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Big idea: The signs of the times are spiritual.
Explain: The disciples are admiring the Temple, the center of the Jewish world.
Jesus announces it will be destroyed, and the disciples ask what is going to happen.
Some have treated this as three questions, but Mark 13:3 and Luke 21:7, they are asking about the fall of the temple.
The question is then: When will this happen?
The time where you life up your reign and the temple age (ends?
They believed this would be one event.
In an imminent showdown, the Temple is going to be overrun, the old order defeated and Jesus will establish His royal reign.
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Argue: It was natural for them to think that the end of the world as they knew it was the end of the age.
But kingdoms may fall, life may change dramatically without the basic problems of life changing.
Sin/Disease/Death
Apply: In what ways do you assume things are permanent which are actually fleeting?
The world will decay.
Explain: Throughout history, people have seen many things as harbingers of the end.
The apostles thought the fall of the Temple must be the final straw.
People have looked at political systems, wars and natural catastrophes and thought “This is how the world will fall!”
But war, earthquake and famine are the normal course of life in this fallen world.
The end is not yet, this is just the beginning of labor pain.
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Explain: Apart from the general pattern of life, the real indicator of the end is spiritual.
The persecution of Christians and the rise of lying false prophets creates an increasingly fractured landscape.
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Apply: Troubles are not evidence that things have spiralled out of control, but proof that it is in control.
Look very carefully at the order in verse 12 - sin multiplies, so the love of many grows cold.
Sin hardens the hearts of the people, and gradually humanity sinks deeper and deeper into sin.
The Great Tribulation will purify.
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The King will return.
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