Matthew 24:42–51
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in an age that is obsessed with the future, but in all the wrong ways. When it comes to the end times, many Christians have their heads stuck in the clouds of speculation, trying to decode newspaper headlines with a chart in one hand and a copy of Revelation in the other. They are looking for a helicopter escape from history, a rapture that will pull them out before the final exam. But Jesus, in this great Olivet Discourse, is not giving us a bus schedule for the apocalypse. He is telling us how to live right now, in the thick of it. The Lord has just finished describing the cataclysmic end of an entire world, the end of the Judaic age, which would culminate in the destruction of the Temple in A.D. He told that first-century generation that all these things, the tribulation, the abomination of desolation, would happen before they passed away.