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Well, it's good to be here. Once again. I asked Becky at lunch what I should preach on tonight
And she said more Bible prophecy
So apparently people just can't get enough and I know that these guys up in the front row that drove up here from the Prophecy
Conference they want more prophecy, right?
and I mean I this is like prophecy overload the last several days, but
Believe it or not. I've got some stuff to preach tonight that I don't feel has been covered in this conference
There's so much to talk about and so this morning
I preached about Gog and Magog and I went through a lot of details in Ezekiel 37 38 39
And tonight I want to talk about Luke 21. There's a lot of preaching
From the Olivet Discourse when you're talking about the post-tribulation pre-wrath rapture
But the vast majority of time we're in Matthew 24 or we're in Mark 13 and those two chapters are pretty similar to each other
Luke 21 is pretty different than those two
Although there are a lot of things in common that make it crystal clear that it's a parallel passage
and what I really want to cover specifically tonight is
the title of the message which is the desolation of
Jerusalem the desolation of Jerusalem at the midpoint of
Daniel's 70th week is something that a lot of people don't fully grasp. It's it's kind of a meat of the word
It's a kind of a deep subject
But let's just go through chapter 21 and see what else it has to offer and we'll get to that key point in a little
Bit, but for now, let's start out by looking at verse 8 where the Bible reads
He said take heed that you be not deceived
For many shall come in my name saying I am Christ and the time draweth near
Go ye not therefore
After them and we know that there are a lot of false alarms and fake dates that are set out there
There was a big hype about September 23rd
2017 and there's this bozo on YouTube named Robert breaker and he basically has built his whole YouTube channel on these fake
Predictions he gets millions of views what will happen on September 23rd?
2015 what will happen on September 23rd?
2017 and he's I he's already setting it up for 2018
Because on his little chart he's showing, you know
1947 is the budding of the fig tree
70 years as a generation and then you know, it's got to happen in this generation. So it's gonna happen on
2017 September 23rd. Well that never happened that didn't pan out
So then I know what they're gonna say next. Well, it wasn't really
1947 because it didn't really become a nation until 1948
So then they're already setting it up for what 2018 since when is a generation 70 years?
Anyway, you know well
When did a 70 year old give birth recently?
But what they're saying is well the same people are going to be alive
So I've decided that before they'll finally shut up about that budding of the fig tree
We're gonna have to wait until the year
2068
Right because they're gonna say well, you know, some people could live to be 120 years old
So if a baby was born in
1948 you know what I mean? It's the oldest man alive
He is he's sort of like Simeon, you know waiting for Christ to be born so that he could go home to be with the
Lord in Luke chapter 2 so finally in the year
2068 we can say all right. Well you admit now that it had nothing to do with 1948
Anyway, I'm kidding. But in Luke chapter 21, he tells it they're gonna be false Christs
Fake
Antichrists people that we think hey
this is the guy people that we think are the false prophet or the the Antichrist and maybe wars that
Resemble the final struggle and we think this is it. This is the end and
there are going to be
False prophets and people who say the time draws near
It's going to be on this date or that date and I think what the devil's trying to do is kind of wear people out
Where there's so many false alarms that people are gonna start saying where is the promise of his coming?
What made me really mad was the billboards that said that Christ was returning in such-and-such the year
I think it was 2011 and said the Bible guarantees it
That's blasphemous because then when it doesn't happen everybody says that the Bible was wrong when the Bible said no such thing