Matthew 24:15-21; Matthew 24:32-35 | Abomination of Desolation | Partial Preterist | Eschatology

Alright, so Our text today is Matthew 24 32 to 35

Matthew 24 32 to 35, please pray to me

I'm God and Father we come to you in the name of Jesus Christ For we your people filled with your spirit ask you to bless us

Or be with us as we walk through this text Give us understanding and enlightenment

Help us to walk away from what we heard today Knowing that Jesus is

Christ And that he is me Then we can have this foundation in him alone

We are children of God I'm gonna be with me.

I pray that I've done my due diligence I pray that you would use me this day to feed your people in Christ's name.

Amen. Alright, so just a quick overview of last week

I kind of was going through a Baptist Covenant theology and so like the difference because we as Baptists we have to what's called

Baptist Covenant Theology and so So Covenant Theology is basically in the sense that we believe that God deals with his people in covenants.

He is made of covenants. We believe that there's three covenants.

We have the the eternal covenant of redemption this is where God the Father chose a people and the

Father sends his son in time to die for this people and that the

Holy Spirit throughout time through the preaching of the gospel Convicts converts comforts this people

And so this would be the what's called the covenant of Redemption and then there's what's called the covenant of works

Covenant of works. This would be what we would call the Ode Covenant And I gave an analogy last week about a house

I said imagine if I was to give you a house the house is yours The only condition was was that you have to give me $700 a week

As long as you can give me $700 a week you can remain in that house and I pointed how this analogy was

Was of the Ode Covenant the covenant of works God gave the

Ode Covenant to the to the Israelite people Put them in the land of Canaan and he says this is your land the land that I have before you the land

Flowing with milk and with honey, but in order to stay in this land, you have to keep my

Commandments and as we know we walk through They did not keep his commandments.

So they were taken into Babylonian captivity. The temple was destroyed There was desolation he puts them back into the land

They did the same thing they did not keep his command So Jesus this refers to the eternal covenant when he comes into time when he comes into time

He brings in what's called the new covenant and as Baptist We hope to have Baptist covenant theology because we believe that if you trace it from Moses all the way onto the whole

Testament and to David those that went to paradise those that went to the Bosom of Abraham were those that had faith in the promise

Not those that kept the covenant because the Ode Covenant was never a promise for eternal salvation

It was only a promise for the inheritance of the land

Keep this cup keep this covenant keep these commands and live in the land Break them and you will be removed from the land that eternal life has always been

Always been through faith Faith in the promise and so we see promises being given throughout the

Old Testament And all these promises are pointing to the covenant of redemption that will take place in time the birth death birth life death resurrection ascension of Jesus Christ So that's

What we say the new covenant is better is that through Christ? The analogy

I gave you was that I'm going to give you a house And yes, I'm charging seven hundred dollars a month for the house, but I'm going to give you the seven hundred dollars

So we know that the requirement The new covenant requirement is faith and repentance

So the conditions to be in the new covenant is faith and repentance and the

Bible clearly teaches that Faith is the gift of God and that repentance is granted

And that's why the new covenant is better than the old covenant God did not give a condition in the old covenant

I mean he gave a condition, but he did not give them the condition He gave them conditions that they must fulfill on but he did not give them the way the means by which they fulfilled

New covenant faith and repentance is a gift that's granted to us

And so last week Walking through Matthew 24 and we're looking at the old covenant system and how it's being torn down Jesus has come and he's come to tear down the old covenant system

And so we looked at Matthew 24 looked at verses 3 through 14 We saw that it's speaking of the signs of the end

And in this I'm in a declaration and it's not speaking of the end of the world but the end of the age the word here

Translation if you have a King James Bible the word for In verse 3 at the end of verse 3 says tell us when all these things be and what will be the sign of your coming and the end of the age

If the King if you have a King James Bible, we saw that it would say the end of the world But the

Greek there is a on it's not Cosmo so the word Cosmo in the

Greek actually means the whole world and here we see the word a Aeon, which means a period of time in age but also there's another word here for world and we see that it was

Wait home in a and it meant the inhabited world at that time so in this he gives

Signs of the ends. He is what's called the birth pains and we saw that the birth pains were wars famines and earthquakes

And I walked through the text with you and showed you that that there was rumors of war because they were under what was called a

Roman peace and So we walked through some text and I showed you Rumors wars and how that was breaking out.

They said that they would be famines and earthquakes We walked through the book of Acts and we walked through the gospel of Matthew As prophesied after Jesus is death.

We saw that they were famines in the world There was it said the whole world with the work world at ease was boy covenant

Which meant the the inhabited earth? And then we saw that there was earthquakes and then it tells us that there will be lawlessness

Says that lawlessness will increase and then I pointed out that the lawlessness that it's talking about is the preaching of another

Christ or Someone coming claiming to be Christ the Bible itself doesn't give us an explicit text of someone claiming to be

Christ But I walked through and showed you how people were teaching a different Christ And I showed you know, that's also the lawlessness was preaching another

Christ or someone claiming to be Christ It was the persecution of Christians and false prophets

And so again, I walked you through and showed you how in the scripture teaches that people were teaching a different Christ I Showed you where the disciples and those that were following Jesus were being persecuted

We even looked at the Fox's Book of Martyrs and showed how all of them died And we went through and we looked at false prophets.

We saw the Judaizers Rising up and they were preaching a different gospel and this gospel that they was preaching was old covenant dude, it was the

The Observance of the old covenant law keep this law and live in the land

So we have Jesus coming in Matthew 24 saying this land is about to be taken away from It's about to be taken away

So our theme for today again is the same as last week learn a lesson from the big tree

My proposition is this By understanding what Jesus meant by this generation

We can put a time stamp on the prophesied events in Matthew Chapter 24.

So when we read Matthew 24 We'll understand what exactly that he's talking about.

Is this our past? Is this our present or is this our future? And so I'll pose the question each week why should you care about the subject of eschatology my answer this week is because Your view of eschatology will determine your interpretation of the

Great Commission The Great Commission which is found in Matthew 28 Beginning in verse 18.

It says this Jesus said all Authority in heaven

So he's saying that all authority all the authority that heaven has to offer Has been given to me pointed to himself

So all authority in heaven and on earth is given to me and then he gives this commission go therefore

Why do you go? But therefore means because all authority in heaven and earth is given to Christ Because of all because of all the authority in heaven and earth is given to Christ you need to go therefore

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations Baptizing them in the name of the

Father Son and the Holy Spirit Teaching them to observe all that I've commanded you and behold.

I am with you always To the To the end of the age

And I'm gonna add in beyond The key point here that that Jesus is making is that we are to disciple all nations

That's why we know that it don't just stop at when he says it to the end of the age

Because we can look back in history and we know that all nations have not been disciple

Even if he was to just focus on that one piece of land those nations had not been

The message But the nations had not been

So it comes down to this either the nations are going to be discipled or they are they're not

Really when it comes to eschatology, there's two views pessimism Right pessimism and optimism

Optimism My street lingo kind of gets involved or interferes with my preaching, you know

You can either have a downward look on where the Christian church is going in the future or you can have

But we can be actually going somewhere in time And That's what it comes down to all other views outside of post -millennialism

Have a view to where the church is going to fall by wayside and be destroyed

Now I know I'm in the minority here when I say that I do not believe that at all I believe that Christianity will be victorious.

I Is that Jesus Christ is Lord and it's to the glory of God the

Father I Believe that I don't care what this world looks like right now around me

I believe that our every knee will bow down and their tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is

Lord There Jesus is in heaven right now He's putting all enemies under his feet and I know that for sure because I was once an enemy

And you if you're a believer in Christ you are an enemy of God you hated God You shook your fist at God and then one day you heard the gospel and your heart was changed and you were footstool

You were footstool So I believe that I believe that we're going somewhere in time

But that Jesus Christ is not gonna have to swoop down here and rescue his church from under the tyranny

Those are in the tyranny are going to bow their knee to Christ. Why those true

Christians are going to preach the gospel Jesus Christ is going to save the world just like Matthew 3 17 says

He did not send his son to the world to condemn the world. But in order that the world through him might be saved

The purpose of Christ's coming into the world was to redeem the world as far as the curse is found it will be redeemed

And I know I take the minority position here But I truly believe that's what the

Bible teaches So in our text today Matthew 24 32 through 35, please look there with me.

This is the what's called the lesson of the fig tree Jesus speaking to them.

He says from the fig tree learn its lesson As soon as you see its branches becoming tender and putting out its leaves, you know that Summer is near.

So also when you see all these things, you know that he is near at the very gate

Truly truly I say to you this generation will not pass away until all these things take place

Heaven and earth will pass away. But my words will not pass away

And just to do a little quick overview of this we have the The antecedent to the fig tree is found in verse in chapter 21.

Jesus sees the big tree by my side He's hungry. He wants some food. There is no fruit on it.

It's a leaves only tree He ends up cursing that fig tree and it withers at once So when he says learn a lesson from the fig trees pointing back to the big tree in chapter 21

And then he makes it clear that this generation the near demonstrative the people that he is speaking to he's saying that this generation not a

Future generation. He didn't say the generation that sees these things or that generation. He says this generation

When they see these things He says truly this generation will not pass away

Until all these things take place. So all these things that take place is speaking from verse 3

All the way up until this verse so we know What Jesus is saying that all these things have to take place in that generation

So it's either going to happen either happened or it didn't that's what we're left with either happened or it didn't

And he says that heaven and earth will pass away And I mentioned that the Jewish teaching of heaven and earth was the temple the temple of God is where heaven and earth met

That's where the earthly men could meet with God The heaven and earth and we know that the temple did pass away, but his word did not pass away

So he says heaven and earth will pass away. This is going to happen. He's saying saying but my words will not pass away

So our outline today we will be seeking to learn the lesson from the big tree And I pointed out that I believe that this big tree parable gives us three lessons

Signs of the end of the age which we looked at last week The abomination of desolation which is what we'll focus on today and then the third one will be the coming of the

Son of Man and as a transition I believe that all of Matthew 24 is a response by Jesus to his disciples by the question that they asked in verse 3

Again, we have Jesus talking about that. The temple is Verses 1 & 2

Jesus left the temple and I want you to notice We have Jesus here leaving the temple in the

Old Testament. We have Yahweh leaves the temple here We have Jesus leaving the temple

He was going away when his disciples came and pointed out to him the buildings of the temple

But Jesus answered you see these things do you not truly I say to you there were not

There would not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down his disciples hear this

And so they asked him Three questions. Well, we're asking three things.

I believe these three questions are really the same question as three different ways This is as he said on the

Mount of Olives Disciples came to him privately saying tell us when will these things be?

What was Jesus talking about? the temple being torn down So when will these things be the temple being torn down and won't be the sign of your coming the temple being torn down and the

End of the age the temple being torn down And I'm pointing out last week notice it asked that they asked him when will be the sign of your coming the word coming here is

Pharisee Our Parousia depending on how smart you want to sound

They're asking Jesus we will his presence When is his presence coming when he's standing physically in his in their presence?

So this coming this Parousia Has to be something totally different than his physical form being in front of Are you seeing this and so next week we'll focus on that During our transition this was

Basically one question asked in three different ways and it's speaking of the destruction of the temple

But today our first main point We're going to hit our second main point and that is the abomination of desolation

Matthew 24 we're going to read verses 15 through 21 15 through 21

Jesus speaking so when you see the abomination of desolation Spoken up by the prophet

Daniel standing in the holy place Let the reader understand and let those who are in Judea lead to the mountains but the one who is

On the housetop not go down What is in the house and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak?

And alas for Women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days

Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Saturday For then there will be great tribulations such as not been from the beginning of the world until now

No, and never will be So Today we will look at this text in three sub points.

My first sub point is the desolation My second sub point will be the interpretations

My third sub point will be the abomination So we have the desolation the interpretations and the abomination.

I was not trying to make it rhyme that's How things happen There's a transition

I want to point out one thing And I think this is where a lot of commentary a lot of people who are trying to interpret this passage get confused the abomination is

Not the desolation The desolation is not the abomination

Okay As long as we understand these two things we can have a right interpretation of what this is trying to say and As we go through it, you'll see it more clearly right now.

Just kind of giving you a dim look, but the Abomination is not the desolation

But there seems to be a lot of trouble with that part when it comes to the reform camp our camp our people

This is where the trouble seems to to to get Confusing when it comes to interpreting this text so sub point number one

The desolation It's not the Matthew 2415

Jesus again. He's speaking to his disciples Speaking to his disciples.

He says so when you you being the disciples See the abomination of desolation

Spoken by Daniel spoken by the prophet Daniel standing in the holy place.

Let the reader Understand and it says then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains

Or 17, but but the one who was on the housetop not go down and take what is in his house

So it seems to sound like a local judgment Just just like if you just you have no knowledge of a

Christianity Christian tradition and you're reading this It seems to sound like a local judgment

He's telling them that when you speaking second verse of the Lord when you see these things

Leave leave this country go to the mountains if you're on your housetop, don't even go down to get anything

Go to the mountains of Jerusalem Now you and I we don't hang out on our roofs

Now I've hung out on many roofs in my life being a roofer for 25 years But we do not have like parapets built around our roof area because we don't hang out on our roofs

We have what's called decks or front porches and stuff like that to where we congregate and hang out but in first century

Jerusalem I don't know if you remember that story of the pair the paraplegic man his friends

They carry him up on the roof and they lower him down through the roof Well a lot of people when they tell that story

They give you a visual that they're ripping shingles or something off of the roof in order to let that man down But it was a commonplace that at that time in Jerusalem Everyone had a door hatch to where they can climb up on their roof because that's where people gather

We're saying that if you're up on your roof and you're you're gathering and you see the abomination of desolation

Spoken by the prophet Daniel don't go back into your house Running as fast as you can to the mountains

Because desolation It's coming now turn your attention, please with me to Daniel chapter 9

This right here. I pointed it out a couple weeks ago. I Just want to read a couple of verses

Three verses one and two and I'm going to read 17 and 18 I believe this right here gives us the best interpretation of desolation

So we have Daniel and he's speaking Daniel 9 beginning at verse 1 it will reverse 1 and 2's

First this is in the first year of Darius the king of Ashera by the descent of me

Who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans and the first year of his reign?

I Daniel perceived in the books of numbers of years that according to the word of the

Lord to Jeremiah the prophet must pass before the end of the desolation of Jerusalem namely 70 years

So this would have been the first time were were the Jews did not keep the

Sabbath week They did not keep the fruit. They did not pay their rent right and they were thrown out of that land

And it was for 70 years. They were supposed to be out of this land So it says the desolation of Jerusalem Now turn your attention to verse 17

So this is in a prayer that he starts praying in verse 3 So 17 says this now therefore

Oh God Listen to the prayer of your servants and to his plea for mercy and for your own sake

Oh God for your own sake. Oh Lord make your face shine upon Where your sanctuary the temple which is desolate

Verse 18. Oh my god incline your ears in here open your eyes and see our

Desolation in the city that is called by your name So at the desolation you can look back in time.

You can see that the desolation was the Jewish people Removed from their land and that the temple was destroyed

So what was the desolation? That's the definition. The desolation is that the

Jews removed from their land and their temple destroyed We track that's the desolation that's the clear biblical description of the desolation

Verse 12 Of the same book listen to verse 12

It says he confirmed his words which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us

By bringing upon us a great calamity For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything

Like what has been done against Jerusalem So he's saying that under heaven there has never been

Anything done to any other people like what has been done to Jerusalem? No one has ever been removed from their land quite like they have in their

Temple this temple of worship that they used to worship God this place where heaven and earth met

Completely destroyed. He says it's never happened and yet Look at Matthew again.

We'll go back to Matthew our text Matthew 24 24 look at verse 21

Speaking of Speaking to his disciples the abomination of desolation

Verse 21 he says for then there will be great tribulation Such has not been from the beginning of the world until now and no never will be

Saying the same thing except for when Daniel saying that that nothing this bad has ever happened before Right here.

It's a lot worse What's about to come upon them is a lot worse this desolation that's going to come upon them is a lot worse and notice

It says and it will never happen again It would never be again never will this be again

So There's a difference being made here between the destruction of the first temple and the destruction of the second temple

And it is this it will never happen again Look at a supporting text with me real quick Luke 21 verses 20 and 21

This right here is going to explain to you at the desolation And I want you to notice it doesn't mention abomination

Luke 21 Beginning in verse 20 It's still speaking to his disciples, but when you see

Jerusalem Surrounded by armies then know it's desolation Has come near then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains that those who are inside the city

Depart and let not those who are outside the country enter in So what's the desolation

I said when you see armies surrounding Jerusalem know that it's

Desolation is near that this army is not camping outside to hang out and build a campfire

They're coming in to destroy the city They're going to remove and kill the

Jews and they're going to destroy their temple Jesus says man when you see this about to happen

Don't go into your house Don't do anything just leave whatever's in there it's not worth it leave run get out of there

Jerusalem is going to be surrounded by armies and they're going to be destroyed Transition I believe this statement

That's made by Jesus. We're in the verse 21 where he says Matthew 24 21 where he says for then there will be great tribulation such as not been from the beginning of the world until now and no

Never will be I Believe it's speaking covenantal. I Believe it's speaking about the old covenant passing away

That the temple is going to be destroyed and the reason why it's never going to happen again So we do not live under the old covenant

We live under the new covenant believe in Jesus Christ and live and listen

That's never going to end That's never going to end. We don't need a temple

God does not dwell in and temples and houses made by human hands God now dwells in those

Who have faith in Jesus Christ This covenant that we're in the new covenant the covenant through the blood of Jesus Christ is not ever going to be

Destroyed and so that's why he says it Whatever he's talking about Such things has not happened since the beginning or the end because Yahweh Jesus has left the temple

Jesus Christ is God Yahweh is in the presence. He's in the body of those who believe in Jesus Christ That's why we have a better covenant.

The temple was destroyed in 70 AD And now to our second sub point the interpretations

And as you can imagine there's no shortage of interpretations when it comes to this text

I'll give you two preterist interpretations So some preterists hope that and Which is really faulty in 168

BC the Greek King His name always

Antiochus the Greek King Antiochus of Epiphanes The Greek King Antiochus of Epiphanes invaded

Jerusalem and captured the sea So he evades Jerusalem. He captures the city.

He marches into the Jewish temple. He erects a statue This is true. This really happened

He erects a statue of the Greek God Zeus and he sacrifices a pig on the altar of incense

And so people today they look back then and they say that was the abomination of desolation

But the problem is this took place in 168 BC Jesus speaking to his disciples

Probably near in 30 AD. He says but when you see the abomination of desolation

When you with your eyes you see the abomination of desolation You run you leave

You flee you go to the mountains you not come down from your housetop to get a coat

Get out of here. So that interpretation does not sit well with me the other interpretation which is most most of my

Postmortem friends hope to this one and it would be that the man of lawlessness here is

Nero Nero who would have been a Roman Caesar horrible horrible man

The persecution of the Christians in the first century were were were done by Nero You ever heard the term

Roman candle? It was done by Nero. Nero would put black pitch all over Christians and set them on fire let them burn as lights for the garden he would dress up and Animal skins and he would eat

Christians their private parts like this man was Evil he was known as the beast

Nero woke him up. His nickname was the beast It's a lot of people predators view that look back.

They say Nero they say man He has to be the man of lawlessness This this is him

This is the abomination of desolation a reformed view would say that in the year 70

AD the Roman generals Titus invaded Jerusalem to crush the

Jewish revolt He entered the temple and he had the building destroyed and he carried off the lampstand and other temple artifacts to Rome Now I don't believe any one of those to be the abomination of desolation

I just I don't feel like it does justice in my opinion

The dispensational of you would say that the Jews Will in the future rebuild a third temple

They will begin animal sacrifices and an Antichrist will rise up He will set himself in the temple stopping animal sacrifices and proclaim himself to be

God now In all fairness, you know how

I feel about this positionism, but I think they give a better interpretation when it comes to the abomination

Though I do not believe it. I do not believe them But I think they attempt to give a better interpretation

When it comes to the abomination of desolation and they get this interpretation from Daniel 9 and from 2nd

Thessalonians chapter 2 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2 you have this man of lawlessness He appears and he and he's going to one day be revealed.

And so they It actually says that he will proclaim himself to be

God And so they said this man of lawlessness is the Antichrist there will be a future rebuilt temple

He'll be in it and then he'll put it into the he'll stop the sacrifice in an offerings and that will usher in Christ coming to go to destroy him and to rule and reign over the earth for a thousand years

Now as we transition So far again, I think the dispensational has a better view that explains this but all three of them in my opinion does not give a

Settling interpretation like I cannot really look to the text and say you know what that has to be the truth

Like I can't sit up here in front of you and say thus says the Lord. This is what it means So because of that I'm going to give you my

This is not just my interpretation. I've been reaching out to a lot of a lot of theologians on this point here recently

So some point number three the abomination again, it's over our same verse 2415

Jesus says that when you see the abomination of desolation spoken by the Prophet the Prophet Daniel standing in the holy place that the reader understand so this is supposed to be something that the reader can understand and Those interpretations that I just gave you.

I don't feel like they're intelligible interpretations I'm sorry for those that out to that view so Turn your attention again to Daniel 9 and I want to just quickly

Read through this Verse if you remember

About four weeks ago. I believe it was we kind of walk through this. I just want to read through it I'm kind of give a quick quick commentary

To freshen your mind So we have the Jews they're they're in captivity for 70 weeks.

I mean for 70 weeks. I mean for 70 years Gabriel comes to the angel

Gabriel comes to Daniel and he proclaims to him this Prophecy, he says 70 weeks are decreed about your people

So you're speaking to Daniel your people will be the Jews and your holy city, which is

Jerusalem To finish transgressions to put an end to sin to atone for iniquity

To bring about everlasting righteousness to seal both vision and dream Vision and prophet and to anoint a most holy place

This is known for certain and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and rebuild

Jerusalem because remember Jerusalem had been destroyed and to the coming of the anointed one a prince

And here I say that this is Jesus Christ the prince there will be seven weeks

Then for 62 weeks, it will be built again with square and mold but in trouble sometimes so this 7 plus the 62 comes to 69 weeks.

This would bring us from the the creed of King Artaxerxes was was in 457

BC Take 457 BC you add 483 years to it and takes you to 27

AD so this is where I said that 27 AD would be the baptism of Jesus Christ And this is then after the 62 weeks you have to add the one week

And anointed one shall be cut off I mentioned that the cutoff here was him being rejected by his own people

And he would have nothing in the people of the prince of the people of the prince. The prince is Jesus So the people of the prince would be the

Jews Who come shall destroy the city in the sanctuary? So the prophecy is saying that the

Jews are going to destroy the city in the sanctuary You can look back in history and you can see that that the

Jewish revolt took place in 66 866 AD That's when

Rome came in to try to stop the revolt But the Jewish revolt they were they were whipping they were defeating the

Roman army But Titus comes in the 70 AD and he destroys Jerusalem Destroys their temple.

This is history. You can look back in history and see this being fulfilled It says that it's in shall come with the flood speaking of Titus comes in Wars and it's in shall be wars desolations is decree now verse 27 and he so that he here is where people try to say is speaking of the

Antichrist I'm saying that he here is Jesus Christ He shall make a strong covenant with me for one week and in the middle of the week

He shall put it in to sin So my interpretation here is that in the middle of the week

So you have Jesus coming on the earth being baptized in 80 27 the middle of the week would have been somewhere in 80 30

Jesus was crucified He died for our sins And so the the week would have carried out to the 70 weeks would have been 80 34

So in the middle of the week he dies for our sins So he shall come he shall make a

He shall make a covenant. He shall put it in to sin and sacrifice and offering So Jesus came whenever he came and he died for our sins there's no need to sacrifice or for a sacrifice or offering because Jesus Christ is our

Sacrifice he is present tense still now our Offering this is on the wing of an abomination.

Listen here. It says on the wing of an abomination Shall come one who makes desolate

You see the separation because of the abomination Someone's coming and he is going to bring

Desolation because of this abomination the armies of Rome are coming to destroy the city

And so the question is what is the abomination So here we have

Jesus is introduced as the anointed Prince The one who was cut off the one who makes a strong covenant with me for one week

Who puts an end to sin midway through the week by dying for our sins?

So my interpretation is this So throughout the week, so what

I'm about to bring to you now is something we've already been the I Walked through and showed you how the religious leaders of that time was the

Antichrist Okay, it says that they want speaking of the Antichrist.

It says that they went out from us So here we have two things. We have the children and you have the

Antichrist the children are Christians The Antichrist are separate from you.

So it says that they went out from the Christians They went out from us why Because they were not of us if they would have been one of us they would have remained with us

They went out to show that they were not Us who's the us here? Christians and then it tells you who the

Antichrist are by saying that they are the ones who deny that Jesus is the

Christ There's only one group of people at this time who denied that Jesus was the

Christ and that was the religious Jews Pharisaical Jews the

Sadducees the high priests the people that are in the temple who worship this

Oh covenant system And then we don't do

Galatians 4 Quite often how Galatians 4 talks about there's going to come a fullness of time it talks about how how

God gave them a guardian and That they were to be under this guardian until the fullness of time when the fullness of time comes

They were to leave the guardian and and and cling to the Sun and so this morning was the sacrificial system

It was the old covenant the fullness of time would have been the time when Jesus came 27 ad Started his public ministry was baptized the

Jews were to reject they were to leave the sacrificial system Cling to Christ, but instead of clinging to Christ they danced around the sacrificial system

Hebrews The book of Hebrews the whole book is about one thing stop going to temple

Stop going to temple. You don't need a sacrifice Jesus is our sacrifice

And it takes us to Second Thessalonians, I want to read to you real quick give quick interpretations

Second Thessalonians Chapter 2 beginning in verse 1 now with that what

I've just said in mind listen To second Thessalonians the first part of it will deal with next week

It says now concerning our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him

We ask you brothers not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarm either by spirit or by word

Or a letter seeming to be from us to the effect that the day of the Lord has come

The Old Testament the day of the Lord has always meant judgment and we'll deal with that next week

Right here. It says let no one deceive you in any way for that day will not come unless the rebellion comes first What was the rebellion?

the Jewish war the Jewish revolts and The man of lawlessness is revealed the son of Destruction who opposes and exalts himself against every so -called

God or object or worship that he takes his Seat in the temple proclaiming himself to be

God We as Christians we say that Jesus is the only one who is able to make a sacrifice

And then and who is able to sit down because the work of my high priest is never done

They were constantly always having to sacrifice If you just look at Hebrews chapter 9 real quick verse 6 speaking of the high priest.

This is These preparations having been made the priests go regularly into the first section which will be the holy place

Performing their ritual will do but into the second only the high priest And he but once a year and not without taking

So This there's going to be a guy who opposes himself over everything so -called

God He takes his seat in his temple and he proclaims himself to be gone

Now, I believe this to be a high priest

Who else has access to go into the temple The man of lawlessness is the anti -christ because the anti -christ is someone who denies that Jesus is the

Christ 2nd John chapter 1st John chapter 2 verses 18 through 25

Read that He denied that Jesus is the Christ the Son of Living God You are the anti -christ this high priest goes into the temple.

He offers sacrifice. Why? Because he doesn't believe that Jesus is the Christ he doesn't believe that Jesus has fulfilled the covenant

He doesn't believe that Jesus is the sacrifice and so he goes week after week year after year

And he's sacrificing animals knowing that Jesus has put an end to sin with his own sacrifice

And that's why Paul or Apollos whoever wrote Hebrews is saying stop going to temple stop it

Jesus is our sacrifice. He is the way the truth in life the only way to the father is through Jesus not a covenant of works not a

Sacrificial system you need to the father don't go through the law go through Christ and we'll pick up there next week

Like verse 17. It says God sent a strong delusion so that they may believe a what is false

And I believe the strong delusion is the wall Moses That at this time they were so focused on that wall that they could not see

Jesus Christ being the Messiah So I believe in closing the abomination

Desolation is the continuing sacrifice that is being made in the temple post

Jesus putting an end to sin Remember what a woe is For behavior that leads to disaster so when

Jesus gave a woe it was a prophetic indictment a Prothetic indictment for behavior that will lead to disaster

Jesus comes and does away with the old covenant system by being the sacrifice by standing in our stead

And after he does this he raises from the grave goes and he's with the father and the religious

Jews Continue to sacrifice animals to make atonement for sin Because that abomination

God sends the desolation and so we have here is two things the wrong came because The Romans have came because the

Jewish people were all the Jews were rebelling they came to put a stop to the Jews But in the heavenly the

Jews would not stop sacrifice So God's sins wrong so wrong came for one reason

God sent them for another And that was because they rejected Jesus Christ and continue to make a sacrifice for their sins

I'm available in one's prayer. If you have questions like if I've said anything Don't understand or your question or whatever maybe please come to me

Father thank you for his day Grace mercy when we thank you for the truth that we have in Jesus We thank you that he is the way the truth and the life and that no one can come to you unless it's through him

But he is the exclusive Or that he proclaimed to be the only way to the fall

And if we look for any other way to get to you, we are in sin Or even much more we ourself can be living in an abomination

Or help us to understand the sacrifice that Jesus made on the cross so that we can have a true

Pure knowledge of what he has done for us and that when we come to you and worship it is in spirit and in truth