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A Time Is Coming
https://youtu.be/seG9X8i0MN0
Mark 13:14-23 “A time is coming”
2 Tim 4:1-5- backdrop to the context. There is an end to the story. We’re working towards it
No fear- complete faith. But prepared and watching for the heresies that will infiltrate
Stay strong in the word and in FAITH
The abomination of desolation
This phraseology is hotly discussed within scholarly circles as a passage that is often misunderstood.v14 “So when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet,[e] standing where it ought not” (let the reader understand),There is a connection with the Book of Daniel in chap 9 that refers to a prince that will destroy the city of Jerusalem, its temples and its sacrifices to God.Daniel prophesies that the temple will be destroyed and sacrifices will be offered that will be an abomination that will make the temple desolate
Scholar agree that the fulfillment of these prophecies was Seleucid king Antiochus Epiphanes IV, who ruled Palestine from 175-64 B.C.This king treated Israel so poorly that they rebelled against him. His forces entered the temple, stopped the sacrifices, set up an altar for zeus and started sacrificing pigs.An abomination because worshpping zeus is idolatry, and offering up swine is a desolation. It defies a holy place.This was an Abomination which caused desolationWhen Jesus is speaking of this with his disciples- this context of this passage within the larger narrative, does not coincide with the return of Jesus. It is speaking about the fall of Jerusalem.Jesus said in Luke 21 “when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, flee”
So he tells them in Mark 13:14-15, “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 15 Let him who is on the housetop not go down into the house, nor enter to take anything out of his house.This instruction was specifically for the early church at that time. To ensure that the church would endure through its infancy and endure.In the context of the other Gospels, Jesus said it would happen within a generation (40 years) and it in fact did happen in AD 70. Rome came and attack Jerusalem, the Christians fled and their lives were sparedThe abomination of desolation of Daniel happened in about 100 AD. The A of D that Jesus speaks of happened in AD 70. Christians fled and lived and Christianity continued in spite of an army trying to destroy Jerusalem and the people of GodDuring this desolation there would be a “ tribulation which has not been seen since the beginning of creation”This happened! JFB said “But it is matter of literal fact that there was crowded into the period of the Jewish war an amount and complication of suffering perhaps unparalleled; as the narrative of Josephus would show.”It was horrible during those years, but the Church endured!Cambridge bible says about this period- “Mothers snatched the food from the mouths of their husbands and children, and one actually killed, roasted, and devoured her infant son. Dead bodies filled the houses and streets of the city, while cruel assassins rifled and mangled with the exultation of fiends. The besieged devoured even the filth of the streets, and so excessive was the stench that it was necessary to hurl 600,000 corpses over the wall, while 97,000 captives were taken during the war, and more than 1,100,000 perished in the siege.”
What does it mean to you?One- The Anti-Christ- which we will discuss in a moment, will equally inflict an abomination of desolation upon the earth and the church than the world has ever seenThis A of D is a past, right now (ad 70) and FUTURE within the context of the apocalyptic discourse- We talked about th...
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Mark 13:14-23 “A time is coming”
2 Tim 4:1-5- backdrop to the context. There is an end to the story. We’re working towards it
No fear- complete faith. But prepared and watching for the heresies that will infiltrate
Stay strong in the word and in FAITH
The abomination of desolation
This phraseology is hotly discussed within scholarly circles as a passage that is often misunderstood.v14 “So when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet,[e] standing where it ought not” (let the reader understand),There is a connection with the Book of Daniel in chap 9 that refers to a prince that will destroy the city of Jerusalem, its temples and its sacrifices to God.Daniel prophesies that the temple will be destroyed and sacrifices will be offered that will be an abomination that will make the temple desolate
Scholar agree that the fulfillment of these prophecies was Seleucid king Antiochus Epiphanes IV, who ruled Palestine from 175-64 B.C.This king treated Israel so poorly that they rebelled against him. His forces entered the temple, stopped the sacrifices, set up an altar for zeus and started sacrificing pigs.An abomination because worshpping zeus is idolatry, and offering up swine is a desolation. It defies a holy place.This was an Abomination which caused desolationWhen Jesus is speaking of this with his disciples- this context of this passage within the larger narrative, does not coincide with the return of Jesus. It is speaking about the fall of Jerusalem.Jesus said in Luke 21 “when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, flee”
So he tells them in Mark 13:14-15, “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 15 Let him who is on the housetop not go down into the house, nor enter to take anything out of his house.This instruction was specifically for the early church at that time. To ensure that the church would endure through its infancy and endure.In the context of the other Gospels, Jesus said it would happen within a generation (40 years) and it in fact did happen in AD 70. Rome came and attack Jerusalem, the Christians fled and their lives were sparedThe abomination of desolation of Daniel happened in about 100 AD. The A of D that Jesus speaks of happened in AD 70. Christians fled and lived and Christianity continued in spite of an army trying to destroy Jerusalem and the people of GodDuring this desolation there would be a “ tribulation which has not been seen since the beginning of creation”This happened! JFB said “But it is matter of literal fact that there was crowded into the period of the Jewish war an amount and complication of suffering perhaps unparalleled; as the narrative of Josephus would show.”It was horrible during those years, but the Church endured!Cambridge bible says about this period- “Mothers snatched the food from the mouths of their husbands and children, and one actually killed, roasted, and devoured her infant son. Dead bodies filled the houses and streets of the city, while cruel assassins rifled and mangled with the exultation of fiends. The besieged devoured even the filth of the streets, and so excessive was the stench that it was necessary to hurl 600,000 corpses over the wall, while 97,000 captives were taken during the war, and more than 1,100,000 perished in the siege.”
What does it mean to you?One- The Anti-Christ- which we will discuss in a moment, will equally inflict an abomination of desolation upon the earth and the church than the world has ever seenThis A of D is a past, right now (ad 70) and FUTURE within the context of the apocalyptic discourse- We talked about th...