Hey my friends, it's Matt Whitman from the 10 minute Bible hour podcast. You know that you

were listening to it right now. It's nice to have you here. Thank you for hanging out with me and talking about the book of Matthew. We are in Matthew chapter 24 thinking about what is often regarded as a very difficult passage that being the Olivet discourse the fifth of the five big

speeches around which the book of Matthew is structured sorry about the noise here I'm

getting a bajillion texts I'm gonna mute my phone there that's. I don't remember exactly what I was going to say. Oh yeah, yeah, I remember. This passage, Matthew

chapter 24, has been regarded by a lot of people as being incredibly difficult and overwhelming, maybe the most challenging in the entire New Testament, not challenging

like in terms of, oh gosh, it's really hard to obey what Jesus is saying there.

That would maybe be in the sermon on the mount, the stuff about loving your enemies, but just

challenging in terms of figuring

out what the heck is actually going on here and what the actual answer is that Jesus is giving

to the very reasonable question that the disciples are asking.

They just want to know, like, all right, we believe you.

We believe that you are God in the flesh.

We believe that you're the Messiah.

We believe that these things you say about the future are going to happen.

That history is not just meandering somewhere, but it's headed somewhere,

and that God is the king of that, and that we have been invited to play a role in that, and so they're

feeling a little bit of pressure, and they want some more more clarity and they very reasonably are like so

how's I gonna play out what should we be looking for what's the timeline here and

look we know from the other 23 chapters that we've looked at so far in

Matthew that Jesus is capable of giving a

crystal clear answer. This guy is a brilliant communicator. He's great at

reading the room and saying things that will be understood by the people who are

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