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0:00Matthew 24:1
0:03Jesus came out from the temple and was
0:06going away when his disciples came up to
0:09point [music] out the temple buildings
0:11to him.
0:13He's just been in the temple and he's
0:17been declaring doom on the Pharisees.
0:19[music]
0:20He said that this mountain is going to
0:22be thrown into the sea. He's cleansed
0:24it. They've rebelled against his
0:26authority, which is his name. And he
0:29said, "You won't see the presence
0:30[music] of God until you say, "Blessed
0:33is he who comes in the authority, the
0:35name of the Lord." But his disciples
0:38don't get it. They're marveling at the
0:42beautiful architecture of Herod's
0:44temple.
0:46His disciples came up to point out the
0:48temple buildings to him. He apparently
0:51wasn't seeing them. They wanted to make
0:53sure he didn't miss it. And he said to
0:56them, "Do you see all these things?"
1:00So they think he doesn't see it. He asks
1:02them, "Do you see it? Truly I say to
1:05you, not one stone here will be left
1:09upon another which will not be torn
1:11down."
1:14As he was sitting on the Mount of
1:16Olives, the disciples came to him
1:18privately, saying, "Tell us, when will
1:20these things happen? And what will be
1:22the sign of your coming and the end of
1:24the age?" And Jesus answered and said to
1:28them, "See to it that no one misleads
1:31you."
1:33The first thing he does is he cautions,
1:36"Don't be misled
1:38because it's going to come a lot slower
1:40than you [music] think."
1:42See to it that no one misleads you, for
1:45many will come in my name, saying, "I am
1:48the Christ," [music] and will mislead
1:50many.
1:51You will be hearing of wars and rumors
1:54of wars. See that you are not
1:56frightened,
1:58for those things must take place, but
2:01that is not yet the end.
2:04For nation will rise against nation, and
2:06kingdom against kingdom, and in various
2:09places there will be famines and
2:12earthquakes, but all these things are
2:14merely the beginning of birth panges.
2:18Then they will deliver you to
2:19tribulation,
2:22and will kill you, and you will be hated
2:25by all nations because of my [music]
2:28name.
2:30At that time, many will fall away and
2:33will betray one another and hate one
2:35another.
2:37Many false prophets will arise and will
2:40mislead many because lawlessness
2:43increased. Most people's love will grow
2:46cold.
2:48But the one who endures to the end will
2:50be saved. This gospel of the kingdom
2:53shall be preached in the whole world as
2:55a testimony to all nations and then the
2:59end will come. Here's the question
3:03people want to ask. Is Jesus talking
3:06about the destruction of the temple
3:10and the conquering of Jerusalem
3:14or is he talking about the end of time?
3:17[clears throat]
3:18And the answer is yes.
3:21The way prophecy works throughout the
3:25Bible
3:26is that it is given and it has a level
3:30of fulfillment
3:33and then a greater level and then a
3:35greater level often in three phases but
3:39almost always in more than one phase.
3:43So there's this phrase that has been
3:45used already but not yet.
3:49So Jesus is speaking about the collapse
3:53of the temple but not primarily.
3:56So there are things that he's saying
3:57that are going to be fulfilled
4:00in the collapse of the temple but there
4:02are things that he's saying that cannot
4:04be fulfilled until the end of the age
4:06until he returns.
4:09And that's the main point of this
4:11chapter. So it's not a eitheror. It's
4:15both.
4:16when David was being persecuted and
4:19rebelled against by Abselum and he's
4:22hiding in a cave and and he says
4:25something like, "My God, my God, why
4:27hast thou forsaken me?" That's a
4:30prophetic utterance. Was that fulfilled
4:32on a certain level in his day when he
4:35was facing whatever the trial was that
4:37he faced? Yes, that prophecy was real in
4:41the moment in which it was spoken. But
4:44it was even more real when it was spoken
4:46by Jesus from the cross. That's when it
4:49was fully fulfilled.
4:52When the prophet speaks about
4:56the nation of Israel and says, "Out of
4:59Egypt I have called my son." Is he
5:02speaking about Moses being called out of
5:05Pharaoh's palace into Midian for 40
5:09years? Yes, that's a true statement
5:11about Moses. But is he also am more even
5:15more truthfully speaking about the
5:18children of Israel being called out by
5:20Moses into the wilderness and then
5:22ultimately into the promised land. Yes.
5:25Out of Egypt, I have called my son. And
5:29yet Matthew tells us it was ultimately
5:32speaking about Jesus. When Jesus was led
5:35by Joseph and Mary to Egypt to be saved
5:39from Herod and then when he's called
5:42back out of Egypt, I have called my son.
5:47This is an example of how prophecy is
5:49fulfilled in a greater and greater and
5:53greater manifestation of what was
5:55promised. So when we read Matthew 24,
5:59it's primarily pointing to the end of
6:02the age.
6:04But the disciples have connected the
6:06two. And so Jesus is speaking to both.
6:10[snorts] He's speaking to when the
6:11stones are going to be torn down and
6:13he's speaking to the end of the age.
6:16There's also a sense in which even when
6:18he's speaking about the stones being
6:20torn down, he's speaking about the end
6:22of the age. Because ultimately God does
6:26not live in temples made with human
6:28hands. And the only temple he cares
6:30about is the temple of his people. And
6:33the church is going to go through a
6:35collapse. The church is going to go
6:37through a tearing down. And the
6:39Jerusalem of God is going to go through
6:41trouble and tribulation.
6:44So when we think of this, when we bear
6:46this in mind and we read what he's
6:48saying,
6:50here are some markers that he's giving
6:53us.
6:54First thing he says is don't be misled
6:58because it's not going to come very
7:01soon. Don't be misled for the son of man
7:05won't come back as fast as you think.
7:08Then he says, don't think that when you
7:10hear of wars and rumors of wars, don't
7:12be frightened because the end is not
7:15yet.
7:17And then he says, "For nation will rise
7:21against nation and kingdom against
7:24kingdom in various places. There will be
7:27famines and earthquakes." So he's
7:29telling them this is more than what's
7:31happening in Jerusalem. Entire nations
7:34are going to rise up. And this word that
7:36he uses here is ethnos against ethnos.
7:40It's different than the word kingdom
7:42against kingdom. So he's what he's
7:44really saying is ethnicity will rise up
7:47against ethnicity.
7:49One of the signs of the end is racism.
7:52There will be ethnic groups rising
7:55against ethnic groups and tension
7:58because of ethnic nationality and
8:01kingdom will rise against kingdom.
8:03That's the more nationalistic political
8:06sense in which we use nation.
8:09But all these things are merely the
8:12beginning of birth panges. What are
8:15birth panges that he's speaking of here?
8:18Well, they're these intense pains that
8:21that come in greater and greater
8:23intensity and greater and greater
8:26frequency. And they are like the big one
8:29that gives birth, but they're not the
8:31big one. So he's saying there's going to
8:34be this intensification
8:36of trial as we get closer to the end.
8:39But he said it's not yet the end. And
8:41then he says they will deliver you to
8:44tribulation.
8:46So before the end we're going to be
8:48delivered to tribulation
8:52and they will kill you and you will be
8:54hated by all nations because of my name.
8:59So that is not describing the sacking of
9:02Jerusalem where they were hated in
9:04Jerusalem. Instead, he's speaking of the
9:06church being hated by all nations.
9:10When the church becomes the kingdom of
9:12God that God wants her to be, she is
9:15going to evoke the competition and
9:19rivalry and hatred of nations.
9:23She's going to be seen as a competing
9:25nation, even though spiritual and not
9:28political.
9:30At that time, many will fall away and
9:33betray one another and hate one another.
9:36This falling away is the apostasy. When
9:39tribulation gets horrible, when hatred
9:42becomes widespread,
9:44then the church is going to lose an
9:47enormous amount of its people. They're
9:50going to fall away.
9:53Many will fall away and betray one
9:55another and hate one another.
9:59Many false prophets will arise and
10:02mislead many. That's how the the church
10:04is going to fall away. They're going to
10:06think they're still following Christ,
10:08but they're following false prophets.
10:11They're following doctrines of demons
10:13that are still bearing the name of
10:15Christ, but are leading into the broad
10:17way that leads to destruction.
10:21Because lawlessness increases, that's
10:24sin. That's the tolerance of wicked
10:26behavior. People's most people's love
10:31will grow cold. So he says many will
10:33fall away. But then he says because the
10:36church allows sin, most people's love
10:40will grow cold. John will later tell us
10:43that this is how we know we've passed
10:45out of death into life because we love
10:47the brethren. But when we tolerate sin,
10:50when we don't stay in the narrow way,
10:53when we don't walk in humility and
10:55sanctification and strive and perfect
10:58holiness apart from which no one will
11:00see the Lord, there is a cooling, a
11:02chilling of love.
11:05And he says it's going to be most
11:07people. So most Christians are going to
11:10fall away at this time and a remnant is
11:13going to remain faithful. He says, "But
11:15the one who endures to the end, he will
11:18be saved.
11:20This gospel of the kingdom shall be
11:22preached in the whole world as a
11:24testimony to all nations and then the
11:25end will come." He does not say the
11:27gospel of personal salvation will be
11:29preached. He says the gospel, this
11:32gospel of the kingdom will be preached
11:35to all nations. Then the end will come
11:39when all the nations see this kingdom
11:41witness, this kingdom gospel, this
11:44corporate example, then the end will
11:46come. Therefore, when you see the
11:49abomination of desolation
11:52which was spoken of through Daniel the
11:54prophet standing in the holy place, let
11:57the reader understand.
12:00So, [clears throat] Matthew is writing
12:02here and he's quoting Jesus and Jesus is
12:05speaking. Matthew puts this
12:07parenthetical in. Let the reader
12:09understand.
12:11Please get this. He's saying Jesus says,
12:14"Therefore, when you see the abomination
12:16of desolation which was spoken of
12:19through Daniel the prophet standing in
12:21the holy place, let the reader
12:23understand, then those who are in Judea
12:26must flee to the mountains. Whoever is
12:29on the housetop must not go down to get
12:32the things out that are in the house.
12:35Whoever is in the field must not turn
12:37back to get his cloak.
12:39But woe to those who are pregnant and to
12:42those who are nursing babies in those
12:44days. But pray that your flight will not
12:47be in the winter or on the Sabbath.
12:50Then there will be a great tribulation
12:54such as has not occurred since the
12:56beginning of the world until now, nor
12:59ever will be. Unless those days had not
13:03been cut short, no life would have been
13:06saved. But for the sake of the elect,
13:08those days will be cut short. Then if
13:11anyone says to you, "Behold, here is the
13:14Christ," or, "There he is," do not
13:16believe him. For false Christs and false
13:20prophets will arise and will show great
13:22signs and wonders so as [snorts] to
13:24mislead, if possible, even the elect.
13:27Behold, I have told you in advance.
13:30So if they say to you, "Behold, he is in
13:32the wilderness," do not go out. Or,
13:35"Behold, he is in the inner rooms," do
13:37not believe them. For just as lightning
13:40comes from the east and flashes, even to
13:43the west, so will the coming of the Son
13:45of Man be. Wherever the corpse is, there
13:49the vultures will be gathered. There's a
13:51lot in this passage, but let's let's
13:54work through it quickly. First thing he
13:56says is, "Therefore, when you see the
13:59abomination of desolation, which was
14:02spoken of through Daniel the prophet,
14:04standing in the holy place, let the
14:07reader understand, then those who are in
14:10Judea must flee."
14:12So the abomination of desolation was
14:15spoken of by Daniel and it was fulfilled
14:17on a certain level when Antiochus
14:21Epiphanies
14:23conquered Jerusalem and you know went
14:26and sacrificed a pig in the temple. He
14:30desecrated the holy place. He went into
14:32the holy of holies. But we know that
14:36that temple was only a shadow and a type
14:40of the temple that Jesus was coming to
14:43establish. He told the woman at the
14:45well, "The hour is coming and now is
14:47when the true worshippers will worship
14:50neither on this mountain nor in
14:52Jerusalem." He told the disciples in
14:54this passage that not one stone of the
14:56temple would be left upon another. So
14:59that temple is not what he's primarily
15:01talking about. Instead, he's talking
15:03about to some extent the temple of our
15:06own lives, but really he's talking about
15:09the temple of the church. Paul says in
15:12Ephesians 2 that we are being built
15:14together as a temple of God, as a
15:17dwelling place for God. So, the church
15:19is going to invite an abomination
15:24into its house, into its sanctuary. It's
15:27going to put something in the place of
15:29God
15:31that where only the Lord should have
15:33sat. The church is going to welcome in
15:36an abomination that causes desolation.
15:40The desolation he's already spoken of at
15:43the end of the last chapter when he
15:45says, "Your house will be left to you
15:47desolate until you say, blessed is he
15:50who comes in the name of the Lord." And
15:52in that chapter we saw that the opposite
15:55of the name and authority of the Lord
15:58was the name and authority of man. So we
16:01can say that the the abomination of
16:04desolation is when the church brings in
16:08man as God. man's thoughts, man's
16:13principles, man's traditions, man's
16:16achievements, man's power, man's
16:19manipulation when it casts the glory and
16:22presence out of the temple of the
16:25church, the presence and glory of God is
16:28gone. And in its place is this
16:32exaltation of what man can do without
16:35God. That's ultimately the abomination
16:38of desolation. And then he is
16:41simultaneously talking about the sacking
16:43of Jerusalem and the end of the age. He
16:46tells them that they should not look
16:48back. They should go. They should flee.
16:51And this was a warning that the Jews
16:53heeded in 70 AD. The the Jewish
16:56Christians heeded. They there were about
16:59a 100,000 Christians in the region of
17:01Jerusalem. And Josephus says that none
17:04of them died in the sacking of Jerusalem
17:06by Titus when it fell because they
17:09heeded this warning.
17:11But then he's talking much bigger than
17:13that also. Then there will be great
17:16tribulation such as has not occurred
17:19since the beginning of the world until
17:21now, nor ever will be. So now we know
17:24he's not just talking about the sacking
17:26of Jerusalem. about 500,000 Jews were
17:29slaughtered in the sacking of Jerusalem,
17:31some estimates uh speculate. That's a
17:35horrible event. But how does that
17:37compare to the Holocaust when 6 million
17:40were exterminated under Nazism? So the
17:43sacking of Jerusalem was not the worst
17:45that the world had ever seen nor ever
17:47would see. The Holocaust is already
17:50worse. So it cannot be referring only to
17:54the sacking of Jerusalem or even
17:55primarily to that. That is merely a type
17:58of what is coming. There's going to be a
18:01tribulation that is worse than the
18:03sacking of Jerusalem. That is worse than
18:06the Holocaust. It's worse than anything
18:08the world has ever seen or can ever see
18:11again. He says unless those days have
18:14been cut short, no life would have been
18:17saved.
18:19But for the sake of the elect, those
18:21days will be cut short. That cannot be
18:24descriptive of what was happening in a
18:26very small corner of the world in
18:28Jerusalem. Nobody would have said,
18:30"Unless we cut this short, no life on
18:32earth is going to be saved." There's
18:34going to be a conflration
18:38of power and horror and war that is
18:42culminating the great tribulation that
18:44if it's not cut short, no life would be
18:47saved. And then he begins to speak about
18:50false Christs. And sure, there may have
18:53been false Jesuses in the days of the
18:56first century. But that's not primarily
18:59what he's referring to. He's talking
19:01about false expressions of Christ's
19:04salvation coming to us and saying,
19:08"Here's what the body of Christ is.
19:10Here's what the body of Christ is." And
19:12he's saying, "Don't don't do it and
19:14don't follow it." He's also talking
19:16about people claiming that the Lord is
19:17going to return.
19:20And then he says, "Wherever the corpse
19:22is, there the vultures will be
19:24gathered." So this is this is a picture
19:27of when the house is left desolate, when
19:29the church is destroyed, when the corpse
19:33is is destroyed and the kings of the
19:37earth rise up and devour the church as
19:40described in Revelations, the church
19:42that has become the harlot. There will
19:44be a corpse and the vultures, the
19:47eagles, the nations will gather over
19:50that corpse to to feed on the death. And
19:54this is the idea that, you know, long
19:58after the church has lost its life, long
20:02after the church has ceased to be the
20:04power and force that God intended, the
20:08nations will still be stealing from it
20:10all the things that made it special and
20:13co-opting those things to make their own
20:16messianic
20:17visions more compelling.
20:21But immediately after the tribulation of
20:24those days, after the tribulation of
20:28those days, the sun will be darkened.
20:32He's already said that it's going to be
20:34like lightning that flashes from the
20:36east to the west. This is this is what
20:39lightning does when there's a terrible
20:41storm coming and the the season is
20:44changing. But immediately after the
20:46tribulation of those days, the sun will
20:48be darkened and the moon will not give
20:51its light and the stars will fall from
20:54the sky and the powers of the heavens
20:57will be shaken. This does not describe
21:01the sacking of Jerusalem. This is the
21:04end of time when Jesus returns and he
21:08come this happens after the tribulation
21:11of those days. The sun will be darkened,
21:14the moon will not give its light, and
21:16the stars will fall from the sky, and
21:19the powers of the heavens will be
21:20shaken. And then the sign of the Son of
21:24Man will appear in the sky. And then all
21:27the tribes of the earth will mourn, and
21:30they will see the Son of Man coming on
21:32the clouds of the sky with power and
21:36great glory. And he will send forth his
21:40angels with a great trumpet and they
21:43will gather together his elect from the
21:45four winds from one end of the sky to
21:49the other. This is the rapture. This is
21:52when we are taken up to be with the Lord
21:55after the tribulation of those days.
22:00Now learn the parable from the fig tree.
22:03When its branch has already become
22:05tender and puts forth its leaves, you
22:10know that summer is near. So you too,
22:14when you see all these things, recognize
22:17that he is near, right at the door.
22:23The fig tree I told you stands for the
22:26Jewish nation.
22:28This is what we understand from Isaiah.
22:32The fig tree is symbolic of Israel.
22:36Okay? And so Jesus is saying, "You're
22:39wondering about when the end is going to
22:41come. When Israel becomes a tree, Israel
22:46was cut down in 70 AD. The people of
22:50Israel lost their land. They were chased
22:53to the four winds of the earth. But when
22:55Israel becomes a nation again and it
22:58looks like a fig tree that is green and
23:01flourishing, now you know that the end
23:04is drawing near. Israel's rebirth as a
23:07nation is like a fig tree becoming green
23:11in its branches. And that's the sign
23:14that we're moving relatively closer
23:17toward the Lord's return.
23:20Then he says, "Truly I say to you, this
23:22generation will not pass away until all
23:24these things take place."
23:27What does he mean by generation? The
23:30best rendering of the word generation
23:32here is race.
23:35And you say, "Well, what does that mean?
23:38Is he talking about the race of the
23:39Jews? This race will not pass away until
23:42all these things take place."
23:45That's possible. The other thing that is
23:47more likely is he's saying that Peter
23:51says he's saying what Peter said when he
23:53said you are a holy nation, a a holy
23:56race. You are a people. This this people
24:00who have received the spirit and are
24:03therefore part of the regeneration, part
24:06of the regenerated people of God. The
24:09church will not pass away until all
24:11these things take place. What he's not
24:14saying is that this group of people
24:16won't pass away until all these things
24:18take place. We know he cannot be saying
24:20that because
24:23the son of man did not return. The stars
24:25of the heaven did not fall. The sun was
24:28not darkened. The moon did not cease to
24:30give its glow.
24:32And the Lord didn't return. So this is
24:34not referring primarily to the sacking
24:36of Jerusalem. This is something that is
24:40coming. But the holy race, this new
24:44generation where we are all from every
24:47tribe, nation, and tongue, we are all
24:48becoming one in Christ. That people of
24:51God will not pass away until
24:55all these things take place. Heaven and
24:58earth will pass away, but my words will
25:01not pass away. So, he's making the the
25:04people who will not pass away the same
25:06as his word that will not pass away.
25:09What he's saying is the people of God
25:11will not all die. The people will remain
25:14alive. The elect will still be on the
25:16earth because they are the incarnation
25:19of his word. They are his word still
25:21becoming flesh.
25:23But of that day and hour, no one knows,
25:26not even the angels of heaven, nor the
25:28son, but the father alone. Now Jesus is
25:31the son, and he's saying of himself that
25:34he does not know that hour. And the
25:36reason he can say that is because in his
25:39ministry on earth, he was living in a
25:42state of canosis. What Paul is speaking
25:45of in Philippians 2, he has emptied
25:47himself of some of that knowledge in
25:50glor when he was glorified, there's no
25:52more emptying. So Jesus knows this hour.
25:55If he didn't, he would not be fully God.
25:58But he does know this hour now. But on
26:01earth, he had emptied himself of some of
26:04this knowledge so that he could make be
26:06made like us in every way. For the
26:08coming of the son of man will be just
26:10like the days of Noah.
26:13For in those days before the flood, they
26:16were eating and drinking, marrying,
26:20giving in marriage until the day that
26:22Noah entered the ark. And they did not
26:26understand
26:27until the flood came and took them all
26:32away.
26:35So will the coming of the son of man be.
26:38Then there will be two men in the field.
26:43One will be taken and one will be left.
26:48Two women will be grinding at the mill.
26:50One will be taken and the other will be
26:53left.
26:55A lot of people think that he's talking
26:57about
26:59the righteous being raptured out of the
27:01world, but that does not seem to be what
27:04he's talking about at all. He has
27:07already said that wherever the corpse
27:09is, there the vultures will be gathered.
27:13And that refers back to the days of Noah
27:16when he sent out a raven and the raven
27:22found death.
27:24When he sent out the dove, the dove kept
27:26coming back until he could find life. So
27:30the raven, the vultures represent
27:33those that are feeding on [snorts]
27:35the people who were taken on the dead
27:38body, on those who are no longer part of
27:42what God is doing. So what he's saying
27:45here is that in the days of Noah, the
27:49people did not understand until the
27:52flood took them away. The flood is the
27:57taker. judgment is the taker. And then
28:00he builds on that and he says it will be
28:02just like that in the coming of the son
28:03of man.
28:05He says that at the time of the coming
28:07of the son of man, it will be just like
28:09that. People will be going about their
28:12their life and they will be losing out.
28:15People will be taken from places of
28:17work. But he's talking about judgment is
28:20taking them like the flood is taking
28:22them. So he's not saying God's coming
28:24and snatching them away to heaven. He's
28:27saying that judgment and apostasy is
28:30taking them out of their walk with God.
28:34One will be taken like the flood took
28:37them all away. Therefore, be on the
28:40alert for you do not know which day your
28:43Lord is coming.
28:46But be sure of this. So, he's saying be
28:48on the alert because you don't want to
28:50be taken by the world. You don't want to
28:52be taken in the deceitfulness of sin
28:55because you don't know when the Lord is
28:57coming and he's going to come probably
28:59later than you expect. Therefore, be on
29:02the alert, for you do not know which day
29:04your Lord is coming. [clears throat] But
29:06be sure of this, that if the head of the
29:09house had known at what time of the
29:11night the thief was coming, he would
29:14have been on the alert and would have
29:16not have allowed his house to be broken
29:18into. Again, it's a judgment concept.
29:21the thief is coming and he's going to
29:23break into.
29:25For this reason, you also must be ready.
29:28And it's also we need to be ready for
29:30when Jesus comes. For the son of man is
29:33coming at an hour when you do not think
29:35he will.
29:37Who then is the faithful and sensible
29:39slave whom his master put in charge of
29:42his household to give them their food at
29:44the proper time? Blessed is that slave
29:47whom his master finds so doing when he
29:49comes.
29:51Truly I say to you that he will put him
29:54in charge of all his possessions. But if
29:56that evil slave says in his heart, "My
29:59master is not coming for a long time,"
30:02and begins to beat his fellow slaves and
30:05eat and drink with drunkards. The master
30:08of that slave will come on a day when he
30:11does not expect him, and at an hour
30:14which he does not know. and he will cut
30:16him in pieces and assign him a place
30:18with the hypocrites. In that place there
30:21will be weeping and nashing of teeth.
30:24And here he's speaking individually
30:26about how individually we can become
30:30lax. And instead of having this heart
30:34that says, Lord, I don't know when
30:35you're coming for me. I don't know when
30:38my personal life is ending. we can
30:40become lax and we can start to give way
30:44to dissipation, abusing others, taking
30:46advantage and and the Lord is going to
30:49come and cut us in pieces. That's
30:51judgment representing the death of the
30:55corpse that's going to gather the
30:56vultures yet again. So all of this in
31:00Matthew 24 needs to be understood as
31:04primarily a vision of the end of time.
31:06But there are aspects that are fulfilled
31:08in the collapse of Jerusalem. But he's
31:11telling us in the biggest themes he's
31:15saying it's not going to come as fast as
31:17you think. Nations are going to rise
31:20against nations.
31:22There's going to be wars in many places
31:25and the church is going to be hated by
31:27the nations because of his name. That
31:30lawlessness is going to abound. Many are
31:33going to fall away. The love of most is
31:35going to grow cold. [music] And this all
31:37aligns with what Paul teaches that the
31:39end will not come until the apostasy,
31:42the falling away comes first. The gospel
31:45of the kingdom will be preached to all
31:46nations. perilous times. The abomination
31:50of desolation is going to be in the holy
31:52place, the church. We're going to set
31:54man up in the place of God, showing him
31:56that he is God.
31:58The great tribulation is going to come
32:01immediately after the great tribulation.
32:04Then the sun is going to be darkened.
32:05The moon will not give its light. The
32:07stars of the heavens will fall. The
32:09powers of the heavens will be shaken.
32:12And then the sign of the son of man will
32:13appear. And he will send forth his
32:15angels to gather. so on and so forth.
32:18And we're going to know that this time
32:19is drawing near when we see Israel
32:21reborn like the fig tree and it becomes
32:24a nation again. We're getting closer to
32:27those days. Doesn't mean it's
32:28instantaneous. It could be hundreds of
32:30years. We don't know. But that day and
32:33hour, no one knows except the sun. But
32:35what we do [music] know is that it's
32:37going to be like Noah. People are not
32:39going to understand what they're getting
32:41into until they are individually taken
32:44and lost in the dissipation of apostasy.
32:48And the return of the Lord is also going
32:50to be like that. We're not going to know
32:51exactly when it happens. It's going to
32:53happen suddenly.
33:06>> [music]

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