1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 I am, amen. 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:06,000 Matthew 24. 3 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:10,000 I don't know if that song encourages you but I want you to 4 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:11,000 be encouraged today. 5 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,000 We are talking about God coming back. 6 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:17,000 Christ coming back. 7 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:21,000 And if it's your first time here with us, we are glad that 8 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:22,000 you are here. 9 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:26,000 And if you don't have a lot of context for Christianity and 10 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:31,000 what the Bible says, you may be really surprised by what we 11 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:32,000 talk about today. 12 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:37,000 We believe that Jesus came and that he wasn't just a man that he 13 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:38,000 was God. 14 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:40,000 That he lived a perfect life. 15 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,000 He died on the cross. 16 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,000 Not to pay for any sin that he had done because he never sinned. 17 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,000 He died to pay for your sin in mind. 18 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:51,000 And he resurrected from death. 19 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:55,000 And now he lives at the right hand of the father. 20 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,000 And to not believe that is to not be a Christian. 21 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,000 I hope you are not surprised that we believe that. 22 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,000 We believe that that historically happened. 23 00:01:04,000 --> 00:01:07,000 And we believe that that's where he is now. 24 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:11,000 The other thing we believe is that he said, I am coming back. 25 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,000 And he talked about that. 26 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:17,000 And that's really what we have been starting in this series. 27 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,000 It started last week. 28 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,000 It continues today. 29 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,000 And then it will finish up next week. 30 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:31,000 We studied this question that the disciples of Jesus asked the 31 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:35,000 Jesus right at the end of his life. 32 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,000 They didn't quite know what was going to be at the end of his 33 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:39,000 life. 34 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,000 Even though he told them. 35 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:44,000 And I will show you why here in a second. 36 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:46,000 And I won't preach the whole sermon. 37 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,000 But if you weren't here last week, I will give you some of the 38 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:50,000 background. 39 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,000 There is this question that they ask. 40 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:54,000 Let's see if this works here. 41 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:55,000 Oh, yeah, there it is. 42 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:56,000 Okay. 43 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,000 Here is the question. 44 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:02,000 This is the disciples coming to Jesus as he sat upon the 45 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:04,000 Mount of Olives. 46 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:09,000 The disciples came unto him privately saying, tell us when 47 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:14,000 shall these things be and what shall be the sign of thy coming 48 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:18,000 and of the end of the world. 49 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:23,000 Now, last week, we established some things. 50 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:28,000 What we established was the context of this question. 51 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:32,000 The disciples were Jesus' disciples. 52 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:36,000 And they long for what we long for. 53 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,000 We all long for justice. 54 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,000 Do you long for that? 55 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:44,000 For wrong to be made right. 56 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Who votes for no more pain? 57 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,000 And no more suffering. 58 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,000 And no more death. 59 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:56,000 And every worldview has to contend with that. 60 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,000 We live in a world where all those things exist. 61 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:03,000 And the Bible gives a reason why they exist. 62 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:06,000 They exist because sin under the world and death by sin. 63 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:08,000 Because of sin, the earth was cursed. 64 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:10,000 Because Adam sinned, we all sinned. 65 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:13,000 And that's where we find ourselves. 66 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:19,000 And these Jewish people, the disciples long for Jesus coming 67 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,000 back. 68 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:24,000 And they had a view of, sorry, they long for, and I say Jesus 69 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:28,000 coming back, they long for the Messiah's coming. 70 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:32,000 See, they had a view of eschatology, ology meaning study, 71 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,000 eschat, eschat in that coming from eschaton or last things. 72 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,000 They had a view of last things. 73 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,000 Their view of last things was that there was a Messiah that 74 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,000 was coming. 75 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,000 This Messiah that was coming was a Jewish Messiah. 76 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:50,000 He was made to sit on David's throne for all eternity. 77 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:54,000 And when he came back, he was going to make wrong right. 78 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,000 We're going to see that in some verses that we see today. 79 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:58,000 They believe that. 80 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,000 But what it did not include is they did not believe anything 81 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:03,000 about the rapture. 82 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,000 I showed you last week how that when Paul talked about the 83 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:13,000 rapture, this catching away of the bride of Christ, all who 84 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:17,000 named the name of Christ and the age that we live in. 85 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,000 That was a mystery, something that was previously not revealed. 86 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,000 It wasn't revealed to Daniel or to Isaiah or to any of the 87 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:25,000 prophets that came before. 88 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,000 And so they didn't know much about that either. 89 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,000 They also didn't understand what the church was supposed to be. 90 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,000 They didn't understand that Jesus was leaving. 91 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:37,000 There would be a time, what they did believe was that there 92 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:41,000 was a time before this Messiah came called Jacob's trouble. 93 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Jacob, if you came to Sunday school today, you found out that 94 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:50,000 Jacob is the name of Israel, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. 95 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:55,000 We learned today that the man who Jesus wrestled, God, named 96 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:59,000 him not Jacob, the sea versus the planter anymore. 97 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:04,000 He named him Israel, wrestles with God. 98 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:10,000 And so Israel, this God who came, there's this thing that's 99 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:13,000 called Jacob's trouble and it was a time where there would be 100 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:16,000 tribulation, difficulty, and then the Messiah would come and 101 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,000 make all the wrong right and sit on David's throne for an 102 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:20,000 everlasting kingdom. 103 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:23,000 And that before he came in this time of Jacob's trouble, there 104 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:28,000 would be this forerunner that would come like Elijah, the 105 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:34,000 prophet Elijah, who would usher in the Messiah's coming. 106 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:39,000 Now what they had viewed in his ministry was that he was 107 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:40,000 Messiah. 108 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:42,000 In fact, Jesus claimed to be Messiah. 109 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,000 He claimed to be God. 110 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:47,000 He allowed them to call him the Christ and he proved himself to 111 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,000 be God because he did all kinds of incredible things. 112 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:53,000 He healed the lame and the sick and raised the dead and he 113 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,000 just did all these amazing things. 114 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:59,000 And then if you think about when this particular question was 115 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:03,000 asked here in Matthew 24, leading right up until that time, 116 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:10,000 they had seen him do things like be on the donkey in a 117 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:14,000 triumphal entry coming into Jerusalem, which was prophesied 118 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:15,000 that would happen. 119 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:20,000 And people all around him going, Hosanna, save us now we pray. 120 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:24,000 Son of David, they were claiming, hey, this might be our 121 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:28,000 Messiah, come to take out Rome. 122 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:32,000 To help us with the tribulation that we are in now. 123 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,000 That's what they were hoping for. 124 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:36,000 That's what the disciples saw. 125 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:39,000 Then they saw him go into the temple and flip over tables. 126 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,000 They saw him, that was like right after that. 127 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:46,000 Later they saw him argue with the people in the temple. 128 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:50,000 He had this authority because he's a Messiah. 129 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:52,000 They had seen him call him the sea. 130 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:56,000 So I mean, some people in the temple aren't no problem. 131 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:03,000 Just how my Alabama came out there. 132 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,000 And so there's their question. 133 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:09,000 Okay, Jesus, you're the Messiah. 134 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,000 You're supposed to sit on the throne of David. 135 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:13,000 When are you coming? 136 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:19,000 And the word coming that they used is not like coming like 137 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,000 grandma and granddad are on their way or Santa Claus is coming 138 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:23,000 to town. 139 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:24,000 He's not here. 140 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:25,000 He's not, he's going to be here. 141 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,000 Coming the way they're asking it is the word perugio. 142 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:30,000 We're going to see that in a minute. 143 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:35,000 And it means when are you going to sit on your throne and get 144 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,000 rid of all that's wrong? 145 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:42,000 And institute what's going to happen here in Jerusalem. 146 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,000 And then Jesus gives them an answer. 147 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,000 That's why I left you last week and I said, I believe this is 148 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:49,000 going to happen in the future. 149 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,000 And we have a clue in Jesus' answer as to when this would 150 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:53,000 happen. 151 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,000 Obviously through the disciples it was future because they're 152 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,000 saying when is this going to happen in the future? 153 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:01,000 I believe for us now it's still in the future. 154 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,000 And I'm going to show you why. 155 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,000 There's four clues. 156 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,000 In Jesus' answer that speak to when. 157 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,000 When are you coming? 158 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:14,000 When are you going to perugio? 159 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:18,000 When are you going to establish your kingdom? 160 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:22,000 And these clues that I'm showing you start with the beginning. 161 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:25,000 If you look at verse 8, everybody there in Matthew 24. 162 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:28,000 In Matthew 24 I'm not going to show you yet. 163 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,000 I'll show you as we go. 164 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:33,000 But if you, you'll get lost if you don't look in your Bible. 165 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:34,000 You got a Bible? 166 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:38,000 That's what we use here, the Bible. 167 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:40,000 Aren't you glad? 168 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:43,000 Me too. 169 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:46,000 Jesus says if you look at verse 4, take heed that no man 170 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:49,000 deceive you, for many shall come in my name saying I am Christ 171 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:50,000 and shall deceive many. 172 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,000 You'll hear of wars and rumors of wars. 173 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:56,000 See that you be not troubled. 174 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:59,000 Now it is my goal today that you can walk out of here not 175 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:00,000 troubled. 176 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,000 Anybody for that? 177 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,000 You guys see the news last night? 178 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:09,000 Iran's attacking Israel. 179 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:12,000 A lot of crazy stuff happening. 180 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,000 And so go down to verse 8. 181 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,000 He names other things, wars and rumors of wars. 182 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,000 We'll talk more about this today. 183 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:23,000 And then he says this word here in verse 8. 184 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:29,000 All these are the beginning of sorrow or sorrow's actually. 185 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,000 My PowerPoint's wrong. 186 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,000 The beginning of sorrow's. 187 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,000 The word is Odin. 188 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:37,000 That's the Greek word. 189 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:41,000 Odin means birth pains. 190 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,000 Traveil. 191 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:46,000 Can you remember that? 192 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:48,000 Say birth pains. 193 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Okay, remember that. 194 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:53,000 Then he says that the beginning of birth pains. 195 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:55,000 Number 2, you have a middle. 196 00:09:55,000 --> 00:10:00,000 If you get down to verse 15, it's not obvious that it's the 197 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:01,000 middle. 198 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:05,000 It's not first obvious, but it is in the middle here. 199 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:08,000 Verse 15, when you therefore shall see the abomination of 200 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:12,000 desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy 201 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:13,000 place. 202 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:16,000 What's the holy place? 203 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:18,000 It's in Jerusalem, but it's also in the temple. 204 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:21,000 There's the holy place, the holy of holies. 205 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:24,000 Who so neat readeth, let him understand. 206 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:27,000 Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains. 207 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:31,000 So he says, here in the middle, you're going to see this thing 208 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:34,000 called the abomination of desolation, and that was spoken of 209 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,000 by Daniel the prophet. 210 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,000 Okay, so we'll come back to that. 211 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,000 So you have a beginning, you have a middle. 212 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,000 Then you have an end. 213 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:47,000 If you get down to verse 21, he's saying to them in verses 16 214 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:51,000 through 19, when you see that abomination of desolations you 215 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,000 need to run, you need to flee. 216 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:54,000 Why? 217 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:59,000 Verse 21, for then shall be great tribulation. 218 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:02,000 Say great tribulation. 219 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,000 Great tribulation. 220 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:10,000 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not 221 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:15,000 since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever 222 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,000 shall be. 223 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:20,000 What is he saying? 224 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:23,000 It's going to be bad. 225 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:26,000 There's not a time before it that's going to be worse, that's 226 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:29,000 ever been worse, there's not going to be a time after it that 227 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,000 will ever be worse. 228 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:32,000 Why? 229 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:34,000 Jesus is coming back. 230 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:40,000 And then he says in number four, he talks about 231 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:44,000 perugia, if you go down to, I didn't put the verse on here. 232 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:52,000 Verse 27, verse 26, wherefore if they say unto you, behold, he 233 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:55,000 is in the desert talking about Christ, because of these 234 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:58,000 false Christ that are in verse 24, we go to verse 24, for 235 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:02,000 there shall arise false Christ and false prophets, and shall 236 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:05,000 show great signs and wonders and so much that if it were 237 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:09,000 possible they shall deceive the very elect, behold I have told 238 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:13,000 you before, wherefore if they shall say unto you, behold he is 239 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:15,000 in the desert, who is in the desert? 240 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:16,000 Christ. 241 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:19,000 If you say Christ in the desert, go not forth, behold he is in 242 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:22,000 the secret changers, believe it not. 243 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:27,000 Verse 27, for as the lightning cometh out of the east. 244 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,000 I just shocked some of you. 245 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:32,000 How does lightning happen? 246 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,000 Is it slow? 247 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,000 You're fast as lightning. 248 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,000 As lightning cometh out of the east and shineth even unto the 249 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:46,000 west, so shall the coming, same word, perugia, same word is in 250 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:50,000 the question, when shall your coming be? 251 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:52,000 When does it happen? 252 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,000 Like lightning. 253 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:57,000 He's not over in the cave somewhere, he's coming back 254 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,000 like lightning, east to west. 255 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:05,000 So shall the coming of the sun of man be? 256 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:09,000 And then it says immediately, verse 29, after the tribulation 257 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:14,000 of those days, when is it, when is this, what's about to happen? 258 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,000 Is it before the tribulation? 259 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:20,000 It's after the tribulation of those days. 260 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:23,000 Shall the sun be darkened and the moon shall not give her light 261 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:26,000 and the stars shall fall from heaven, the powers of the heaven 262 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:31,000 shall be shaken and then shall appear the sign of the son of 263 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:34,000 man in heaven. 264 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:38,000 Son of man is a term used in Daniel to talk about this coming 265 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:40,000 ancient of days. 266 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:46,000 He who is from the ancient is talking about the Messiah and 267 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:48,000 is talking about Jesus. 268 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:51,000 It's a claim to deity. 269 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:55,000 Then after the tribulation, he shall appear, the sign of the 270 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,000 son of man in heaven. 271 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:02,000 So you have a beginning, Odin, you have a middle, this 272 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:05,000 abomination of desolation, I'll come right back to that. 273 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:09,000 Then you have an end, there shall be, for then shall be great 274 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,000 tribulation, this last part. 275 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,000 And then after the tribulation you have the coming, the 276 00:14:14,000 --> 00:14:18,000 perugia, Christ making wrong right. 277 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,000 Who's for that? 278 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:22,000 That's what's happening. 279 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:26,000 Now, we have two other places I want to show you. 280 00:14:26,000 --> 00:14:28,000 Daniel 9. 281 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:32,000 If you look at this spoken of by Daniel the prophet, how many 282 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:34,000 of you know Daniel? 283 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,000 He has a book in the Old Testament. 284 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:41,000 Holy Spirit wrote it, he used Daniel, it's in the Old 285 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:44,000 Testament, Daniel was a prophet. 286 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:47,000 And this abomination of desolation that he spoke, speaking 287 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:50,000 of, that is the only prophet, not the only prophecy, but one of 288 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:54,000 the prophecies that he directly quotes, he brings up here and 289 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:56,000 that's found in Daniel 9.24. 290 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,000 Are you with me? 291 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:00,000 Anybody confused yet? 292 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,000 I hope I don't confuse you. 293 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,000 I'm going to give you a lot today, having fun? 294 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:07,000 Some of you are. 295 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:11,000 Daniel 9.24, here's what it says, 70 weeks are determined upon 296 00:15:11,000 --> 00:15:17,000 thy people and upon thy holy city, who are God's people? 297 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:20,000 The Jews, what's their holy city? 298 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:22,000 Jerusalem, you're getting it right. 299 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:27,000 To finish the transgression, to make an end of sins and to 300 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:31,000 make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring in everlasting 301 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:34,000 righteousness, who's for those things? 302 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Who wants an end to sin and an everlasting righteousness? 303 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:41,000 Also, and to seal up the vision and the prophecy and to 304 00:15:41,000 --> 00:15:44,000 anoint the most holy. 305 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,000 So what do we find here? 306 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:50,000 There are 70 weeks, I'm going to tell you now, there are weeks of 307 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:52,000 years, I'll show you why in a minute. 308 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:57,000 70 weeks, how many, 70 times 7, a week is how many days? 309 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,000 Seven days, there's seven weeks of years, so there's 70 times 310 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,000 7, how many is that? 311 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:04,000 490. 312 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,000 70 weeks of years, who is it about? 313 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:09,000 Thy people, Israel and thy city, Jerusalem. 314 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:10,000 Why? 315 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:11,000 Why is this happening? 316 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:13,000 Why is there 70 weeks of years? 317 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,000 What is he talking about? 318 00:16:15,000 --> 00:16:17,000 What's the point of it? 319 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:21,000 To end sins, to reconcile iniquity, to bring in everlasting 320 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,000 righteousness. 321 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:25,000 You know what that means? 322 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,000 Righteousness that won't end. 323 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,000 No more sin. 324 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:33,000 I'm excited. 325 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:35,000 Some of you are going to keep sinning, that's why you're not 326 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:37,000 amen in me. 327 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,000 It's going to be amazing. 328 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:41,000 And to anoint the most holy, who's the most holy? 329 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,000 Jesus, that's who we know now, it's this Messiah that's going to 330 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:48,000 sit on David's throne, anointed as king. 331 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:53,000 King on David's throne in the holy city, Jerusalem. 332 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:56,000 Verse 25, know therefore and understand that from the going 333 00:16:56,000 --> 00:17:00,000 forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem 334 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:05,000 unto the Messiah, the Prince shall be seven weeks and 335 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:07,000 three score and two weeks. 336 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:09,000 Okay, that's kind of strange. 337 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:11,000 Strange wording, okay. 338 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:17,000 Daniel's writing, you guys remember Daniel, where is Daniel 339 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,000 in his life? 340 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:23,000 He's in a place called Babylon. 341 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:26,000 Why was he in Babylon? 342 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:31,000 Because God's people had been taken and put in exile in 343 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,000 Babylon. 344 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:34,000 Are you with me? 345 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:39,000 And he's saying 70 weeks, first seven weeks from the 346 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:42,000 commandment to restore and build Jerusalem, did that ever 347 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:43,000 happen by the way? 348 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:47,000 After Babylon was Jerusalem restored. 349 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:49,000 Have you guys ever heard of Nehemiah? 350 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,000 What happened when Nehemiah? 351 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,000 They rebuilt the walls in 52 days. 352 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:59,000 Later on they go back and rebuild the temple. 353 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:03,000 So he says there's seven weeks and then there's three score 354 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:04,000 and two weeks. 355 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:09,000 So you have seven, 70 weeks, sorry, seven weeks. 356 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:10,000 You see it? 357 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:11,000 Seven weeks. 358 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:15,000 How many, seven times seven is 49. 359 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:19,000 Three score and two weeks, a score is 20. 360 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:23,000 Okay, so 20 times three is what? 361 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:28,000 60 plus two plus seven. 362 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:31,000 That's 69 weeks. 363 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,000 Did I confuse anybody? 364 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:35,000 Okay. 365 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:39,000 You have seven weeks and then you have three score and two 366 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:40,000 weeks. 367 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,000 The street shall be built again in the wall and even in trouble 368 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:43,000 sometimes. 369 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,000 Stay with me. 370 00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:49,000 The commandment to Messiah will go here, verse 26. 371 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:52,000 This is right in the road, 24, 25, 26. 372 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:55,000 And after three score and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off. 373 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:58,000 What does that mean? 374 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:01,000 He'll be killed. 375 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,000 But not for himself. 376 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:06,000 And all God's people said. 377 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:07,000 Not for himself. 378 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:10,000 And the people of the prince that shall come, that's talking 379 00:19:10,000 --> 00:19:13,000 about the antichrist, shall destroy the city and the 380 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:14,000 sanctuary. 381 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:18,000 The people of the prince that shall come are, I believe, the 382 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:19,000 Romans. 383 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:25,000 Because the Romans in 8070 destroy the temple. 384 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:29,000 The Bible prophesied it and it came true already. 385 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,000 Is that impressive? 386 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:32,000 Cool. 387 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:34,000 I'm glad you like it. 388 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:37,000 And the end thereof shall be with flood and unto the end of 389 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,000 war, desolations are determined. 390 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:43,000 So you have the commandment to Messiah shall be seven. 391 00:19:43,000 --> 00:19:46,000 Then from the commandment to go restore. 392 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:48,000 Until it's restored, that's 49 years. 393 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:51,000 Then from there to when Messiah comes, it's 62 weeks. 394 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,000 So there's still one week left. 395 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,000 69 of the...how many years are there? 396 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,000 How many weeks of years? 397 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:58,000 There's 70 weeks. 398 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,000 69 happen until the Messiah comes. 399 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:05,000 The people of the prince of that city shall come and destroy it. 400 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:09,000 And he, the prince that shall come, here it is, verse 27, shall 401 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:12,000 confirm the covenant with many for one week. 402 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:13,000 How many weeks are left? 403 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:14,000 One. 404 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:20,000 So this prince that shall come will make a covenant with many, a 405 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,000 peace treaty for one week. 406 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,000 How long is one week? 407 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,000 Seven years. 408 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:31,000 And in the midst of the week, what's the midst of one week? 409 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,000 Three and a half. 410 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,000 Are you with me? 411 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:40,000 He shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease and for 412 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:46,000 the overspreading of abominations, he shall make it desolate. 413 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,000 Remember what Jesus said? 414 00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:52,000 Look in your Bibles in Matthew 24. 415 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,000 When you therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken 416 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,000 by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, then let them 417 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:00,000 which be in the mountains flee. 418 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:04,000 So you have a seven year, a 70th week and halfway through the 419 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:08,000 70 week, in the midst of the week, there's an abomination that 420 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,000 desolates. 421 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,000 Now we already know what that is like because it's happened in 422 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:18,000 history when a guy named Antiochus Epiphanes went into the 423 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:24,000 temple and sacrificed a pig in the temple and stuffed pork down 424 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:28,000 the, down the mouths of the priests. 425 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,000 And it desecrated that temple and they didn't use it anymore. 426 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:33,000 That's the kind of thing that happens here. 427 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:37,000 That's what's prophesied. 428 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:42,000 He shall make it desolate, desecrated, unusable. 429 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:47,000 And the Bible says that in chapter 12 verse 11, different 430 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:50,000 place and from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken 431 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:53,000 away and the abomination that make it desolate set up, there 432 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:57,000 shall be 1,290 days. 433 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,000 So from the abomination that desolates in the middle of that 434 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:06,000 70 week, 70th week, there's 1,290 days which is 3.5 years plus 435 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:09,000 30 days. 436 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,000 The Bible is amazing. 437 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,000 Okay. 438 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:15,000 I want to show you a graph. 439 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,000 This is old school, man. 440 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:20,000 Got to have Clarence Larkin put this together. 441 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:23,000 You have here a picture of David's 70 weeks. 442 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:24,000 There's 70 weeks. 443 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,000 You like my green thing here, by the way? 444 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:28,000 70 weeks. 445 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:32,000 You have seven weeks, 49 years from the building of Jerusalem. 446 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:34,000 This is the prophecy starts here. 447 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,000 Daniel does it, 49 weeks. 448 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,000 62 weeks, 434 years. 449 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:42,000 That actually happened. 450 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:47,000 This is halfway, this has already been fulfilled harshly. 451 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:48,000 This is amazing. 452 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:50,000 The time works out. 453 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:56,000 Then at the 69th week, the Messiah is cut off, he's dead. 454 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:59,000 This is the part, this church week, the gap between the 69th 455 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:04,000 and 70th week is the part that Daniel didn't know. 456 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:09,000 Then you have Daniel's 70th week, which is called Tribulation 457 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:13,000 by Jesus, and in the midst of the week, you have the 458 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:16,000 abomination of desolations. 459 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:17,000 Okay. 460 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,000 You see how I did my math? 461 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,000 Okay. 462 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,000 I'll give you the notes on the website. 463 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:27,000 If you want to answer questions, that's pretty cool. 464 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:32,000 So you have 49 years, 62 weeks, seven weeks and 62 weeks. 465 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:37,000 Then you have Daniel's 70th week, which is one last week that 466 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,000 is seven years. 467 00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:42,000 It's what's called the Tribulation. 468 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:47,000 The first half is what Jesus was referring to when he says this 469 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,000 is the beginning of sorrows. 470 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,000 This are the birth pains. 471 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:55,000 So when Jesus, that's what we're going to talk about today, 472 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:56,000 birth pains. 473 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,000 There's a lady in here, I'm not going to say her name, but she's 474 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,000 going to have a kid this week. 475 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:04,000 She is not happy about this sermon. 476 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,000 Birth pains. 477 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:07,000 Right? 478 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:10,000 That's the first part, and then you have the second part. 479 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:17,000 So do you see how that the 70 weeks timing corresponds exactly 480 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:19,000 with what Daniel said. 481 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:22,000 There's going to be the first part, the beginning of sorrows, 482 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,000 then there's going to be the abomination of tribulation, 483 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,000 then there's going to be great tribulation, and at the end of 484 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,000 it, Jesus is coming back. 485 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,000 He's coming back to restore his kingdom. 486 00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:39,000 It's an actual Jewish kingdom where he rules and reigns over 487 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:45,000 everything on the throne of David, and he makes wrong right. 488 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,000 It's an amazing thing. 489 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:53,000 So in Matthew chapter 24, so here's what, back to my point, 490 00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:55,000 this corresponds exactly with Daniel. 491 00:24:55,000 --> 00:24:58,000 There's the beginning of sorrows, the birth pains that happened 492 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,000 in the first three and a half years. 493 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,000 Then there's the abomination that desolates. 494 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,000 I'll talk about that actually some today and a bunch next week. 495 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:10,000 Then you have great tribulation, the last three and a half years. 496 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,000 You don't want to be here. 497 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,000 The last three and a half years. 498 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:19,000 And then you have the coming, Jesus coming to set up his 499 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:20,000 throne. 500 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:22,000 So today, here's my big idea. 501 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,000 That's my introduction. 502 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,000 And I'm going to read it to you. 503 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,000 Matthew 24, 3-14, we see signs. 504 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:34,000 What Jesus called birth pains, the sorrows that will occur just 505 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,000 before Jesus' second coming. 506 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:40,000 And by second coming, I mean what happens at the end of the 507 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:41,000 great tribulation. 508 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:45,000 Not his coming in rapture to call us home, but his coming to set 509 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:46,000 up his kingdom. 510 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,000 All of it as part of that coming. 511 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:50,000 Here it is. 512 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,000 Now here's three truths. 513 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:55,000 You need to know about birth pains. 514 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,000 Anybody here ever been born? 515 00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:03,000 The birth pains aren't for the kid, it's for the mom, right? 516 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:07,000 And the birth pains, this is how birth pains happen. 517 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:10,000 I've seen it, my wife's been pregnant three times. 518 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:11,000 We had three kids. 519 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,000 I've seen her have birth pains. 520 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:17,000 It always happened the same way. 521 00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:22,000 The birth pains happen at the delivery, not throughout the 522 00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:23,000 pregnancy. 523 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,000 Are you with me? 524 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:26,000 It happens at the end. 525 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:30,000 And all the ladies said, aren't you glad it didn't happen the 526 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:31,000 whole time? 527 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,000 It happens at the end. 528 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:40,000 They also happen with ever increasing frequency. 529 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:44,000 With Megan and we were at, she was starting to feel like, okay, 530 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:47,000 it could be the time. 531 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:52,000 And at my pastor's church, let's go to Cracker Barrel. 532 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,000 And we went and had Cracker Barrel. 533 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,000 And here it comes. 534 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:00,000 And then we had, was that Milana? 535 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,000 That was Audrey. 536 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,000 Audrey was a Cracker Barrel, baby. 537 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:04,000 Okay. 538 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:06,000 They were less frequent. 539 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:07,000 Less frequent. 540 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:08,000 More frequent. 541 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:09,000 More frequent. 542 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:13,000 Eat the French toast, we got to go. 543 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:14,000 Right? 544 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,000 From less frequent to more frequent. 545 00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:26,000 Also, from less intense to more intense. 546 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:28,000 Now here's the good news. 547 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:32,000 A lot of people have interpreted these birth pains as what 548 00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,000 happens before the tribulation. 549 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:35,000 Okay. 550 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,000 As what happened like right now could be it. 551 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,000 I believe that the rapture is going to happen before the 552 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:42,000 tribulation. 553 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:44,000 There's lots of reasons to believe that. 554 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,000 I'm going to give you some of them today. 555 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:49,000 But the point is what you're seeing now is setting up the 556 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,000 world. 557 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,000 What's happening now is setting up the world, I believe, for 558 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,000 what's going to happen in the tribulation. 559 00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:58,000 Okay. 560 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:03,000 For instance, Israel just got their land back. 561 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:05,000 And the last, they've always had their land. 562 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,000 But my point is they just are starting to gather back in their 563 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:08,000 land. 564 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,000 You guys know that that's happened recently, right? 565 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,000 God's doing something. 566 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,000 Do I know the dates and the times? 567 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:17,000 I do not. 568 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,000 But right now there's people going to war with Israel. 569 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:25,000 There's something to pay attention to. 570 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:27,000 It's not, I'm not describing that. 571 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,000 I'm describing, these are like the Braxton Hicks stuff. 572 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,000 This is the stuff before the actual birth pains. 573 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:35,000 Does that make sense? 574 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:38,000 So you have an ever-increasing intensity. 575 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,000 That's exactly what you see in these birth pains. 576 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,000 We can understand the beginning of the tribulation by 577 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,000 understanding six birth pains described in Matthew 24, one 578 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,000 through 10 that happened in that first, that happens throughout 579 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,000 the whole tribulation. 580 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:56,000 The tribulation is like the birth pains from less frequent to 581 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,000 more frequent and growing in intensity. 582 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,000 What are some of the birth pains? 583 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,000 Number one, this is Jesus' answer. 584 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,000 Finally we get to Jesus' answer. 585 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,000 Verse 4 and 5, first we have deceptions by false Christ. 586 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,000 Here's what it says. 587 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,000 And Jesus answered and said unto them, take heed that no man 588 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:19,000 deceive you, for many shall come in my name, saying I am Christ. 589 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,000 Are they successful? 590 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,000 Yes they are. 591 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:26,000 They absolutely are. 592 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,000 Isn't that what it says? 593 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,000 And shall deceive many. 594 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:35,000 He said you don't be deceived, there's a bunch that are going to 595 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,000 be deceived. 596 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:41,000 There are people that say I am Christ and a lot of people believe 597 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:43,000 in it. 598 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:46,000 The one person that we know of is the prime example of that is 599 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:48,000 the anti-Christ. 600 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,000 There will always be false teachers. 601 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,000 But he's not referring to those who are here now, he's referring 602 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:56,000 to ones in the future. 603 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,000 This will be a time of absolute chaos. 604 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,000 The Holy Spirit will be gone, the church will be gone. 605 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:04,000 So he says blepo or be aware. 606 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:09,000 These false teachers will be empowered by Satan, the anti-Christ 607 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,000 and the false prophet to do supernatural signs. 608 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:15,000 People will be looking for help because of all the calamity. 609 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,000 The anti-Christ will be the ultimate example of these false 610 00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,000 Christ. 611 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,000 Now for each one of these birth pains that Jesus talks about, 612 00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,000 there's a correlation to content in the book of Revelation. 613 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:29,000 Have you guys ever heard the book of Revelation? 614 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:31,000 In our Bible it's at the end, right? 615 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,000 The end of the Bible. 616 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,000 The book of Revelation can be complicated in some aspects, 617 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,000 but it's really simple in other ways. 618 00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:41,000 The first three chapters have the church in there. 619 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:45,000 In fact, he talks to the churches that are in there. 620 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:48,000 In chapters 4 and 5 you go to heaven. 621 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:51,000 And this is just a summary of the book of Revelation. 622 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,000 I could certainly go into a lot more. 623 00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:57,000 In chapters 6 through 19, it describes the great tribulation. 624 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:00,000 At the end of the tribulation, Christ comes back on a white 625 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,000 horse and demolishes the anti-Christ, the false prophet, 626 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,000 and all the nations of the earth that go forth to fight against 627 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:07,000 him. 628 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:11,000 And here's what's amazing, Christ does all the fighting. 629 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,000 And he wins. 630 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,000 And he wins. 631 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,000 And he wins. 632 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:18,000 This is amazing. 633 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,000 Chapter 20 is about the 1,000 years reign of Christ on the 634 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:22,000 earth. 635 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,000 The word for 1,000, millennium is found seven times in the 636 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:26,000 chapter. 637 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,000 At the end of the 1,000 year reign we have a great white thrown 638 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:30,000 judgment. 639 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,000 Death and hell are cast into the lake of fire. 640 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:38,000 In chapter 21 and 22 we have a new heaven and a new earth. 641 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:42,000 So in chapter 6 where it starts about that great tribulation, 642 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:47,000 Daniel's 70th week, what Jesus talks about here, the beginning 643 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:52,000 of trouble is described through the seal judgments, the bull 644 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,000 judgments, and the trumpet judgments. 645 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:58,000 So when Jesus says, you want to know about the end, let me tell 646 00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,000 you about the end. 647 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,000 And he starts talking about the tribulation. 648 00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:05,000 And he said the tribulation will be like these birth pains and 649 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,000 those birth pains are correlated. 650 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:11,000 It's amazing right along with what John reveals later in 651 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,000 Revelation as these judgments. 652 00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:17,000 So you have the false Christ, you see that in Matthew 24. 653 00:32:17,000 --> 00:32:20,000 The first thing he says, be careful there's going to be 654 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:21,000 false Christ. 655 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,000 Right? 656 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:26,000 Revelation 6 verse 1 and 2, we'll put it on the screen. 657 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:30,000 And I saw when the lamb opened one of the seals and I heard as 658 00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,000 it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, 659 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:34,000 come and see. 660 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:38,000 And I saw behold a white horse and he that sat on him had a bow 661 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:42,000 and a crown was given unto him and he went forth conquering and 662 00:32:42,000 --> 00:32:43,000 to conquer. 663 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:47,000 So you have this guy, I believe this is speaking of the 664 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:49,000 anti-Christ, you'll see why here in a minute. 665 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:54,000 That leads to birth pain number two, disputes and warring among 666 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:55,000 the nations. 667 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,000 You have deception by false Christ. 668 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:00,000 Then you have disputes among the nations. 669 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:05,000 Back to Matthew 24.6 and 7 and he shall hear of wars and 670 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,000 rumors of wars. 671 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,000 See that you be not troubled. 672 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:14,000 For all these things must come to pass but the end is not yet. 673 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:16,000 So these things are happening at the beginning of the 674 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:17,000 tribulation. 675 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,000 For nations shall rise against nation and kingdom against 676 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:20,000 kingdom. 677 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,000 You will be hearing is what he says. 678 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:27,000 And he says, you shall hear of wars and you will be hearing 679 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,000 and continually hear about it. 680 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,000 It happens constantly. 681 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,000 Wars and rumors of wars. 682 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:35,000 Every kind of warfare imaginable. 683 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,000 This will be global in its influence. 684 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:41,000 Some may say this is already happening or has happened. 685 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,000 It seems like a lot of war. 686 00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:46,000 But it's not going to be at this level. 687 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,000 It's going to be greater in level. 688 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,000 To a degree not yet seen. 689 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:55,000 There will be a massive amount of blood shed and carnage. 690 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,000 This has to happen. 691 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:01,000 The end is not yet. 692 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:05,000 Daniel and Revelation give us some insight into this. 693 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:07,000 Back to Daniel 11. 694 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,000 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at 695 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:11,000 him. 696 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:13,000 I will give you some background. 697 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,000 The hymn that is talked about here is this anti-Christ. 698 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,000 This prince that shall come. 699 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:21,000 And the king of the north shall come against him. 700 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:24,000 And the king of the south push at him. 701 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,000 And the king of the north shall come against him. 702 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:31,000 And enter into the countries and shall overflow and fast over. 703 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,000 And enter into the glorious land. 704 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:37,000 And many countries shall be overthrown. 705 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:40,000 But these shall escape out of his hand. 706 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,000 Even eat him. 707 00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:45,000 Moab and the chief of the children of Amnon. 708 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:49,000 And the chief of the north shall be in the treasures of gold and 709 00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:50,000 silver. 710 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:53,000 And all the precious things of Egypt and the Libyans and the 711 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,000 Ethiopians shall be in his steps. 712 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,000 But tidings out of the east and north shall trouble him. 713 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:02,000 And go forth with great fury to destroy and utterly to make away 714 00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:03,000 many. 715 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,000 And plant the tabernacle of this palace between the seas of the 716 00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,000 glorious holy mountain. 717 00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,000 And come to his end and none shall help him. 718 00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:15,000 And the king of Egypt who goes to war with all these people as he 719 00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,000 is covenanted with Israel. 720 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,000 Israel needs protection. 721 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:24,000 So that's where he makes this covenant with them for one week. 722 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,000 And in the midst of the week he shall betray them. 723 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:31,000 Here you have north, south, east all going against the 724 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:32,000 Antichrist. 725 00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:33,000 And he's winning. 726 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,000 And then at the end he's defeated. 727 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:39,000 Revelation describes the seals that which happened to be in 728 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:40,000 alignment with these. 729 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:44,000 And he says here that this one that's coming is going to go 730 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:48,000 forth to conquer verse 3 when he had opened the second seal and 731 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:49,000 come and see. 732 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:52,000 And there went out another horse that was red and power was 733 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:56,000 given to him that sat upon to take peace from the earth and 734 00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,000 kill one another and there was given to him a great sword. 735 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:03,000 So Jesus says there's going to be false Christ and there's going 736 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:04,000 to be a bunch of war. 737 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:08,000 That's exactly what Daniel says and that's what Revelation says. 738 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:12,000 And here's verse 3, verse 4, verse 1, author. 739 00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,000 Birth pain number 3. 740 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,000 Isn't this just fun, exciting? 741 00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:17,000 So encouraging. 742 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:21,000 I'll tell you in a minute how you can be encouraged by this. 743 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:24,000 Birth pain number 3, devastation throughout the world. 744 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:28,000 And there shall be famines it says in verse 7. 745 00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:31,000 And pestilences and earthquakes in diverse places. 746 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:35,000 All these are the beginning of sorrows. 747 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,000 And there's a lot of things. 748 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:40,000 A scarcity of food. 749 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,000 The prices for food go way up. 750 00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:45,000 There's plagues, diseases of all kinds happening. 751 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:48,000 Earthquakes, the word for earthquakes here is seismos. 752 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,000 It's where we get the word seismic. 753 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:55,000 Seemed to happen all at one time but not all in the same place. 754 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:58,000 Luke 21 says in the great earthquakes shall be in diverse 755 00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:02,000 places, famines, pestilences and fearful sites and great 756 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:04,000 signs shall be from heaven. 757 00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,000 And look at the fourth seal. 758 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:07,000 Verse 5. 759 00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,000 The third seal and then the fourth seal. 760 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,000 And when you open the third seal I heard the beast say come and 761 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:16,000 see and behold a black horse and he that sat on him had a pair of 762 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,000 balances in his hand and I heard a voice in the midst of the four 763 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,000 beasts say a measure of wheat for a penny and three measure of 764 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,000 barley for a penny and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. 765 00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:29,000 And when he had opened the fourth seal I heard the voice of the 766 00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:32,000 fourth beast say come and see and I looked and behold a pale 767 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:36,000 horse and his name that sat on him was, what was it? 768 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:37,000 Death. 769 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:41,000 And he followed with and hell followed with him and power 770 00:37:41,000 --> 00:37:44,000 was given him over the fourth part of the earth to kill with the 771 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:48,000 sword and with hunger and with death and with the beast of the 772 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:49,000 earth. 773 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:52,000 Does this seem to correlate? 774 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:57,000 What revelation says and what Jesus said, yes. 775 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:01,000 Can you imagine a fourth of the people just dead? 776 00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:02,000 Crazy. 777 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:06,000 You see in the sixth seal and I behold, Revelation 6.12 and I 778 00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,000 behold when he had opened the sixth seal low there was a great 779 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,000 earthquake and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair and the 780 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,000 moon became his blood and the stars of heaven fell into the 781 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:19,000 earth even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs when she is 782 00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,000 shaken of a mighty wind and the heaven departed to a scroll 783 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,000 with his rolled together and every mountain and island were 784 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:28,000 moved out of their places. 785 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:31,000 The seventh seal that is open and the seals that open up the 786 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,000 trumpet judgments that blow in the seven angels just as an 787 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,000 example here, eight, seven. 788 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:41,000 The first angel sounded, followed hail and fire mingled with 789 00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:44,000 blood and cast upon the earth and the third part of the trees 790 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:47,000 were burned up and all the green grass was burned up. 791 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:49,000 Global warming. 792 00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:51,000 It's a joke. 793 00:38:51,000 --> 00:38:52,000 Verse eight. 794 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,000 And the second angel sounded and as it were a great mountain 795 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:58,000 burning with fire was cast into the sea and the third part of the 796 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,000 sea became blood. 797 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:03,000 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea had 798 00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:04,000 life died. 799 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,000 Third part of the ships were destroyed. 800 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,000 The third angel sounded and fell a great start from heaven, 801 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:12,000 burning as it were as a lamp and it fell upon the third part of 802 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,000 the rivers and upon the fountains of waters. 803 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,000 The name of the star was wormwood and the third part of the 804 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,000 waters became as wormwood and many died of the waters because 805 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,000 they were made bitter. 806 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:25,000 And the third part of the sun was smitten and the third part of 807 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:28,000 the moon, third part of the stars so as the third part of them 808 00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:31,000 that was darkened and the day showed not for a third part of 809 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,000 it and the night likewise. 810 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:43,000 But remember, all of these are the beginnings of sorrows. 811 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:45,000 Not fun. 812 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,000 Last couple of things. 813 00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:49,000 Birth pain number four. 814 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:52,000 Deliverance of believers to tribulation. 815 00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,000 This is what Jesus says, verse 9... 816 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,000 Now one of the things that people say about this passage is 817 00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:02,000 to say, if it's future, why is he talking to the disciples as if 818 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,000 they will be there? 819 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,000 Are you with me? 820 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:09,000 If it's way in the future, if it's past us, why is it past us? 821 00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,000 Why is it past us? 822 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,000 Why is it past us? 823 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,000 Why is it past us? 824 00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:17,000 Why is it past us? 825 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:19,000 Why is it past us? 826 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:21,000 Why is it past us? 827 00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,000 Why is it past us? 828 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:27,000 Is it way in the future, if it's past us, why is he talking to 829 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:29,000 the disciples as if they would be there? 830 00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:32,000 This happens all the time in the Old Testament. 831 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:35,000 Prophets saying something will happen in 49 years or 200 years 832 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:38,000 or 400 years and speaking to people in front of them as if 833 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,000 they are going to be there. 834 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:42,000 They are not there. 835 00:40:42,000 --> 00:40:45,000 But it's done as it is said to have been done. 836 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:48,340 and there will be people in the last days that will read this. 837 00:40:48,340 --> 00:40:49,340 Does that make sense? 838 00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:54,240 He says this about what's gonna happen. 839 00:40:54,240 --> 00:40:56,020 There's gonna be people who are believers, 840 00:40:56,020 --> 00:40:58,920 people who believe in these last days. 841 00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:01,220 That's part of what he's trying to do. 842 00:41:01,220 --> 00:41:04,460 He says to them, they will deliver you up to be afflicted 843 00:41:04,460 --> 00:41:06,820 and shall kill you and you shall be hated of all nations 844 00:41:06,820 --> 00:41:08,560 for my name's sake. 845 00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:13,360 Delivered here as a police kind of military sense to it. 846 00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:15,900 People who believed in Christ during this time 847 00:41:15,900 --> 00:41:17,460 will be persecuted. 848 00:41:17,460 --> 00:41:18,800 The church is gonna be raptured 849 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:20,140 and during this time of tribulation, 850 00:41:20,140 --> 00:41:21,900 many believers will be made, 851 00:41:21,900 --> 00:41:24,940 but many believers will be delivered up to be afflicted. 852 00:41:24,940 --> 00:41:27,180 You say, is that what it says in Revelation? 853 00:41:27,180 --> 00:41:30,080 Check this out, Revelation 6-9. 854 00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:31,780 And when he had opened the fifth seal, 855 00:41:31,780 --> 00:41:35,080 this is what Jesus said and what it was written by, 856 00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:36,580 perfectly aligned. 857 00:41:36,580 --> 00:41:38,520 Verse nine, when he opened the fifth seal, 858 00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:40,160 I saw under the altar the souls of them 859 00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:42,820 that were slain for the word of God 860 00:41:42,820 --> 00:41:47,500 and for the testimony which they held. 861 00:41:47,500 --> 00:41:48,960 And they cried with a loud voice saying, 862 00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:50,500 how long, O Lord, holy and true, 863 00:41:50,500 --> 00:41:52,400 thus thou not judge and avenge our blood on them 864 00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:53,440 that dwell on the earth. 865 00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:56,240 And right robes were given unto every one of them 866 00:41:56,240 --> 00:41:58,640 and it was said unto them that they should rest 867 00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:02,040 for a little season until their fellow servants 868 00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:04,120 also in their brethren that should be killed 869 00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:05,780 as they were should be fulfilled. 870 00:42:07,120 --> 00:42:11,960 So you have people, if you become a believer in this time, 871 00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:16,960 it's very, very likely that it will take your life to do that. 872 00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:21,300 Birth Pane number five, defection of false believers. 873 00:42:26,140 --> 00:42:29,040 Verse 10, and then shall many be offended 874 00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:32,640 and shall betray one another and shall hate one another. 875 00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:33,880 See, once the church is gone, 876 00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:36,520 the Holy Spirit removed and difficulty grows, 877 00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:38,780 there will be very little incentive to pretend 878 00:42:38,780 --> 00:42:42,120 to be truly a Christ follower. 879 00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,920 People will turn on each other and hate each other. 880 00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:46,760 There will be a high cost to living the truth 881 00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:50,320 and this will cause people to not pay that cost 882 00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:53,060 anymore revealing that they were never really believers 883 00:42:53,060 --> 00:42:54,760 in the first place. 884 00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:57,600 This will be exacerbated by the false teaching going on. 885 00:42:57,600 --> 00:43:00,440 In verse 11, he says, many false prophets shall rise 886 00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:02,700 and deceive many. 887 00:43:02,700 --> 00:43:04,200 With the church and the Holy Spirit gone, 888 00:43:04,200 --> 00:43:06,880 there will be no breaks on people's morality. 889 00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:10,240 Compassion and decency will be smaller and smaller. 890 00:43:10,240 --> 00:43:11,480 That's why it says in verse 12, 891 00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:13,020 and because iniquity shall abound, 892 00:43:13,020 --> 00:43:14,880 the love of many shall wax cold. 893 00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:16,760 Those who believe and are converted will show 894 00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:18,020 that they're truly Christ followers 895 00:43:18,020 --> 00:43:20,120 as they will endure till the end. 896 00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:23,260 Either their own martyrdom or second coming. 897 00:43:23,260 --> 00:43:25,200 That's why Jesus says verse 13, 898 00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:28,300 but he that shall endure until the end shall be saved. 899 00:43:28,300 --> 00:43:29,660 The same shall be saved. 900 00:43:29,660 --> 00:43:32,640 This is not saying that they will be saved to eternal life 901 00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:34,440 because they endured the tribulation. 902 00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:36,200 It's saying that those who are faithful to God 903 00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:38,240 are showing that they are saved. 904 00:43:38,240 --> 00:43:41,340 And that leads to this last point. 905 00:43:41,340 --> 00:43:43,320 And I have it in your notes as a birth pain, 906 00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:45,620 but this really isn't a birth pain. 907 00:43:45,620 --> 00:43:47,580 This is just what happens at the time. 908 00:43:49,620 --> 00:43:52,420 Number six, there's the declaration of the gospel 909 00:43:52,420 --> 00:43:53,860 of the kingdom to the whole world. 910 00:43:53,860 --> 00:43:54,900 Here's what it says. 911 00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:59,900 Verse 14, and this gospel of the kingdom. 912 00:43:59,900 --> 00:44:01,060 What's the good news? 913 00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:04,700 That Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures. 914 00:44:04,700 --> 00:44:08,300 He was buried in Rosigand the third day for the scriptures, 915 00:44:08,300 --> 00:44:10,180 for our sins according to the scriptures, 916 00:44:10,180 --> 00:44:15,180 and that he's coming back to establish his kingdom. 917 00:44:17,780 --> 00:44:19,120 Isn't that awesome? 918 00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:21,320 And so what they're literally saying, 919 00:44:21,320 --> 00:44:26,320 what was said by Elijah, sorry, by that one who was like Elijah, 920 00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:31,920 John the Baptist, prepare you the way the Lord, 921 00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:36,920 and repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. 922 00:44:39,860 --> 00:44:42,840 Just a couple of things, I'll really quickly go into them. 923 00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:48,040 Revelation 14 talks about this. 924 00:44:50,020 --> 00:44:52,380 I messed you up, Steve, don't touch it. 925 00:44:52,380 --> 00:44:55,920 Okay, you can touch it, go back, go back. 926 00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:56,760 There it is. 927 00:44:57,720 --> 00:45:00,640 Revelation 14, six, as I saw another angel 928 00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:02,780 flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel 929 00:45:02,780 --> 00:45:04,960 to preach unto them, that dwell on the earth, 930 00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:06,420 to every nation, and kindred in tongue, 931 00:45:06,420 --> 00:45:09,000 and people saying with a loud voice, fear God 932 00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:12,860 and give glory to him for the hour of his judgment has come. 933 00:45:12,860 --> 00:45:15,600 This is what the Old Testament called the day of the Lord. 934 00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:18,960 He's coming back, you keep wanting to fight him, 935 00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,140 but he's coming back, Jesus is coming back. 936 00:45:21,140 --> 00:45:23,900 He came back the first time, he came the first time 937 00:45:23,900 --> 00:45:26,140 as a baby in the manger, the next time he's coming, 938 00:45:26,140 --> 00:45:29,880 like a warrior or king to take out his enemies 939 00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:31,080 and establish justice. 940 00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:34,620 And what this angel is saying, this messenger, 941 00:45:34,620 --> 00:45:39,620 fear God, here comes judgment, worship him that made heaven 942 00:45:39,620 --> 00:45:41,860 and earth and sea in the fountains of waters. 943 00:45:41,860 --> 00:45:44,640 This is the message of the kingdom. 944 00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:46,440 There's two witnesses that come. 945 00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:48,840 I won't go long into that. 946 00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:50,600 It's in Revelation 11. 947 00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:54,920 They are used, I can go into that, 948 00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:56,720 we'll talk about that next week. 949 00:45:56,720 --> 00:45:57,980 There's a testimony of elders, 950 00:45:57,980 --> 00:46:02,680 there's 144,000 Jews, 12 from each tribe that are redeemed 951 00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:06,440 and they go and they proclaim and as they proclaim, 952 00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:08,720 some people believe and then they're killed. 953 00:46:08,720 --> 00:46:12,820 And Revelation 7.1 tells us about some of those people. 954 00:46:12,820 --> 00:46:15,200 It says, after these things I saw four angels, 955 00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:18,820 go to Revelation 7, Steve, next one I believe, yep. 956 00:46:19,720 --> 00:46:21,320 After these things I saw four angels standing 957 00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:22,900 in the four corners of the earth, 958 00:46:22,900 --> 00:46:25,360 holding the four winds of the earth that they should, 959 00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:26,640 the winds should not blow on the earth 960 00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:29,640 nor the sea nor any tree. 961 00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:32,000 And I saw another angel ascending from the east 962 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:33,200 having a seal of the living God 963 00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:35,540 and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, 964 00:46:35,540 --> 00:46:38,680 to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea. 965 00:46:38,680 --> 00:46:40,880 Saying, hurt not the earth, neither the sea nor the trees, 966 00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:44,320 till we have sealed the servants of God in their foreheads. 967 00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:46,480 And I heard them of which were sealed 968 00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:51,480 and they were sealed 144,000, all the tribes of Israel. 969 00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:54,760 Then in verse 13, go down to verse 13, next slide. 970 00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:57,000 And one of the elders saying to me, 971 00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:59,200 what are these which are arrayed in white robes? 972 00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:00,560 And whence came they? 973 00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:03,140 And I said unto him, sir, thou knowest, 974 00:47:03,140 --> 00:47:05,900 and he said to me, these are they 975 00:47:05,900 --> 00:47:08,040 which came out of great tribulation 976 00:47:08,940 --> 00:47:13,180 and have washed their robes and made them white. 977 00:47:13,180 --> 00:47:17,380 Here it is, in the blood of the lamb. 978 00:47:18,820 --> 00:47:19,980 Therefore are they before the throne of God 979 00:47:19,980 --> 00:47:22,220 and serve him day and night in his temple. 980 00:47:22,220 --> 00:47:24,580 And he that sits on the throne shall dwell among them. 981 00:47:24,580 --> 00:47:26,520 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, 982 00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:30,300 neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat. 983 00:47:30,300 --> 00:47:32,220 For the lamb which is in the midst of the throne 984 00:47:32,220 --> 00:47:35,460 shall feed them and shall lead them unto the fountain, 985 00:47:35,460 --> 00:47:38,140 the living fountain of waters, and God shall wipe away 986 00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:41,200 all tears from their eyes. 987 00:47:42,100 --> 00:47:46,600 Even in the time of great tribulation 988 00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:51,080 leading up to Christ's return and judgment, 989 00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:52,540 what is his desire? 990 00:47:52,540 --> 00:47:55,940 That people repent. 991 00:47:57,280 --> 00:47:59,140 That people repent. 992 00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:01,920 That people repent. 993 00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:03,520 You may be listening to me today 994 00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:05,620 and you're talking about seals and judgments 995 00:48:05,620 --> 00:48:06,660 and pestilences. 996 00:48:06,660 --> 00:48:09,260 You sound like that guy with the sandwich board, 997 00:48:09,260 --> 00:48:11,760 repent like the crazy guy in the... 998 00:48:14,460 --> 00:48:16,660 And what I'm trying to show you is that 999 00:48:16,660 --> 00:48:18,860 a bunch of this has already been fulfilled. 1000 00:48:18,860 --> 00:48:20,700 There's a bunch that's been fulfilled. 1001 00:48:20,700 --> 00:48:23,440 He said he would come the first time and he came. 1002 00:48:26,180 --> 00:48:28,340 69 weeks have already happened. 1003 00:48:28,340 --> 00:48:30,140 There's one more week coming. 1004 00:48:31,380 --> 00:48:33,980 He came the first time not to condemn, 1005 00:48:33,980 --> 00:48:37,220 but to give his life a ransom for many. 1006 00:48:37,220 --> 00:48:40,020 The birth pain that's coming are just showing you 1007 00:48:40,020 --> 00:48:43,600 that eventually what's gonna be delivered is judgment 1008 00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:46,900 and then peace. 1009 00:48:46,900 --> 00:48:51,760 And everlasting righteousness. 1010 00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:57,100 A king on a throne forever. 1011 00:48:59,880 --> 00:49:01,580 You don't wanna go through this. 1012 00:49:03,780 --> 00:49:06,240 There is now therefore no condemnation 1013 00:49:06,240 --> 00:49:08,740 to those who are in Christ Jesus 1014 00:49:08,740 --> 00:49:11,620 who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. 1015 00:49:11,620 --> 00:49:14,160 The good news is you don't have to go through this. 1016 00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:15,900 You don't have to. 1017 00:49:16,860 --> 00:49:18,100 You know what you should do? 1018 00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,260 Jesus tells us in this passage, 1019 00:49:22,260 --> 00:49:23,760 go down real quick. 1020 00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:25,500 How do you respond to this sermon? 1021 00:49:26,940 --> 00:49:28,780 Matthew 24, 42. 1022 00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:33,980 There's two words. 1023 00:49:36,980 --> 00:49:38,280 Two phrases. 1024 00:49:40,060 --> 00:49:41,260 Watch therefore. 1025 00:49:41,260 --> 00:49:42,420 Watch therefore. 1026 00:49:44,260 --> 00:49:45,660 Verse 42. 1027 00:49:45,660 --> 00:49:50,160 Verse 44, therefore be ye also ready. 1028 00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:52,900 Watch, be ready. 1029 00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:57,740 Watch and be ready. 1030 00:49:57,740 --> 00:49:59,400 What should we do? 1031 00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:01,880 Watch and be ready. 1032 00:50:03,380 --> 00:50:05,140 Watch therefore for you know not the hour 1033 00:50:05,140 --> 00:50:06,340 your Lord doth come, 1034 00:50:07,380 --> 00:50:09,580 but know this that if the good men of the house 1035 00:50:09,580 --> 00:50:12,180 were known in what watch the thief would come, 1036 00:50:12,180 --> 00:50:13,720 he would have watched 1037 00:50:13,720 --> 00:50:15,660 and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. 1038 00:50:15,660 --> 00:50:19,020 Therefore be also ready for in such an hour 1039 00:50:19,020 --> 00:50:24,020 as you think not the son of man, Perusia. 1040 00:50:27,500 --> 00:50:28,700 He's coming back. 1041 00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:33,040 He's gonna make all wrong, right? 1042 00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:39,720 You say if the rapture happens, 1043 00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:43,160 and I don't get saved, 1044 00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:45,060 and I don't go, can I get saved? 1045 00:50:46,620 --> 00:50:48,700 Why would you take the chance? 1046 00:50:51,240 --> 00:50:52,240 Why? 1047 00:50:53,860 --> 00:50:56,040 Tomorrow's not the day of salvation. 1048 00:50:57,180 --> 00:50:59,000 Today's the day of salvation. 1049 00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:01,180 Is there any way that I could kind of experience some of this? 1050 00:51:01,180 --> 00:51:03,180 That's dumb. 1051 00:51:04,720 --> 00:51:05,920 That's dumb. 1052 00:51:07,020 --> 00:51:08,720 At the risk of sounding crazy. 1053 00:51:09,720 --> 00:51:17,720 Repent and believe the kingdom of God is at hand. 1054 00:51:19,660 --> 00:51:22,860 Watch and be ready. 1055 00:51:22,860 --> 00:51:24,060 Here's the good news. 1056 00:51:26,100 --> 00:51:28,840 He's not willing that any should perish, 1057 00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:32,000 but that all should come to repentance. 1058 00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:35,040 And today you can call on the name of the Lord to be saved. 1059 00:51:35,040 --> 00:52:00,040 Would you bow your head and close your eyes with me?