00:00 Introduction and Election Day Reflections

00:26 Voting Experience and Observations

02:19 Post-Election Thoughts and Christian Perspective

06:02 Biblical Insights: Mark Chapter 13

11:05 The Abomination of Desolation and Tribulation

14:15 The Second Coming and Final Judgment

17:41 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer

Hey, everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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I voted you.

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Did I see your sticker today?

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Today, which is Tuesday, November 5th.

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It's not Monday, November 4th.

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That's when some people think

the election took place.

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I don't know if they want.

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Might be wrong.

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I don't know.

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I don't know either.

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I don't know what kind of

poor sources they're using.

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I don't know either, but it's

not of the caliber and quality

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of this particular podcast.

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I can tell you on top of things.

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Yeah, always.

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We never make mistakes like that.

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So you voted on election day?

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I did.

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And I intended not to, I was

trying to vote yesterday.

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Okay.

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And I did not realize that the pulse

or the early voting polls are closed.

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On that Monday.

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So I, we were looking at up Kristen

and I were going to go drive

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together because if we don't have

the kids, it's easier that way.

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And we found out that

the polls were closed.

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So we ended up not doing that.

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It was a bummer.

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But I did go this morning.

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At like a, I don't know, 8, 15, 8.

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Give it give or take.

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And it wasn't so bad.

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I thought it was going to be like

lines out the door, people fighting

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and blue versus red and, you

know, mortal combat kind of stuff.

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How many people did you punch it?

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Only a few, but I did

so saying I'm a pastor.

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It's okay.

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You know, Because I love

you, that kind of thing.

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So I think they were okay with that.

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It only took me 10 or so minutes.

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The voting here in Calif versus

California so much better.

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Yeah.

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The less propositions, less.

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Uh, less complication.

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Really?

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I just felt like the

voting was so streamlined.

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Well, at least in our county, it

was, we didn't have like, yeah, I

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think in, I heard in Denton county,

there were a few more, as far as.

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Different offices being up

for election, water, district

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people and everything else here.

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It was very streamlined.

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Yeah.

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And the divide between blue and red was

just like, it was this one or that one.

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Yep.

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It was pretty easy down there.

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And I think there was only one.

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Uh, I don't know.

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There's one law that was out.

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It was an increase in taxes for

this, a line of school districts.

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I'm like, Nope.

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Yep.

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No, thank you.

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Yeah.

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I'm happy with where they are.

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In fact, no, I'm not happy where they are.

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Can we lessen them, right?

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Can I vote extra?

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No.

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Anyway, that was a, that was good.

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It was a good experience.

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I had a fun time with that.

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So yes, I voted, I got the sticker.

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I've been trying to show it

off to as many people as I can.

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That's what you're supposed to do.

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Exactly right.

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It's supposed to show it off.

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So that was good.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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In fact, there were some offices

where there was only one candidate

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and in California used to seeing

that and being a Democrat.

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It was Republicans.

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It was all red.

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Yeah, not that that guarantees

anything, but I'm like, well,

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Between the two options that the

answer is going to be easy for me.

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Yep.

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So I did that.

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Yeah.

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Vague.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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So I, the elections in the

past now officially right as.

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As we listened to this, this

is, uh, this is Wednesday.

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Um, so it took place yesterday.

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It's something interesting.

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Um, that one, uh, one of our mutual

friends out in Arizona who pastors

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a church out there, he told his

congregation, he said vote as if all

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you had was the first page of the Bible.

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And he spent maybe 10 minutes

unpacking that, which we won't do now.

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But I found it fascinating talking

about God as creator, that God exists.

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And he's saying, look, you, it

becomes pretty clear, which party.

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Has divorced itself from even

just the first, the concept and

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the first page of the Bible.

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Yeah.

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I like that when you read that.

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And so I thought that was a simple,

super helpful pragmatic paradigm for.

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How you should cast your vote.

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That does help clarify things if

only life were that clear and easy,

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there's lots of complicating factors.

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So I'm going to give

some, were there some do.

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Wait to the opposition, who's going

to say, well, what about these things?

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And not, they get it.

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There's complicating factors, but.

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At the end of the day, man, it

really, it is, it is pretty clear.

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I think.

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Uh, to vote in a way that's

going to be most accommodating

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to our Christian values.

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And even for preservation of Christian

things like the right, not to

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perform something evil upon a woman.

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Yeah.

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If that's my conviction, I

should not be forced to do that.

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Where.

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Under the new potential

administration or at least what

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is the current administration

and continuing administration.

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Uh, she's threatened

at least to say we're.

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There's no religious exemptions.

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If you are under a state where

that's law, you have to do it right.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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It it's, it's fascinating what

the future is going to hold for

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us as a society and the nation.

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And it's, it's possible even

now, as this is being released.

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And, and like we said, we're recording

this on election day on November 5th.

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Um, we don't know the outcome.

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Listen, by the time you listening

to this tomorrow, chances are, we're

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probably still not going to know the

outcome, unless it's a landslide,

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which I guess is possible in the, in

the back of our minds, by the way.

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Uh, the Mueller's briefing.

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If you're not listening to the

briefing, we would commit it to you.

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It's it's a super helpful.

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Um, list it.

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It's easy listening by and large,

he doesn't go into, to depths of in

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realms where you're not going to be

able to track with what he's saying.

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He does a really good job dealing

with a lot of issues that are

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important for us to be informed on.

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And just how do we think through

them from a biblical worldview?

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And that's, what's so

refreshing about him.

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He's unapologetic about saying he as

a Christian, this is how we should

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approach a lot of these issues.

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He was saying this morning.

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That we've been hearing a lot from news

pundits that this is a neck and neck

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race, and he said, but, but every, both

parties have a motivation as to why

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they need to agree with that narrative.

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What's the best reality or not.

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So it's possible that by the time

you listen to this, maybe there is a

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clear winner because maybe we'll be a

landslide because th th both parties

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want everybody to get out and vote.

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So they're going to tell

you it's neck and neck.

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Yeah.

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And they're gonna tell you that

all the way until the polls close.

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Um, but yeah.

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Who knows when we'll know all that to

say, listen, If you've cast your vote.

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Now you can rest in

the sovereignty of God.

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Now you, you don't have to sit there

and be anxious about it because that's

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where Jesus words come into play, who.

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Have you by being anxious can add

a single hour to your lifespan, let

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alone change the results of an outcome

after you've done the part that you

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can do, which is to cast your vote.

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You can rest in the sovereignty

of God before you even finished

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casting your vote, true driving

there to the polling location.

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Or just after that, I mean

before the fact right, Christian.

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Yeah.

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You were praying about it at some point.

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I don't remember when, but you were

talking about cooler heads prevailing.

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Yeah.

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Did you speaking of cooler heads?

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I just smacked my microphone.

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I'm glad I'm grateful you

guys in here that though.

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Yeah.

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So just having that sense of,

you know, we can rest you don't.

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Don't have to freak out even

no matter who's in the office.

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We don't have to freak out.

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We can trust that God

has it all under control.

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I agree, man.

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I agree.

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Yeah.

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Praying that about the, uh, the godless

that are out there to those that, that

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don't have a relationship with God that

God will superintend their, uh, their

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plans and their plots and prevent,

uh, Just mass tragedy from happening.

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Um, that would be good.

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Yeah.

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Well, let's jump into our text.

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Mark chapter 13.

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March up to 13, we opened with verses

one through two and in Jesus prediction

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of the destruction of the temple.

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And so, uh, here in it's, it's fascinating

because the disciples, they come out

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right off of, of the conversation.

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And they've been in the

temple courts at this point.

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And Jesus has just

talked about the woman's.

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The widow's offering here.

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And as they're leaving, the disciples

are looking back at the temple saying,

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look how impressive this is, what

wonderful stones and wonderful buildings.

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And they are, even if, even today,

when you go to Israel, you can

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see some of the foundation stones

that are just absolutely massive.

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And as this temple was standing though,

it wasn't the same as Solomon's temple.

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It was a beautiful building

here to done renovations on it.

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And it was a beautiful,

beautiful building.

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And the disciples are

pointing to that same teacher.

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Look at this.

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Isn't this awesome.

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Isn't this so amazing.

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And Jesus says something

staggering to them at the time

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he says, do you see these things?

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Th there will not be one

stone left upon another.

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That's not going to be thrown down.

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And again, that's an.

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Uh, short-term prophecy about 78 D and

the destruction of the temple under Titus.

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Vespasian when he and his Roman

forces come in to Jerusalem and take

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Jerusalem and destroy the temple.

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And since that day there's never

been another temple built there.

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Uh, and the, the dome of the

rock currently sits there.

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The.

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The Islamic shrine.

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That's there on the

temple Mount right now.

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Uh, but Jesus says this in that

prompts, this question that then

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leads into this next section.

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When the disciples say, okay,

when is this going to happen?

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And so then Jesus launches into

signs of the end of the age.

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And this is in response to that question.

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And he talks about hearing rumors

of wars and in hearing of wars

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themselves, that aren't even rumors.

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And he says, don't be

alarmed by these things.

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He says, these are the birth pains that.

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The suffering, the full

suffering is yet coming.

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And in verses nine through 13,

that suffering is going to be.

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Experienced, uh, during, uh,

primarily the tribulation period.

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Uh, when people are going to really go

after the people and the followers have

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gotten, and I think Mark's less clear

on this than Matthew's, we're going to

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get to Matthew in the coming days here.

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When he talks about a

similar section here.

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But I think Matthew does a

really good job laying out that

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this really is the end times.

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This is the tribulation period

that, that isn't view here.

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Uh, any S he's mark makes

the comment of math.

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He's going to make the same comment, mark.

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13, 10.

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That the end is not going to come until

the gospel is proclaimed to all nations.

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And I used to think, okay, well then that

means that we've got to get missionaries

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to everywhere as soon as we possibly can.

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But one commentator that I was reading

said, you know, the tribulation period

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is going to give a unique platform for

the gospel to be proclaimed, to, to.

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To an audience foreign wide, because

people are going to be paying attention

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like never before, perhaps to the church

or not to the church at that time.

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But to the followers of

God that are left behind.

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And the call and the gospel call at

that time will not just be repent.

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Believe.

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Uh, but, but repent believe truly for

the kingdom is at hand and they're

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going to take it the same message that

Jesus had when Jesus was on earth.

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Cause the kingdom truly will be.

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Immediate in, in within seven

years, depending on when that

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gospel is going to be announced.

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So I think during the tribulation

period, Uh, the gospel is going to

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be platformed, whether people want

to hear it or not, that's a different

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story, but I think that's what is

being alluded to in mark 13, 10.

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It doesn't mean that we shouldn't take

efforts, great efforts to expand our

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energy now to reach the lost true.

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There is a time when Jesus is going

to say, okay, that's the last one.

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Let's get this thing growing.

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Let's get this bus rolling and moving.

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So there is a sense in which there is

an end times harvest of the lost, but

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there's also a present dispensation of

the people that need to be saved before

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Jesus comes back and takes his bride.

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To be with him.

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So we're looking forward to the rapture.

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That's the next thing

on the timeline for us?

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And really what we're waiting for is for

Jesus to say, go, there's nothing else

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that stands in our way between now and

that time, except for perhaps for the,

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those whom here, he's waiting to be saved.

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Those whom he's waiting to say,

okay, once a Jane DOE and Austin,

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wherever, or this place in this other

country, Once she receives Christ.

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Okay.

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Now we're going to get this thing going.

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Yeah.

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And that's why.

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Uh, one of our points in our mission

statement here and our vision.

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Uh, as a church is that we would be.

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Aloud.

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Headphone hanging up church, that we would

be a church that engages the culture.

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Uh, what we mean by that is not that we're

going to do a summer series on the movies.

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Uh, but that we're going to be

a church that is about reaching

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people for Christ, that we want

to take the gospel to the lost.

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And, and that's true.

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You're right.

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This is not an excuse for us to say,

okay, well, if the, the nations, all the

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nations are going to be reached, then,

then I don't need to worry about it now.

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No, it's that time is going to build on

what's accomplished during this time,

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that time is going to bring to fruition.

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All the works that's been

done during the church age.

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So we have work to do as the church,

you listening to this have work to do.

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If you're a part of our church, engaging

the culture with the gospel is not

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just something that's reserved for

the event like fall Fest or extravaga.

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Stravaganza or passing out invitations

for our Christmas Eve services.

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Those are all good things in

ways that you can do that.

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But it also looks like you're

getting creative about how you

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can engage your neighbors, how you

can participate in these things.

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As, as a community, we're launching

this new ministry called navigating

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motherhood in the spring.

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Um, that's a way to engage young moms

and moms with young kids at home.

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With gospel truth, that that are going

to be wasted, engaged the culture there.

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So we want to be about that.

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You're dead on, on that.

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That's not something

that we're going to say.

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Okay, well, we're just going to ride

this out until Jesus comes back.

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We want to participate in that.

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So that's why we want to be

a culture engaging church.

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Um, from here, he goes on though, to

talk about another event during the

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tribulation abomination of desolation.

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He mentioned pastor rod, that

the next thing on the timeline is

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the, the rapture of the church.

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And we believe that's true.

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At the same time, what the rapture

does is it launches us into the

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seven year period of the tribulation.

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First three and a half years

of that period, the antichrist

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is going to make a treaty with

Israel, with the people of God.

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We believe that it's possible during

this time is going to be when the next

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temple will be built on the temple Mount.

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There.

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But this is going to be a time of peace

between the antichrist and Israel.

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And so things for Israel are going to

be looking good, at least in the short

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term, during this first portion of

the tribulation, but then it's going

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to come the breaking of that treaty.

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And that's what's in view

in verses 14 through 23.

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This is the.

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The abomination of desolation

standing, where he ought not to be.

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This is the anti-Christ.

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And we believe based on, uh, on

scripture and in history that this

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is going to be an act where in he

sacrifices a pig, which is an unclean

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animal, according to the Jewish people.

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On the altar there in the temple.

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Now, when Antiochus Epiphanes did this.

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Uh, back in the intertestamental period

in anticipation of the greater fulfillment

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of this by the antichrist, he also set

up an altar to Zeus in the temple there.

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So it's possible that this will

be associated with idol worship.

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In the new temple there as well,

but this is, uh, this is the time

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that the Israelites need to be

on guard and run for their lives.

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And that's what Jesus says here.

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Flee.

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Let the ones that are there flee

probably that it doesn't happen

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during the winter months so that

your departure may be easier, less.

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You be exposed to the elements

on top of having to run away.

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And he says then comes the judgment and

the judgment is going to be poured out.

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And he says, it's going to

be so bad until he withholds.

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God does that is because God's

going to punish the antichrist

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eventually for these, these things.

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And he's going to withhold his hand

eventually for the sake of the elect.

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Now, who are the elect?

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It's not the church because the

church isn't on the scene here, but

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this is the tribulation believer.

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This is the, the 144,000 sealed Jews.

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And any of the Gentiles left during

the tribulation who come to put

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their faith in Jesus Christ as the

Lord and savior, that's the elect

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here during the tribulation, God's

going to withhold his judgment.

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Finally sparing the elect less.

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They should also be swept

up in that judgment as well.

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So you mean church dies in that?

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Those right now, but they would be

part of the church because they're

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going to come to the same gate of

salvation that the present church is

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going through just at a different time,

a different place in human history.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I guess that's a

fascinating discussion.

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Yeah, I get what you mean by that.

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Um, cause they're Gentile.

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They're not jus, but, and we

don't see a third classification.

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Even for the Jewish, I would still

say they're part of the church now,

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even though they're they're Jewish and

ethnicity, um, doesn't the church in

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some, I guess there's there there's lines.

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There's lines and I'm

not trying to distinct.

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Right.

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Remove that distinction, but just saying.

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Uh, we're all coming in

through Christ, right?

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They're all coming in.

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We're all going to get the same spirit.

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We're all going to be part of that same.

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Raw partaking of the same body, right?

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So it is in that, not in the sense

that they're the church, just a

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different dispensation of the church.

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I guess I would be.

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I've always used the language of

the people of God that there's

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one people have gotten in that

involves the church and Israel.

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Um, cause Paul and Romans nine talks about

the church being grafted into Israel.

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Not Israel grafted into the church.

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So in that sense, I would, I would argue

that I think there's one people of God and

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that contains both Israel and the church.

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Good one.

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Um, yeah.

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Okay.

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Then from here verses 24 through

27, we get the second coming.

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Now this is not the rapture.

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The rapture is not the second coming

in the sense that Jesus is not

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going to come back to the earth.

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During the rapture, he's going to take

the church up, catch the church up to be

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with him when he comes back for the bride.

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But this is the second coming where

Christ actually comes back here.

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And this is for the final judgment.

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And that's when these signs are going

to take place, they're going to see

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the son of man coming in, in the

clouds with great power and glory.

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And then he's going to send out the angels

and gather the elect the same elect.

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We were just talking about those that

were saved during the tribulation period.

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And then it's going to come.

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Uh, the judgment, that's going to

proceed the millennial kingdom.

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We're going to get there in Matthew's

gospel in a couple of days as well.

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So that's a different judgment

even than the great white throne.

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And so th th th this is all

fascinating stuff to think about here.

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It's, it's super interesting and, and

even gives credence to what he says in

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mark chapter 13, verses 28 through 31.

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Hey, As you can tell what's going

on with a fig tree, read the times.

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Pay attention to what's going on because

these are real events that are going to

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happen in history and they're yet in front

of us and we need to be ready for them.

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And you might say, well, when, and

that was the initial question here,

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and that's how the chapter ends.

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Jesus has nobody knows the time now.

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You may talk to one of your Muslim,

uh, neighbors or coworkers, and

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they're going to point to this

and see, see, this is Jesus.

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As, as admitting that he's not

God, because God is omniscient and

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Jesus says no one knows the time.

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So it's important for us.

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We're going to study this on Sunday a

little bit more from a different angle.

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But Jesus in Philippians, two

talks about emptying himself.

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And one of the ways that he

emptied himself is he took on full

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humanity in veiling, the fullness

of the glory that he possessed.

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Now, other times in his ministry,

Jesus demonstrates his omniscience.

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For example, when he knows the thoughts

of the Pharisees as they're grumbling

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in their minds against him or.

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The woman at the well in John

four, he knew her backstory.

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He knew her relational status before.

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He had even found that

out from her directly.

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So Jesus possesses omniscience, but he at

times chooses to veil that omniscience.

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The fullness of his humanity and

here during his time on earth.

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He willingly limited his knowledge of what

the father was going to do in the N times.

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To what the father wanted him to

know during this earthly ministry.

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So what is our takeaway?

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Well, our takeaway is if he, if he,

while on earth and his flesh didn't

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know the time that we're not going to

know the time either what's our job.

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Our job, as he talks about here is not

to try to chase the date and time, but

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to chase our readiness for the date

and time, when he chooses to come back.

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Uh, so that we'll be ready for his return.

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And then that's the hypostatic

union fully God fully, man.

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And how that works.

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No clue, right?

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No idea how you put those two

pieces together with flawless.

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Precision, but that's

exactly what Jesus does.

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That's what makes it so

unique and so special.

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And because of that dual nature,

that's what allows us to have some

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of these strange and yet altogether

true experiences that are here at

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Jesus, truthfully in his humanity.

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He did not know.

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But in his divinity, he did know.

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Yep.

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Chose not to access certain

parts of his divinity.

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Even though he always had that.

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He just chose to, as you

put it Vail, as he, as he.

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Operated in his humanity.

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Does he know now?

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Uh, I would say he does.

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I think so.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And that's the rest of Philippians two.

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Therefore God has highly

exalted him and bestowed on him.

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The name that is above every name.

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I think that full glorification that

for full exaltation has taken place.

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And so now currently, The son knows

as, as part of the divine Godhead.

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When he's going to come back, but in his

humidity at this time, he had limited

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that like, pastor rod was just saying, is.

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As a part of the will of the father there.

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All right, let's pray.

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And then we will be

done with this episode.

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God, we want to be a church

ready for your return.

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We're not going to be there

during this return when you

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come in judgment, but we will.

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Uh, hopefully be there when you

come for the church in rapture to

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take the church to be with you.

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And we want to be a faithful bride

ready for that part of that looks

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like us doing the work of ministry

that you have for us to do right

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now, engaging the culture around us,

bringing the gospel to those that need

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to hear it preaching the gospel here.

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So that.

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The people that are across the sheets.

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It's fascinating God, as we reflect on

our communities, that you're bringing

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people here from India and you're bringing

people here from Palestine and you're

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bringing people or Israel, Jerusalem.

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You're bringing people here from

all over the world, into our own

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backyard here in north Texas.

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And you're giving us an opportunity

to take the gospel to the

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earth, the ends of the earth.

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And by just walking across the street

and knocking on the door and so help

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us to be faithful in those pursuits.

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Got it.

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And I pray that you'd help us to

bear fruit and that, that you would

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soften hearts to believe the gospel

of your son, Jesus Christ, and see

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more people come to faith in him.

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We pray in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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And then keep her in your Bibles y'all

and tune in again tomorrow for another

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episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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Keep it real.