2. Matt. 24:36-51

3. Q1 - “When will The Temple fall
Q1 - “When will The Temple fall?” A - “Within 40 yrs under Extreme Tribulation.”

4. Q2 - “What will signal the end?” A - “Only The Father knows.”

5. All scripture is history All scripture is prophecy
“Jesus is giving us a predictive code”

6. Jesus is answering the questions Systematically, in Sequence, and Symbolically.

7. 2. There is going to be an End of the World.

8. 3. Only The Father knows when it will be.

9. 4. Not a secret event, but a global surprise.

10. 1Thess 4:17 “17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.”

11. 5. There will be no obvious signs to indicate it.

12. 2 Peter 3:4 “4 They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming
2 Peter 3:4 “4 They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.”

13. 2 Tim 3:1-4 “1 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,”

14. 6. Be encouraged, “Stay Awake.” Focus on HEAVEN.

15. 7. How we think about the end has implication on our present.

16. The challenge for us is to stay awake, not to stay alive!

17. WE LOVE PREDICTIVE SYSTEMS!

19. OT Prophecy is not a Predictive System!
1st Temple
2nd Temple
3rd Temple (Us) ?

20. What we want...

21. What we have...

22. William Wilberforce
John Nelson Darby
+40yrs

23. 1789
Voltaire
Rousseau

24. Taken out & shoved to very end
John Nelson Darby
Daniel 9
Taken out & shoved to very end

25. William Wilberforce
“God Almighty has set before me two Great Objects: the suppression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of Manners.”

26. We are to remain faithfully committed to The Kingdom.
We are not to let either tribulation or comfort conquer us!

27. Charles Spurgeon “Cheer up Christian
Charles Spurgeon “Cheer up Christian! Things are not left to chance; no blind fate rules the world. God has purposes, those purposes are fulfilled. God has plans, those plans are wise and can never be dislocated.”

28. Acts 1:6-8 “6 So when they had come together, they asked him, “Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” 7 He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.””