Man, 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, 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 wanna 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 the 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 kind of a meat of the word.
It's 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 eight
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 already setting it up for 2018.
Because on his little chart, he's showing, you know,
1947's the budding of the fig tree.
70 years is a generation.
And then, you know, it's gotta 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,
'cause 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, when did a 70-year-old give birth recently?
But what they're saying is, well, the same people are gonna 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?
The oldest man alive, 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, will you admit now that it had nothing
to do with 1948?
Anyway, I'm kidding.
But in Luke chapter 21, he tells that there are 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 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 gonna
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.