1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,000 You're seated. 2 00:00:03,900 --> 00:00:05,840 Get in your Bibles with me this morning. 3 00:00:05,840 --> 00:00:08,280 Who here loves the Bible? 4 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:10,040 I love the Bible, grab it. 5 00:00:10,040 --> 00:00:11,780 And go to Matthew chapter 24, 6 00:00:11,780 --> 00:00:14,380 it's where we've already read this morning. 7 00:00:14,380 --> 00:00:18,020 And I'm excited about wrapping up today 8 00:00:18,020 --> 00:00:21,260 this series called Future Things. 9 00:00:21,260 --> 00:00:25,220 We have a Bible that is so trustworthy 10 00:00:25,220 --> 00:00:27,520 that you can read it, 11 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:31,840 knowing that it has a track record of fulfilled prophecy 12 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:35,740 and knowing that there is prophecy yet to be fulfilled. 13 00:00:35,740 --> 00:00:38,080 And I want you to know, it may seem weird to you 14 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:40,940 if it's your first time or first time in a long time. 15 00:00:40,940 --> 00:00:43,380 But Jesus is coming back. 16 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:47,220 It was predicted He would come the first time. 17 00:00:47,220 --> 00:00:49,680 It's predicted that He's coming another time. 18 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:53,820 And we're gonna see that He's going to do that today. 19 00:00:53,820 --> 00:00:55,820 Let me tell you a story. 20 00:00:57,660 --> 00:01:01,060 And it's a story you may have heard before. 21 00:01:01,060 --> 00:01:02,500 In fact, I've talked a little bit about it 22 00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:04,160 the last couple of weeks. 23 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:09,000 But I want you to put yourself, not in 2024, 24 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:13,440 but in 80, 30. 25 00:01:13,440 --> 00:01:17,480 Put yourself back when Jesus was walking the earth, okay? 26 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:22,020 And I want you to imagine yourself being a Jewish person 27 00:01:22,020 --> 00:01:24,820 when Jesus was on the earth. 28 00:01:24,820 --> 00:01:26,320 And here's what you would believe 29 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:28,320 if you were the typical Jewish person. 30 00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:32,400 You lived in Israel and in living in Israel, 31 00:01:34,100 --> 00:01:36,860 you were under the occupation of the Romans. 32 00:01:37,800 --> 00:01:39,560 And everything that you are allowed to do 33 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:41,840 is at the pleasure of the Romans. 34 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:45,700 Life has been really hard living under their occupation. 35 00:01:45,700 --> 00:01:48,840 Living each day to make your daily bread 36 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:50,240 is the reality of life. 37 00:01:50,240 --> 00:01:53,420 You work enough today to get enough money today 38 00:01:53,420 --> 00:01:56,620 to have food for today, right? 39 00:01:56,620 --> 00:01:58,120 That's how you're living. 40 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:02,060 You live in poverty by modern day American standards. 41 00:02:02,060 --> 00:02:04,860 And as a Jew under this occupation, 42 00:02:04,860 --> 00:02:08,000 you long for the days of David. 43 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:10,160 You want to know who David was? 44 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:11,540 David was a king. 45 00:02:11,540 --> 00:02:14,840 He was the ultimate king who wrote many of the songs 46 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:17,240 that you would worship to God. 47 00:02:17,240 --> 00:02:19,040 He was called the Psalms. 48 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:21,880 And by the way, we're taking you out of the story now. 49 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:24,840 Next week we start a series in the Psalms. 50 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:28,880 And next week's service will be unlike any service 51 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:30,620 you've probably ever been to. 52 00:02:30,620 --> 00:02:34,760 We're gonna preach and then sing and preach and sing and preach. 53 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:38,020 I'm gonna preach and then you'll sing, okay? 54 00:02:38,020 --> 00:02:42,300 But it's gonna be an amazing time where we praise the Lord 55 00:02:42,300 --> 00:02:43,600 and we look forward to what he's doing. 56 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:45,340 So come back next week. 57 00:02:46,300 --> 00:02:48,340 We're actually gonna sing the Bible. 58 00:02:48,340 --> 00:02:49,600 It's gonna be great. 59 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:53,680 But these people, back to the story, 60 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:55,240 if you're in that first century, 61 00:02:55,240 --> 00:02:59,180 occupied by the Romans, you remember a king named David. 62 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:04,820 And you long for that, those days. 63 00:03:04,820 --> 00:03:07,260 David was this good king who had a heart for God. 64 00:03:07,260 --> 00:03:10,020 And this is more than just a longing for days gone by. 65 00:03:10,020 --> 00:03:13,660 You know that God said that there was a Messiah that's coming. 66 00:03:13,660 --> 00:03:17,740 And this Messiah that's coming will sit on David's throne 67 00:03:17,740 --> 00:03:22,240 to establish justice and righteousness forever. 68 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:24,740 Which means no more Rome. 69 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:28,640 It means no more being under that occupation. 70 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:32,020 You also know that the coming of Messiah 71 00:03:32,020 --> 00:03:36,020 would be preceded by an Elijah-like figure, 72 00:03:36,020 --> 00:03:38,420 this prophet of Elijah before. 73 00:03:42,420 --> 00:03:47,000 So this Elijah-like figure is gonna come back 74 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:49,060 in a time that will be a time of tribulation, 75 00:03:49,060 --> 00:03:52,200 a time of what's called in Jeremiah, Jacob's trouble. 76 00:03:52,200 --> 00:03:55,340 And as a Jew, you revere the Old Testament prophets. 77 00:03:55,340 --> 00:03:58,040 You know that they tell of one who will come 78 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:01,020 and will make Jerusalem the center of the world. 79 00:04:01,020 --> 00:04:03,540 When you begin to experience at this time, 80 00:04:03,540 --> 00:04:06,460 then is the ministry of a guy that seems to fit 81 00:04:06,460 --> 00:04:09,760 the description of Elijah, the forerunner to the Messiah. 82 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:13,420 And his name was John the Baptist. 83 00:04:13,420 --> 00:04:16,860 And John the Baptist ate weird stuff 84 00:04:16,860 --> 00:04:19,660 and he dressed really weird. 85 00:04:19,660 --> 00:04:22,840 And his message was this, 86 00:04:22,840 --> 00:04:27,540 repent for the kingdom of God is at hand. 87 00:04:27,540 --> 00:04:30,460 And so you are kind of intrigued by this guy 88 00:04:30,460 --> 00:04:32,260 who seems like Elijah used to be, 89 00:04:32,260 --> 00:04:34,140 who's coming as a forerunner. 90 00:04:34,140 --> 00:04:36,180 And we say, okay, if he's here, 91 00:04:36,180 --> 00:04:40,160 and what John would say is, I'm not the Christ. 92 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:41,820 In fact, there's one that's coming after me 93 00:04:41,820 --> 00:04:43,780 who sandals I'm not worthy to unloose. 94 00:04:43,780 --> 00:04:46,340 I'm not even worthy to be his slave. 95 00:04:46,340 --> 00:04:48,100 And so you're getting kind of excited. 96 00:04:48,100 --> 00:04:50,300 Who is this guy you're trying to point to? 97 00:04:52,220 --> 00:04:55,500 He seems to have the spirit of Elijah, this John the Baptist 98 00:04:55,500 --> 00:04:57,980 and maybe the fulfillment of that prophecy. 99 00:04:57,980 --> 00:04:59,820 Most importantly, this John the Baptist 100 00:04:59,820 --> 00:05:03,380 pointed to a man named Jesus of Nazareth 101 00:05:03,380 --> 00:05:07,540 as the Messiah, the one who comes in the name of the Lord. 102 00:05:07,540 --> 00:05:09,260 As the Old Testament says. 103 00:05:09,260 --> 00:05:11,540 There then was this man named Jesus 104 00:05:11,540 --> 00:05:14,460 who you find out came from Nazareth 105 00:05:14,460 --> 00:05:17,020 but was born in Bethlehem. 106 00:05:17,940 --> 00:05:19,740 And when you find out that he's born in Bethlehem, 107 00:05:19,740 --> 00:05:23,700 you find out, oh, the Messiah is supposed to be born in. 108 00:05:24,660 --> 00:05:28,860 Bethlehem, the house of bread, David city. 109 00:05:28,860 --> 00:05:30,660 That's interesting. 110 00:05:30,660 --> 00:05:32,100 And you find out that this Jesus 111 00:05:32,100 --> 00:05:34,660 was of the house and lineage of David. 112 00:05:34,660 --> 00:05:36,420 And so then I want you to take one more step. 113 00:05:36,420 --> 00:05:38,360 Imagine being one of his disciples. 114 00:05:39,340 --> 00:05:41,300 Imagine being one of those disciples 115 00:05:41,300 --> 00:05:43,100 who believed all that I just told you, 116 00:05:43,100 --> 00:05:45,660 but then had been an eyewitness to everything Jesus said 117 00:05:45,660 --> 00:05:46,620 and did. 118 00:05:46,620 --> 00:05:49,420 His teaching was authoritatively as God. 119 00:05:49,420 --> 00:05:52,060 He taught not as someone who heard from God 120 00:05:52,060 --> 00:05:53,960 but he taught not just like that, 121 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:57,060 he also taught as God, one with authority. 122 00:05:57,060 --> 00:06:00,380 His authoritative teaching is confirmed by miracles. 123 00:06:00,380 --> 00:06:05,380 They literally saw him do all of these miraculous things 124 00:06:05,940 --> 00:06:10,140 which is also a fulfillment of prophecy 125 00:06:10,140 --> 00:06:12,200 about the Messiah when he comes. 126 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:13,900 And then you have a discussion with, 127 00:06:13,900 --> 00:06:15,660 I mean, he's healing the sick, 128 00:06:15,660 --> 00:06:18,700 he's making the blind see, he's making the lame walk, 129 00:06:18,700 --> 00:06:22,260 he's even raised multiple people from the dead. 130 00:06:22,260 --> 00:06:24,180 Right, you see that. 131 00:06:24,180 --> 00:06:29,180 You see him calm the sea and you're like, wow, that's crazy. 132 00:06:29,300 --> 00:06:31,060 And then you have a discussion with him 133 00:06:31,060 --> 00:06:35,340 where he asks, who do men say that I am? 134 00:06:36,340 --> 00:06:38,660 And your answer is, okay, what's the public? 135 00:06:38,660 --> 00:06:41,580 They think that you're one of the prophets. 136 00:06:41,580 --> 00:06:43,820 Well, who do you say that I am? 137 00:06:43,820 --> 00:06:46,660 And you hear Peter say, you're the Christ, 138 00:06:46,660 --> 00:06:48,780 the Son of the living God. 139 00:06:48,780 --> 00:06:50,220 You are the Christ, the Messiah, 140 00:06:50,220 --> 00:06:51,140 the Son of the living God. 141 00:06:51,140 --> 00:06:54,580 And he says, flesh and blood didn't tell you that. 142 00:06:54,580 --> 00:06:57,900 You got that from God and by the way, don't tell anybody. 143 00:06:59,220 --> 00:07:00,620 Why would he say not to tell anybody? 144 00:07:00,620 --> 00:07:01,960 And then he says, the reason I don't want you to tell 145 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:03,900 anybody is because I'm supposed to suffer 146 00:07:03,900 --> 00:07:07,640 and to die at the hands of the religious leaders. 147 00:07:08,660 --> 00:07:10,060 Well, that's kind of weird. 148 00:07:10,060 --> 00:07:11,660 But that's what you hear. 149 00:07:11,660 --> 00:07:14,500 The time of the Passover then is coming, imagine this. 150 00:07:14,500 --> 00:07:16,940 Here comes the Passover, it's coming now, 151 00:07:16,940 --> 00:07:18,380 we were kind of in that time. 152 00:07:18,380 --> 00:07:21,940 And you're on your way to Jerusalem with this Messiah 153 00:07:21,940 --> 00:07:23,340 who's supposed to be a king. 154 00:07:23,340 --> 00:07:26,580 And when you get there, he gives you some instructions. 155 00:07:26,580 --> 00:07:28,620 He tells you to go get a donkey. 156 00:07:28,620 --> 00:07:31,220 He tells you where the donkey's gonna be. 157 00:07:31,220 --> 00:07:33,020 He tells you that there's gonna be people 158 00:07:33,020 --> 00:07:35,860 that ask you about the donkey and you're supposed to say, 159 00:07:35,860 --> 00:07:37,900 the Lord has needed him. 160 00:07:37,900 --> 00:07:40,460 So you take that donkey and then you give it to Jesus 161 00:07:40,460 --> 00:07:43,100 and he gets on there and he rides into Jerusalem 162 00:07:43,100 --> 00:07:47,340 on this donkey, by the way, another fulfillment of prophecy. 163 00:07:47,340 --> 00:07:49,780 And when you ride into Jerusalem on this donkey, 164 00:07:49,780 --> 00:07:54,180 which has this like kingly kind of thing, like atmosphere to it, 165 00:07:54,180 --> 00:07:56,980 all these people start taking palm branches 166 00:07:56,980 --> 00:07:58,620 and laying their coats out in the way 167 00:07:58,620 --> 00:08:01,620 as he goes into Jerusalem and waving these palm fronds 168 00:08:01,620 --> 00:08:05,820 and saying, Hosanna, save us now we pray. 169 00:08:05,820 --> 00:08:08,060 They weren't saying, save us from our sin. 170 00:08:09,260 --> 00:08:14,260 They were saying, save us, deliver us from this occupation. 171 00:08:15,100 --> 00:08:16,940 Save us now we pray. 172 00:08:19,380 --> 00:08:21,740 Are the disciples excited? 173 00:08:21,740 --> 00:08:26,740 And then this Jesus walks into, goes from doing that, 174 00:08:26,740 --> 00:08:31,740 walks into the temple and starts flipping over tables 175 00:08:32,220 --> 00:08:33,620 of all these money changers. 176 00:08:33,620 --> 00:08:36,860 He says, my father's house is meant to be a house of prayer, 177 00:08:36,860 --> 00:08:38,460 but you've made it a din of thieves. 178 00:08:38,460 --> 00:08:42,420 And he starts rolling, you know, turning over tables. 179 00:08:42,420 --> 00:08:45,580 He comes back the next day and the Pharisees, 180 00:08:45,580 --> 00:08:46,980 the religious leaders says, hey, 181 00:08:46,980 --> 00:08:49,420 who's authority did you do that in? 182 00:08:49,420 --> 00:08:52,540 Who gives you the right to go into the temple 183 00:08:52,540 --> 00:08:56,460 and to flip over tables to call it your father's house? 184 00:08:58,060 --> 00:08:59,660 And they're hoping he will say what they think 185 00:08:59,660 --> 00:09:02,500 he's gonna say, my father and I are one. 186 00:09:02,500 --> 00:09:04,060 I'm God. 187 00:09:04,060 --> 00:09:07,020 That's what they wanted to say so that he could, 188 00:09:07,020 --> 00:09:12,020 this is my interpretation, so that they could arrest him. 189 00:09:12,620 --> 00:09:16,620 And he says this to them, who is John the Baptist's authority? 190 00:09:16,620 --> 00:09:19,260 What baptism did he baptize with? 191 00:09:19,260 --> 00:09:20,580 And they wouldn't answer him. 192 00:09:20,580 --> 00:09:22,780 And so he said, I'm not answering you either. 193 00:09:26,220 --> 00:09:28,980 I have the right and the authority not to tell you. 194 00:09:28,980 --> 00:09:32,180 And so does that make the disciples excited? 195 00:09:32,180 --> 00:09:33,180 Yes, it does. 196 00:09:35,020 --> 00:09:36,660 He then pronounces, it's so amazing, 197 00:09:36,660 --> 00:09:39,740 if you get to the end of Matthew chapter 23, go here. 198 00:09:39,740 --> 00:09:45,220 Matthew 23, because those people rejected, 199 00:09:45,220 --> 00:09:48,980 because those religious leaders and the Jews rejected him, 200 00:09:48,980 --> 00:09:52,900 he says this in verse 37 of chapter 23, 201 00:09:52,900 --> 00:09:56,460 oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets 202 00:09:56,460 --> 00:10:01,460 and stoneish them which are sent unto thee. 203 00:10:01,460 --> 00:10:04,380 How often would I have gathered thy children together, 204 00:10:04,380 --> 00:10:08,140 even as a hen, gathered her chicks under your wings, 205 00:10:08,140 --> 00:10:09,860 and ye would not. 206 00:10:11,620 --> 00:10:14,620 Remember before he said, my father's house, 207 00:10:14,620 --> 00:10:15,780 you've made it in a thieves. 208 00:10:15,780 --> 00:10:19,820 Now he says, your house, verse 38, behold, 209 00:10:19,820 --> 00:10:22,380 your house is left unto you, 210 00:10:22,380 --> 00:10:27,380 desolate, unusable, not able to be used for the purpose 211 00:10:27,380 --> 00:10:28,820 in which it's intended. 212 00:10:29,820 --> 00:10:32,180 For I say unto you, here's what he says, 213 00:10:32,180 --> 00:10:35,380 and remember you're a disciple, you're excited about this. 214 00:10:35,380 --> 00:10:37,620 For I say unto you, you shall not see me henceforth 215 00:10:37,620 --> 00:10:40,580 till thou shalt say, blessed is he that, 216 00:10:40,580 --> 00:10:42,060 what's the next word? 217 00:10:42,060 --> 00:10:45,620 Cometh, you shall not see me henceforth till thou shalt say, 218 00:10:45,620 --> 00:10:49,260 blessed is he that, what's the next word? 219 00:10:49,260 --> 00:10:52,820 Cometh in the name of the Lord. 220 00:10:55,380 --> 00:10:57,780 He's referring to an Old Testament prophecy that says 221 00:10:57,780 --> 00:11:00,140 the Messiah is gonna come one day, 222 00:11:00,140 --> 00:11:02,860 and that coming is not just showing up, 223 00:11:02,860 --> 00:11:05,660 it's establishing your kingdom. 224 00:11:05,660 --> 00:11:08,180 And he says, your house is desolate, 225 00:11:08,180 --> 00:11:12,220 there's not gonna be, you're not gonna see me again Jerusalem 226 00:11:12,220 --> 00:11:15,500 until you see me coming to set up my kingdom. 227 00:11:15,500 --> 00:11:18,940 And so, believing all of that and experiencing all of that, 228 00:11:18,940 --> 00:11:21,420 you would come to Jesus with the expectation 229 00:11:21,420 --> 00:11:25,260 and the exact questions that they asked. 230 00:11:25,260 --> 00:11:29,220 These disciples asked Jesus a question, 231 00:11:29,220 --> 00:11:30,420 and there's two parts of this question 232 00:11:30,420 --> 00:11:32,260 that really refer to the same events, 233 00:11:32,260 --> 00:11:33,820 and you'll find that question, 234 00:11:33,820 --> 00:11:36,900 we've attempted to answer it the last two weeks. 235 00:11:36,900 --> 00:11:39,420 Today I'm gonna put it all together. 236 00:11:39,420 --> 00:11:42,460 Hopefully I won't put anyone to sleep. 237 00:11:42,460 --> 00:11:44,500 Okay, so I'm gonna ask Jesus, 238 00:11:44,500 --> 00:11:49,500 okay, and here's what verse three says, 239 00:11:50,140 --> 00:11:51,780 I wanna ask the question. 240 00:11:51,780 --> 00:11:54,180 The question they had is a question you would have, 241 00:11:54,180 --> 00:11:57,380 and Jesus gives us the answer, here's what they said. 242 00:11:57,380 --> 00:11:59,020 And as he sat upon the Mount of Olives, 243 00:11:59,020 --> 00:12:01,780 the disciples came unto him privately saying, 244 00:12:01,780 --> 00:12:04,780 tell us when shall these things be? 245 00:12:05,860 --> 00:12:07,740 Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord, 246 00:12:07,740 --> 00:12:11,780 when are you coming to set up your kingdom? 247 00:12:11,780 --> 00:12:14,620 What shall be the sign of thy coming? 248 00:12:14,620 --> 00:12:15,660 When shall these things be? 249 00:12:15,660 --> 00:12:16,620 What shall be the sign of the coming 250 00:12:16,620 --> 00:12:19,380 and of the end of the world? 251 00:12:19,380 --> 00:12:21,220 The end of the age. 252 00:12:21,220 --> 00:12:23,540 Today it's my intention to help you understand 253 00:12:23,540 --> 00:12:26,260 Jesus' answer by taking everything I've taught you 254 00:12:26,260 --> 00:12:29,380 the last two Sundays and what we will see today 255 00:12:29,380 --> 00:12:32,060 to understand Jesus' answer to this question. 256 00:12:32,060 --> 00:12:35,180 How will we know that Jesus is about to come back 257 00:12:35,180 --> 00:12:39,820 and to rule and reign and to usher in the end of the world? 258 00:12:39,820 --> 00:12:43,660 We can understand Jesus' answer to his disciples 259 00:12:43,660 --> 00:12:45,900 about the sign of his coming and of the end of the age 260 00:12:45,900 --> 00:12:48,020 with these five descriptions. 261 00:12:48,020 --> 00:12:50,540 Here's the first description that really is 262 00:12:50,540 --> 00:12:53,900 an overarching description of the whole answer. 263 00:12:53,900 --> 00:12:58,900 The first description is Daniel's 70th week. 264 00:12:58,900 --> 00:13:00,620 Daniel's 70th week. 265 00:13:00,620 --> 00:13:03,620 The whole tribulation period. 266 00:13:03,620 --> 00:13:06,460 Now hold on, I'll get to it. 267 00:13:06,460 --> 00:13:11,460 If you look at verse 15, when you read Jesus' answer, 268 00:13:11,900 --> 00:13:14,500 he says something interesting. 269 00:13:14,500 --> 00:13:16,940 There's a clue in verse 15 that tells you 270 00:13:16,940 --> 00:13:18,500 that the time to which he is referring 271 00:13:18,500 --> 00:13:20,020 is found in the book of Daniel. 272 00:13:20,020 --> 00:13:22,820 Here's what he says, Matthew 24, 15. 273 00:13:22,820 --> 00:13:26,900 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation 274 00:13:26,900 --> 00:13:29,660 spoken of by, what's the next word? 275 00:13:29,660 --> 00:13:34,660 Daniel the prophet, stand in the, next two words, 276 00:13:34,660 --> 00:13:38,340 holy place, who so readeth, let him understand. 277 00:13:38,340 --> 00:13:43,340 The time to which Jesus referred is found described 278 00:13:43,340 --> 00:13:44,660 by Daniel the prophet. 279 00:13:44,660 --> 00:13:47,660 Now we referred to it last week and I went through it quickly. 280 00:13:47,660 --> 00:13:50,660 I want to show you it again to firmly place the answer 281 00:13:50,660 --> 00:13:51,660 in your mind. 282 00:13:51,660 --> 00:13:54,660 It's found in Daniel chapter nine, and I'll put it up 283 00:13:54,660 --> 00:13:55,660 on the screen here. 284 00:13:55,660 --> 00:13:59,660 Daniel chapter nine, verse 24 through 27. 285 00:13:59,660 --> 00:14:02,660 70 weeks are determined upon thy people 286 00:14:02,660 --> 00:14:06,660 and upon thy holy city to finish the transgression 287 00:14:06,660 --> 00:14:09,660 and to make an end of sins and to make a reconciliation 288 00:14:09,660 --> 00:14:13,660 for iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousness. 289 00:14:13,660 --> 00:14:15,660 How long is the righteousness? 290 00:14:16,660 --> 00:14:18,660 What does everlasting mean? 291 00:14:18,660 --> 00:14:20,660 Forever, never ending. 292 00:14:20,660 --> 00:14:21,660 Who's for that? 293 00:14:21,660 --> 00:14:24,660 Yeah, never ending righteousness. 294 00:14:24,660 --> 00:14:26,660 And to seal up the vision of the prophecy 295 00:14:26,660 --> 00:14:30,660 and to anoint the most holy. 296 00:14:30,660 --> 00:14:33,660 In our English translation, we capitalize holy 297 00:14:33,660 --> 00:14:35,660 because it's talking about somebody. 298 00:14:35,660 --> 00:14:37,660 It's talking about the Messiah who is God. 299 00:14:37,660 --> 00:14:39,660 What's the purpose of the 70 weeks? 300 00:14:39,660 --> 00:14:43,660 To usher in righteousness, to usher in a kingdom, 301 00:14:43,660 --> 00:14:47,660 to anoint a king as, the Messiah as king. 302 00:14:47,660 --> 00:14:49,660 That's what the point of this is. 303 00:14:49,660 --> 00:14:52,660 Verse 25, know therefore and understand that from the going 304 00:14:52,660 --> 00:14:55,660 forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem 305 00:14:55,660 --> 00:14:59,660 unto the Messiah, the prince shall be seven weeks 306 00:14:59,660 --> 00:15:02,660 and three score in two weeks, the street shall be built again 307 00:15:02,660 --> 00:15:05,660 and the wall even in troublesome times. 308 00:15:05,660 --> 00:15:09,660 And after three score in two weeks shall Messiah be cut off 309 00:15:09,660 --> 00:15:11,660 but not for himself and the people of the prince 310 00:15:11,660 --> 00:15:14,660 that shall come shall destroy the city in the sanctuary 311 00:15:14,660 --> 00:15:17,660 and at the end thereof shall be with a flood 312 00:15:17,660 --> 00:15:20,660 and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. 313 00:15:20,660 --> 00:15:24,660 Verse 27, and he shall confirm the covenant with many 314 00:15:24,660 --> 00:15:25,660 for one week. 315 00:15:25,660 --> 00:15:29,660 This is referring to the prince that shall come 316 00:15:29,660 --> 00:15:31,660 from verse 26. 317 00:15:31,660 --> 00:15:35,660 And in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice 318 00:15:35,660 --> 00:15:39,660 of the oblation to cease and for the overspreading 319 00:15:39,660 --> 00:15:43,660 of abominations he shall make it desolate 320 00:15:43,660 --> 00:15:47,660 even until the consummation and that determination 321 00:15:47,660 --> 00:15:51,660 shall be poured upon the desolate. 322 00:15:51,660 --> 00:15:53,660 So you have in verse 27, 323 00:15:53,660 --> 00:15:58,660 this prince that shall come who makes a covenant with many 324 00:15:58,660 --> 00:16:03,660 in the middle of that week he shall cause the sacrifices 325 00:16:03,660 --> 00:16:06,660 to cease, he shall cause the overspreading 326 00:16:06,660 --> 00:16:10,660 of abominations, he shall make it the holy place, 327 00:16:10,660 --> 00:16:14,660 this temple desolate even until the consummation 328 00:16:14,660 --> 00:16:16,660 until the end of all of this week 329 00:16:16,660 --> 00:16:19,660 and the determination shall be poured out to the desolate. 330 00:16:19,660 --> 00:16:21,660 So to make this a lot clearer, 331 00:16:21,660 --> 00:16:23,660 I made a chart, who likes charts? 332 00:16:23,660 --> 00:16:25,660 Okay, here's what he says. 333 00:16:25,660 --> 00:16:29,660 Now some may say, how do you get the math here? 334 00:16:29,660 --> 00:16:30,660 What's the math? 335 00:16:30,660 --> 00:16:33,660 There's 70 weeks, what are we talking about? 336 00:16:33,660 --> 00:16:35,660 Okay, so you have seven weeks. 337 00:16:35,660 --> 00:16:37,660 Now some may say, well how do you know they're years? 338 00:16:37,660 --> 00:16:41,660 I know they're years because most of it's been fulfilled. 339 00:16:41,660 --> 00:16:44,660 The Bible made a prophecy that's been fulfilled. 340 00:16:45,660 --> 00:16:46,660 Is this thing on? 341 00:16:46,660 --> 00:16:47,660 Hello? 342 00:16:47,660 --> 00:16:51,660 The Bible has made prophecies that have already been fulfilled. 343 00:16:51,660 --> 00:16:52,660 That's cool. 344 00:16:52,660 --> 00:16:54,660 Okay, so how do I know they're weeks? 345 00:16:54,660 --> 00:17:01,660 Well, 49 years after this is stated exactly what said would 346 00:17:01,660 --> 00:17:03,660 happen, happened. 347 00:17:03,660 --> 00:17:06,660 That is, the streets are restored, the walls are restored, 348 00:17:06,660 --> 00:17:08,660 the Jerusalem's restored. 349 00:17:08,660 --> 00:17:10,660 Pretty cool, right? 350 00:17:10,660 --> 00:17:14,660 So seven weeks is 49 years to the end of the week. 351 00:17:14,660 --> 00:17:17,660 So seven weeks is 49 years to what? 352 00:17:17,660 --> 00:17:19,660 To the restoration of Jerusalem. 353 00:17:19,660 --> 00:17:21,660 Talked about in verse 25. 354 00:17:21,660 --> 00:17:23,660 What's the status of this prophecy? 355 00:17:23,660 --> 00:17:25,660 It happened. 356 00:17:25,660 --> 00:17:27,660 Awesome. 357 00:17:27,660 --> 00:17:29,660 Am I allowed to dance in church? 358 00:17:29,660 --> 00:17:31,660 My feet didn't move so it's fine. 359 00:17:31,660 --> 00:17:33,660 Okay. 360 00:17:33,660 --> 00:17:37,660 And then he says, three score in two weeks, a score is 20. 361 00:17:37,660 --> 00:17:40,660 Four score in seven years ago. 362 00:17:40,660 --> 00:17:42,660 Our forefathers, what was that? 363 00:17:42,660 --> 00:17:45,660 87 years. 364 00:17:45,660 --> 00:17:48,660 Three score in two weeks is 62 weeks. 365 00:17:48,660 --> 00:17:50,660 Weeks of years, 434 years. 366 00:17:50,660 --> 00:17:52,660 Here's what's amazing. 367 00:17:52,660 --> 00:17:56,660 From the time of the restoration of the temple and all that 368 00:17:56,660 --> 00:18:04,660 till Messiah is cut off, 434 years. 369 00:18:04,660 --> 00:18:07,660 The Bible prophecy was fulfilled. 370 00:18:07,660 --> 00:18:11,660 More dancing, right? 371 00:18:11,660 --> 00:18:13,660 But not for himself. 372 00:18:13,660 --> 00:18:15,660 Here's what I want to tell you today. 373 00:18:15,660 --> 00:18:17,660 Jesus came and he died. 374 00:18:17,660 --> 00:18:20,660 And when he died, he died for your sin and mine. 375 00:18:20,660 --> 00:18:25,660 And if you believe in him, you put your trust in him, you're saved. 376 00:18:25,660 --> 00:18:28,660 And so that's, he died for our sins. 377 00:18:28,660 --> 00:18:30,660 That's what happened. 378 00:18:30,660 --> 00:18:33,660 It happened. 379 00:18:33,660 --> 00:18:39,660 But he says there's one more week where this prince that should come 380 00:18:39,660 --> 00:18:43,660 will make a covenant for one week. 381 00:18:43,660 --> 00:18:46,660 I've already showed you that the weeks are years. 382 00:18:46,660 --> 00:18:49,660 So how many years is this last week? 383 00:18:49,660 --> 00:18:51,660 Seven years. 384 00:18:51,660 --> 00:18:54,660 So there's a coming time of Jacob's trouble. 385 00:18:54,660 --> 00:18:56,660 What's called in Jeremiah. 386 00:18:56,660 --> 00:19:02,660 Seven years that will start with this prince that shall come. 387 00:19:02,660 --> 00:19:04,660 I'll show you this in a minute. 388 00:19:04,660 --> 00:19:07,660 This person who does the abomination of desolation, 389 00:19:07,660 --> 00:19:10,660 he's referred to by Jesus in Matthew 24, 390 00:19:10,660 --> 00:19:14,660 that in the midst of this 70th week, he's going to make a covenant. 391 00:19:14,660 --> 00:19:18,660 I almost fell. 392 00:19:18,660 --> 00:19:21,660 He'll make a covenant with many. 393 00:19:21,660 --> 00:19:26,660 And in the middle of it, he will do this thing called an abomination that desolates. 394 00:19:26,660 --> 00:19:28,660 We'll talk about that more in a minute. 395 00:19:28,660 --> 00:19:32,660 But the first description you've got to understand is Jesus is answering a question 396 00:19:32,660 --> 00:19:37,660 about his coming and he begins to describe the 70th week of Daniel. 397 00:19:37,660 --> 00:19:39,660 Make sense? 398 00:19:39,660 --> 00:19:40,660 Okay. 399 00:19:40,660 --> 00:19:42,660 So that's the first description. 400 00:19:42,660 --> 00:19:46,660 I believe these are weeks of years because that is exactly what happened in the past. 401 00:19:46,660 --> 00:19:51,660 I believe the 70th week didn't happen yet because of two mysteries spoken of in the New Testament. 402 00:19:51,660 --> 00:19:55,660 There's the mystery of the church talked about in Ephesians chapter 5. 403 00:19:55,660 --> 00:20:01,660 When the Bible says mystery is saying something that was not previously revealed that's now being revealed. 404 00:20:01,660 --> 00:20:05,660 What's being revealed is that now we have the time of the Gentiles. 405 00:20:05,660 --> 00:20:06,660 This church age. 406 00:20:06,660 --> 00:20:08,660 It doesn't mean that God's forgotten or replaced Israel. 407 00:20:08,660 --> 00:20:11,660 God has not forgotten or replaced Israel. 408 00:20:11,660 --> 00:20:16,660 But there's this thing that's called the church that the Old Testament prophets did not see. 409 00:20:16,660 --> 00:20:20,660 And there's a gap between when Messiah was cut off and when the 70th week is going to happen. 410 00:20:20,660 --> 00:20:26,660 There's also something they didn't see also called a mystery and it's the rapture. 411 00:20:26,660 --> 00:20:29,660 This thing, he says, I'll, behold, I give you a mystery. 412 00:20:29,660 --> 00:20:32,660 We should not all sleep but we all shall all be changed in a moment. 413 00:20:32,660 --> 00:20:35,660 The twinkling of the eye at the last trump. 414 00:20:35,660 --> 00:20:39,660 And so this is what God did. 415 00:20:39,660 --> 00:20:45,660 So we know that Jesus' answer includes Daniel's description of the 70th week because it includes the abomination of desolation. 416 00:20:45,660 --> 00:20:49,660 And this is when Daniel describes it as happening. 417 00:20:49,660 --> 00:20:52,660 It was described in Jeremiah as the time of Jacob's trouble. 418 00:20:52,660 --> 00:20:56,660 And from there we see the second description, another one we studied last week. 419 00:20:56,660 --> 00:20:58,660 Description number two is birth pains. 420 00:20:58,660 --> 00:21:04,660 So if you read Jesus' answer, he gets right into these things that he calls birth pains. 421 00:21:04,660 --> 00:21:08,660 You read about those from verse four to verse 14. 422 00:21:08,660 --> 00:21:11,660 The word comes from the word translated sorrows. 423 00:21:11,660 --> 00:21:16,660 If you have your Bible go down to verse eight, this won't probably be on the screen, but read this with me. 424 00:21:16,660 --> 00:21:20,660 All these things are the beginning of, what does it say? 425 00:21:20,660 --> 00:21:27,660 Sorrows, the word sorrows is Odin, which means travail, which means birth pains. 426 00:21:27,660 --> 00:21:28,660 Okay. 427 00:21:28,660 --> 00:21:35,660 And what we said, that birth pains start slow and get faster. 428 00:21:35,660 --> 00:21:37,660 Who agrees with me? 429 00:21:37,660 --> 00:21:41,660 And they start from less intense to more intense. 430 00:21:41,660 --> 00:21:44,660 Birth pains get more intense. 431 00:21:44,660 --> 00:21:50,660 And so we see a correlation between the birth pains that Jesus described here and the judgments that were found in Revelation. 432 00:21:50,660 --> 00:21:54,660 And for all of the trying I was trying to do, that's what I was trying to tell you last week. 433 00:21:54,660 --> 00:21:57,660 That when you read verses four to 14, you see a few things. 434 00:21:57,660 --> 00:21:59,660 Here's another diagram. 435 00:21:59,660 --> 00:22:00,660 Are you ready? 436 00:22:00,660 --> 00:22:02,660 There's deceptions by false Christ. 437 00:22:02,660 --> 00:22:06,660 He described that in verse four and five. 438 00:22:06,660 --> 00:22:14,660 Where he says, take heed that no man deceive you, for many shall come in my name saying, I am Christ and shall deceive many. 439 00:22:14,660 --> 00:22:18,660 So at the end there's going to be a bunch of people who claim to be Christ. 440 00:22:18,660 --> 00:22:23,660 And the ultimate example of that is who? 441 00:22:23,660 --> 00:22:25,660 The anti-Christ. 442 00:22:25,660 --> 00:22:31,660 If you're not familiar with Bible study, we will make you familiar with this person called the anti-Christ today. 443 00:22:31,660 --> 00:22:37,660 That seems to correspond with the seal judgment that described in Revelation 6 verses 1 and 2. 444 00:22:37,660 --> 00:22:39,660 I will not take the time to read it. 445 00:22:39,660 --> 00:22:46,660 But when I get done with this chart, you can take a picture or go to our website and study the back and forth on that. 446 00:22:46,660 --> 00:22:49,660 You should study your Bible beyond here too. 447 00:22:49,660 --> 00:22:51,660 I'll give you some homework. 448 00:22:51,660 --> 00:22:54,660 Then you have disputes and warfare among the nations. 449 00:22:54,660 --> 00:22:56,660 That's described in verses 6 and 7. 450 00:22:56,660 --> 00:23:00,660 That's also described in seal judgment 1 and 2. 451 00:23:00,660 --> 00:23:06,660 He says in verses 6 and 7, you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars. 452 00:23:06,660 --> 00:23:11,660 See that you be not troubled for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 453 00:23:11,660 --> 00:23:14,660 For nations shall rise against nations and kingdom against kingdom. 454 00:23:14,660 --> 00:23:19,660 And these shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in diverse places. 455 00:23:19,660 --> 00:23:26,660 That seems to correlate with seal judgments 1 and 2. 456 00:23:26,660 --> 00:23:30,660 Then you have number 3, devastation throughout the world. 457 00:23:30,660 --> 00:23:34,660 That goes to seal judgments 3 and 4, seal judgment 6. 458 00:23:34,660 --> 00:23:43,660 And the trumpets judgments are all found in chapters 1 through 4, sorry, verses 1 through 4, Revelation 8 verse 7 through 12. 459 00:23:43,660 --> 00:23:54,660 Then you have the deliverance of believers to tribulation, meaning that people that get saved during this time will be, many of them will be Jews that were getting saved and others. 460 00:23:54,660 --> 00:23:58,660 They will be delivered to tribulation and judgment. 461 00:23:58,660 --> 00:24:02,660 That's exactly what's described in Revelation 6, 9 through 11. 462 00:24:02,660 --> 00:24:07,660 You have the defection of false believers in verses 10 to 13. 463 00:24:07,660 --> 00:24:10,660 Many shall be offended, it says in verse 10. 464 00:24:10,660 --> 00:24:15,660 And in verse 11, shall be, and hate one another, many false prophets shall rise and deceive many. 465 00:24:15,660 --> 00:24:22,660 And because the iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold, but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. 466 00:24:22,660 --> 00:24:30,660 So you have the defection of false believers, that's described in Revelation 13, 1 through 4, 12 through 15 and then Revelation 9. 467 00:24:30,660 --> 00:24:34,660 Then you have the declaration of the gospel of the kingdom to the whole world. 468 00:24:34,660 --> 00:24:42,660 And that is described throughout Revelation 11, Revelation 14, Revelation 7, 1 through 5, 13 through 17. 469 00:24:42,660 --> 00:24:46,660 There's two witnesses that come and preach. 470 00:24:46,660 --> 00:24:50,660 Then there's 144,000 that go out and preach. 471 00:24:50,660 --> 00:24:53,660 And this gospel of the kingdom is preached during that time. 472 00:24:53,660 --> 00:24:59,660 Those who get saved, many of them are brought to martyrdom. 473 00:24:59,660 --> 00:25:06,660 And those who aren't to martyrdom have to endure all kinds of pain and suffering. 474 00:25:06,660 --> 00:25:16,660 So my point is, the first part that Jesus says, if you go to Revelation, seems to be the same kind of description as the beginning of the tribulation. 475 00:25:16,660 --> 00:25:18,660 So they correlate. 476 00:25:18,660 --> 00:25:25,660 The 70 weeks, the first three and a half years are where you experience the birth pains and then beyond that. 477 00:25:25,660 --> 00:25:27,660 Okay, that's description number two. 478 00:25:27,660 --> 00:25:29,660 Now we're caught up from last week. 479 00:25:29,660 --> 00:25:31,660 We have description number three. 480 00:25:31,660 --> 00:25:32,660 Here's description number three. 481 00:25:32,660 --> 00:25:44,660 This is what Jesus says, when you therefore verse 15, shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place. 482 00:25:44,660 --> 00:25:47,660 Whoso readeth, let him understand. 483 00:25:47,660 --> 00:25:52,660 What is this abomination of desolation? 484 00:25:52,660 --> 00:25:53,660 Daniel speaks about it. 485 00:25:53,660 --> 00:25:54,660 Jesus speaks about it. 486 00:25:54,660 --> 00:25:55,660 What does it mean? 487 00:25:55,660 --> 00:26:02,660 Well, an abomination is a word, belugdima. 488 00:26:02,660 --> 00:26:09,660 It means a detestation and is used often about idolatry. 489 00:26:09,660 --> 00:26:12,660 So one thing that God hates is idols. 490 00:26:12,660 --> 00:26:15,660 Who has ever read the Ten Commandments? 491 00:26:15,660 --> 00:26:19,660 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 492 00:26:19,660 --> 00:26:25,660 You shall not make unto thee any graven image. 493 00:26:25,660 --> 00:26:27,660 Don't put anything ahead of me. 494 00:26:27,660 --> 00:26:30,660 Don't even try to make anything that looks like me. 495 00:26:30,660 --> 00:26:37,660 Don't make anything that you worship instead of me. 496 00:26:37,660 --> 00:26:39,660 Okay? 497 00:26:39,660 --> 00:26:43,660 So that's what this abomination is. 498 00:26:43,660 --> 00:26:47,660 What is the abomination of desolation? 499 00:26:47,660 --> 00:26:53,660 The word arremosis is a making desolate. 500 00:26:53,660 --> 00:26:56,660 So you put those two things together. 501 00:26:56,660 --> 00:26:59,660 It's an abominable thing that makes desolate. 502 00:26:59,660 --> 00:27:03,660 It's a word, the word for abomination is often used in things related to idolatry. 503 00:27:03,660 --> 00:27:09,660 So this is an idol that's worshiped and as it's worshiped, it desecrates. 504 00:27:09,660 --> 00:27:10,660 Okay? 505 00:27:10,660 --> 00:27:13,660 Does that make sense? 506 00:27:13,660 --> 00:27:18,660 Notice it says in verse 15 something about the holy place. 507 00:27:18,660 --> 00:27:20,660 What is the holy place? 508 00:27:20,660 --> 00:27:22,660 Well, that's in the temple. 509 00:27:22,660 --> 00:27:24,660 This kind of thing already happened. 510 00:27:24,660 --> 00:27:31,660 So let me give you in history what Daniel talks about is something that already happens that says abomination of desolation. 511 00:27:31,660 --> 00:27:34,660 Go to Daniel chapter number 11. 512 00:27:34,660 --> 00:27:35,660 Okay? 513 00:27:35,660 --> 00:27:40,660 This will also be on your screen. 514 00:27:40,660 --> 00:27:53,660 It says in verse 31, and arm shall stand on his part and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength and shall take away the daily sacrifice and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate. 515 00:27:53,660 --> 00:27:54,660 Okay? 516 00:27:54,660 --> 00:27:56,660 Do you see that? 517 00:27:56,660 --> 00:28:01,660 Now in chapter 11, the first part of the chapter, it's a kind of a long chapter. 518 00:28:01,660 --> 00:28:02,660 This is Daniel 11. 519 00:28:02,660 --> 00:28:07,660 It's devoted to some historical things in the latter part to the end time things. 520 00:28:07,660 --> 00:28:16,660 But while you're looking in chapter 11 there in verse 31, we have a very, very graphic description of an interesting historical figure. 521 00:28:16,660 --> 00:28:32,660 I don't think that any Bible commentary that I've read has ever interpreted this particular part any other way than at least no notable scholar, then as a reference to a historical figure named Antiochus Epiphanes. 522 00:28:32,660 --> 00:28:39,660 He was a Syrian king who basically reigned from 175 to 165 BC. 523 00:28:39,660 --> 00:28:44,660 He called himself Epiphanes, which means the Great One. 524 00:28:44,660 --> 00:28:45,660 Okay? 525 00:28:45,660 --> 00:28:48,660 Antiochus the Great One. 526 00:28:48,660 --> 00:28:54,660 He wasn't very modest. 527 00:28:54,660 --> 00:28:58,660 People called him Antiochus Epimhanes, which means maniac. 528 00:28:58,660 --> 00:29:03,660 So we're not the first people to make fun of our leaders. 529 00:29:03,660 --> 00:29:06,660 But anyway, this particular man is a very interesting figure. 530 00:29:06,660 --> 00:29:12,660 In verse 31 it says about him, if you study the whole text, who it is. 531 00:29:12,660 --> 00:29:16,660 It says, he forces shall stand on his part and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength. 532 00:29:16,660 --> 00:29:21,660 They shall take away the daily sacrifice and they shall place the abomination that makes desolate. 533 00:29:21,660 --> 00:29:28,660 The same phrase. 534 00:29:28,660 --> 00:29:32,660 He's going to bring about an abomination of desolation, Antiochus Epiphanes. 535 00:29:32,660 --> 00:29:36,660 Here we have a historical picture of what the end time abomination will look like. 536 00:29:36,660 --> 00:29:39,660 He was a great persecutor of the people of Israel. 537 00:29:39,660 --> 00:29:45,660 If you read, if you have an old Catholic Bible that has the apocryphin, you'll find the books of 1st and 2nd Maccabees. 538 00:29:45,660 --> 00:29:51,660 And if you look in there, you'll get a whole rundown on Antiochus because he was written in the period in which he lived, 539 00:29:51,660 --> 00:29:56,660 a period of about 400 years after Daniel prophesied prior to the New Testament era. 540 00:29:56,660 --> 00:30:03,660 You read in there that he tried to stamp out the Jewish religion and in so doing he slaughtered thousands and thousands of Jews, 541 00:30:03,660 --> 00:30:07,660 including men, women, and even children. 542 00:30:07,660 --> 00:30:13,660 In the worst act, as far as I think Jewish history is concerned, he desecrated the temple. 543 00:30:13,660 --> 00:30:20,660 And he did that by abominating the temple, by going in and slaughtering a pig on the altar, 544 00:30:20,660 --> 00:30:25,660 and then taking pork and stuffing it down the throats of the priests, 545 00:30:25,660 --> 00:30:30,660 and then setting up an idol in that place, a Greek god in that place. 546 00:30:30,660 --> 00:30:34,660 Okay? What do you know about the Jews and pigs? 547 00:30:34,660 --> 00:30:36,660 Right. Right. 548 00:30:36,660 --> 00:30:44,660 So he goes into their temple and he slaughters a pig in their temple, and then he takes pork and desecrates the priests, 549 00:30:44,660 --> 00:30:51,660 and he desecrates the altar, and then he sets up a Greek god where we don't even put, like, the Jews and the Christians. 550 00:30:51,660 --> 00:30:57,660 We don't make, some people that call themselves Christians make idols, even of God and Jesus. 551 00:30:57,660 --> 00:31:03,660 We don't do that. You don't see figurines of Jesus here because that ain't Jesus. 552 00:31:03,660 --> 00:31:08,660 We have a living God. Okay? And he told us not to, by the way. 553 00:31:08,660 --> 00:31:12,660 Right. So we have this picture of what's already happened. 554 00:31:12,660 --> 00:31:20,660 This abomination, this idol, this worship to an idol that desecrates or desolates the temple. 555 00:31:20,660 --> 00:31:22,660 Okay? 556 00:31:22,660 --> 00:31:30,660 Now notice when it happens in the future, it happens in the middle of the 70th week, back to Daniel chapter 9, 557 00:31:30,660 --> 00:31:40,660 where it says, he shall confirm the covenant with one week, and in the midst of the week, he shall cause the sacrifice of the ablation to cease 558 00:31:40,660 --> 00:31:47,660 and for the overspreading of abominations. He shall make it desolate even under the consummation, and that, in turn, shall be poured out on the desolate. 559 00:31:47,660 --> 00:31:54,660 Daniel chapter 12 gives us more on this timing. Many shall be purified and made white and tried, but the wicked shall do wickedly, 560 00:31:54,660 --> 00:32:02,660 it says in verse 10, none of the wicked shall understand, but the why shall understand, and from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, 561 00:32:02,660 --> 00:32:14,660 and the abomination that make it desolate set up shall be 1,290 days, which is just over 3 1⁄2 years. 562 00:32:14,660 --> 00:32:22,660 This abomination that desecrates is also found, you'll find about it in Revelation 13-11. You ready? Let me show you it. 563 00:32:22,660 --> 00:32:27,660 And I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten hordes, 564 00:32:27,660 --> 00:32:37,660 and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his head the name of blasphemy. Man, I won't have a ton of time to explain this, but it says, 565 00:32:37,660 --> 00:32:42,660 verse 2, in the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth was the mouth of a lion. 566 00:32:42,660 --> 00:32:51,660 The dragon gave him his power, the dragon is Satan. It's referred to as Satan, read through Revelation. That old serpent, the devil. 567 00:32:51,660 --> 00:32:59,660 Satan will give this guy who is the antichrist power and his seat in great authority. I saw one of his heads where wounded to death and his deadly wound was healed, 568 00:32:59,660 --> 00:33:08,660 and all that world wandered after the beast, so the beast is the antichrist, and the antichrist is trying to do what Christ did. 569 00:33:08,660 --> 00:33:17,660 What did Christ do? He was killed and then he resurrected. You have here Satan giving this antichrist a mortal wound and then resurrecting. 570 00:33:17,660 --> 00:33:25,660 Verse 4, they worshiped the dragon, Satan, which gave power unto the beast, and they worshiped the beast saying, who is like unto the beast, who is able to make war with him. 571 00:33:25,660 --> 00:33:33,660 There was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies and powers was given unto him to continue 40 and 2 months. 40 and 2 months. 572 00:33:33,660 --> 00:33:40,660 How long is that? 42 months is 3 1⁄2 years. 573 00:33:40,660 --> 00:33:56,660 And he opened his mouth and blaspheme against God to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle. 574 00:33:56,660 --> 00:34:04,660 And them that dwell in heaven. The false prophet makes the people work of the beast, another name for the antichrist. 575 00:34:04,660 --> 00:34:17,660 Verse 7, chapter 13, and behold another beast coming from the earth, two horns like a lamb and he spake as a dragon and he exorcised power for the first beast before him and caused the earth and them which worshiped, 576 00:34:17,660 --> 00:34:24,660 which dwell therein to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed. 577 00:34:24,660 --> 00:34:30,660 Can I tell you, this is, I'm pausing, are you ready? 578 00:34:30,660 --> 00:34:37,660 Satan's desire is to be worshiped as God. That's his desire. 579 00:34:37,660 --> 00:34:46,660 People that follow Satan do what he does and they desire to be worshiped. 580 00:34:46,660 --> 00:34:59,660 And in a society, when in a culture, when God is not God, the state becomes God. 581 00:34:59,660 --> 00:35:07,660 That's what we're moving towards. Are you with me? That's what we're moving towards. 582 00:35:07,660 --> 00:35:17,660 The issue is not, let me keep going. 583 00:35:17,660 --> 00:35:25,660 So here's what's going on. Verse 14, he deceived them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the side of the beast. 584 00:35:25,660 --> 00:35:30,660 Saying to them that the well in the earth and they should make an image to the beast. 585 00:35:30,660 --> 00:35:35,660 Here's this image which made the wound by a sword and he had power to give life. 586 00:35:35,660 --> 00:35:42,660 This image, this idol, that the image of the beast should speak and cause that many should not worship the image of the beast. 587 00:35:42,660 --> 00:35:46,660 Anybody that doesn't worship the image shall be killed. 588 00:35:46,660 --> 00:35:54,660 So much of the time, even with kings and states, the issue is not that you worship, they don't have a problem that you worship God or you worship Jesus. 589 00:35:54,660 --> 00:35:59,660 You don't worship them. Right? That's what happened with Rome. 590 00:35:59,660 --> 00:36:04,660 It's fine that you say Jesus is Lord but you should say Caesar is Lord. 591 00:36:04,660 --> 00:36:08,660 And early Christians say, Caesar is not Lord Jesus is Lord. 592 00:36:08,660 --> 00:36:14,660 And that's why they were killed. This is exactly what the apostle Paul said would happen. 593 00:36:14,660 --> 00:36:18,660 One more place, 2 Thessalonians 2.1, here's what it says. 594 00:36:18,660 --> 00:36:25,660 Talking about the same idea. 595 00:36:25,660 --> 00:36:33,660 That you be not soon shaken in mind or be troubled by spirit or word or by letter from us as that the day of Christ is at hand. 596 00:36:33,660 --> 00:36:44,660 Let no man deceive you by any means for that day shall not come except there's come a falling away first and that man of sin. 597 00:36:44,660 --> 00:37:05,660 This is the antichrist. Be revealed the son of perdition who opposes and exalted himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped so that he as God siteth in the temple of God showing himself that he is God. 598 00:37:05,660 --> 00:37:15,660 What does Satan want to do? He wants to set up this false Christ and he wants to be worshiped like Christ is worshiped. 599 00:37:15,660 --> 00:37:20,660 Antioch is epiphany set up a Greek God. This one is going to set himself up as God. 600 00:37:20,660 --> 00:37:27,660 And now you get the picture. As we move toward the end of human history, Israel is going to be more and more in a vulnerable position. 601 00:37:27,660 --> 00:37:40,660 And to protect themselves from the holocaust which they don't want to happen, they are going to align themselves with a seemingly Western European power headed by a prince, a leader, a great leader and attractive leader. 602 00:37:40,660 --> 00:37:44,660 This particular leader is going to be their strength, their support and their help. 603 00:37:44,660 --> 00:37:48,660 The world is going to come against him and Israel at some point out of their hatred for Israel. 604 00:37:48,660 --> 00:37:58,660 And this antichrist will defeat them and in that moment he will betray his real heart and take over power of Israel and desecrate their holy place. 605 00:37:58,660 --> 00:38:10,660 Having defeated the world and set up himself to be worshiped, he becomes that God of all gods that the world must bow before and establish the abomination that desolates. 606 00:38:10,660 --> 00:38:21,660 And from that moment that he establishes that and the daily sacrifice which will be in a rebuilt temple in that time, it stops and the Jewish people no longer go near the place. 607 00:38:21,660 --> 00:38:25,660 And from that moment on, the great tribulation begins. 608 00:38:25,660 --> 00:38:38,660 It lasts 42 months, 1260 days, 3.5 years followed by a 30-day period of judging and a 45-day period of transitioning into the Millennial Kingdom. 609 00:38:38,660 --> 00:38:48,660 And what you see in Jesus' answer is birth pains, abomination of death, desolation and then great tribulation. 610 00:38:48,660 --> 00:38:52,660 Look back to Matthew 24 verse 15. 611 00:38:52,660 --> 00:38:54,660 You have the abomination of desolation. 612 00:38:54,660 --> 00:39:01,660 Verse 16, when you see that. 613 00:39:01,660 --> 00:39:06,660 Verse 16, you need to run. 614 00:39:06,660 --> 00:39:10,660 Then let them which be in Jerusalem flee into the mountains. 615 00:39:10,660 --> 00:39:12,660 Where is this happening at? 616 00:39:12,660 --> 00:39:14,660 Jerusalem, right? 617 00:39:14,660 --> 00:39:16,660 He says run into the mountains. 618 00:39:16,660 --> 00:39:20,660 Let him that is on the house top not come down and take anything out of his house. 619 00:39:20,660 --> 00:39:22,660 So you have the response that needs to happen. 620 00:39:22,660 --> 00:39:24,660 The first one is running. 621 00:39:24,660 --> 00:39:26,660 The second thing is it's immediate. 622 00:39:26,660 --> 00:39:29,660 The description is to run. 623 00:39:29,660 --> 00:39:31,660 When you see that happen, run. 624 00:39:31,660 --> 00:39:36,660 Some say why is Jesus talking to disciples as if they will be here if they knew they won't be here. 625 00:39:36,660 --> 00:39:39,660 The description is answering the disciples question. 626 00:39:39,660 --> 00:39:43,660 He is talking to them but it's a common occurrence in prophecy. 627 00:39:43,660 --> 00:39:53,660 We have prophecies given to people in the Old Testament that were later fulfilled in Old Testament times when the people first given the prophecy were spoken to as if they would be there but they weren't there. 628 00:39:53,660 --> 00:39:58,660 The information got to the people who needed it through the people that heard it in the immediate. 629 00:39:58,660 --> 00:40:02,660 This is obviously the worst time in all of human history in terms of suffering. 630 00:40:02,660 --> 00:40:08,660 It describes the last half of the tribulation period and usher's in which is described in the last description. 631 00:40:08,660 --> 00:40:11,660 It's immediate problems. 632 00:40:11,660 --> 00:40:15,660 Verse 17, let him that stand on the house top not come back down to take anything out of his house. 633 00:40:15,660 --> 00:40:19,660 Verse 18, neither let him which is in the field return back to take their clothes. 634 00:40:19,660 --> 00:40:21,660 It's going to be a time that's difficult for mothers. 635 00:40:21,660 --> 00:40:22,660 Look at verse 19. 636 00:40:22,660 --> 00:40:26,660 We're on to them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days. 637 00:40:26,660 --> 00:40:28,660 It's difficult in winter and Sabbath. 638 00:40:28,660 --> 00:40:30,660 Look at verse 20. 639 00:40:30,660 --> 00:40:35,660 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day, for then shall be great tribulation. 640 00:40:35,660 --> 00:40:37,660 When does it happen? 641 00:40:37,660 --> 00:40:41,660 Once you see the abomination of tribulation, then you're going to see great tribulation. 642 00:40:41,660 --> 00:40:44,660 Three and a half years of, what does it say, verse 21. 643 00:40:44,660 --> 00:40:51,660 Such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no nor ever shall be. 644 00:40:51,660 --> 00:40:58,660 And the whole paragraph relates only to Jews for no Christian believer would worry about breaking a Sabbath law. 645 00:40:58,660 --> 00:41:08,660 Verse 22, and accept those days should be shortened that there should be no flesh be saved, but for the elect's sake, those days shall be shortened. 646 00:41:08,660 --> 00:41:12,660 He says to them, those that are there, in verse 23, you should reject the Antichrist. 647 00:41:12,660 --> 00:41:17,660 It says, verse 23, then if any man shall say unto you, lo, here is Christ, or there, believe it not. 648 00:41:17,660 --> 00:41:22,660 For there shall arise false Christ and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders. 649 00:41:22,660 --> 00:41:24,660 Exactly what's described in Revelation. 650 00:41:24,660 --> 00:41:25,660 Are you guys with me? 651 00:41:25,660 --> 00:41:27,660 Exactly what's described. 652 00:41:27,660 --> 00:41:31,660 It's so much that if it were possible, they should deceive the very elect. 653 00:41:31,660 --> 00:41:33,660 Behold, I have told you before. 654 00:41:33,660 --> 00:41:40,660 Wherefore, if they say unto you, behold, he's in the desert, go not forth, behold, he is in the secret chambers, believe it not. 655 00:41:40,660 --> 00:41:52,660 Then we see all of this great tribulation described, and then Jesus says, all of it ends, here it is, with the Son of Man coming back. 656 00:41:52,660 --> 00:41:54,660 Who's the Son of Man? 657 00:41:54,660 --> 00:41:59,660 Jesus. 658 00:41:59,660 --> 00:42:04,660 We see this in verse 27 and 28, which I'm going to talk about here in a second. 659 00:42:04,660 --> 00:42:07,660 This all culminates with the coming of the Son of Man. 660 00:42:07,660 --> 00:42:18,660 And these all seem to be, all these things in the great tribulation seem to be corresponding with the trumpet judgments and the vile judgments or the bull judgments in Revelation. 661 00:42:18,660 --> 00:42:20,660 One person said this, I got to hurry. 662 00:42:20,660 --> 00:42:32,660 During the first three and a half years of the tribulation, the judgments were natural, wars, famines, earthquakes, but during the last half, the judgments will be supernatural and devastating. 663 00:42:32,660 --> 00:42:34,660 That leads us to description number five. 664 00:42:34,660 --> 00:42:35,660 Here we go. 665 00:42:35,660 --> 00:42:37,660 Are you with me? Have I lost you? 666 00:42:37,660 --> 00:42:38,660 Okay. 667 00:42:38,660 --> 00:42:41,660 Description number five, the coming of the Son of Man. 668 00:42:41,660 --> 00:42:45,660 This ends the tribulation period. 669 00:42:45,660 --> 00:42:48,660 Okay. 670 00:42:48,660 --> 00:42:51,660 Here are seven truths I want you to know about the second coming across. 671 00:42:51,660 --> 00:42:54,660 Probably I'm preaching you a series in one sermon. 672 00:42:54,660 --> 00:42:55,660 Here we go. 673 00:42:55,660 --> 00:43:01,660 Number one, he will return at the end of the great tribulation. 674 00:43:01,660 --> 00:43:04,660 He will return suddenly, verse 27, look at what it says. 675 00:43:04,660 --> 00:43:06,660 So, how does Jesus come back at the end? 676 00:43:06,660 --> 00:43:08,660 I did it again. 677 00:43:08,660 --> 00:43:10,660 Suddenly. 678 00:43:10,660 --> 00:43:20,660 He will return after a sign that says in verse 29, immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be dark and the moon shall not give her light and the stars shall fall from heaven. 679 00:43:20,660 --> 00:43:26,660 Powers of heaven shall be shaken and shall appear the sign of the Son of Man and the sun shall be dark. 680 00:43:26,660 --> 00:43:40,660 Then the sun shall be Vamos y y. 681 00:43:40,660 --> 00:43:52,660 And the sun shall be on the moon, and the stars shall fall from heaven, from heaven shall be shaken and the sun shall appear the sign of the Son of Man and heaven, and there shall be all tribes of the earth mourned and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 682 00:43:52,660 --> 00:43:56,300 He's not, when he came the first time he came as a servant, 683 00:43:56,300 --> 00:43:59,500 he came as a baby, this time he's coming back 684 00:43:59,500 --> 00:44:01,540 as a warrior king. 685 00:44:02,460 --> 00:44:04,260 That's what's happening. 686 00:44:04,260 --> 00:44:06,460 He will return to fight at Armageddon. 687 00:44:06,460 --> 00:44:09,100 It says this in Revelation 16 verse 13. 688 00:44:09,100 --> 00:44:11,180 I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out 689 00:44:11,180 --> 00:44:13,620 of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast 690 00:44:13,620 --> 00:44:15,420 and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 691 00:44:15,420 --> 00:44:17,700 For there the spirits of devils working miracles 692 00:44:17,700 --> 00:44:19,980 which go under the kings of the earth 693 00:44:19,980 --> 00:44:21,660 and the whole world to gather them 694 00:44:21,660 --> 00:44:24,100 to the battle of the great day of God Almighty. 695 00:44:24,100 --> 00:44:26,420 And then he says, behold I come as a thief. 696 00:44:26,420 --> 00:44:29,460 Blessed is he that watches and keepeth his garments 697 00:44:29,460 --> 00:44:31,260 lest he walk naked and they see his shame. 698 00:44:31,260 --> 00:44:32,980 And he gathered them together in a place called 699 00:44:32,980 --> 00:44:35,340 in the Hebrew tongue what? 700 00:44:35,340 --> 00:44:36,260 Armageddon. 701 00:44:37,940 --> 00:44:40,060 He comes back to make war. 702 00:44:41,340 --> 00:44:43,620 He comes back to make war. 703 00:44:43,620 --> 00:44:46,260 1911. 704 00:44:46,260 --> 00:44:48,660 And I saw heaven open and behold a white horse 705 00:44:48,660 --> 00:44:52,660 and he that sat upon his, him was called faithful and true. 706 00:44:52,660 --> 00:44:53,500 Who's that? 707 00:44:55,060 --> 00:44:57,580 And in righteousness he judges and makes war. 708 00:44:57,580 --> 00:44:59,180 His eyes were as a flame of fire 709 00:44:59,180 --> 00:45:00,700 and on his head were many crowns 710 00:45:00,700 --> 00:45:03,380 and he had a name written that no man knew but he himself. 711 00:45:03,380 --> 00:45:08,540 And he was closed with a vesture dipped in blood 712 00:45:08,540 --> 00:45:12,500 and his name is called the word of God. 713 00:45:13,580 --> 00:45:15,540 And in the armies which were in heaven followed him 714 00:45:15,540 --> 00:45:17,780 upon the white horses closed in fine linen, 715 00:45:17,780 --> 00:45:21,060 white and clean they will not mess up their clothes 716 00:45:21,060 --> 00:45:22,260 cause they ain't fighting. 717 00:45:23,700 --> 00:45:25,340 Jesus is the only one fighting. 718 00:45:27,140 --> 00:45:28,980 He will return victoriously. 719 00:45:31,780 --> 00:45:32,820 We win. 720 00:45:34,180 --> 00:45:35,820 Jesus wins. 721 00:45:43,860 --> 00:45:45,300 Jesus wins. 722 00:45:45,300 --> 00:45:50,300 And if we're with him, we share in that victory. 723 00:45:50,900 --> 00:45:52,620 We don't get the victory. 724 00:45:53,540 --> 00:45:58,420 Victory in Jesus, my Savior. 725 00:45:59,820 --> 00:46:01,020 Okay, you gotta stop. 726 00:46:01,020 --> 00:46:02,620 We're singing next week. 727 00:46:02,620 --> 00:46:04,180 Are you with me? 728 00:46:04,180 --> 00:46:05,780 We win. 729 00:46:05,780 --> 00:46:06,980 Let me read about it. 730 00:46:06,980 --> 00:46:08,460 You wanna read about it? 731 00:46:08,460 --> 00:46:10,980 Verse 15, out of his mouth goes a sharp sword 732 00:46:10,980 --> 00:46:12,660 that he should smite the nations 733 00:46:12,660 --> 00:46:15,460 and he shall rule them with a rod of iron 734 00:46:15,460 --> 00:46:17,380 and he treadeth a wine press of the fierceness 735 00:46:17,380 --> 00:46:19,300 of the wrath of Almighty God 736 00:46:19,300 --> 00:46:22,100 and he hath on his vesture and on his name a thigh written, 737 00:46:22,100 --> 00:46:25,660 King of kings and Lord of lords. 738 00:46:28,180 --> 00:46:29,700 I could do a whole lot more. 739 00:46:32,580 --> 00:46:34,860 Verse 21, the remnant were slain with the sword of him 740 00:46:34,860 --> 00:46:37,020 that came out of him that sat on the horse 741 00:46:37,020 --> 00:46:38,780 which sword proceeded out of his mouth 742 00:46:38,780 --> 00:46:41,220 and all the fouls were filled with their flesh. 743 00:46:41,220 --> 00:46:43,220 And in the name of God, 744 00:46:43,220 --> 00:46:45,220 P.G. 13. 745 00:46:47,220 --> 00:46:49,220 He will return and he will restore Israel. 746 00:46:51,220 --> 00:46:53,660 God keeps his promises. 747 00:46:54,660 --> 00:46:56,340 Zechariah 12, 2 and 3. 748 00:46:56,340 --> 00:46:58,660 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling 749 00:46:58,660 --> 00:47:00,620 into all the people round about 750 00:47:00,620 --> 00:47:02,780 when they shall be in the siege both against Jerusalem 751 00:47:02,780 --> 00:47:04,340 and Judah and Jerusalem. 752 00:47:04,340 --> 00:47:06,540 And in that day I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone 753 00:47:06,540 --> 00:47:07,700 for all people. 754 00:47:07,700 --> 00:47:10,700 All that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces. 755 00:47:10,700 --> 00:47:12,540 Though all the people of the earth be gathered together 756 00:47:12,540 --> 00:47:13,580 against it. 757 00:47:13,580 --> 00:47:16,620 Verse 8, in that day shall the Lord defend 758 00:47:16,620 --> 00:47:18,140 the inhabitants of Jerusalem. 759 00:47:18,140 --> 00:47:21,540 And he that is feeble among them all that day shall be as David 760 00:47:21,540 --> 00:47:23,500 and the house of David shall be as God. 761 00:47:23,500 --> 00:47:25,780 As the angel of the Lord before them 762 00:47:25,780 --> 00:47:27,940 and it shall come to pass in that day 763 00:47:27,940 --> 00:47:29,740 that I will seek to destroy all the nations 764 00:47:29,740 --> 00:47:30,900 that come against Jerusalem. 765 00:47:30,900 --> 00:47:33,340 And I'll pour upon the house of David 766 00:47:33,340 --> 00:47:35,060 and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem 767 00:47:35,060 --> 00:47:37,060 the spirit of grace and of supplication. 768 00:47:37,060 --> 00:47:39,460 And they shall look upon me 769 00:47:39,460 --> 00:47:41,460 whom they have pierced 770 00:47:43,460 --> 00:47:45,460 and they shall mourn for him 771 00:47:46,460 --> 00:47:48,460 as one mourneth for his only son 772 00:47:49,460 --> 00:47:51,460 and shall be in bitterness for him as one 773 00:47:51,460 --> 00:47:54,460 that is in bitterness for his first born. 774 00:48:00,460 --> 00:48:02,460 Jesus is coming back 775 00:48:02,460 --> 00:48:07,460 to rule and to reign and to make everything right. 776 00:48:09,460 --> 00:48:11,460 He's gonna make everything right. 777 00:48:12,460 --> 00:48:15,460 Some of you may think, 778 00:48:15,460 --> 00:48:18,460 well if all of this is talking about the tribulation, 779 00:48:20,460 --> 00:48:22,460 I'm reading about these birth pains 780 00:48:22,460 --> 00:48:24,460 and about these false Christ and I'm going, 781 00:48:24,460 --> 00:48:28,460 you may think, some of that seems to be happening now. 782 00:48:29,460 --> 00:48:31,460 Last couple weeks, have you guys heard about 783 00:48:31,460 --> 00:48:33,460 earthquakes in the news? 784 00:48:34,460 --> 00:48:36,460 Wars and rumors of wars. 785 00:48:37,460 --> 00:48:41,460 Is there a lot of misinformation and disinformation 786 00:48:41,460 --> 00:48:43,460 happening? 787 00:48:43,460 --> 00:48:47,460 Have you had it, do you find it hard to believe people 788 00:48:47,460 --> 00:48:49,460 that report to you? 789 00:48:51,460 --> 00:48:54,460 What I wanna say is this, 790 00:48:56,460 --> 00:48:58,460 that what we're experiencing now 791 00:48:58,460 --> 00:49:00,460 is not anything like those things 792 00:49:00,460 --> 00:49:03,460 in terms of its intensity, in terms of its judgments, 793 00:49:03,460 --> 00:49:06,460 but I do believe that there are certain things 794 00:49:06,460 --> 00:49:09,460 that have to happen before those things can happen. 795 00:49:10,460 --> 00:49:13,460 Israel has to be a nation, has that happened? 796 00:49:13,460 --> 00:49:15,460 They've come back to their land. 797 00:49:16,460 --> 00:49:18,460 People have to kind of be mad at them. 798 00:49:18,460 --> 00:49:23,460 There seems to be kind of a one world kind of government 799 00:49:23,460 --> 00:49:25,460 thing going on. 800 00:49:30,460 --> 00:49:32,460 I'm not saying those are the signs, 801 00:49:32,460 --> 00:49:34,460 Jesus goes on to say this, I can't preach it, 802 00:49:34,460 --> 00:49:36,460 but I'll tell you it. 803 00:49:36,460 --> 00:49:38,460 He says, no one knows the day or the hour, 804 00:49:38,460 --> 00:49:40,460 but he talks about the parable of the fig tree. 805 00:49:40,460 --> 00:49:42,460 He says, you can know the sign, 806 00:49:42,460 --> 00:49:44,460 but you can't know the sign. 807 00:49:44,460 --> 00:49:48,460 No one knows the day or the hour, but he talks about the parable of the fig tree. 808 00:49:48,460 --> 00:49:50,460 He says, you can know the season. 809 00:49:50,460 --> 00:49:53,460 Now Jesus, it could be 500 more years before Jesus comes back. 810 00:49:53,460 --> 00:49:56,460 I don't know, I wouldn't count on it. 811 00:49:58,460 --> 00:50:02,460 I believe that the next thing we're looking for is Jesus to come back 812 00:50:02,460 --> 00:50:05,460 to gather his bride. 813 00:50:08,460 --> 00:50:10,460 At the last Trump. 814 00:50:10,460 --> 00:50:14,460 But how do you actually live this out? 815 00:50:14,460 --> 00:50:16,460 How does this impact your life? 816 00:50:16,460 --> 00:50:19,460 I think that if God revealed it, we seek to understand it. 817 00:50:19,460 --> 00:50:22,460 That's what I've been trying to help you do the last couple of weeks. 818 00:50:22,460 --> 00:50:26,460 To help you understand what does the Bible say about what's going to happen at the end. 819 00:50:26,460 --> 00:50:28,460 And if Jesus gave it to us, we should try to understand. 820 00:50:28,460 --> 00:50:29,460 Who agrees? 821 00:50:29,460 --> 00:50:32,460 There are people that disagree with me, that's fine. 822 00:50:32,460 --> 00:50:39,460 I think every mind has to be confident in his own heart and mind is what he believes. 823 00:50:39,460 --> 00:50:42,460 But when you're reading and hearing about all that you've had, 824 00:50:42,460 --> 00:50:45,460 that you have, what do you need to understand? 825 00:50:45,460 --> 00:50:47,460 Here's what I'll tell you. 826 00:50:47,460 --> 00:50:50,460 You have a choice. 827 00:50:51,460 --> 00:50:56,460 You can risk being there in that tribulation time. 828 00:50:56,460 --> 00:50:58,460 Or you can avoid it. 829 00:50:58,460 --> 00:51:01,460 How do you avoid it? 830 00:51:01,460 --> 00:51:05,460 You put your trust and faith in Jesus Christ. 831 00:51:05,460 --> 00:51:06,460 Right? 832 00:51:06,460 --> 00:51:09,460 You put your faith and trust in God. 833 00:51:09,460 --> 00:51:13,460 Jesus is the only way for salvation. 834 00:51:13,460 --> 00:51:18,460 It's appointed unto man once to die and after this the judgment. 835 00:51:18,460 --> 00:51:21,460 And so here's what I want you to know. 836 00:51:21,460 --> 00:51:29,460 He became sin who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. 837 00:51:29,460 --> 00:51:34,460 That means God can take away your sin and give you Jesus' righteousness. 838 00:51:34,460 --> 00:51:39,460 And you become a new creature through faith in Jesus. 839 00:51:39,460 --> 00:51:45,460 Put your faith in Jesus and let him sort out what happens at the end. 840 00:51:45,460 --> 00:51:47,460 That's what you need to do. 841 00:51:47,460 --> 00:51:50,460 How do you do that? 842 00:51:50,460 --> 00:51:51,460 How do you do that? 843 00:51:51,460 --> 00:51:55,460 Turn to Christ by faith today. 844 00:51:55,460 --> 00:51:57,460 Today. 845 00:51:57,460 --> 00:51:59,460 Today. 846 00:51:59,460 --> 00:52:02,460 So if you don't know Christ, you need to know Him. 847 00:52:02,460 --> 00:52:07,460 You need to repent of your sins and trust in Him. 848 00:52:07,460 --> 00:52:10,460 That doesn't mean that you're not going to be sinless. 849 00:52:10,460 --> 00:52:15,460 It means that you're turning to Him by faith because He's the one that offers you forgiveness of sins. 850 00:52:15,460 --> 00:52:18,460 And He's the only one that can do that. 851 00:52:18,460 --> 00:52:20,460 What about if you're a believer today? 852 00:52:20,460 --> 00:52:22,460 How should this impact your life? 853 00:52:22,460 --> 00:52:26,460 Well, here's what I believe with all my heart. 854 00:52:26,460 --> 00:52:30,460 This is what I believe about Trinity Baptist Church. 855 00:52:30,460 --> 00:52:32,460 People who believe in this place. 856 00:52:32,460 --> 00:52:39,460 We need to have a radical obedience to evangelism. 857 00:52:39,460 --> 00:52:55,460 We need to show a radical obedience to making sure that people who don't know Christ as their Savior hear the gospel and get saved. 858 00:52:55,460 --> 00:52:58,460 Because we're not sure how long we have. 859 00:52:58,460 --> 00:53:02,460 There needs to be an urgency. 860 00:53:02,460 --> 00:53:09,460 An urgency in our lives about people knowing that Jesus Christ is the only way to God. 861 00:53:09,460 --> 00:53:11,460 We are not playing church. 862 00:53:11,460 --> 00:53:14,460 This is not a social club. 863 00:53:14,460 --> 00:53:17,460 People are dying and going to hell. 864 00:53:17,460 --> 00:53:25,460 At some point we may be raptured and taken away and we won't be here to declare to people faith in Christ. 865 00:53:25,460 --> 00:53:27,460 Are you with me? 866 00:53:27,460 --> 00:53:30,460 So we need a radical obedience. 867 00:53:30,460 --> 00:53:33,460 I'm not telling you to be weird. 868 00:53:33,460 --> 00:53:39,460 Totally. 869 00:53:39,460 --> 00:53:45,460 I'm telling you to be noisy. 870 00:53:45,460 --> 00:53:47,460 To tell people about Jesus. 871 00:53:47,460 --> 00:53:50,460 We need a radical obedience and discipleship. 872 00:53:50,460 --> 00:53:53,460 It's not just enough for me to tell people about Christ. 873 00:53:53,460 --> 00:53:59,460 It's enough for me to tell people about Christ and live a life that is an obedience to the Lordship of Christ. 874 00:53:59,460 --> 00:54:04,460 So that my life matches the message that I'm giving. 875 00:54:04,460 --> 00:54:06,460 Are you with me? 876 00:54:06,460 --> 00:54:09,460 And then you need to have security. 877 00:54:09,460 --> 00:54:11,460 Here's the security you need to have. 878 00:54:11,460 --> 00:54:17,460 You need to have security found in knowing Christ and trusting that in his plan. 879 00:54:17,460 --> 00:54:20,460 He will hold me fast. 880 00:54:20,460 --> 00:54:24,460 For my Savior loves me so. 881 00:54:24,460 --> 00:54:27,460 He will hold me fast. 882 00:54:27,460 --> 00:54:33,460 You don't have to fear men because you fear God. 883 00:54:33,460 --> 00:54:48,460 And so radical obedience and evangelism, radical obedience and discipleship, security found in knowing Christ, calling on the name of the Lord to be saved. 884 00:54:48,460 --> 00:54:50,460 Not that prayer saves you. 885 00:54:50,460 --> 00:54:52,460 Jesus saves you. 886 00:54:52,460 --> 00:54:57,460 And if you ask him to save you, he will do it. 887 00:54:57,460 --> 00:55:19,460 Would you bow your head?