Mark 13:3-6
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One Generation
One Generation
So last week we established that these events that Jesus is speaking of are going to happen in the first century.
And at certain points he goes into quite a bit of detail.
Why?
Because He cares about them,
and He wants them to remain faithful.
Breakdown of the prophecies:
1. False Messiahs, Wars/Rumors of Wars, Nation vs Nation, Kingdom vs Kingdom, Earthquakes and Famines
2. Handed over to Sanhedrin, Flogged in synagogues, Stand before governors and kings, Betrayal, Murder, Hatred
3. Abomination that causes desolation
4.Tribulation
THEN
More False Messiahs and Prophets
Coming of the Son of Man (The Last Day)
This week we are going to focus on this first section.
False Messiahs, Wars/Rumors of Wars, Nation vs Nation, Kingdom vs Kingdom, Earthquakes and Famines
First Century:
False Christs:
9 A man named Simon had previously practiced sorcery in that city and astounded the Samaritan people, while claiming to be somebody great. 10 They all paid attention to him, from the least of them to the greatest, and they said, “This man is called the Great Power of God!” 11 They were attentive to him because he had astounded them with his sorceries for a long time.
18 Children, it is the last hour, and just as you have heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen, by which we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us. But they went out, in order that it might be shown that all of them are not of us.
22 Who is the liar, if not the one who denies that Jesus is the Messiah? This one is the antichrist: the one who denies the Father and the Son. 23 No one who denies the Son can have the Father; he who confesses the Son has the Father as well.
vs 26 “I have written these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you.”
7 Many deceivers have gone out into the world; they do not confess the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8 Watch yourselves so you don’t lose what we have worked for, but that you may receive a full reward. 9 Anyone who does not remain in Christ’s teaching but goes beyond it, does not have God. The one who remains in that teaching, this one has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your home, and don’t say, “Welcome,” to him; 11 for the one who says, “Welcome,” to him shares in his evil works.
False Messiahs: Fulfilled
Wars and Rumors of Wars:
Pax Romana - Began with Augustus is 27 B.C.
Ended with the death of Nero in 68
Civil wars occured.
Vitellius, Otho, and Vespasian war with Emperor Galba.
A.D. 69 remembered as year of the 4 emperors.
Vespasian wins.
Nation against nation, kingdom against kingdom. Fulfilled.
Earthquakes and famines:
27 Now in those days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. 28 And one of them named Agabus stood up and indicated by the Spirit that a great famine was about to come over the whole inhabited earth (which took place in the time of Claudius). 29 So from the disciples, according to their ability to give, each one of them determined to send financial aid for support to the brothers who lived in Judea, 30 which they also did, sending the aid to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.
This took place during the reign of Claudius which was 41-54.
Also Tacitus:
“Scanty crops too, and consequent famine were regarded as a token of calamity.” Rome had “provisions for no more than 15 days.” Furthermore, , in that same year, “houses were thrown down by frequent shocks of an earthquake.”
From AD 55-57, Paul was reaching out to the churches of Macedonia to provide aid for the poor church in Jerusalem.
26 For Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make some contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.
1 Now concerning the collection for the saints: just as I gave directions about it to the churches of Galatia, so you do also.
20 We are trying to avoid this, lest anyone should find fault with us in this abundant gift that is being administered by us.
Josephus tells us of an earthquake that strikes Jerusalem in AD 67.
Tacitus tell of earthquakes all over the Roman Empire going on at this time as well.
Earthquakes and famines:
Fulfilled.
Why was all of this happening right now?
The beginning of birth pains
17 So the dragon was furious with the woman and left to wage war against the rest of her offspring —those who keep God’s commands and have the testimony about Jesus.
12 For our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.
Commentary on a Harmony of the Evangelists Matthew, Mark, and Luke Matthew 24:32–36; Mark 13:28–32; Luke 21:29–33
” So then, while our Lord heaps upon a single generation every kind of calamities, he does not by any means exempt future ages from the same kind of sufferings, but only enjoins the disciples to be prepared for enduring them all with firmness.
Today.
Cyclical prophecy.
False Christs.
Wars and Rumors of wars.
Cyber warfare.
Civil Wars.
Friend Marcus
Famines and Earthquakes
What to do?
These are not unique to the generation that we live in.
Watch out.
The next thing that will occur in redemptive history is Jesus will return to judge the living and the dead.
Don’t let people distract you from this simple truth.
And do not be alarmed.
Are you concerned?
There’s a lot to be concerned about.
But what Jesus wants us to know deep down in our bones,
is that He has won.
the presence of suffering in our lives and around the world is not an evidence that the kingdom of God has failed.
Beginning of birth pains.
18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed to us. 19 For the creation eagerly waits with anticipation for God’s sons to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility —not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it —in the hope 21 that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of corruption into the glorious freedom of God’s children. 22 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together with labor pains until now. 23 And not only that, but we ourselves who have the Spirit as the firstfruits —we also groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for adoption, the redemption of our bodies.
35 Who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can affliction or anguish or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
Answer?
37 No, in all these things we are more than victorious through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that not even death or life, angels or rulers, things present or things to come, hostile powers, 39 height or depth, or any other created thing will have the power to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!