Are You Ready for Jesus's Return? | The Gospels | Luke 17:20–37

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🗓️ 11 May 2026

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Why do we keep looking for signs of the end? What if we’re focusing on the wrong things? And how does Jesus say his return will actually happen? In today’s episode, Keith shares how Luke 17:20–37 reminds us that the kingdom of God is already here and calls us to live ready, awake, and not distracted by the things of this world. Read the Bible with us in 2026! This year, we’re exploring the Gospels—Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passage: Luke 17:20–37

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:09.1	In the time it takes to get to work.
0:10.8	I'm Keith Simon.
0:13.3	People have always wanted to know when the world will end.
0:16.7	That's not just a Christian thing, but a human thing.
0:19.7	It's like human beings know that the world
0:21.8	isn't eternal. It had a beginning and they know, therefore, it will have an end. Some groups have
0:27.3	taken advantage of people's natural questions and fears around the end of the world to build a
0:31.8	movement and gain a following. Like there were the Millerites in the 1840s. They were led by a guy
0:37.3	named William Miller.
0:38.8	He was an American Baptist preacher who calculated from biblical text that Christ would return
0:43.7	and the end of the world would happen in about 1844. He gathered a substantial following of
0:49.2	tens of thousands of people. When the date passed without Jesus returning, it became known as the great disappointment.
0:56.7	Some of his followers went on to start the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Or another example of people
1:02.4	wanting to know when the world will end is Heaven's Gate, and this is back in the 1990s.
1:07.9	This was like a UFO religious cult. It was led by a guy named Marshall Applewhite,
1:13.6	and he believed that the earth was about to be recycled, like wiped clean and renewed.
1:19.2	They thought a spacecraft trailing a comet would carry their souls to a higher existence.
1:25.5	In 1997, 39 members, including Applewhite himself, died by mass suicide in
1:31.7	California, believing they were ascending to the next level. Maybe most famously, there's the
1:37.6	People's Temple. That was a group that went to Jonestown in Guyana down in South America in the
1:42.6	1970s. It was led by a guy named Jim Jones.
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