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00:53:12,580 --> 00:53:15,900
The time for salvation is now.

1138
00:53:15,900 --> 00:53:19,580
We're not promised tomorrow, we're promised today.

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00:53:19,580 --> 00:53:22,180
Today is the day of salvation.

1140
00:53:22,180 --> 00:53:24,980
And the only thing that needs to happen next

1141
00:53:24,980 --> 00:53:28,420
is for that trumpet to blow and the rapture to happen.

1142
00:53:31,100 --> 00:53:33,300
There's coming a day when it's gonna be too late.

1143
00:53:33,300 --> 00:53:37,180
Today is the day of salvation.

1144
00:53:37,180 --> 00:53:38,820
So what's my message to you?

1145
00:53:39,940 --> 00:53:43,020
The Lord's not slight concerning His promise,

1146
00:53:43,020 --> 00:53:45,060
but is merciful to us.

1147
00:53:45,060 --> 00:53:47,780
Not willing that any should perish,

1148
00:53:47,780 --> 00:53:51,340
but that all should come to repentance.

1149
00:53:52,580 --> 00:53:54,660
How do you know it's talking about the second coming

1150
00:53:54,660 --> 00:53:56,220
and not the rapture?

1151
00:53:56,220 --> 00:53:57,300
Come back next week.

1152
00:53:57,300 --> 00:54:05,740
Careful children, goodPut, good me good.

1153
00:54:05,740 --> 00:54:07,180
Where do you go?

1154
00:54:07,180 --> 00:54:10,100
With things where the heart beats fast before it called.

1155
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Our love, are those who have lived,

1156
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:25,760
have not this enough to let them say it,