Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter.

Thanks for joining. Today, we're in Matthew 24, and I am joined by my good friend, Grant Wilkie.

Everybody, how's it going? You already know what time it is.

Oh, my gosh. Grant is one of the biggest fans of the podcast.

I love this podcast.

It's an honor to be here today, Emma.

He is, I'm so glad.

He is on staff.

You work in pastoral care?

I do work in pastoral care.

And he is actually one of the smartest guys I know.

And today, we are in Matthew 24, which if you haven't read it,

you should pause the episode, go read through it real quick, but we're talking about the end

times. And there's a lot of tricky stuff in this passage. But what I love about Grant is that

he's able to teach the principles that we need to understand it, but also get at the heart behind

how we can apply this passage to our life.

So Grant, what you got for us? The floor is yours.

Emma, thank you so much for letting me jump on. Matthew 24 is a really confusing passage.

There's a lot of unfamiliar imagery that really doesn't make sense to us.

How do you make sense of this? And why does any of

this in Matthew 24 make any difference in our lives? Why does it matter? And I think the answer is

really simple. It matters because it's in God's word. We can't simply ignore the parts that are

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