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*From Despair to Hope…*
*From Hope to Confidence!*
*Luke 21:5-38*
v Opening Illustration
Ø Civilizations think they will last forever
§ They look at the great things that they have done and marvel at themselves
· Egyptians looked at the pyramids
¨ *Said, “We will last forever”*
· The Dynasties of China with Great Wall
¨ *“We are impervious”*
· Assyria with Nineveh
¨ City enclosed by an 8 mile, 40’ thick wall!
Ø *“We will be here forever”*
· Babylon with hanging gardens
¨ *“Look at what our hands have done”*
· Greeks with Acropolis
¨ Parthenon – One of the most architecturally perfect building ever constructed
Ø *“Who could ever be grander”*
· Romans with their Armies
¨ *“We cannot be defeated”*
· British with their Empire
¨ Sun never set on it!
Ø *“We will be an empire forever”*
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v So we find Jesus’ disciples looking at the great temple and thinking the same thing!
Ø So they say in verse 5…
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*READ v. 5*
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Ø Josephus writes about the temple
The exterior of the building wanted nothing that could astound either mind or eye.
For, being covered on all sides with massive plates of gold, the sun was no sooner up than it radiated so fiery a flash that persons straining to look at it were compelled to avert their eyes, as from the solar rays.
To approaching strangers it appeared from a distance like a snow-clad mountain; for all that was not overlaid with gold was of purest white.
From its summit protruded sharp golden spikes to prevent birds from settling upon and polluting the roof.
v You can see why they thought it was going to be here forever
Ø How could anything happen to such a great structure?
§ It will last forever!
· *It was the symbol of their culture, the people, their greatness*
¨ Much like the Twin Tower were of ours!
Ø And just as we could not have possibly thought what happened could occur
§ So what Jesus says about the fate of the temple astonishes them!
*READ v. 6-37*
v A couple of things need to be said before we launch into this text…
v Future-telling Prophetic speech many times intertwines multiple upcoming events
Ø We see this in the OT when the prophets speak about the coming exile and destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC
§ Many of those prophesies apply to both Jerusalem and the end-times yet to come
v Secondly, Jesus never tries to give us an end-times countdown schedule
Ø Darrell Bock commentary
§ /Jesus does not give a calendar of end-time events as much as a portrait of the moment/
· While this text does give us descriptions of what the end-times are going to be like
¨ It never gives us an order of events
Ø Notice that Jesus never told his disciples when the temple was going to be raised…
§ Just indicators that it will
v Third, the approach to text like this one is humility
Ø Kent Hughes
§ /Study of the Olivet discourse requires a proper humility and a willingness to admit that we do not have all the answers/
· We need to realize that we will never have all the answer regarding the end-times
¨ We have to be humble enough to be satisfied that God holds the keys
v Lastly, while we cannot know the end-game in totality
Ø There are many things that we can learn and Jesus wants us to know!
§ GK Chesterton
· /It is only the fool who tries to get the heavens inside his head, and not unnaturally his head bursts.
The wise man is content to get his head inside the heavens/
Ø And that is what we are about to do…
§ Get our head inside heaven
· And learn what Jesus wants us to know about the end-times!
v This section is set up in two parts
Ø 7-24
§ Describe the events leading up to the destruction of the temple in 70 AD
Ø 25-36
§ Describe the times before the 2nd coming
v Much like OT prophets…
Ø Jesus sees one as informing the other
§ The first event is going to be much like the second
· We see this in the OT prophets where they describe the fall of Jerusalem
¨ Yet those same verses can be applied to the end-times as well
Ø They are complimentary
v Thus what Jesus wants us to know about the end-times through the description of the destruction of Jerusalem is…
Ø It is…
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*A Cause for Despair*
v There will be…
Ø *Wars*
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9-10 ~~ /You will hear of wars and revolutions…Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom./
§ Wars cause great despair
· America during WW1 and 2
¨ Great despair especially when it wasn’t going well
· Cold war
¨ Cuban missile crisis
¨ Nuclear winter ~/ fallout
Ø Also described as a time of great…
§ *Catastrophes*
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11 ~~ /There will be great earthquakes, famines, pestilences in various places/
¨ Natural catastrophes always bring great despair
Ø *Illustrations:*
§ 1900 – Drought in India
· 250,000 to 3MM killed
§ 1931 - Yellow River flood, China
· 800,000 to 4MM killed
¨ 1998 Yang see river flood
¨ 14MM homeless
§ 1918 Flu pandemic
· 50MM killed
§ Dec 26 2004 – Tidal wave
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