Hey everybody it's Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour

podcast and we are at a spot here in Matthew chapter 24 where Jesus is giving what later comes to be known as

the Olivet discourse because it's on the Mount of Olives. See what they did their Olivet Olive?

Olive? And in the process of doing so he is not giving the disciples exactly the answer they

wanted but he's giving them the answer they need to their question of how's

everything going to work out what's the timeline on things?

How will we know when these big events that you're telling us are still to come

are actually going to unfold?

And in the first part of the answer, as we've looked at very closely, he's saying,

like, here's a bunch of stuff that's really no sure sign of anything.

This is just history, be in history, the world, be in the world, you don't need to

panic or do anything, just be faithful and do the kingdom things that you're supposed to do as my

followers under any circumstances. But then in verse 15, seems like he pivots a

little bit back toward their original question, and even though he isn't giving them a timeline

here or anything neatly chronological, he is saying that one of the indicators of something at least

that is really a big deal shaking loose is some kind of

abomination occurring in the temple, some kind of profaning or violation of Jerusalem

of the temple.

And specifically, he says that using this language,

Matthew 2415.

So when you see standing in the holy place,

the abomination that causes desolation spoken of

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