Pandemics and Earthquakes Are NOT Signs: The Mark Series pt 52 (13:1-13)

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Mike Winger

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🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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I still remember when I first started to realize that we had completely misused the words of Jesus. It took a while to be able to confront the fact that the teachers I had been so blessed by had actually reversed the meaning Jesus intended when He spoke these words. I hope that I can encourage us today to have humility and greater accuracy when dealing with end times prophecy and how current events might play in to God's end times plans. Humility itself can save us from a lot of errors and lessen the harm caused even when we do fall into error. In short, today's study shows how many of the things people often appeal to as indicators that the second coming is soon are actually not indicators at all. Earthquakes, wars, famines and pandemics included. This is part 52 of the Mark Series, going verse by verse through the Gospel of Mark. Today we are in chapter 13:1-13 Feel free to use my videos in your own gatherings as an aid to studying Scripture. See the WHOLE Gospel of Mark playlist here. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ3iRMLYFlHuGenHwUdeiQ5M-uj5XW4sF

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0:00.0	In my view, Christians have rarely embarrassed themselves so much as when we, I'll include myself,
0:10.0	we get things wrong when it comes to Bible prophecy about the future.
0:16.0	When we make predictions based upon misinterpreted passages and it's been happening a lot and I can guarantee you it's going to happen a lot more in the coming years and I'll explain why as we continue through today's study.
0:29.0	But right now we're in Mark chapter 13, this is where Jesus explained things,
0:33.3	and the section we're in today is things that are not
0:35.6	signs of his coming.
0:37.0	And regularly, people say these things are signs of his coming.
0:41.2	And I say regularly, like it was ingrained in me from the teaching I had
0:44.5	received as a young Christian that these things are signs of his coming, earthquakes
0:48.8	and pandemics and all that sort of thing, but as I do verse by verse studies through
0:52.0	the Bible I encounter those passages and I go,
0:54.0	wait a minute, he's literally saying the exact opposite of what I thought he was here.
1:00.0	So I want to start by saying this. First, welcome. I'm Pastor Mike Winger trying to help you learn to think
1:05.2	Biblically about everything because the Bible is more brilliant and beautiful and wonderful and life-changing
1:10.6	than just about anybody realizes and I'm gonna help help you all realize it a little bit more.
1:15.0	It's one of my goals.
1:16.5	So when we approach the topic of what's going to happen in our future, we do tend to make some missteps.
1:25.0	We tend to assume that the end times are, like when I say end times, I mean the fulfillment of
1:29.6	biblical prophecy about the final days, that that's all happening right now. We tend to
1:33.5	assume that. Every generation seems to assume that. This leaves a track record of
1:37.8	weird little moments in people who would otherwise be good good godly teachers and
1:41.9	I'll be talking a little bit more about this
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