All right, Matthew Chapter 24, the Olivet Discourse, the disciples want to know how this whole thing is going to work out, like the unfolding of history.

Jesus tells them, the first, some stuff's just going to happen and that's just the world be in the world, you don't need to panic about that.

Then he tells them there's going to panic about that. Then he tells

them there's going to be something that we talked about a bunch over the last

week called the abomination of desolation looks like it involves the temple

profaning of the temple somehow and then things are going to start warming up through a difficult

period of time toward the return of the king the return of the son of man and

that's the stuff we're looking at today in Matthew 24 I don't know where we started, like,

verse 21 through, yeah, I call it 28.

I'm gonna have Jeff play some music,

and we're gonna pick it up where we left off yesterday.

Picking it back up with the text in verse 26 Jesus says so if anyone tells you

there he is go out in the desert don't go out or here he is in the inner rooms

don't believe it for his lightning that comes from the east is visible in the west, so will be the coming of the son of man.

Wherever there's a carcass, there the vultures will gather two images that he uses there one is about this lightning we were

sitting down here in the basement the other day and we were kind of having this weird snow squall

kind of blizzardy thing and we got a little bit of lightning with it.

And even though all the shades were drawn and we were looking at other things, that little

lightning flash against the snow even though it was very far away.

We didn't hear any thunder or anything. Everybody ran to the window. It was like, oh, dang, that's crazy, snow and lightning.

That hardly ever happens. It's nuts. You couldn't miss it, even though it was forever

away and obscured by fog and snow and all the other weather that was going on.

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