Matthew 24:1-14
Then Jesus went out and departed from the temple, and His disciples came up to show Him the buildings of the temple. 2 And Jesus said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”
3 Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?”
4 And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many. 6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
9 “Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name’s sake. 10 And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. 11 Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. 12 And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
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All right this morning I titled my message the last day signs and had her out tied one already sent their information now when I say last day signs don’t think singular as in day you know Ok I should have caught it in time signs I’m not going to stand up and say a particular day so I’m going to get to that more as I go on but there are signs that Jesus pointed out that will occur before the end of very end so I believe that we’re living in the times where we are seeing many signs fulfilled so all in scripture this morning comes from Matthew 24 verses one through 14 hear the word of the Lord then Jesus went out and departed from the temple and his disciples came up to show Him the buildings of the temple you know as I read that nothing is kind of interesting here’s the disciples saying to Jesus you know look at this look at this magnificent temple that saw a mill Look how beautiful it is Howard made it is well they’re telling the one that gave him the design and the look at this and Mark Wright kind of ironic. But then Jesus said to them Do you not see all these things assuredly I say to you not one stone shall be left here upon another that shall not be thrown down now as he sat on the Mount of Olives disciples came to him privately same Tell us when will these things be and what will be the sign of your coming at the end of the age and Jesus answered and said to them take heed that no one deceives you for many will come in my name saying I am the Christ and will deceive many and you will hear of wars and rumors of wars see that you are not troubled for all these things must come to pass but the end is not yet for a nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom and there will be famines pestilences and earthquakes in various places all these are the Beginning of Sorrows then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake I think I just recently prist preached about Christians right we are a little Christ like Christ so you will be they will kill you those who proclaim to be Christians for his name sake because you call yourself a Christian willing to walk that walk they will kill you and then many will be offended will be tray one another and will hate one another then many false prophets will rise up and deceive Manning and because lawlessness will abound and the love of many will grow cold but he who endures to the end shall be saved and this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations and the end will come they got out his blessing so they hear it in the reading of His Holy Word let us pray. Gracious Lord we thank you and praise you for your word and we believe your word to be true we believe that you gave the word to the Apostles and the prophets of old and the patriarchs father the to be handed down to us more God that we would know the things that have happened in the past and things to look forward to in the future father may your speared give us understanding may your spirit be present today and or May you be glorified through the preaching of your word in Jesus’ name amen you know from the really from the time that Jesus was on the earth men had been curious haven’t they about when that end will come when God will finally say it is finished it is enough it’s time for to bring my judgment upon the earth so men have been current curious even the disciples were curious come to Jesus a lower when will these things happen when will you come again when is it going to happen but the Scripture we know is very clear that it says no man knows the day nor the ara correct no one knows the day nor the hour Jesus not even the angels but only the Father only the Father knows because he is God He knows the exact day knows when it’s going to be he knows how far in a future it is but that is not stopped many people were over the years from predicting certain dates when it’s going to happen William Miller and they call him the Miller writes he predicted that Christ would return and 843 Well it didn’t happen but each all made a mistake on my calculations so he changed it to 844 now don’t surprise you but it didn’t happen either your risk of a suffer well suck of Al I think how it’s pronounced predicted that the end would be an $881.00 and still didn’t happen Jonas Wendel predicted $873.00. Ed Dobson Timothy Dwight Egger case and Isaac Newton all predicted that the end would be the year 2000 well that makes good sense because you know 2000 years before the Flood 2000 from the flood the Christ surely but to thousands probably going to all be over well that was 20 years ago friends were still here Ronald when Lynn predicted it would happen in 2011 but that didn’t happen so I predicted 2012 you know they always say well I made a mistake in all these formulas and calculations and he said Well 2013 while he was caught like the one who wouldn’t give up right kept changing his prediction we all remember Harold Camping taught May of 2011 then he changed it to October of 2011 there is a source that claims that there has been well over well over 200 predictions over the years of when someone thought Christ was going to come you know they look at the the numbers in codes and signs and all these things and think they figured out the day the God’s Word is very clear no man knows the day nor the hour if the sun doesn’t know what makes them think they’d know but Jesus did give us signs right he gave us signs to look for I believe that we are in error if we try to to determine an exact date because only the Father knows as I said but he said there will be signs that you will know when it is near but here’s the 1000000 dollar question Can anyone tell me what space of time Jesus would consider as near. All right ses and smiles so when Jesus says that you know you’ll know that it’s near Does he mean when you know that it’s within 5 years a year 50 years. It could even be 500 years right because with Jesus the days with the Lord a days without 1000 years and 1000 years as a day right so we don’t really understand or know exactly when he says you’ll know that it’s near please don’t put a number on it just know that it is near I can tell you this with all certainty it is nearer today than it was yesterday but I do believe that it is near but I’m not going to put a number on it I believe it is near I think could we see it in our lifetime Very possibly but I’m not going to stand up and say that it is for certain because there are signs that we have seen that are happening or have already come the past some yet to come right in Jesus’ passage here because it’s red letter he kind of gives us a short list of some of the beginning signs and there are actually more than what we had read here Matthew 24 to give us a little bit of an understanding of things that will happen before Christ returns he said 1st of all that there will be wars and rumors of wars the nation will rise against nation no it cannot be disputed that the world has seen an unusual number of wars in the last 150 years the 1st and 2nd world wars killed millions of people and since 1945 there have been well over 200 armed conflicts around the world where uncounted millions have died and there is still friends the constant threat of conflict every day turn on the news you’re going to see that there is the constant worry of conflicts someplace in the world. Just you know what happened last week I’m sure there were people worried that wow this is going to be the start of another big one this deal with Iran the worry of war it’s constant you know when you have nations like North Korea and Iran and Russia and China many of them have nuclear weapons there’s always that worry threat of war isn’t or so we have wars and we have rumors of wars the worries of more wars and he said there will be earthquakes in various places we know that there are 2 main fault lines that run around the globe correct to May May were most of your major earthquakes traditionally take place I’m all right you know if we turn on the news tomorrow and we hear that they had an earthquake in California is anybody going to be really surprised no because we know that that’s a place where they will typically take place but he says there will be earthquakes in various places various places you know I found in some people think that they was says that they will increase and there’s conflicting information on whether or not earthquakes have actually increased over the last say 50 or 100 years or if they stayed about the same one source says no they haven’t increased another says that they have but a new United States Geological Survey says or study says that middle America between Alabama in Montana have experienced unprecedented increase in earthquakes of 3.0 or greater between around 2011 to now there has been 134 events of that size I think that’s kind of various places because you turn on the news they have one in Montana Well I don’t ever remember one in Montana right. Well they’ve had 134 since 2011 between Alabama and Montana. That’s 6 times more than were normally seen during the 20th century so I believe that there are earthquakes happening in various places around the world not just in the United States so that is one of the signs that I believe that we are seeing the fulfillment of but it’s not always number this is say in various places he said there will be famines and pestilence famines you know most of the time we think of a famine What are we going to think causes a famine climate change drought we think of drought we do famine is an acute episode of extreme hunger resulting in excess of mortality so many people course we know when if we have a famine many people die but there’s more than a drought to cause for a famine oftentimes there is political motives there’s political factors that factor into famines in various places in the world you know you have seen in total Terry in regimes that hold the food back from people to starve them out to kill them to get rid of them or to have control over them but you know there’s been many many famines around the world. From the 1800s to 2016 there have been 128000000 people that have died from famines and that’s a lot of people that have died from famines. So I believe that we are seeing that in the world today even in 2020 modern day today we are still seeing famines in the world in various places people that are starving starving to death because they cannot get food for whatever the reason may be rather be drought or whether it be that their nation is that poor and the government is not giving them food or helping them in any way it’s that famines and pestilence you know pestilence over the years have been so many pestilences that have caused death and destruction but Testaments plagues you know when you think of that you think of stuff like Black Death calorifier Spanish influenza. The Spanish influenza outbreak killed 20000000 people in the last century and you know there’s the plagues or pestilence of so many different kinds of disease we have right now the pollution going into the ocean from the from in Japan from the the the Kusama nuclear power plant that melted down is bleeding into the ocean that could be the death of the Sikh the creatures in the sea because of the pollution the radiation is going into the sea. So there’s many things that can affect it you have Ebola you have to Berkeley loss’ you have West Nile virus you have many infectious diseases and things that they have no you have a Jew have cancer you have so many things when you think about just in your lifetime let’s just look at cancer when I think the when I was younger I might have known a few people that had cancer but I think of today it is many I can think of many many people I think that there’s definitely been an increase not just against what’s going against people but even animals this die and you have chronic waste disease that affects deer you have mad cow disease that affects livestock I think pestilences and plagues have definitely been on the increase in the last I’m going to say 50 years or even if you go back to 100 years many many many times that I think that it has increased you know you look at some of the plagues in the Bible you think of the plagues of the Boyles that attacked the gods in the goddesses of the Egyptians because the Egyptian people trusted their false gods trusted their gods for the healing and numbers 33 for it says for the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn whom the Lord had killed among them also on their gods and the Lord had executed yet on their gods the Lord had executed judgement through the plagues God showed that he could defeat the entire path the on of Egyptian gods I’m on Rob was the god of wind fof was their god of science in thought it was the God of the positions 2nd that was their God protect us of the pharaohs and many other gods the Egyptians had but by God bringing all the different plagues that he brought upon Egypt was a show that he could rule over all of them that he could control them all and defeat them all. All the various place he said there will be persecution and murder of believers right now there are close to $100000.00 Christians being killed every year because of their faith because they believe in Jesus Christ today there’s a 100000 people killed every year according to Pew Research survey and other human rights organizations so that equates to 273 women 273 look at my numbers wrong 273 Christians killed every day 11 every hour or so from the time that we started our service to the bot the time will be done 11 Christians just lost their lives murdered for their faith because they were not willing to denounce Christ they were willing to say I believe in Jesus Christ he is the Messiah the Son of God The Bible also said Jesus said there will be a great falling away of Christians as persecution of believers gets worse and worse I believe there will be a greater number fall away from the faith not willing to give up their life for what they claimed to believe in you know America used to be the majority Christian but I believe that Christians today are becoming a minority in the United States I believe there is a great movement away from biblical Christianity I said biblically Christianity because many many are going to church today get their ears tickle the Hear what makes them feel good there are many churches out there that have corrupted the Word of God and do not like to confront people with their sins so it’s Ok to live the way you want to God is love. We’re friends that’s not the truth the truth is we need to repent we need to surrender our lives to Jesus Christ that is the word today and that is the word for not just the end times but all times they say and the end times of Christians will become the enemy of the state many other groups and I believe we see that happening in unfolding today he said there will be many false messiahs and false prophets that we will see in the future many common his name saying that they are the Christ within the us I think we’re seeing that today we’ve seen that happen so there will be an increase in lawlessness and the love of many will grow cold I believe there is much law and lawlessness in the world today all you have to do is look around you don’t have to believe what I say but look around look at the lawlessness that we see today in the land but lastly he said the gospel be preached in all nations that we preach in the world to all nations My friends think about that it is happening today it is being preached in all nations because we can gather here today and those cameras right there that we use don’t see him but those cameras that are looking up here is taken this message to all the world we know that this message of God’s word is proclaimed in Bangladesh Africa Sweden I don’t know how many other nations preached in all the world his word is being proclaimed not just from this little church but many churches are proclaiming the word through the Internet through television programs so his word his gospel is being proclaimed in all the world today as we speak so there is no doubt that we are living in the end times there’s no doubt about it. We’ve been living in the end times since Christ ascended to the father Those are all the End Times but he told his disciples when you see these things happening you know that they are the Beginning of Sorrows the word sorrows means birth pangs the pain of childbirth I’m going to Paul’s and my wife’s had a terrible day Tuesday was that Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday she said that was that pain was worse than giving birth to a child the pain she was dealing with Wednesday birth pangs you know a woman knows you know they then the that’s going to happen right the belly starts to grow a little bit as it gets bigger and bigger you become a little bit more uncomfortable right I don’t know I’m just I’m guessing here you become a little bit more on comparable The closer you get to that not months right I mean it’s a little tougher to sit down it’s a little tougher to be the find comfort in that maybe stretch in and want to get out of there you know all that stuff but as it gets really closer I do know this because we went to the classes she starts having pains in it but at 1st those pains might be hours apart but then they get a little closer and a little more tense and a little closer and a little more intense a little closer and a little more intense to finally the severe pain comes. But it always ends when I see that beautiful child right but as birth pains we know that it will get more intense the closer it comes to Jesus Christ coming back and that clouds my friends all these things that we’ve talked about will be come more intense they will murder more Christians will be persecuted greatly there will be more wars all these things will be more intense right before Christ comes it will get worse and worse and worse the closer we get to that time so we have to keep our eyes open Daniel 124 says even to the end of time many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall increase I just through that when there is an extra when we are definitely living in that time were knowledge has increased it is creased increased tremendously over the past 150 years over the past 100 years what am I saying over the past 20 years it is extremely increased as I just said we’re passing the message to the other side of the world through the through the Internet right that would have been possible 20 years ago would it but it’s happening today knowledge will increase yes we are there but a word of caution for myself and all believers we must not become so consumed with trying to find out what day a specific time that we forget the message Jesus main point they missed a point those a set those days you know some of those earlier predictions back in 1000 hundreds they quit their jobs they sold everything they had to set up there in a larger basically weight than and it didn’t happen that’s not what we’re supposed to do. I believe that we are to believe that His return is near I honestly believe that we are always supposed to believe that it is very near the disciples thought they would see it in their lifetime good next generation after the disciples thought they would see it in the 3rd generation of Friends we are supposed to believe that we are going to experience it in our generation we are supposed to think it is very near and I think we have to get the full context of 24 we have to know a little bit of what Jesus spoke in Matthew 25 verses one through 13 then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to 10 virgins who took their lamp and went out to meet the bridegroom now 5 of them were wise and 5 were foolish those who refused took their lamps and took no wall with them but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps but while the bridegroom was the clay they all slumbered and slept and at midnight a cry was heard behold the bridegroom is coming go out to meet him then all those virgins arose and trim their lamps and the fullest said to the wives give us some for our lamps are going out but the wise answered say no lest there should not be enough for you and us but go rather to those who sell and buy for yourselves and while they went to buy the bridegroom came and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding and the door was shut and afterwards the other virgins came also saying moored Lord open to us but he answered and said assuredly I say to you I do not know you and here is the key watch. Verse 13 Watch therefore for you know neither the day nor the Arran which the Son of Man is coming to friends that is the most important thing for all of us to watch watch what is going on around you in the world and have yourself prepared have oil in your vessels be prepared every day while you’re waiting and watching for the bridegroom to return and we have work to do my friends if you were if you were at home setting on your porch it’s a nice spring day and you look across the way and you see that your neighbors are 3rd to enter the house you see him out there in a patio they’re having a picnic in the other end of the house the electrical connection caught fire and you see a fire are you going to set there that all of this is interesting. Good phone now are you going to run over mourn them please on your head if you will. You don’t like your neighbor you’re not right you’re going to run over and you’re going to warn your neighbor hey the house is on fire get out of there my friends we have been in the end times then we need to warn our neighbors we do have work don’t go so or thing and sit on the chair and white Go tell your neighbors what is the most frequent thing that Jesus taught as he taught upon the earth the kingdom of God is at hand right I should have went through there and counted but I didn’t quite have found this week the kingdom of God is at hand is what Jesus taught and that’s the message that he gave the disciples to share with all the world the kingdom of God is at hand are we in a Times absolutely and the Kingdom of God is at hand the message is the same and that is the message that we have as Christians for the world for unsaved loved ones our unsaved neighbors the kingdom of God is a hand to day is the day of celebration. No matter how many earthquakes we’ve had no matter where they were today is the day of salvation no matter how many have been mortared for Christ to day is the day of salvation the kingdom of God is it Han is the message that he gave to proclaim and that is what we as believers need to share with the world there are many signs fulfilled but don’t get so consumed with that that we forget the work that we have to do to proclaim the message of Jesus Christ that is the main point be prepared we are to be prepared every single day and help others to get prepared also friends that is the work that the church has to do that we each individually Thass to do to share the good news of Jesus Christ you know that Jesus also said or once said as in the days of Noah What’s it say they were eating drinking marrying have a good old time ignoring what no Was don’t want to over here building out Ark Oh he just a crazy full well they might think we’re crazy fulls because we come to church every week and we read or word and pray every day and gather together for bible studies and they just think we’re crazy fools for believing that there is a God up in heaven in a son’s of his right hand by friends let them believe that because we believe in the one true God we believe in the son that he’s at the right hand and he is coming back again someday to receive those who believe in Him who have accepted the sacrifice that he made upon a cross have repented of their sins that is the word that is a word for today and these end times as we go forward to that day that he comes and if he comes in our lifetime we are you he doesn’t will seem when he comes because the dead in Christ will rise so we will see but it’s keep our faith and our hope and our trust in Him and be faithful in his service until that time whenever that day may be Amen.
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