Day 310 (Mark 13) - Year 6
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Today's reading has a lot income of the tomorrows reading, so today we will zoom in on the first step and tomorrow will break up the last half. One of the things that helps me through these passages is to look at the context first. Who is this message for? Some of that is up for a debate.

Second, what in this text is information and what in this text is instruction? As we read the math is account of this tomorrow. Aim to use those lines is for the context.

You can ask ourself things like, is jesus telling me something god is going to do, or something the disciples response to do, or something I am supposed to do? If he's telling us what god is going to do, it's information. If he's telling us what the disciples resist to do, it's still just information as far as we are concerned.

But if he's telling us something we are supposed to do, it's instruction. Let's jump in. Jesus has been teaching in the temple, and as they on way out the door, one of his disciples is like, isn't this place the best? And she's just, just rains all over his parade by saying, yeah, these buildings are awesome.

Enjoy them by again, because they are about to be rebel. This is, the temple is a huge complex built with massive stones, the largest of which waste five hundred and seventy tons. That's more than one billion pounds for just this one stone.

We see this stone when we do the western wall tunnel tours in jerusalem, and its enormous. If you were with us in the old testament, you probably remember what a chAllenge IT was to get this temple rebuilt, but how god provided the funds for supplies and protection for the workers. He made IT all happen.

And now jesus says, dad's going to make IT earn happen. Jesus says the temple will be destroyed less than forty years after he propositioned this. Rome fulfills that propac's.

The jews will mount an ongoing revolt, and rome will retaliate by raising the temple, just like jesus said. We also read about this in lug eighteen, where jesus wept over jerusalem. In that passage, we saw that the temple's destruction is judgement on israel for rejecting jesus.

So which is IT, why is the temple destroyed? Is that the revolt the use? Or is IT israel's rejection of jesus? Yes, god uses rome as a tool in his hand to bring judgment on israel.

We saw god do this lots of times in the old testament. That is one of the first time we see this idea in the goals. By the way, we read a similar sounding propac's earlier in john to where jesus compared his body to the temple.

In that passage, he said, destroy this temple, and I will raise IT again in three days. That prophetic refers to his body, and john clarifies that point in the verses that follow. So it's a different situation, but it's easy to confuse these two profit since they both refer to simple destruction of one kind or another.

After they leave the temple, they crossed the valley and walk up to the mound of olives jesus with some of his inner circle, and they start asking them questions about when all this stuff is going to go down and what the signs will be that is about to happen. We discussed this briefly yesterday, but the bears repeating, first, he spends more time on the part of their question that deals with the signs but never gives them a straight answer about the time that's important to note. In fact, he tells them inverse s seven and thirteen that when a lot of terrible things happen, they are going to assume it's the end, but it's not.

He says, these are just the beginning of the birth pains. Second, a lot of the instructions, chooses, gives them, seem to be for these specific people at this specific time. Then he goes on to talk about something called the abomination of deceleration.

Most scholars believe this is a person, not a thing, but who or what is IT and when will that happen? Scholars are divided on this something. He refers to rome taking over jerusalem years later, when the temple is destroyed and the jews have to fleet jerusalem and persecution.

Others think IT pertains to something still at to come in the final days before god, you, heaven and earth. If you're in the camp of this arready happened, then this text probably doesn't alarm you. You probably believe these warnings or instructions are given to the disciples.

And here is what she's assess to them. He says people will pretend to be him, and they shouldn't believe those people. He says they'll be wars and rumors, but they shouldn't be afraid. He says they'll have to enter the kings, but god will give them words. He says they'll be hated in, beaten, but ultimately saved.

But if you're in the camp of this is still yet to come, and you find that scary, then here are a few things I want to point you in this text that will hopefully give you some peace, because this means those instructions apply to you. Jesus says not to fear the end in first seven. He says, do not be alarmed.

Inverse levan. He says, do not be anxious. Bad things will happen, but you have a kingdom assignment in the midst of IT.

All your priority is to talk about the good news of jesus. After all, like we talked about yesterday, he is the one who does the preserving. Jesus also says to stay awake. And Steve focused on the main thing, don't be loved to sleep by the comforts in the ways of the world.

Matthews account of this in twenty four fourteen says, this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a test mony to all nations, and then the end will come. So every time there's an either hurray e or mass shooting or tragedy, and you pray, calm law, jesus, remember that god has given you a role to play in that our cry come lore, jesus meets its match in our call. Go share jesus.

This may sound cheesy, your old school, or just awkward to you. But what this boils down to is talking about who you love, just like you do with everything else you love. Our relationship of god is personal, but it's never supposed to be private.

Because the thing is, jesus says the gospel must go everywhere. And we are the ones who have IT to share in the conversation jesus is having with his disables. He promises that guards elect those people god has chosen to be in.

His family will endure hard times, but that help protect them from eternal harm. And that was my god shot today, gad's eternal protection of his kids. Jesus says it's impossible to lead the elected away from the faith because remember, nothing can snatch you out of his hand.

But he gets painfully honest about IT when he says, if anything could lead the electricity, IT would be this thing and describing, but it's not possible. Jesus reminds the disciples again of the same thing. He told him a cesari, ethiopia, the gates of hill, that the church will last.

He said IT in a place where he was encouraging them to storm the gates of hell. And he's saying IT again in reference to the time when IT may feel like hell itself. Restoring them before they encountered is he wants to reinforce his encouragement to them.

He says you'll see our position in even death. But this thing i'm building, you're a part of IT. It's going to outlast all this.

So before enduring and after the trials, take heart, i've got this. I'm so glad we're a part of an unstoppable kingdom, but i'm even more glad that he is our king. He is where the joy is.

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