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Matthew chapter 24 · Scripture Unscripted

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Matthew chapter 24. Let us pray.
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Lord God, you're so good. Lord God, you are incredible.
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Thank you, Lord, for this book that we hold in our hands.
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Thank you, God, that you have given us your Holy Scriptures.
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You have given us your divine counsel.
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You have given us your Rhema, Lord, we, you've given us your
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spoken words. God, the breath here in ink and
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on page. Thank you, God, that this word
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is alive and active, Lord. And as we open your word today,
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I pray God for a supernatural discernment.
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God, I pray in the name of Jesus for a supernatural
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understanding. God, I pray that you give us the
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mind of Christ, give us the heart of Christ as we explore
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all these avenues. Father, I pray in the name of
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Jesus, God, that you will be well pleased and it will be all
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about you. King Jesus and Lord, I pray that
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you will hide me, hide my words, hide my thoughts.
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Lord, I decrease as you increase.
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Lord, show up and show off. Have your way Lord, have your
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will today. God, I get out of the way.
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It's all about you, King Jesus, Holy Spirit, convict us.
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Holy Spirit, be our guide. Holy Spirit, fill us today
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overflowing. And Holy Spirit, you are the one
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who will teach today. So Lord, I pray that it's all
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about you and your Kingdom come and your will be done on earth
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just as it is there in heaven in Jesus Christ.
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Holy precious name, I pray, Amen.
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Let's start in verse one. And Jesus went out and departed
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from the temple and his disciples came to him for to
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show him the buildings of the temple.
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Look at this. Imagine Jesus, He's leaving the
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temple for the last time. This was him turning and knowing
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that he would never step foot back into that temple.
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And the disciples, I'm sure, could see the sombre mood and
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they turn to him to try to cheer him up.
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And they say, look at all this extravagance.
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And if you go back and read some of the historical accounts, you
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will see the temple had gold all over the outside, which would
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blind you if the sun was shining on it.
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And there was slabs of marble as white as the snow that from a
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distance it would look as if it was snowing on that temple.
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It was so grand and extravagant. And let's see how Jesus thought
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about it and how he felt about this temple. 2 Jesus said unto
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them, See you not all these things, truly, I say unto you,
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There shall not be left here. 1 stone upon another that shall
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not be thrown down. And we know that whenever the
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Romans came in to take over that land in 8070, we know that there
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was not one stone left. And it was because somebody had
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set a fire inside of the temple. And everybody that was in the
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city all went into the temple to try to find some kind of refuge
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as they were being sieged by the Romans.
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And somebody had lit a match, somebody had lit a flame, and
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because of that, the temple was burned.
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And the gold that was on the ceilings and the gold that was
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inlaid melted because of the fervent heat and dripped down in
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between the cracks of the stones.
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And so the stones were not left one on top of the other to
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extract all of the gold. Friends 3.
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And he sat upon the Mount of Olives.
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The disciples came unto him privately saying, Tell us, when
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shall these things be? And what shall be the sign of
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your coming and of the end of the world?
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So you have 3 questions here that were presented to Jesus on
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the Mount of Olives. This is where we get the phrase
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Olivet discourse. And you can imagine our Lord
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sitting on the Mount of Olives and he's still looking at the
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temple from that vantage point. And the disciples wanted to know
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three different questions. Let's see how the Lord answers
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these three distinct questions. They wanted to know, one, What
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shall be the When shall these things be?
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What shall be the sign of your coming and of the end of the
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world? Four.
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And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man
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deceive you. So here Jesus is warning them,
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and he will warn them again and again to be on guard for false
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teachers, to be on guard for false Christs, to be on guard
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for the false religions that will spring up.
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This is a mandate for us today and the way that we can
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safeguard our hearts and minds and families and lives, the way
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we can make sure that we're not duped is by studying the real
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thing so that when the counterfeit comes across, we'll
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be able to identify it. It will feel different.
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It will be different. You will be able to tell that it
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is not from God when the counterfeit comes. 5 For many
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shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ, and shall deceive
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many. This is false religion coming up
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in the world. 6 And you shall hear of wars, rumors of wars.
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See that you be not troubled, for all these things must come
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to pass, but the end is not yet so.
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What he's saying is there has always been wars and rumors of
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wars. He's saying that that is not
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something that should make us turn inwardly.
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That is not something that should make us think that the
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end is near because there's wars and rumors of wars.
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There's been that since the beginning of time.
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Friends 7 For nation shall rise against nation and Kingdom
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against Kingdom, and there shall be famines and pestilences and
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earthquakes in diverse places. So again, a lot of times these
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wars create the famines, OK, the kingdoms rising against other
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kingdoms, the earthquakes, these are all things that we
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experience, but the end is yet to come.
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So a lot of times in the wake of a natural disaster or in the
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wake of a country invading another country, we all have a
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knee jerk reaction to think, oh, the end is near.
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But Jesus is telling us to be on guard and to not be deceived and
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to not look for false hope in leaders that promise us that
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they have the answer. We need to keep our eyes on a
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Savior. We do not need to be looking for
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a sign. We need to be looking for the
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Savior, friends, and he's going to tell us what to look for. 8
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All these are the beginning of sorrows, and we can see a lot of
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it shaping up in our time and our our friends.
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You can see these birth pains that are becoming closer and
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closer together. You can see the contractions
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coming closer and closer together before the child crowns
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and before the child comes, before Jesus comes in his second
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advent, you can start to see all of the beginning of sorrows.
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It's worldwide. 9 Then shall they deliver you up to be
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afflicted, and shall kill you, and you shall be hated of all
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nations for my name's sake. So here he's talking about
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persecution. He's talking about the
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persecution of Christians. He's talking about how because
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of his name Christ, that there will be many people who are
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persecuted because of their allegiance and alliance with
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him. And he's going to explain that
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there's coming a day and an age and an hour where the whole
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world will hate Christians. And you can see it starting to
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shape up. You can see the hostility
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towards Christ and towards his believers.
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And it all is based upon John 14-6 when Jesus says I am the
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way, the truth, and the life, and no one comes unto the Father
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except through me. What a bold statement.
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And that is not tolerant, friends, and that is not a
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moralistic approach to God. And the world hates the fact
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that Jesus is the only way, and there is no tolerance. 10 And
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then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and
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shall hate one another. You can see the hostility to
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inwards. You can see the hostility in the
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family unit. You can see he's mentioned other
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times in this good book, how your own family members will be
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the ones that are turning you in and that are turning on you. 11
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And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
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So as time goes on and asks, things continuously get worse
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and worse. During this time there will be a
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lot of people who are looking for hope and they're looking for
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it in all the wrong places. And they are deceived because
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they're running to the teachers who are tickling their ears.
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They are deceived because they delighted in evil and refused to
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love the truth. They are deceived because they
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refused the only one who could give them peace and give them
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salvation, which is Jesus Christ.
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They refuse him and they are still, even though in the
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refusal of Christ, they're still looking for some kind of hope
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and there is no hope apart from Jesus Christ.
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And that is where the deception comes in.
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It's because they refuse him but are still in need.
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There's still a giant void in their life and they want to feel
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as if everything keeps going on and that things are only going
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to get better. And you see it in our culture.
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You see it in our day and age. There are people that are in
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denial, and they only want things to get better and better
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and better. That is not what the word of God
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teaches us here, friends. 12 And because iniquity shall abound,
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the love of many shall grow cold.
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We must keep our love hot, friends.
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We must keep our oil filled. We must keep our Wicks trimmed.
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We must rely on the leading and the promptings and the teachings
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of the Holy Spirit. Do you not know that you are the
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temple of the Lord, friends? That the Holy Spirit lives
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inside of you, and we need to rely on His leading and
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teaching. And that is how we're going to
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make it to the end. That is how we're going to be
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able to be resilient. That is how we're going to be
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able to be resistant to all the cares and woes and worries and
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fear that are coming our way and bombarding us.
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As you see the world increasingly growing darker and
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darker, we need to make sure we keep our love burning hot for
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God's people and we need to make sure that we are snatching
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people out of the fire. Friends, just like you and I
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were 13 and he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be
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saved. So during the Tribulation time,
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there will still be the opportunity for those that were
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left behind for them to give their lives to the Lord, but it
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will be much harder, friends. And because of the beast system
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in the Antichrist and because of the Tribulation, it is going to
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be so hard for those people. And He's telling them to endure
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to the end. He's telling them that they need
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to make sure that they have this good book and they have read
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this good book and they know the instructions that he's giving
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them. He has made it plain.
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He has made the path straight and narrow, friends, that we
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must endure until the end. 14 And this gospel of the Kingdom
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shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto the
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nations, and then shall the end come.
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So we've always understood this as missionaries getting the word
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of God out to the whole world. But look at how technology has
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advanced. Look at how we can be anywhere
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in the world in a day. Look at how we can plug up and
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get online and we can reach people all over the world in an
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instant. It is an amazing time that we're
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living in. This is a profound time that
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we're living in. We started the 1900s on
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horseback and ended in a rocket ship, and look at where we're at
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today. Look at all the technological
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advances that allow the Kingdom of God, that allow the Word of
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God to be spoken of in all of the world.
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Friends, it's a beautiful time that we live in. 15 When you
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therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken
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of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place.
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Whoso readeth, let him understand. 15 is a verse that
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needs to be highlighted for those who think that all of
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these things have already come to pass.
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We have only seen a snapshot of what verse 15 is talking about
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whenever the Antichrist sits in the yet to be built temple in
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Israel and demands to be worshipped.
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This is the abomination of desolation and we got to see a
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snapshot of it with Antiochus Epiphanes.
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But that was only a foreshadowing of this event that
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is yet future friends and Jesus. In his divine wisdom, Jesus
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says, whoso readeth, let him understand the words of Christ
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here, knowing that these words would be written for you and I
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to hold in our hands. And he's telling you, He's
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telling me, listen, understand. 16 Then let them which be in
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Judea flee into the mountains. So after 8070, when the
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dispersion of the Jews, there was a very small remnant that
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was left behind, and it was not until 1948 that you saw all the
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Jews come back into that land. And here God is telling them
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that when they see the Antichrist in the temple
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demanding to be worshipped after 3 1/2 years of peace where they
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were allowed to rebuild their temple, then the Antichrist will
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turn on them. Then the Antichrist will demand
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to be worshipped. And here Jesus is telling the
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Jews flee during that time. Get out of there and we see a a
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similar story in Luke later on, we're going to see a different
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angle to this story in Luke 21, 17.
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Let him which is on the housetop, not come down to take
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anything out of his house. This is this is supposed to be
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an urgency here. Friends, do not dilly dally.
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When you see these things happening, run and flee.
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Do not worry about what you're going to grab.
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You need to leave. 17 is telling us not to take anything. 16 was
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telling us to flee into the mountains. 18 neither let him
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which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
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This is expediency and urgency friends. 19 and woe unto them
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that are with child and to them that gives suck in those days.
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So he's talking about nursing mothers, he's talking about
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pregnant women. He's talking about during this
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fleeing that Jesus is telling the Jews to do during the
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tribulation after the 3 1/2 years of peace for Israel.
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He's he's saying how hard it will be for pregnant women, how
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hard it will be for mothers who have infants.
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And most of this is towards the Jewish people.
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You can see he's talking here in 20, but pray you that your
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flight be not in the winter neither on the Sabbath day.
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So you can see a lot of this is likened towards a future event.
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That is pertaining to the Jews because they will have the
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temple there and they will actually see the Antichrist
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going in to the temple. Yet to be built, but you can see
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it shaping up today. You can see a lot of the markers
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that are happening today. 21 For then shall be great tribulation,
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such as was not since the beginning of the world, to this
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time no, nor ever shall be. So here is another issue with
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those that think that these events have already happened.
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There has been times since 8070 that were worse than what
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happened there in 8070. And so here in verse 22, Jesus
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is telling us that there's coming a time in a day where the
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entire globe, it will be worse than it's ever been since the
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beginning of time. It'll be worse than the days of
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Noah, and no one would survive unless God had shortened those
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days. 23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is
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Christ, or there do not believe it, 23 is a marker that we must
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look for. There will be many who try to
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come and tell us Christ is here, and we must not believe it,
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because he's going to tell us that the whole world will see
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his coming. 24 For there shall arise false Christs, false
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prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders in so much
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that if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
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So very interesting thing here, this elect.
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So the Church capital C has been taken up and out in the rapture
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before this tribulation, the seven-year tribulation where
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it's worse than it's ever been since the beginning of creation.
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And here he talks about the deception of even the very
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elect. There will still be a chance
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during this seven years for people to give their lives over
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to the Lord. And he's telling us to not be
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deceived. There will be many people who
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try to come and say, Come with me, for I know where Christ is,
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but Christ is not going to be hidden. 25 Behold, I have told
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you before, thank God that Jesus has told us before. 26
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Therefore, if you, if they shall say unto you, behold, he is in
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the desert, go not forth. Behold, he is in the secret
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chambers. Believe it not.
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He's telling us, He's making it plain, He's making it straight,
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friends, He is telling us what? To be on guard for these
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intelligence indicators, we need to make sure that our radar is
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on and our antenna is up and we'll be able to perceive the
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the deception. There will be little calling
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cards that the enemy leaves to let us know not to go with these
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people, not to go down these corridors of evil with these
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people, not to trust them, and to make sure that we are rooted
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and grounded in God's Word. Nothing added or subtracted,
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friends. The infallible, inerrant word of
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God. We do not need the Bible plus
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anything. This is His words, and heaven
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and earth shall pass away, but not one of His words will,
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friends. 27 For as the lightning comes out of the east and shines
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even unto the West, so shall also the coming of the Son of
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Man be. So we're getting to see what
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it's going to look like. It's a worldwide event.
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No one left out. Everyone will see this glorious
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coming of the Lord. 28 For wheresoever the carcass is,
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there the eagles be gathered together.
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He's saying that the the world will be ripe with sin, it will
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be ripe for judgment because of the sin of the masses. 29
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Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall
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the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,
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and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the
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heavens shall be shaken. This is the sign of the coming
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of the Son of Man, much like whenever he died on the cross
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and even all of creation had a reaction.
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Here you can see this coming of the Son of Man in his second
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advent is going to shake the heavens. 30 And then shall
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appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven, and then shall
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all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the
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Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great
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glory. Look at this obscure St.
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Preacher who's about to be murdered, proclaiming that he's
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going to come with power, he's going to come with great glory,
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he's going to come in the clouds of heaven, and everyone will see
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it. And they will mourn because they
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had opportunity after opportunity after opportunity
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after opportunity to give their lives over to him, but they
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refused him, They refused the goodness of God. 31 And he shall
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send his angels with the great sound of a trumpet, and they
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shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one
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end of heaven to the other. This is a marked verse here. 31
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And what you need to realize is that he is gathering his elect
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from one end of heaven to the other.
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During the second coming of Christ we will be with him.
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It says that we will go to meet Him in the air, and there we
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will be with him forever. Praise the Lord. 32 Now learn a
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parable of the fig tree. When his branch is yet tender
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and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near.
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So He's answering different questions here at different
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times, and he's answering all three of them for the disciples.
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And you can see that these are marked at different times.
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You can see here that he's jumping back to us.
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Or we will know that all of the birth pains, we can look up and
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see that our redemption is drawing near.
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We can see the contractions happening closer and closer
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together. And what he's referencing here
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is these signs, but we do not look for signs.
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We look for the Savior. And we are ready for the Savior.
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And that is the whole goal here. It is not to just drag our feet
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until we see the signs. And then once we start seeing
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the signs, we try to get our lives back together because He's
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going to explain to us that He comes like a thief in the night
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when no one expects him. So you can see that we are
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called to be ready no matter what, with the signs or without
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the signs. But we as His elect, we as His
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chosen people, we will be able to see and to know that the
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leaves on the fig tree are budding out and that summer is
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near 33. So likewise, you, when you shall
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see all these things, know that it is near even at the doors and
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do not think that God is slack with all of His promises.
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Do not say that things just keep going on and on as they always
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have been. Do not forget that to the Lord a
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day is like 1000 years and 1000 years it's like a day.
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So whenever he says it's even at the doors, we must have
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patience. Friends, we cannot just be like
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the bottle rocket that goes fast and hard and then explodes.
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We need to be more like the locomotive that once it is
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started, it can chug along and chug along.
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And that's what we're called to do.
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Friends, we are not called to just burn so bright and burn
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out. We are called to be obedient
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unto Christ. We are called to finish the race
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well, and it is going to take patience and understanding on
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the part of the Saint friends. And prophecy is not to entertain
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the curious. Prophecy is meant to encourage
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the consecrated friends. It's even at the doors. 34
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Truly, I say unto you, this generation shall not pass until
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all these things be fulfilled. So 34 is a marked verse in this
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chapter. So did Jesus get it wrong?
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What does he mean by it? And there's a lot of speculation
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here. You could say that this
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generation, Speaking of Israel, Speaking of the Jews, you could
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say that this generation was during the time 40 years later
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where 8070 and the Romans came in and seized Jerusalem.
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You could say either one, but I believe that he is saying that
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the generation that sees all the signs that he has prescribed
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here, and he has told us beforehand, that generation
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shall see the coming of the Son of God in his second advent.
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It's even at the doors. 35 Heaven and earth shall pass
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away, but my words shall not pass away.
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So here is a beautiful verse that we can know, that we know
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that we know that we know that we know that we hold the
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infallible and narrow inspired word of God, that all Scripture
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is breathed by the Holy Spirit. We can see it here, friends.
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We hold it in our hands, and it is reading you as you are
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reading it. 36 But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not
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the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
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So he is relegating to God. He is having the meekness, and
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he is saying that God is omnipotent and knows all things,
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and it's all moving and according to God's plan.
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And it was a plan before the foundations of the earth.
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God had it all in mind. And everything even today is
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moving perfectly in line and in unity, and in unison and in
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harmony, friends with God's will.
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Don't forget it. 37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall the
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coming of the Son of Man be. So you can go back.
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And you can see in the days of Noah that there was so much evil
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on the world that it grieved God, that he had even made
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mankind. You can see here that it's going
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to be worse than that day. It's going to be worse than the
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days of Noah, unlike anything that this world has ever known.
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Friends, there is nothing that you could try to imagine that
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would even come close to the carnage and wreckage and
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destruction that is coming upon the earth, and especially for
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those who are going to choose in that day to believe in Jesus
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Christ. 38 For as in the days that were before the flood, they
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were eating and drinking and marrying and giving in marriage
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until the day that Noah entered into the ark.
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So you can see here that even in the evil that people are still
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reveling, that people are still engaged in marriage, that people
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are still having to deal with their humanity of eating and
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drinking. You could see that our humanity
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is not put on pause during the tribulation that things will for
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those that have chosen this world and those that are
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believing that everything is just going to get better and
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what we need is A1 world leader to save us from all of our woes.
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Those people will be so deceived and those people will be so
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delusional that they think that things are only going to get
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better even in the wreckage and Carnage 39 and knew not until
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the flood came and took them all away.
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So shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.
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We know that the second destruction is by fire.
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Peter makes it plain and he's telling us that the world will
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never be flooded. It will never be diluted with
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water as the first time, but Jesus here is showing us that
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the coming of the Son of Man will bring about the second
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destruction. 40 Then shall 2 be in the field, The one shall be
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taken and the other left. Imagine this, friends, what do
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we do with these verses? Verse 40 and verse 41, two women
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shall be grinding at the mill. The one shall be taken and the
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other left. The common thought processes
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with 40 and 41 are the rapture of the Church, which we know has
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already happened prior to the tribulation.
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And here in verse 40 and 41 you must reckon with one standing in
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the field and one being left behind.
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You can see that there is a beautiful rapture and you can
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see that even in the days of Noah you can see that Enoch did
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not taste death and that he was taken up, and this is likened to
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the days of Noah. You can see it, and it is
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beautiful. 42 Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour
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your Lord does come. So there are two different
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events being ascribed to this. You have the rapture of the
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Church, which some could mark as the first coming of His second
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Advent, where He meets us in the clouds.
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And then at the end of the tribulation He comes back in
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glory, which is the reason that we will not be raptured at the
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end of the tribulation, just to come immediately right back to
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Him. He will keep us from the hour
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that is coming to test all the inhabitants of the world.
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Friends. 43 But know this, that if the good man of the house had
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known and what watch the thief would come, he would have
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watched and would not have suffered his house to be broken
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up. So there's a lot of nations that
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are raging and they're plotting in vain, and they're thinking
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that they can keep Christ from coming.
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And this has been the intent of Satan since the garden, when God
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told him that his head would be crushed.
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And you can see that we will be able to see the signs of the
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times, and we will be able to see the leaves on the fig tree.
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And we will be able to see that our redemption is near.
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But we will not be able to fix a date.
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Do not ever go with anyone down any hallway or corridor.
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Do not ever go down any thought processes with someone who tries
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to fix a date. There have been many cults that
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have been started because people were duped into believing of all
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these people that are setting dates.
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Do not believe it, do not even go near the door.
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Do not even go close to those people for they are dangerous
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people. He tells us in 44.
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Therefore you be also ready for in such an hour as you think not
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the Son of man comes so he's telling us to not grow lazy
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friends. He's telling us to burn bright.
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He's telling us to fill our lamps to be filled with the Holy
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Spirit is how we're going to make it there.
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Friends 45 who then is a faithful and wise servant whom
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his Lord has made ruler over his household to give them meat in
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due season. He asked Peter, do you love me
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three times Peter says yes, three times He says, you know
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that I love you and what did he tell Peter?
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He told Peter the same thing that he tells you friend, feed
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my sheep. We should not just be stingy
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with the word of God. We must feed his sheep. 46
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Blessed is that servant whom his Lord, when he comes, shall find.
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So doing we are called to evangelize, we are called to be
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found. Doing the Lord's work, we're
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called to be found. With our hand to the plow we are
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called to be found. Serving the King of kings and
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the Lord of Lords 47 Truly I say unto you that he shall make him
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ruler over all his goods, The Lord.
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When we come back with him, the Lord is going to give us
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different responsibilities, Friends. 48 But, and if that
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evil servant shall say in his heart, my Lord, the lace is
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coming, these are those that have fallen asleep.
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These are those that are not filled with the spirit friends.
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They're not filled with the Holy Ghost.
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They have become lazy, they have become despondent.
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They have become detached from the second coming of our Lord.
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They think that his delay means that he's never going to come.
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And they hope that everything is just going to get better.
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And they have be. They've made themselves fat and
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they have made themselves rich. And they are not actually
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wishing and waiting upon the Lord.
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They're not crying out, Maranatha.
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They're not crying out as the spirit and the bride does
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saying, come Lord, they are just as content with him tarrying
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because it means that they have more time for pleasure and
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pleasantries on this on this earth. 49 and shall begin to
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strike his fellow servants and to eat and drink with the drunk.
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So 49 you can see that there is an abuse within the realm of the
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faith. You can see that they had once
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tasted and seen that the Lord was good.
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They had tasted and seen of the goodness and of the Holy Spirit,
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and they have fallen away. This is the apostate church.
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They're drinking and eating and beating their fellow servants.
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50 The Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he
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looks not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of.
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What a word for us today. We can see the signs and we can
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see the times, but we should not grow lazy.
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We should not just think that everything is going to keep
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going as it always has been. We need to watch and wait,
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friends. And he's saying that we will not
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be aware of the exact day of the exact time.
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I can't say it enough. Beware of anyone who sets a
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date. We'll end on 51 and shall cut
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him asunder and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites.
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And there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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We know that this weeping and gnashing of teeth is reserved
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for those who refuse Jesus Christ.
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And maybe they at one point in their life they were going along
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with Him just so long as everything was fine and dandy.
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But then hard times came, and perhaps they grew rich on the
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things in this world, and they grew distant from Him, and they
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never truly knew Him. And Jesus is saying that just
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because they have suit and ties does not mean that they are
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righteous just because they come in the facade of looking like
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one of his ministers. They are ravenous wolves, and we
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must be aware of them and their lot and their place is in
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eternal damnation. What a chapter here, this Olivet
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discourse. We could spend a whole lifetime
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debating eschatology and we need to just read His Word.
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We need to obey His word. We need to allow the Holy Spirit
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to guide us. We need to allow the Holy Spirit
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to be our teacher. Friends, we would do well to sit
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and meditate upon these scriptures and ask the Lord to
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reveal what it is that He's saying to us.
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Hope you've been blessed by this chapter here and Matthew.
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I know I sure have. I sure have been many times.
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This is encouragement for the consecrated.
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This is not entertainment for the curious.
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What a beautiful chapter. I love you, I'm praying for you.
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We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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God bless you.