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Introduction
Already, Not Yet
As you read think in two ways.
listening to Jesus as one of the disciples
listening to Jesus as us today.
everything in scripture has an already, not yet application to it.
Read all of scripture with with an eschatological mindset
What has God already done, and what is God doing?
Has he fulfilled a promise, or are we still waiting for Him to fulfill a promise.
In other words, what is the marker for what God is doing.
Destruction of the Temple
The Temple was destroyed in 70 AD.
Was Jesus predicting this destruction.
Maybe, but when you look through the lens of who He was talking to in the moment, maybe not.
Jesus has predicted the destruction of the religious leaders, now he is saying their Temple will also be destroyed.
Jesus was probably rebuking his disciples for not getting what he had just taught.
The Temple was the center of the sacrificial system, Jesus had just rebuked the use of the Temple as corrupt.
He also was showing that things were about to change, the New Covenant no longer needs the Temple, we are the Temple!
Maybe Jesus was just urging his disciples to look past the beauty of the Temple and see it for what it had become.
Corrupt and disrespectful to God.
Discerning Times
Guarding Against Deceivers (13:5-6)
Jesus first warns them to “Beware” or “Watch Out”
We must live life in a way that is truly discerning.
Eyes that see past the surface.
Beginning of Birth Pains (13:7-8)
war, and rumors or war, nations rising against nations, kingdom against kingdom, earthquakes, famines.
This is all just the beginning.
Mission in Context of Persecution (13:9-13)
Be on your guard.
The persecution Jesus explains here is warning the disciples directly of what is to come for them.
The Mission will be persecuted, but that can look different in different times.
This is an already/not yet combination.
To the disciples, it has not yet happened, but to the reader today, it has already happened.
But it could also mean it could happen again.
Those who endure and stay faithful through persecution will be saved.
But note the connection between persecution and mission.
Those who stay on mission will be persecuted, but will be saved!
But remember there is a silver lining, the Gospel can’t be stopped!
Even when your on trial, God will speak through you!
Events in Judea (13:14-18)
Jesus uses mysterious language here.
“Desolating sacrilege” is a phrase known from the OT and intertestamental literature.
It means idolatrous sacrifice will happen in the Temple.
As in sacrifice to other gods.
This happened in 168 B.C and led to the Maccabees revolt (already).
But there will also be future events, A.D. 40 the Emperor ordered a statue be built and placed in the Temple for worship.
The main concept here is that bad idolatrous things will happen in the Temple and many will flee.
This is also an already/not yet concept.
There has already been bad things happen, and Christians have had to flee.
In A.D. 66-70 the Romans desecrated the Temple and eventually destroyed it.
Great Tribulation (13:19-20)
There will be a period of unprecedented proportion.
This could be already/not yet also.
The early Christians went through a lot of periods like this.
But it could also happen again.
The text doesn’t give us a time gap between tribulation and the return of the Son of Man.
Jesus assured his disciples of God’s providential care.
God will limit the tribulation to what Jesus’ followers can bear without losing their faith.
Guarding Against Deceivers (13:21-23)
During the tribulation period one must continue to be on guard, or keep watch.
There will be many deceptions.
The Return of the Son of Man
Mark shows that Jesus will return, this is imminent.
It will happen in “those days” after the tribulation.
We are not told how long after, but there could be a final unprecedented tribulation.
The return of Jesus brings things to a close, but we have no idea of what the time gaps look like.
The Unknown Timing of Things
The Fig Tree (13:28-29)
Jesus gives us a parable to encourage his disciples that they will see the signs.
This parable has been misused in many interpretations of the signs of the end.
God will fulfill His promises, we can be sure of that.
This Generation will not Pass (13:30-31)
This has created many debates.
But the most obvious interpretation is Jesus meant his contemporaries.
Many struggle with this, because it means Jesus predicted wrong.
Many are comfortable with this.
Because Jesus never claimed to know when the end would happen.
Also many of the things Jesus predicted have already come true, within that generation.
But Jesus admits, he doesn’t know the exact timing.
No One Knows When (13:22)
We don’t know.
No one, not even Jesus knows when the end is going to come.
Be Faithful Always (13:33-37)
The main point that Jesus is making.
Live faithfully, always!
We don’t know exactly when, there are signs, but the timing of everything is a mystery.
This is why we can’t trust everything we read as biblical.
All the end time authors are speculating in one way or another.
We we do know is that one day, Jesus will return, and the faithful will be with Him in the new heaven on earth.
The return of the perfect garden.
Big Idea: Don’t believe everything you read and hear (Don’t be deceived).
Draw deep into scripture and let scripture reveal truth through the Holy Spirit.
Live life as though today is the last day.
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