Admonition Podcast

the book of Mark, still in chapter 13.

dealing with Jesus' statements and his comments concerning the temple and concerning the
fall of Jerusalem.

We'll pick up with those uh statements and some of those things here in just a moment.

But let's begin with a word of prayer.

Our gracious Father in heaven, we bow before your throne, grateful for the day that you've
blessed us with.

grateful for the life that you have given to us and the opportunity that we have to study
your word, to encourage one another, to be uplifted by it, to be exhorted and edifying.

Lord, we're mindful of those who are struggling with illness and those who are recovering
from injuries.

We pray that you will be with each and every one of them, that they might be returned back
to their desired health.

Lord, we pray especially for those who are struggling perhaps

because of.

sin and we pray that they might set their heart and their mind to serve you, that they
might repent of the things which are hindering them and that they might come back to you

and seek your forgiveness.

Lord, we pray that we might be an encouragement to them as well.

As we focus our minds and prepare for this evangelism seminar that is upcoming and for our
education day, for outreach, we pray that

Your blessing will be upon our efforts and we pray that open doors of opportunity will be
available to us, that we will learn and we will prepare ourselves to walk through those

doors and to reach the lost with the gospel and we might boldly proclaim the truth.

Lord, we pray that you be with us as we go throughout this night and throughout the
remainder of this week.

All this we pray and ask in Jesus' name, amen.

Jesus, as He is nearing the end of His time on this earth, as He is walking the streets of
Jerusalem, teaching in the temple, going in and out of the city, into the city during the

day, early in the morning, out of the city at night, He is going to

be shown by the disciples, the stones and the architecture and the building itself of the
temple.

And Jesus will make the point that not one stone will be left upon another.

Now, it just so happened, I didn't plan this by the way, but it just so happened that
Sunday we were in a period of discussion in Revelation class.

where we were dealing with terminology that was about the fall of a nation.

We'll see if you can identify any of the same terminology here in this text.

As we pick up, we're just going to read a little bit and go back to verse five where Jesus
begins to speak and follow through to where we left off.

But just make a mental note and see if maybe a little scripture reference here for Isaiah
13 and

Isaiah 34 and Jeremiah 4 and Micah 1 might be worthwhile in this text as well because it
sounds almost exactly like the text in Revelation chapter 6.

Jesus says, Take heed that no one deceives you, for many will come in My name, saying, I
am He, and will deceive many.

But when you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be troubled, for such things must
happen,

but the end is not yet.

For nation will rise up against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be
earthquakes in various places.

There will be famines and troubles.

These are the beginning of sorrows.

But watch out for yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils and you will be
beaten in the synagogues.

You will be brought before rulers and kings for my sake and for a testimony to them

and the gospel must first be preached to all nations.

But when they arrest you and deliver you up, do not worry beforehand or premeditate what
you will speak, but whatever is given you in that hour, speak that.

For it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

Now brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child.

and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death.

And you will be hated by all for my name's sake, but he who endures to the end will be
saved." So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet

standing where it ought not, let the reader understand.

Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

Let him who is on the housetop

not go down into the house, nor enter to take anything out of his house, and let him who
is in the field not go back to get his clothes.

But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days, and
pray that your flight might not be in the winter.

For in those days there will be tribulation such as has not been since the beginning of
the creation, which God created until this time nor ever shall be."

And unless the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh would be saved.

But for the elect's whom He chose, He shortened the days.

Then if anyone says to you, Look, here is the Christ, or look, He is there, do not believe
it.

For false Christs and false prophets will rise and show signs and wonders to deceive, if
possible, even the elect.

But take heed, see, I have told you all things beforehand."

But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened and the moon will not
give its light.

The stars of heaven will fall and the powers in the heavens will be shaken.

Then they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory, and
then He will send His angels and gather together His elect from the four winds from the

farthest part of the earth to the farthest part of heaven."

Now learn this parable from the fig tree.

When its branch has already become tender and put forth leaves, you know that summer is
near.

So you also, when you see these things happen, know that it is near at the doors.

But surely I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all

these things take place.

Jesus will warn them, but Jesus will give them a series of signs.

He'll tell them, you're going to see people coming claiming to be the Christ, the Messiah,
claiming to be me.

They're not.

You're going to hear of wars and rumors of wars.

You're going to hear of earthquakes and famines and destruction.

It's normal.

You're going to be persecuted and you're going to be taken and you're going to be put
before the councils and before the synagogues and before the kings and before the rulers

and you're going to give a testimony concerning me and concerning my word.

It's normal.

You're going to then see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel.

beginning with verse 14, Jesus ties in what Daniel said in that prophecy of the 70 weeks
in Daniel 9 to the fact that there was going to be something present in a particular

location.

that they were going to see and they were going to go, I know exactly what I'm seeing.

I know that this is the fulfillment of what Daniel spoke.

So the question is, what is it they were going to see?

Let's go back to Daniel chapter nine for a moment, just because I want to kind of wrap
this up in Daniel's context to where that hopefully we can see.

uh

the picture here as it is described.

You go back into Daniel chapter 9.

ah Let's go to...

Actually, I want to get a little bit of the beginning of the chapter because I want us to
see it.

Chapter 9 verse 1, in the first year of Darius, the son of Ahasuerus of the lineage of the
Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans, in the first year of his reign,

I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of years specified by the word of the Lord
through Jeremiah the prophet that he would accomplish 70 years in the desolation of

Jerusalem.

Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make requests by prayer in supplication with
fasting sackcloth and ashes.

And I prayed to the Lord my God and made confession and said, O Lord, great and awesome
God, who keeps His covenant mercy with those who love Him and with those who keep His

commandments, we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled,
even by departing from your precepts and your judgments.

Neither have we heeded your servants, the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings
and our princes, to our fathers and all the people of the land.

O Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us shame of face, as it is this day.

To the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those
who are off in all the countries to which you have driven them, because of the

unfaithfulness which you have committed.

or sorry, which they have committed against you.

Now notice as Daniel opens this passage up, Daniel tells what he had been studying.

What had he been studying and come to an understanding about?

The scrolls, who wrote?

Jeremiah.

In which Jeremiah prophesied about the duration of what?

the 70 years they would be in captivity.

Now, is the one who, uh Isaiah's gonna prophesy which king is gonna let them out, all of
those things, but Jeremiah is going to say, it's 70 years.

Jeremiah's gonna say that before they ever go into captivity.

And Daniel is saying, I was studying Jeremiah and what he wrote, and I have come to a full
understanding that it was 70 years that we would be in captivity, and I'm looking at it.

70 years is up.

In other words, he's saying, God said it would be this long, now I'm looking for the
indication that it's about to come to an end.

And he begins to pray to God and recognize in that prayer that it was Israel's sins, that
it was the inhabitants of the land, and it was the leadership of Israel that caused them

to be here to begin with.

and yet he's going to pray that God will forgive them and restore them back to the land.

Now notice what's the number of years they're in captivity.

70.

When you step over to the vision at the end of the chapter, what's the number of weeks in
the vision?

70.

What's the point?

Daniel's mind is on something right now.

70 years coming to an end.

And the 70 years coming to an end means God's going to restore Jerusalem.

God's going to restore the temple.

But as Daniel is praying that God will do that, as Daniel is praying that God will put
Israel back in Jerusalem and back in the temple, God is going to send Daniel a vision

telling him how it's all going to end.

before it even restarts, God says, here's how it's gonna end up.

There is in this passage a clear picture to Daniel.

that unfortunately his people weren't going to change.

That they would again turn against God.

But this time, there won't be any coming back.

When God sends the abomination of desolation as it is used, as the term is used, God's
telling him, that's it.

This Babylon,

was your one chance.

This was my long suffering extended to you.

and I'm going to bring you back to Jerusalem and I'm going to bring the temple back and
I'm going to put you back in the land but know this I already know how it's going to turn

out

And so in Jesus' prophecy, he's going to say, God told Daniel how it was going to turn
out.

You're going to watch it turn out before this generation dies.

Now notice what else.

We go back to later on in the chapter.

Verse 24 of Daniel 9, 70 weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city.

So again, Daniel's request is going to be in prayer, restore Jerusalem, restore the
temple.

God says, I'll do it.

I'm gonna do it for 70 weeks.

Now, he doesn't mean 70 literal seven day periods.

And we know that because he tells us that, okay?

He gives us a terminology of a perfect amount of time.

It's the number 10, which means complete in visionary language, and the number seven,
which is perfect.

God says, I'm going to give you a perfectly complete amount of time, and Israel is going
to rebel perfectly and completely by the time it's over.

Okay?

Now notice he says, for the...

for your people and for your holy city to finish the transgression, to make an end of
sins.

God is making it clear through Daniel that what He is telling them is that what Israel is
going to do

will cause his patience and his long-suffering to run out.

What is it that Israel is going to do that is going to cause God's patience and
long-suffering to run out?

They're going to kill his son.

You remember the question that Jesus asked just a little, I don't know, maybe last chapter
ago as he presented the individual, the king who had the vineyard and he went off into a

far country and he left it to the vineyard owner or the vineyard keepers and then he sent
back a servant to get his portion of the vineyard and they beat him and sent him back.

And he sent another servant and another servant and another servant, and then he finally
sends his sons, and surely they will listen to him, and when they see the son they say,

let's kill him, then it all becomes ours.

So they killed the son.

Now remember Jesus's question.

What will the king do?

to the wicked Vineyard Keepers.

Daniel 9 is the vision for Daniel saying, this is what's coming.

It's the finishing of transgression, not the putting away of transgression, not the
washing away of transgression.

That's not the idea here.

The idea is the culmination of transgression.

Just like as we mentioned, I think, uh last week,

when God said concerning the Amorites to Abraham, the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet
full.

So God wasn't going to give Abraham in his generation the land, he was going to give it to
the future generations.

Well, God's saying to Daniel, the iniquity of Israel is not yet full, but one day it will
be.

And when it does, when it is,

You know the times at hand.

Okay?

Now notice what else he says.

To finish the transgression, to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for iniquity,
to bring in everlasting righteousness.

There's two things here.

There's a culminating of the end of transgression.

They're going to fill up their transgression at the same time.

There's going to be hope for salvation.

Right when you look at the nation of Israel and think there is no hope for this people,
God's going to bring hope to the world.

when you step back and think about it.

When Jesus was born, Jesus is going to be born in Bethlehem.

And for a period of time, Joseph and Mary and Jesus are going to remain in Bethlehem.

They're going to, according to the law, bring Jesus to the temple.

And while Jesus is brought to the temple, Simeon is going to see him.

And Simeon had been told by God, you will not see death until you see the Savior.

And Simeon sees the baby and recognizes him as the Savior.

and that prophecy that Simeon proclaims about Jesus being the Savior of Israel.

is going to occur, then Joseph and Mary are going to go back to Bethlehem, and they're not
going to be there for a very long time before Herod is sending soldiers to kill all of the

children ages two and below.

Here's the prophecy, the Savior is here.

Here are the wise men saying, the King has been born.

And what do you have the leadership in Israel doing?

Slaughtering the children.

Was Herod deposed for his actions?

No.

All of these events culminate.

at a branch, at a separation in time, where Israel fills up the cup of iniquity and wrath,
and yet salvation is now offered to Jew and Gentile alike.

Which by the way, the Hebrew writer and Paul will discuss over and over and over again in
books like Romans and Hebrews.

Okay, now he says,

to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy.

As he goes through this list, he says, this is going to happen, this is going to happen,
this is going to happen, this is going to happen, this is going to happen, and the Most

Holy will be anointed.

There's an anointing that is going to occur.

There is a transfer of power that is going to occur.

and God's chosen ruler is going to sit on the throne.

Now all Israel's gonna be looking for God's chosen ruler to be sitting on the throne in
Israel in a physical kingdom.

but that wasn't what was prophesied by Daniel.

Go back two chapters, Daniel chapter seven.

in the midst of this vision, Daniel is going to see a period of time where God's people
are going to be persecuted.

God's people are going to be tortured.

But as you notice, chapter 7 verse 9, I watched till thrones were put in place and the
angst of days was seated.

Who's that?

God the Father.

His garment was white as snow and the hair of his head was like pure wool.

His throne was a fiery flame, its wheels a burning fire.

A fiery stream issued forth and came forth from before him.

A thousand thousands ministered to him, ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him.

The court was seated and the books were opened." Now sometimes people will come to this
passage and they say,

Books are open.

Must be the final day, judgment day.

Books are open.

Nope.

No, this isn't the judgment day.

This is the coronation day.

Watch what happens.

I watched then, because of the sound of the pompous words which the horn was speaking, I
watched till the beast was slain and its body destroyed and given to the

flame as for the rest of the beast they had their dominion taken away get their lives were
prolonged for a season and a time I watched in the night visions and behold one like the

Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven he came to the ancient of days and they
brought him near before him then to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom

that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him.

His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom the
one which shall not be destroyed."

Now we know which kingdom that is because we read Daniel 2.

If we're familiar with the vision of Daniel 2, we know that the kingdom which will not be
destroyed is what?

The Church.

The kingdom of Christ.

And Jesus said, Mark chapter 9, that that generation that was standing there would not see
death till they saw His kingdom

Come with power.

Well, this vision doesn't tell you about Christ returning from the Father in power.

This vision is Christ going to the Father to receive power.

In Matthew chapter 28, verses 18 through 20, what did Jesus say had occurred at His
resurrection?

all authority has been given unto me in heaven and on earth.

Go ye therefore and teach all nations." Jesus will tell them, I'm not staying here, I'm
going back to the Father.

When Jesus goes back to the Father, when he ascends to the Father, Acts chapter 1, Jesus
says, you wait here until you receive power from on high.

and then you will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria and to the
outermost part of the earth." Why?

Because the kingdom had had its doors open and there was a king who was now ruling.

That's what Daniel 7 prophesies.

Not the return, but the ascension.

Now in Daniel 9, notice, he says, these things are going to happen, and it's going to seal
up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.

He is going to receive power.

We know when that happens.

When does that happen?

Matthew 28.

Jesus tells you when it happens.

All authority has been given unto me in heaven and on earth.

All right.

Now notice, he says, know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the
command to rebuild or restore and build Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince.

there shall be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks.

So, what most people will do is they'll go, okay, well how long did Jesus live?

on the earth.

About 33 years.

33 is about half of what.

66 to 70, okay, all right.

If we were to, and by the way, if you were to number the 33, you're at 34, right?

So about half of 70.

Well, okay, if half of the time from Jesus being born, or sorry, if half of 70 hears,

is the time of Jesus being born, then let's do the math here, okay?

So if there's 69 weeks that have occurred before that point, 69 of the weeks, meaning
there's one left, and Jesus lives half the duration of the last week, you're gonna see

that in just a moment, then that means that one week equals 70 years.

And if one week equals 70 years, then the entire span of time is 490 years.

Now, I mentioned last week, we can start trying to articulate all the math in all of this,
and we will do discredit to the vision.

Because while the math will, if you get all the numbers right, math kinda works.

That's not the point of the vision.

The point of the vision is what we need to catch.

And the point of the vision is this, God knew to the day how long Israel had.

In 606 BC, God knew to the day how long Israel had.

In 534 BC, God knew to the day how long Israel had.

And so as Daniel is praying that God restore Jerusalem, God's going to say, I'll restore
it, but I'm going to tell you how it's

Notice he says, know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the command to
restore and build Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince, there shall be seven weeks and 62

weeks.

The street shall be built again and the wall, even in troublesome times, which you can go
read about in the days of Nehemiah and further on and continuing.

Jerusalem's going to have problems from the day they get back until the day is destroyed.

basically they're going to have issues non-stop.

He says, verse 26, and after the 62 weeks the Messiah shall be cut off.

Okay, now wait a minute.

I thought it was after the 62 weeks he was going to be born.

By the way, 70 does come after the 62 because there's 7 and then there's 62 and 70 will
come after 69 every time, okay?

It didn't say that it's right at the end of 69, it said after that, okay?

It's important as we look at language to not force on it a meaning that isn't there.

It didn't say right at the end of 69 or the 62 plus 7, right at the end of 69.

The Messiah didn't say that, it said after.

He says, after the 62 weeks, the Messiah shall be cut off, but not for himself.

And the people of the prince who is to come.

Now, a lot of people will do this, they'll go Messiah is prince, therefore the Messiah is
coming back, therefore this is discussing end of time.

So the prince here isn't the Messiah.

Pay attention.

There's a Messiah and there is a prince.

He says, after the 62 weeks, the Messiah shall be cut off, but not for himself.

And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary.

Which people destroyed the city of Jerusalem and the temple, the sanctuary?

The Romans.

So the prince here is the Roman prince.

Not a Jewish prince.

Jews didn't destroy the temple.

They didn't destroy the city.

The Romans did.

So you've got the Messiah being cut off and then immediately a transition into and the
prince.

and the people who come with him are going to destroy the city and they're going to
destroy the sanctuary.

Now we know from history that's Titus, his father now sitting on the throne in Rome, he's
a prince.

He's also a general, okay?

Titus is going to come in with the Roman armies, he's going to lay flat the city of
Jerusalem, but notice he says, and the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy

the city and the sanctuary.

The end of it shall be with a flood.

Till the end of the war, desolations are determined.

Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week." There's going to be a period of
time right at the end.

And notice what the period of time is going to bring with it.

But in the middle of the week,

He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering.

He's gonna make an agreement and it's gonna look like everything's gonna be fine.

That's actually going to happen.

The Romans are going to come and they're going to besiege the city.

And they're going to determine that Jerusalem's gonna be no more.

But because of events back in Rome, they're actually gonna withdraw the troops.

They're gonna leave.

And it's gonna look like, to all the Jews, whew, we got through.

We didn't die.

By the way, that was Jesus' sign to the Christians, get out.

because the Romans are then going to turn around.

They are going to come back about a year later, two years later.

And they're going to again besiege the city and that's the last of Jerusalem.

Notice he says, in the middle of the week, he shall bring an end to sacrifice and
offering.

And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate.

Now, on the wing of abominations, does anybody know what the symbol was that the Roman
army carried on their banners?

Yeah.

What do armies do when they take a city?

Razor flag.

in what location would have been the single most significant place to plant a flag to be a
thumb in the nose to Israel?

in the very temple that they thought would protect them.

Now remember what Jesus said.

Go back over.

When you see the abomination of desolation, that's the Greek translation of the
abomination, the wings of abomination of the one who makes desolate from Daniel 9.

When you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet standing where
it ought not.

Who was allowed to go into the holy place?

Or the most holy place in the temple?

only the high priest.

In the holy place, only the priest.

And yet Titus and his soldiers, they're not only going to go in, they're going to
dismantle it.

They're gonna plant the flag, as it were, and say...

You're done.

And Jesus is going to say, when you see the banners with the eagle's wings coming, you
know what's coming.

You know what you need to know.

He goes on, go back to verse 24, he says, in those days after that tribulation the sun
will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars of heaven will fall and the

powers of the heavens will be shaken.

Now, of course, pre-millennials will say, see, this is the end of time.

But Isaiah 13 and Isaiah 34 and Jeremiah 4 and Micah 1 all said this is what?

It's just fall of a nation.

This is Old Testament prophetic language that says nation's falling.

and this time it's going to be Israel.

He says, then they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and
glory.

It's got to be the end of days, got to be the judgment day, right?

Because that's the only time God ever comes out of heaven.

Or is it?

Matter of fact, you go back and read the Old Testament prophets and you've got God coming
out of heaven in judgment.

again and again and again and again.

This is Old Testament language.

Now that doesn't negate what Jesus will prophesy about the final day.

Have you ever heard of a type and an anti-type?

You ever thought about the fact that the tabernacle was a type of the church?

That Aaron was a type of Christ?

When you saw that one, you knew it wasn't the perfect and final one, but you knew it
pointed to something.

Well, all these judgments point to something.

That is that there's coming a day when a final judgment and a complete judgment and a full
judgment on all humanity is going to come.

And it has in their Bibles, looking back at Daniel in Eubanks.

This is how many times have I heard people telling me this is.

when it's very easily understood.

So in short, the question is why is there so much confusion if it really is this easy to
understand, if it really is this basic, if you just look at it and understand it?

And there's a couple of reasons.

Number one,

If you could read and misunderstand this passage, you would understand why these passages
are so much harder.

Here's the passage.

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.

He that believeth not shall be damned.

Now, if you can misunderstand that, I guarantee you, you can misunderstand this.

especially if you don't want to believe it.

Jesus is making the point, by the way, to the Apostles.

They should have already known this.

They should have understood this.

they should have been looking for these things.

they should have been able to comprehend what the prophets had said about the nation of
Israel.

Yet, on the day that Jesus ascends back into heaven, what are they going to ask Jesus?

Are you now going to restore the Kingdom to Israel?

As we look at the text of scripture, there are some things that we have to be careful not
to do.

And one of those things of the utmost importance is to not take our preconceived ideas and
insert them into the text.

mentioned on Sunday about in Daniel 6 the white horse.

And the white horse is said by Hal Lindsey and others who promote premillennialism and the
late great planet Earth, this is the Antichrist.

You want to know how many arguments Hal Lindsey makes for that being the Antichrist?

None.

He just says it is.

Why?

Because his whole theory falls apart if it isn't.

The whole doctrine falls to pieces.

So what happens when someone builds a false doctrine that gives them power, authority,
prominence, and wealth?

They start making up things so that it controls people to force them to believe what
they're being told.

Here's proof.

Go to Mark chapter seven and we'll close here.

Mark chapter seven, Jesus says in verse six, well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites as
it is written, this people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me and

in vain they worship me teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

For laying aside the commandments of God, you hold the tradition of men.

Jesus just.

puts a knife right in it.

He says, here's what you've done.

You took the Word of God and you said, all right, let's talk about religion.

Let's talk about being obedient to God, but you took the message of God and you threw it
away.

So you could talk about your traditions and your beliefs and your philosophies instead of
my commands.

and it all comes down to that.

We get so maligned on these texts because of what we bring into them, not what's already
there.

Now, are they easy to understand?

No.

Are they a whole lot easier to understand when you just kind of walk through them a step
at a time and think about them and know a little bit of Old Testament history and know a

little bit of first century history?

Yeah.

mean, the people I feel sorry for.

are the people in rural Africa who don't have a whole lot of Roman background knowledge.

Right?

That'd be pretty confusing.

What is all this stuff?

We live in a very blessed time with a whole lot of history in our hands.

And we, the biggest struggle we have, because we don't really know the Old Testament
prophets.

If we knew the prophets, we'd start understanding these passages in the New Testament.

a whole lot better.