Let's get down to business because yesterday I was screwing around a lot and just

talk about country music lyrics and things like that we didn't get to

nearly enough Bible and today we're gonna to get a lot of things done.

We're in Matthew chapter 24. We're getting toward the end of Jesus answer to the question

that his disciples asked about when all of the end of things is going to happen and

what will be the signs of the return of the

son of man. Jesus answered the question in three parts. The first one is a

whole lot of things are just going to happen. It seems like a big deal but

it's just the world being the world. Don't worry about that. Just be faithful

and you roll along.

The second part of the answer is there's going to be a profaning of something holy, a profaning of the temple,

stuff's going to get weird and it's going to get difficult during that time.

People are going to start

under that pressure being like oh I think that's son of man I think that's the

return none of that is you will know do not get into that metaphorical candy van

those are fake Messiahs and then the third part of his answer, which draws super, super heavily on imagery and little

nuggets of language from the Old Testament with giant packets of meaning tagged onto them starts in

verse 29 and this is the stuff about what it's actually going to look like when

actually the son of man returns and yesterday we started by looking at

Daniel chapter 12 and verse one, which indicates

that there is to be some sort of time of tribulation when everything is

rocking and shaken loose here, and that corresponds, I think, to what we read in verses like 22 of Matthew 24 up through 29.

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