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And good evening. This is Truth in Love, and I'm thankful that you're with me. You're joining me for these videos for this conversation. I hope to have a conversation with you tonight. We get truth and love from Ephesians chapter 4, verse 15, where Paul tells us, but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into him who is the head, even Christ.

So with the conversation that I'm going to have tonight, I want to really apply that verse, and I want to have this conversation from kindness, from a kind heart. Hey, happy. Hope you're doing well. Don't really have a whole lot planned out.

I don't have many notes. I just wanted to have a conversation. Maybe some folks will chime in tonight. But yeah, if I can pray for you, let me know. That's a big thing that we want to be about is caring for you and praying for you.

If we can do that, all you have to do is type me, and I'll see that, and other brothers and sisters will see that, and we can pray for each other. If you want to share, give us a heart, give us a like, so that we can work together to get the gospel, to get God's word out.

Love to be able to work with you doing that. So tonight's just going to be a conversation, and I want to do it with kindness. I want to do it from a kind heart. Video is a good way to do that. I know so often I was thinking back on the past, and things that I've posted, and things that I've written on social media have been taken the wrong way, taken out of context, and they've hurt people's feelings.

I know that. I've heard from people that have said that, and we all can do it. And the problem is, that's just the nature of a letter, the nature of a text, the nature of social media, is that people can't see our facial expressions.

They can't hear our voice. They can't see our eyes, and those things tell a lot about our heart. We know that there is offense out there, and that offense is God's word. His truth is offensive. The gospel is offensive, and we want our line to be right there.

We want it to stop right there. The gospel, the truth of God's word is going to be offensive. That's inevitable. It's going to be offensive, and we can't help that. It's offensive to us apart from Christ that we would be called sinners, that we need a savior, that we need someone to rescue us, that we can't save ourselves, that it's only by God's grace.

All these aspects of the gospel are, to our nature, to our natural self, is offensive, and so I get that. And that's where we want our line to be drawn. We don't want to be offensive with our words, with our tone of voice, whatever it may be.

We don't want to take the offense even further, and I think that's one of the reasons why Paul speaks of speaking that truth in love. And so, this is a debate. This has been really heavy on my heart, not the subject.

I don't mind talking about this subject. I don't mind talking about these issues. I don't mind it at all, but where my heart is and what's been on my mind is how to express these things because I don't want to.

And what I'm talking about is, if you caught the caption of what I was going to talk about tonight, it's about what we share on social media and talking about one of the things that I've seen that has been shared on social media, but what I don't want to do is I have a fear that I will offend someone unnecessarily thinking that I'm calling them out, and I don't want to do that.

I want to talk about what we share on Facebook. I want to talk about the truth of God's word, and I want to do it in such a way that the conversation is not an offense to someone unnecessarily. The gospel is going to be an offense.

Truth is going to be an offense, but I don't want to be an offense, and I hope you hear my heart. And those of you who are on the other side, if any of you are my fellow believers on the other side who want to stand for truth and maybe have a heart that's not as concerned about being abrasive, I hope you'll hear my heart on that, that I want people to see the gospel.

I want people to see truth, and I don't want to be in the way of that truth, and so often we can do that. We can get in the way of truth, and I don't want to do that, so I'm going to try and choose my words carefully so that I'm not an unnecessary offense to someone, but this is a subject, and the only reason it comes up on social media is because it has come up all throughout.

Well, it comes up year after year. For many years now, it comes up year after year, and it's not just the fact that social media is here. Of course, social media accelerates the knowledge and information that goes out into the world, of course, but it comes up year after year after year, this subject of prophecy in the end times, and if you're watching the video and you're like, well, he's going to talk about it again.

Well, yeah, I'm going to talk about it again, but it's because I'm not bringing it up per se. It's being brought up in social media, and it's often brought up in conversation. It's brought up on social media.

Now we have all different kinds of platforms where so many messages are being poured out. If you want to hear someone's opinion or thought or interpretation on any position, any verse of the Bible, I mean, it is there.

You can listen to podcasts. You can listen to sermons. You can watch videos. You can go on Facebook just like this and listen to folks' opinions. You can go on TikTok. All these many platforms are out there, and they are just pouring out information, and all I want us to do, this is going to be my spiel, is that we are careful.

We go to God's word first, and there's so many others which they're correct, and we're going to agree on that position. Those that would hold a different position than I do on soteriology, on eschatology, on ecclesiology, all these different doctrines of the church, there are many who believe in different doctrines than I do, but that I would call them brothers and sisters in Christ, that I would love them and have fellowship with them, and their starting point also is going to be the Bible.

So that's a point of agreement that most of us will have, that we must start with God's word. We must start with Scripture, and we let Him tell us what He wants to say. That needs to be our position. That needs to be our starting point.

We want to know what God wants us to know. We want to interpret it correctly. We want to be students of God's word, and that's one of the multiple reasons why I started this video, is so that I could have a relationship with people, that I could have conversations with people, and we could be students of God's word together, and that I could emphasize the importance of being a student of God's word.

It's so important for us to be students of God's word. God has called us to love His word, to obey His word, to follow His word. I mean, even in the Great Commission, Dan and I talked about it, and we'll talk about it again later, where Jesus says, teach them to observe or obey all that I've commanded you, and we get that information from His word.

How do we know how to obey? How do we know who God is? We learn all our doctrines. The word of God in the Bible is so important, and that's our starting point. If we can agree on that, we're doing well.

The next step is we want to interpret God's word well. We need the Holy Spirit. We need wisdom. We need brothers and sisters in Christ to help us understand God's word. We need to read it in its context, in its immediate context, in the chapter context, book context, the context of the whole Bible.

Being a student of God's word is so important, and it's joyful, and it's rewarding, because it's God's word. It's our bread. It's our food. It's our nourishment, and I want to emphasize that as part of this ministry, as part of our time together, is emphasizing the importance of being a student of God's word and loving it.

So, the end times conversation, of course, comes up when things are, well, the news, the media pretty much only covers bad things. So, that fuels our end times mind, and then I think they broadcast it so much.

Bad news is broadcast so much that we become numb to it, and I'm experiencing it right now. I experienced this conversation when I supported someone for our local sheriff, and he supported, and he wanted to implement wonderful things for our county, but we're often bystanders.

We're comfortable being bystanders, and we don't want to get involved, or there's so many other reasons why we back off and we don't want to get involved, and we would rather go with the flow or go with the candidate that we know is going to win.

We vote for the lesser of two evils versus standing on our conviction, standing on God's word. We often do that. I used the word back when this election was going on, this concept, this word. There's a name for it, and I forget what it is right now, but we we become numb to all this bad news to where it's almost has no effect on us anymore.

We'll see someone that has been killed on the news. We'll see a disaster, a hurricane or tornado has come through and devastated, wiped out cities. People are removed from their homes, and they're without power.

They're without water. They're without food, and normally our response because we've been so numbed to all this bad news is that, oh, that's sad, and then we get up and go get our seconds for supper, or we'll turn it off and go do something else, and we become so numb to the news.

So, yes, the news offers pretty much only bad news. I think most people would agree with that, and we become numb to the bad news. So, it's when things, um, something's new, something's different, or something's really, really, really bad, and it's, you know, it's consistent, or if there's something in the news that has to do with Israel, which is going on right now, of course, surely you've heard of that.

This end times thought comes back to our minds, and the posts and the conversations, the videos, all those things are being shared again because the bad things have intensified, or something's going on with Israel.

So, we begin to see and hear the conversations, have the conversations ourselves. They're called the signs of the times, which is interesting, and I may touch on that if I can remember. So, it's not just me that's continuing to have this conversation on eschatology.

I want to have this conversation with you to cause you to think, because we're all, we as people are infallible. God's word is not infallible, but we are infallible. We can be infallible. We can be with error in our interpretation.

We should humble ourselves in such a way that we can admit that, that we can be wrong. We can change our positions, and so I would encourage you to take that stance. I want to hear the truth of God's word, even if it breaks me down and breaks me of something, of a conviction, a belief that I've held onto for so long.

I want God to tell me what I should believe from his word. We should be open to that, open to God's word. I've heard it said, maybe it was John MacArthur that said we should have a closed mind, but have an open Bible, and that's the position that we want to take.

We want to open up God's word and hear what he has to say, and then if it's God's word that convicts us, then we can change our mind to that new position, and it's what we want to hear from God and his word.

So, we're going to see how this goes. What I see for everyone, may not be the same experience for everyone, this is what I see, is that if there are folks out there that are holding on to a pre-millennial, pre-trib rapture position, if they see a post that says something about the rapture, or they see a post that says something about signs of the times, they are really quick to hit the share button.

They're really quick to hit the like button, and they want to get the word out on that issue, and I want to say this, I believe that that action of wanting to share that information, when you see a post or you see a description that's talking about the rapture, talking about signs of the times, and you quickly share it, I think and I believe, the Bible tells us to hope all things, so I believe and I hope that that action of sharing that information comes from a compassionate heart.

It comes from a pure heart and pure motives, because if that position is correct, then there's going to be a time when believers are going to be called out or raptured off this planet, and just to use the vernacular, the familiar language, those who are not believers will be left behind, and of course, when all is said and done, believers will experience paradise, will experience heaven, they will spend eternity with the Lord, and those who are not believers in Jesus Christ will spend eternity in hell, and so I believe that that action of sharing this information on your social media comes from a pure heart, because we don't, if this is true, then we don't want to see anyone left behind.

We don't want to see anyone on their way to hell without another chance, without another opportunity, and so by me sharing this information, maybe someone out there will see that, see that warning and turn to Christ, so I believe, I believe truly, I'm hoping in all things that sharing that information comes from a pure heart, it comes from pure motives, but pure hearts and pure motives, sincere hearts and sincere motives don't determine truth either.

We can sincerely be wrong about things, and we need to keep that in mind as well. Just because I have a sincere heart and I want to see people saved doesn't make the information that I'm sharing true, so I wanted to have this conversation to give you some things to think about, just some things to think about to start a conversation that we can talk about things, and I hope you will do that with me.

That's why I'm here to talk about God's Word, to share Jesus with you, to have this conversation about all of God's Word, and of course this is relevant, not just because I want to talk about it, but because it's all over social media, it's everywhere, and it's going to come up again, it's going to come up again, it's going to come up again, so it's a relevant conversation.

Testing Social Media Claims Against Scripture

So one of the big things that I've seen go around here lately in social media, and I've asked around from people around the country, and not everyone was familiar with what I had been seeing going around, the claim was made that, and this was, of course, it had an origin from somewhere, but people would share it as if, I guess, they were saying the same thing, and what was being said was, I've studied the Bible for many years, and I think the very next line said that the Antichrist comes before the rapture, so you see the word Antichrist, you see the word rapture, and then there was the big long list of all the bad things that are happening, that are going to happen, and the explanation that it's going to get worse than we've ever seen before, so you've got that signs of the times list going on there, so I'm sure when we see that information, when we see that going on, our hearts just pour out for the lost, we want people saved, we want them to be with Christ, we want them to be with us, we don't want them left behind, and we don't want them to go to hell, so again, I believe that that's where that's coming from, but shouldn't we think about the information, have a conversation about it before we share it, even though we're sincere, the information could still be wrong, so let's start at the beginning, it says the Antichrist comes before the rapture, this person says that they study their Bible for many years, and the Antichrist comes before the rapture, I was trying to look at and listen to and read experts on that position, and from what I can gather, the experts are saying that hold that position that the the Antichrist is not going to reveal himself until after the rapture, so that part of the conversation didn't make sense to me, why people would share that when if you hold to the pre-millennial, pre-trib rapture position, that you would state that the Antichrist comes before the rapture, when that's not what the position actually says, and so you have that, and then you have the long list of the signs of the times, and there you have something else to think about, well according to scripture, this rapture position is, well let me say this first, because I was listening to one gentleman, and he was saying that there are no other prophecies that need to be fulfilled before the rapture happens, so there's not any other signs that we should look for, there's no more prophecies that need to be fulfilled before the rapture happens, of course they're saying that it could happen any moment, it could happen before the end of this broadcast, it could happen before the end of this church service, that's part of the information that they give in this presentation, so they want you to be ready in case the rapture happens, it could happen at any moment, and so there's, according to this expert that I was listening to, there's no more signs, no more prophecies that need to be fulfilled before this happens, and according to scripture, and according to that position, it's going to come like a thief in the night, there are not going to be any signs of the rapture, we don't know when it's coming, it's going to come as a surprise, no one knows the day or the hour, and all these tribulations, these bad things that are happening, aren't supposed to take place until what they call the seven-year tribulation period, that's when all the bad things happen, so the things that they say are signs of the times really doesn't fit with the position that they say that they hold, the pre-millennial, pre-tribulation rapture position, so that part confuses me, why you would say that we're seeing all these signs when the position says there's not going to be any signs, there's no more prophecies that need to be fulfilled, it could happen any moment, we don't know when it's going to happen, it's going to come like a thief in the night, we're not going to expect it, and that the antichrist comes before the rapture, when that position says he appears, he reveals himself after the rapture, so that's one aspect of a post like that, that I wanted to convey, and I'm not calling, this is what I wanted to be careful about, this is why I wanted to come across as kind and concerned and loving, is because I don't want to come across this calling any one person out, because I believe that sharing such information comes from a pure heart, because we love people, we love the lost, we want them saved, and we don't want them left behind of course, and so I think that's where it's coming from, so I'm not calling anyone out, all I want to do is have a conversation about the information that we see on our social media, and we sometimes share, that we should think about it before we post it, and see if it lines up with scripture, see if it lines up with our beliefs, before we share that information, or like that information, and it doesn't seem that that post lined up with that popular position, now that position or that information that I was sharing with you, does line up if you hold the post post-tribulation rapture, so you've got the pre-trib rapture, the mid-trib rapture, and the post-trib rapture, and I think also it's called the pre-wrath rapture, you've got all those different positions that you can hold, now that information lines up with the post-tribulation rapture, so the antichrist will come before the rapture, and these terrible things are going to come before the rapture, because they're going to be during that seven year tribulation, and then you're going to have the rapture, if you hold to the post-tribulation rapture position, so then you're being honest, if you hold that position, then sharing that information, you're being honest with your conviction, so there you have that, something to think about, if you happen to be watching this, did you even know that there's a pre-trib, a mid-trib, and a post-tribulation rapture position?

For many years, I didn't know that, there's and there's still so many things about the bible, scripture, and interpretation that I don't know, and it's okay, we all grow at different levels, but the things about Christ, his salvation, the gospel, the end times, these are important things, let me rephrase that, all of scripture is important, it's all true, and it's all without error, and it's inspired, infallible, inerrant, it's all important, but with that being said, we should study salvation, the gospel, and end times, because as I'm learning, and as I'm trying to share with you, what we believe about end times tremendously affects how we live our lives now, it affects how we evangelize, it affects how we pursue this world, pursue our life, pursue our family, and raise our family, and care for our family, it affects all those things, and I think it's a mistake to have the position, many call it the pan-millennialist, it will all pan out in the end, and I love my brothers and sisters who say that and believe that, but I think it's a mistake, and something to think about, because the position you hold plays a tremendous role in how you live your life, and I would just encourage you to think about that, and even having the pan-millennial view affects how you live your life, it really does, I would encourage you to think about that, now on the flip side, I made my first points about being inquisitive about the information that you see before you share it, read it over, line it up with scripture, line it up with the position that you think you hold, see if all those things are true, so we've covered all that, now I wanted to give you just some things to think about when it comes to eschatology, we are, and this is in no certain order, no certain theme, I don't think, just some aspects of end times that I wanted you to think about, so you have this rapture position, you have this rapture position, and one of the popular verses that you would go to if you're looking for this rapture position is of course 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, that's going to be one of your go-to verses for this rapture position, and that's where you have the verse, verse 16, for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first, then we who are alive and remain will be called up to gather with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus we shall always be with the Lord, so there's your, one of your go-to verses for the rapture, they say, well, the concept, the word rapture is not in the Bible, you know, that's a very, that's a shallow argument because, you know, we're going to say, well, the word trinity is not in the Bible, so, but you believe in the trinity, so, you know, we can set that argument aside, we want to study scripture, and what does scripture say, and they say, well, the rapture concept is in the Bible, and that word called up is where you get rapture from, those who are alive and remain will be called up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus will, thus shall always be with the Lord, okay, as I've been studying, as I've been looking at this, here's something that made me think, and that I would encourage you to think about, so this is the go-to passage for the rapture, hey, Nancy, I hope you're doing well, thank you for watching, 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, the, one of the go-to rapture passages, but what happens, what happens first, have you noticed that, have you thought about that, of course, I didn't for a long time, for the Lord himself will descend, verse 16, from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and what does it say, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, that doesn't sound like the rapture, that sounds like the resurrection, and then, verse 17, if you want to call that a rapture, that's where you can, you know, put your rapture in, where you're, where you're caught up, but in the, in this end times position, you're going to have the rapture first, and then the resurrection, the resurrection comes last, the resurrection of the dead, but that's not how it's stated in scripture, in scripture, you have the resurrection first, and then the rapture, so how do you get around that in your position, well, you've got to come up then with, well, there's going to be two resurrections, there's going to be a general resurrection, then there's going to be another resurrection, or there's going to be two resurrections, one resurrection is going to be that of the righteous, and then later, there's going to be the resurrection of the unrighteous, or the unjust, the non-believers.

So you've got to come up with another resurrection because these two verses 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 verses 16 to 17 contradict that position that there's the rapture and then later there's the resurrection.

Here it says the resurrection happens first and then this being called up happens. So what's the problem with the the two resurrection position? Well first of all the Bible only talks about one resurrection.

So you can't have two resurrections. Can't you have a resurrection of the righteous first and then later the resurrection of the unjust, the unrighteous? I'm not going to go read all these verses but you can write them down and look them up for yourself.

Acts chapter 24 verse 15, John chapter 5 verses 28 29, 1st Corinthians 15 35 through 55 and then here 1st Thessalonians 4 6 through 17. All these verses that I just mentioned I'll give them to you one more time.

Acts 24 15 John chapter 5 verses 28 through 29, 1st Corinthians 15 35 through 55 then here in 1st Thessalonians 4 16 and 17. What these verses tell us is that the the righteous and the unrighteous are raised at the same time.

There's only one resurrection and they're both raised at the same time. That's what these verses tell us. So you can't have two resurrections and make that up so that it fits your end times position. I hope that makes sense.

Something to think about and something to comment about. Something to challenge me about. It's okay we can have a conversation. Dan and I Sunday at 2 .30 are going to have a deeper conversation about this subject and more more things to think about.

So I encourage you to watch Sunday at 2 .30. Dan and I are going to talk about a prophecy video that's on YouTube. We're going to talk about the verse that talks about and Jesus tells them you will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds.

What does that mean? How do we understand Jesus telling them that you will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds? How do we understand that verse? And then the the generation verse which I'm going to briefly mention just now before we wrap it up.

But the generations. If you hold the pre-millennial pre-trib rapture position you've got to do something with this word generation. Does it mean 40 years? Does it mean 80 years? It couldn't mean 40 years because the that position holds that the the prophetic clock started when Israel become a nation in 1948 and then the rapture was going to happen during that generation and the generation was 40 years.

Well that has come and gone. So now we have to change the years of a generation and that timetable is here now. But there's there's something to that and I'm going to share it with you Sunday. If a generation is 80 years, those events are going on right now as we speak.

But according to that prophecy, according to that prediction, something's happened already and I want to share it with you Sunday. But let me share with you three more verses and the last one is going to be that verse that I'm mentioning in Matthew.

So all these verses come from Matthew. Matthew is the kingdom book. Jesus is king book and and that's where we should go and study a lot of these things. It is full of wonderful wonderful information about Jesus and his kingdom and his kingdom to come and his kingdom being here.

So Matthew chapter 10 Matthew chapter 10 verse 23. These are this is just some things for you to think about. Those of you that hold to the premillennial pre-trib rapture position. Just some things for you to think about because we are looking for, if you hold that position, we are looking for all these things to come.

We are looking for the Antichrist to come. We're looking for the the tribulation period to come in the future. So we've got to, if you hold that position, there's something that you have to do with these verses.

Matthew chapter 10 verse 23 and this is Jesus speaking in all these verses. Verse 23 says, but whenever they persecute you. Now he's having, Jesus is having a conversation with somebody at this time. This is not a generic, I'm speaking to people in the future.

He is having a conversation. He has commanded his disciples to go out. And now he's telling them, you go, whenever they persecute you in this city, Jesus is being for his disciples. You, the person he's having a conversation with, you shall not finish until the Son of Man comes.

That's part of the conversation. That's part of that entice position. We're looking for the Antichrist. We're looking for the tribulation. We're looking for the rapture. We're looking for Jesus to come.

We're looking for all those things to happen at a certain period. But Jesus is speaking to his disciples, having a real specific conversation. This isn't to a future generation. He's saying, you will not finish going through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man comes.

How do we handle that verse? How do we interpret that verse? What is Jesus talking about? What kind of coming is he talking about? Do we still have disciples? Do we still have one of the 11s or 12 walking through Israel at this time because he hasn't come back yet?

Because we're in this gap period. We're called the church age. And we're still waiting on Jesus to return, to come back. And the next event on the prophetic calendar is the rapture. So we're looking for that.

Do we still have some of his 12, some of his 11 walking the streets of Israel? Because he says, you will not finish walking the streets of Israel until the Son of Man comes. It's just the verse that we have to address.

And some people are going to have an explanation for it. Many pastors and theologians smarter than me, way smarter than me, they have answers. And you can go find them on the internet, on YouTube. You can find these answers.

You can go talk to your pastor, and he will probably have an answer for you. But it should cause us to think, what do I do with this passage? Jesus says, until the Son of Man comes. They're not going to finish walking through the streets of Israel.

So what did he mean by the Son of Man comes? Now, let's say that you have an explanation for that verse. Can Jesus get more specific than he just did? He actually does. He actually gets a little more specific.

If you flip over to Matthew 16, verse 28, listen to what he says here. Truly, I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who shall not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.

What do we do with that verse? How do we handle that? If we hold the premillennial, pre-tribulation, rapture position, we're waiting on him to come in his kingdom with all those who have gone on before us to bring them, to call us up, to be with him, and then for his kingdom to come, for him to establish an earthly rule and establish a millennial kingdom.

We're waiting on all that to happen. But Jesus says, some of you are standing here shall not taste death until the Son of Man is coming, sees the Son of Man coming in his kingdom. What do we do with that verse?

I've actually heard of people saying that there are people from this time still alive because if not, then Jesus was a liar. Then there would have to be people still alive because they've not seen him come in his kingdom yet.

I don't think that's the case. I think there's another explanation. I think there's another explanation. But all I'm asking is that you have a conversation. You take time to think about these verses because these verses don't match this premillennial, pre-trib, rapture position.

And then the third verse, that is, this is the verse that changed my mind. And this is the key verse that when you're interpreting the rest of Scripture and you're thinking about end times, you're thinking about eschatology, this verse is the key verse.

Because if this verse is true, then whatever I'm reading in Revelation, whatever I'm reading in Daniel, whatever I'm reading in Zachariah, whatever I'm reading in Ezekiel, if Matthew chapter 24 verse 34 is true, then I have to interpret what Jesus says in verse 34 and I have to interpret Revelation based on this.

I have to interpret Ezekiel, Zachariah, Daniel based on this. Isaiah, I have to interpret it based on Matthew chapter 24 verse 34. You have to. Or it will, the Bible, you will have the Bible contradicting itself.

So listen to Matthew chapter 24 verse 34. Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. What are all these things? You know, that list of bad things that people like to talk about and then they'll say, and it's gonna get even worse than this, worse than you've, than we've ever seen before.

It's coming. That's what they say, it's coming. That's what comes before verse 34. All these bad things that are, that are going to be happening, that's what comes before verse 34. But Jesus says, this generation will not pass until all these things, these tribulations, these bad things take place.

And, and other signs as well. That's where the generation comes in. So you'll hear folks say, if you take, if you take this verse to a commentary, to a, to somebody who holds the, the premill, pre-tribulation rapture position, what they're going to say is, Jesus is speaking of the generation that these signs, these bad things are happening in.

So once these signs of the times begin to happen, they are, they won't pass away until, or this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place. So that's what they're going to say.

Jesus is speaking of a future generation that's not going to pass away until all these tribulation signs, all these bad things have taken place. All these prophecies have been fulfilled. The problem with that is, is that if you at least start in verse 34 and go back, and if you're a good student of God's word, you're going to read it and understand it and interpret it in context.

If you start at verse 34 and make your way back and make your way back and make your way back, just turn the page and keep going. We want to read the Bible in context. And as Gary DeMar likes to say, everywhere that Jesus says this generation, he is speaking, his audience is the generation to who he's referring to is the generation to whom he's speaking to.

No exception in every circumstance, the generation who he's talking about is the generation who he's speaking to. And so that can't be the context in every single situation. And then all of a sudden in verse 34, Jesus switches it and changes it.

And he changes the context and says, but now I'm going to be talking about a future generation. We have to read the Bible in the context. And in the context, the generation to whom he's speaking is the generation that will not pass away until all these things take place.