Hey everybody it's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast and yesterday we're talking about the scene where Mufasa and Sember sitting on the hillside looking out over the kingdom and Mufasa's like,

one day the sun's gonna set on my time as king and rise on your time as king as king kiddo and then everything that the light touches that is going to be yours and we

talked about how the most natural read on that is that Mufasa is talking to Simba about

something that is going to happen to Simba and it would not be a natural read to watch that movie and come away and be like,

oh, he's talking about somebody else way, way, way, way, way, way down the line much, much later.

No, the simplest read here is that he's talking to the person he's actually talking to.

Likewise, we're looking at Matthew chapter 24 and a conversation that is rather complex multifaceted answer to that question where the

take home is some stuff's going to happen you're going to have some hints when it's

really time you should be able to identify the basics of it because you're good at interpreting the world around you you'll be able to identify the basics of it because you're good at interpreting the world

around you you'll be able to interpret this and then after these things occur the

son of man will return and that is going to be unmissible.

So then as he continues to talk with his disciples to his disciples, and I believe with his disciples

in view, he gives him this little nugget we've been working on for a couple days here.

Jesus talking here.

Now learn this lesson from the fig tree.

As soon as his twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near.

Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near right at the door.

I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things

have happened.

Heaven and Earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

These things, then, a phrase he uses twice in this passage, are clearly referring to all

of the signs, the hints, the stuff that indicates that the culminating event is getting

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