70 AD and the End of the Age — Not the End of the World

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Let's jump in to today's episode. All right,

guys, we are back to rethinking the end times

this will be talking about today. What happened

in the year 70 A .D. as it concerns to the prophetic

words that Jesus spoke. Last week we talked about

a lot of the imagery, the prophetic symbolism,

all that kind of stuff. If you didn't catch that,

I encourage you to go back and re -listen to

that, re -watch that. But this week we're going

to talk about what happened in the year 70 A

.D. And I want us to rethink some things, maybe

reintroduce another lens to look at what Jesus

was talking about in certain scriptures that

we'll look at today. and understand that Jesus

is not talking vaguely about some random disastrous

event far off in the future, 2 ,000 some years

later. He specifically was warning of Jerusalem's

coming judgment, the destruction of the temple,

and the end of an old covenant world centered

on that temple system in that day and time. So

in the year 70 AD, just to real quick give you

a... viewpoint, Rome surrounded Jerusalem, they

destroyed the city, burned the second temple,

and that brought that age to a dramatic close.

And here's the thing, when I started looking

into what happened in the year 70 AD, probably,

I wouldn't say no more than five years ago, I

would like to say probably around three years

ago, this was new information for me. This is

not what I grew up believing, not what I grew

up understanding. but the more I began to hear

about this and I began to read on it, and what

little bit I did solidified what I believed as

far as end times are concerned. It solidified

that I no longer believe in a rapture. Yes, I

did say that out loud. I do not believe in a

rapture. Now, regardless of what you believe,

that's not important to me. It's not important

that you land in the same spot that I do, but

I think the conversation is valid. I think the

discussion... is valid and for many different

reasons that I'll mention later as we continue

on this journey. But I want to talk about the

fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD because if we miss

this event, we'll misunderstand a lot of what

Jesus had to say in Matthew chapter 24, Mark

Matthew 24 · chapter mention Mark 13 · chapter mention

chapter 13, Luke chapter 21, and even parts of

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Revelation. But if we allow Holy Spirit to adjust

our lens, and again this goes with anything in

our walk with Christ and the things we read in

the scriptures, if we allow the Holy Spirit to

adjust our lens and to see correctly, A lot of

confusing passages begin to make sense. It reminds

me of the verse that talks about, let he that

has an ear hear what the spirit is saying. He's

not talking about physical ears, he's talking

about spiritual ears in that moment. Because

you can take a group full of people in one room

listening to one speaker and they will. each

hear different things for different purposes

why because they're all on different journeys

they're in different stages in life so i think

it's very important that he let he that has an

ear hear what the spirit of saying so the destruction

of jerusalem was the visible collapse of an old

covenant order centered in the temple the temple

was the heart of jewish religious life in the

first century and its destruction in 70 ad changed

everything Simply put, the cross ended the old

covenant legally and AD 7 revealed that historically.

I want you to consider with me the story of Jesus

flipping the tables in John chapter 2 verses

John 2:13–17

13 through 17 and we're going to look at that

together once I get there. So John chapter 2

John 2:13–17

verses 13 through 17 and it says this When the

time was close for the Jewish Passover to begin

Jesus walked to Jerusalem as he went into the

temple courtyard He noticed it was filled with

merchants selling oxen lambs and doves for exorbitant

prices while others were overcharging as they

exchanged currency behind their counters So Jesus

found them found some cords and made them into

a whip Then he drove out every one of them and

their animals from the courtyard of the temple

and he kicked over their tables filled with money

scattered it everywhere and he told the merchants

get these things out of out of here don't you

dare commercialize my father's house that's when

his disciples remembered the scripture i am consumed

with the fiery passion to keep your house pure

so there's a reason i bring that up because i

want you to think about i hear this this phrase

thrown around a lot in the in the church world

as far as flipping over tables and we use it

um it's almost more like we use it how can i

say this um like we use it as an emotional attack

and jesus was not reacting emotionally here um

he was performing a prophetic act and he quotes

Isaiah 56 verse 7 and Jeremiah chapter 7 verse

Isaiah 56:7 Jeremiah 7:11

11. And now this is important as Jeremiah 7 is

directly connected to the destruction of the

first temple. Jesus is saying what happened before

is about to happen again. So I want to look at

Mark's version of this. Mark has a different

viewpoint. So let's look at Mark's version. It's

in Mark chapter 11. verses 12 through 21. So

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we're gonna read some scripture, that's for sure,

today. Mark chapter 11, you're like, what does

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this have to do with the temple? I promise you

I will get there and we'll kind of tie some stuff

together with my notes and everything else and

with the help of the Holy Spirit. So Mark chapter

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11. starting in verse 12, the next day as he

left Bethany, Jesus was feeling hungry. He noticed

a leafy fig tree in the distance, so he walked

over to see if there was any fruit on it. But

there was none, only leaves, for it wasn't yet

the season for bearing figs. Jesus spoke to the

fig tree, saying, no one will ever eat fruit

from you again. And the disciples overheard him.

When they came into Jerusalem, Jesus went directly

into the temple area, overturned all the tables

and benches and the merchants who were doing

business there. one by one he drove them all

out of the temple courts and they scattered away

including the money changers and those selling

doves and he would not allow them to use the

temple courts as a thoroughfare for carrying

their merchandise and their furniture then he

said then he began to teach the people saying

does not the scripture say my house will be a

house of prayer for all the world to share but

you have made it a hangout of thieves When the

chief priests and the religious scholars heard

this, they began to hatch a plot as to how they

could eliminate Jesus. But they feared him and

his influence because the entire crowd was totally

captivated by his teaching. So he and his disciples

spent the nights outside the city. In the morning,

they passed by the fig tree that Jesus spoke

to and it was completely withered up from the

roots up. And Peter remembered and said, teacher,

look, that's the fig tree you cursed. It's now

all shriveled up and dead. So there's a couple

things I want us to look at. Number one, I think

it's fascinating that Mark puts these events

together intentionally. The cursing of the fig

tree, the cleansing of the temple, and then the

withering of the fig tree. So the first thing

I want you to understand is the fig tree would

be symbolic to Israel's temple system. In the

Old Testament, the fig tree often symbolized

Israel and the fruit symbolized covenant faithfulness.

So there's a couple things on here I want to

look at. This is Dr. Simmons' notes on verse

13, where it talks about, he noticed a leafy

fig tree in the distance, he walked over to it.

There was no, let's see if there was any fruit

on it, but there was none. So the fig tree is

mentioned in Genesis 3 -7 with its lease being

a covering for fallen Adam and Eve to hide behind.

It also became a hiding place for Zacchaeus who

climbed a sycamore fig tree to see Jesus. The

tree with lease but no fruit can also be a symbol

of Israel's religious system of that day. Jesus,

the... Jesus next drives out the money changers

from the temple who were rotten fruit the first

fruits of the harvest Jesus was looking for Came

on the day of Pentecost at the end of the feast

of first fruits Now I'm also going to go back

because I believe in John chapter 2 there were

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some notes here For us to look at from dr. Simmons

that I thought was important To it John chapter

John 2:13–17

2 verses 13 through 17 no that is not what I

was looking for I was hoping to find the information

about the fig tree and it does not have what

I was looking for so anyhow we'll come back to

that if it's important I'll find my notes for

it otherwise we'll just have to keep moving because

I don't know where my notes went for that part

And I'm checking to see if they're on my laptop.

And they're not, so it's okay. But anyhow, Jesus

comes to the fig tree and finds leaves, but no

fruit. Why is this important? Because it meant

religious activity without covenant life. Then

Jesus goes and flips tables, stops the sacrifice,

and declares judgment. And then the fig tree

withers from its roots, suggesting a total system

collapse. One of the things I read about this

was regarding the figs, because it looked like

it had leaves, that there is a part of the fig

in early state at that point that is still edible.

But this fig tree had nothing to eat. So it looked

a part, but there was nothing on it for Jesus

to eat from. There was no fruit being produced

off of this tree. So Jesus is using this, and

I like how Mark put this where he put it. And

again, I think it was intentional. And Jesus,

it's showing that Jesus is interrupting the sacrificial

economy. He's declaring even here that the system

is coming to an end. Because I want you to think

about, think about what I just said the fig tree

represented as far as Israel's temple system.

It had no fruit on it for Jesus to eat from and

then he goes into the temple to cleanse the temple.

And again, a lot of times this gets thrown around

like we need to flip tables and flip and I don't

believe. Anywhere that that's what Jesus is trying

to encourage us to do is go into places and just

flip tables to flip tables Jesus was doing something

prophetically here because I want you to think

about what is happening in this temple What is

being sold and what is being sold in this temple

is is animals that would be used for sacrifices

So I want you to think about They back in the

Old Testament and all that kind of stuff. They

would have to make sacrifices periodically I'd

have to go back to read about how often that

had to be done That number escapes me or how

often and all I know it's annually, but I want

to say they could do other stuff More than just

annually, but the point is this that every time

you ended a sacrifice You would be constantly

have to be reminded of your sin to because you

had to decide for the next sacrifice. You had

to look forward to the next sacrifice that you

would be involved in. And so it was nothing but

being conscious of your sin. And that's never

what the Father wants. It's not about living

sin conscience. that will put you on the hamster

wheel of life and keep you just running and feeling

the fig tree that you're not producing anything

why because you're constantly focused on how

worthless you are how sinful you are how dirty

you are and that's never what the father wants

so he's coming to declare And again, that's why

I think Mark puts it where he puts it at, that

I'm bringing an end to this sacrificial system.

It does not have any fruit to bear for me or

my father any longer. This system is coming to

an end. So let's understand the temple. That

in that time, the temple was not just a church.

uh like a church building it was the center of

worship it was the center of sacrifice of priesthood

national identity and covenant life so until

its destruction the second temple was the most

important religious institution life because

here's what happens if the temple falls the sacrificial

system collapses the priest order is shattered

and the visible center of the old covenant world

is gone So when Jesus is prophesying or predicting

that the temple is going to be under destruction

He's not merely predicting a damaged architecture.

He's announcing the collapse of an entire covenant

order He's announcing a change a changing age.

Basically you sing out with the old end with

the new So I want you to think about some of

this stuff. So let's look at what Jesus actually

said in Matthew chapter 24 verses 1 & 2 and then

Matthew 24:1

we'll look at mark chapter 13 verses 1 and 2.

Mark 13:1

So Matthew 24 1 through 2 says as Jesus was leaving

the temple courts his disciples came to him and

pointed out the beautiful architecture of the

temple and Jesus turned to them and said take

a good look at all these things for I'm telling

you there will not be one stone left upon another

it will all be level. Dr. Simmons puts down here

that this prophecy of Jesus was fulfilled by

the Roman prince Titus who in the Roman war of

AD 67 to 70 destroyed the temple And in about

8135, the Emperor Hadrian completely destroyed

the city of Jerusalem and built a new city on

its foundation and named it Aelia Capitolinia.

Now you can pronounce those words how you would

like. That's just how I am interpreting them.

and then over in mark chapter 13 it says as jesus

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was leaving the temple courts one of his disciples

came to him and said teacher look at these magnificent

buildings and what tremendous stones were used

to build all of this jesus turned to them and

said take a good look at all these enormous buildings

for i'm telling you there will not be one stone

left upon another it will all be leveled so a

couple notes here And for verse one it says,

this is Solomon's temple rebuilt by Herod the

Great. He began the project in 19 BC prior to

the birth of Christ using some of the greatest

marble and gold ornamentation found in the Middle

East. Some of the stones he used were five meters

long and over one meter high. Now I'd have to

convert that over to know what that means, but

you can do that on your own too. And then verse

two is he again puts the note in here this prophecy

of Jesus was fulfilled by the Roman prince Titus

Who in the Roman war of 80s 67 70? Destroyed

the temple. They're still standing in Rome today

the Ark of Titus which commemorates his conquest

of Jerusalem and in about 81 35 the Emperor Hadrian

completely destroyed the city of Jerusalem and

built a new city on its foundations what we just

read for Matthew 24 So when the disciples here

are admiring the temple, Jesus said that not

one stone would be left upon another. Jesus here

is directly predicting the destruction of the

temple. And this would have sounded shocking.

The temple looked permanent, it looked massive,

it looked untouchable. When I taught this to

our Bible study, what kind of mind that I could

use as kind of an analogy for us here in my part

of the world would be to just consider the White

House, for example. something that's massive,

it looks permanent, and looks untouchable. And

these disciples were impressed with the size

of the building. Jesus was focused on the fragility

of a system that had already been judged. So

now let's look over, we're gonna go to Luke chapter

Luke 19:41–44

19, verses 41 through 44, and it says this. Says

when Jesus called sight of the city he burst

into tears with uncontrollable weeping over Jerusalem

saying if only you could recognize that this

day Peace is within your reach, but you cannot

see it For the day is soon coming when your enemies

will surround you him you in on every side and

lay siege to you they will crush you to pieces

and your children too and They will leave your

city totally destroyed since you would not recognize

God's day of visitation. You will see your day

of devastation. Trying to see if there's any

notes here. Not really on that part. Okay, so

Jesus is weeping over Jerusalem and this is huge

He doesn't speak like some cold -hearted judge.

He speaks like a grieving prophet or a grieving

father He says the days will come when enemies

will surround the city and leave one and not

leave one stone upon another Because they did

not recognize the time of their visitation from

God So in reading these verses, we see that judgment

is not Jesus losing his temper. It is a covenantual

consequence falling on a city that resisted the

way of peace. Think about where we are in today's

world sometimes. When we resist the way of peace,

it has a price. There are costs involved in this.

That's just something for us to really consider.

And then we have Luke chapter 21, verses 20 through

Luke 21:20–24

24. It says, when you see Jerusalem surrounded

by armies, you will know for sure that its devastation

is imminent. Again, he puts a note in here. This

was fulfilled in AD 70 when the Roman armies

sacked Jerusalem. Some historians estimate that

the Romans slaughtered more than one million

Jews at that time and took captive up to 100

,000 to other nations. Jews today still mourn

the destruction of the temple on the fast of

Tisha Bivav the ninth day of the fifth month.

It goes on in Luke chapter 21 it says at that

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time all who were living in Judea must flee to

the mountains those who live inside the city

gates leave and flee and those who live outside

the city must not enter it seeking refuge for

these For these will be the days of God's vengeance

to fulfill what has been written against Jerusalem.

It will be extremely difficult for pregnant women

and for those nursing little ones in that day

for great persecution and wrath will rise against

this nation. Many will be cut down by the sword

or scattered as prisoners to many countries.

Jerusalem shall be trampled down by nations until

the end until the days of world empires come

to an end. So Jesus is saying when you see Jerusalem

surrounded by enemies know that her desolation

is near let those in Judea flee to the mountains

let those in the city get out and do not go back

and guys this is not symbolism this is an actual

warning tied to an actual city and jesus did

not say that bad stuff is coming sunday he's

giving observable signs when armies surround

jerusalem get out leave and many people read

this passage as if Jesus is talking about the

end of the planet but in Luke 21 he very clearly

points to Jerusalem he points to armies he points

to desolation and flight from Judea guys these

are local historical markers so what actually

happened in 70 AD We have and in the year 66

to 70 we had the Jewish -Roman War in 66 AD the

the Jewish revolt against Rome begins Rome responds

brutally General Vespasian leads the campaign

in 69 AD Vespasian becomes emperor his son Titus

takes command and marches on Jerusalem Then we

have the siege of Jerusalem. Jerusalem is surrounded

and cut off. Severe famine inside the city. What

happens when you begin to cut off a nation from

resources and supply? What happens when you cut

off a city from resources and supply? You cause

havoc on the inside. That's exactly what they're

doing. And then internal civil war among the

Jewish factions. And then you begin to have things

like starvation, violence, and chaos fulfilling

Jesus's warnings precisely. It's going to be

hard for nursing mothers Don't you think it was

hard for nursing and pregnant mothers in this

time? Think about all the tragedy that's probably

unfolding right here in the middle of all this

and then we have the destruction of the temple

in August of 70 AD the Roman army breaches the

city the second temple is burned and destroyed

over 1 million Jews are reportedly killed survivors

are scattered across the Roman world and guess

what guys the temple is never rebuilt and why

did the temple temple matter so much because

the temple was a the center of sacrifice it's

the center of forgiveness again I mentioned national

identity covenant worship Jesus did not end excuse

me Jesus did not and was not predicting the end

of a planet he was predicting and prophesying

the end of the old covenant system that when

the temple fair the fail the entire mosaic economy

collapsed there's no priesthood there's no more

sacrifice there's no altar there is no holy of

holies by 70 ad it had all vanished now excuse

me Let's read because I think it's important

And again, I told you we're going to read a lot

of scripture, but I want to read Hebrews chapter

Hebrews chapter 8 let's let's read that Let me

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flip over to that real quick And it's a pretty

short chapter only 13 verses, but let's let's

read through the whole thing This is now that

certain verse one now. This is the crowning point

of what we are saying We have a magnificent king

priest who ministers for us at the right hand

of God He is enthroned with honor next to the

throne of the majesty on high He serves in the

holy sanctuary in the true heavenly tabernacle

Set up by God and not by men since every high

priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices

So the Messiah also had to bring some sacrifice

But since he didn't qualify to be an earthly

priest, and there are already priests who offer

sacrifices prescribed by the law, he offered

in heaven a perfect sacrifice. The priests on

earth serve in temple that is but a copy modeled

after the heavenly sanctuary, a shadow of the

reality. For when Moses began to construct the

tabernacle, God warned him and said, you must

precisely follow the pattern I revealed to you

on Mount Sinai. But now, Jesus the Messiah in

verse 6 has accepted a priestly ministry which

far surpasses theirs since he is the catalyst

of a better covenant which contains far more

wonderful promises for if that first covenant

had been faultless no one would have needed a

second one to replace it but God revealed the

defect and limitation of the first when he said

to his people look the day will come declares

the Lord when I will satisfy the people of Israel

and Judah by giving them a covenant It will be

an entirely different covenant than the one I

made with their fathers when I led them by my

hand out of Egypt. For they did not remain faithful

to my covenant, so I rejected them, says the

Lord God. For here is the covenant I will one

day establish with the people of Israel. I will

embed my laws within their thoughts and fasten

them unto their hearts. I will be their loyal

God, and they will be my loyal people. And the

result of this will be that everyone will know

me as Lord. I love that, go back to our previous

series. Everyone will know me as Lord. There

will be no need at all to teach their fellow

citizens or brothers by saying you should know

Yahweh since everyone will know me inwardly from

the most unlikely to the most distinguished for

I will demonstrate my mercy to them and will

forgive their evil deeds and never remember again

their sins. This proves that by establishing

this new covenant, the first is now obsolete,

ready to expire, and about to disappear. This

is important. Dr. Simmons will put on verse 13,

or is near obliteration. The old, which is about

to disappear, can also refer to the old life,

its old ways of pleasing flesh, the sinful disposition

of our hearts, the Aramaic verb for disappear.

can also mean to give birth. So what is happening

here is the old system is preparing and beginning

to give birth to the new. The old covenant is

ceasing, the new covenant is beginning to rise.

And Jesus explicitly predicted all of this. He

said, not one stone left unturned. Jerusalem

will be surrounded by armies, there will be famine,

false messiahs, great distress, people fleeing

Judea. He says, this is important to remember,

this generation will not pass away. And again,

this happened in the year 70 A .D. So when it

says this generation, it is the Greek word genea,

and it means the people living at that time,

which is roughly 30 to 40 years long. Jesus spoke

these words around 30 AD Jerusalem fail in 70

AD my friends that is one generation and Here's

where some confusion can happen Daniel chapter

Daniel 7:13

7 verse 13 Kind of a background and talked about

the coming of the Son of Man Jesus quotes this

language about himself not to describe travel

but enthronement and authority This is movement

toward God's throne and about him receiving authority

and dominion. You get that happening in Matthew

Matthew 27:30

chapter 27 verse 30. It says they will see the

Son of Man coming on the clouds. The Son of Man,

it comes to the Ancient of Days. It receives

authority, receives a kingdom. What we are having

here is ascension language. Jesus is quoting

Daniel repeatedly and applies it to his ascension,

to his vindication, and his enthronement. And

again, it's important, just like we talked about

last week, how things have prophetic imagery,

a lot of metaphors, stuff like that. In scripture,

coming on clouds could be judgment language.

God came on clouds against Egypt, against Babylon,

against Edom, without physically appearing. He

came in judgment against what? He came in judgment

against idols, power structures, and systems.

Go look at things like Isaiah chapter 19 verse

Isaiah 19:1

1. I'm not gonna read that today But you can

go take note and go read that for yourself No

one saw Yahweh physically descend. What was it?

It was covenantial covenantal judgment Jesus

is proclaiming that he will be vindicated as

Messiah when the system that rejected him is

judged not people a system that rejecting him

and that happened in the year 70 AD biblical

judgment my friends, is never aimed at us as

humanity. So who gets judged? Egypt equals an

oppressive empire. Babylon is a corrupt system

system. Jerusalem 8070 is a temple system that

rejected the Messiah. Religious structures that

block access to God. These are the things that

God is coming to judge. He's confronting anything

that enslaves humanity if you want to know what

a judge looks like we have a book in scripture

called the book of judges go read it and learn

what a judge was there for it's very important

um he never comes to destroy people he comes

to destroy what destroys people and this is the

heart my friend of restorative judgment i could

go down that path i might want to go down that

path today i think that's topic we can use for

another time. But just ask yourself, what are

God's enemies? Who are God's enemies? And I'll

give you a rundown. I think you can find it in

the Gospel of Luke when John is asking, he sends

the disciples to ask Jesus, you know, are you

the Messiah or should we look for somebody else?

But in that, Jesus basically says, you know,

the lame walk, the blind see. So who are the

enemies of God? It's blindness. It's lameness.

sickness, it's disease, death, shame, guilt,

all these things. Those are the enemies of our

God. So again, during this 70 AD moment, he's

not threatening random people. He's confronting

a corrupt temple system. He's confronting religious

leadership, blocking access to God and sacrificial

structures that were about to become obsolete.

Consider Hebrews 12 verse 27. What can be shaken

Hebrews 12:27

will be shaken so that what cannot be shaken

may remain. What does God shake? He doesn't shake

people. He shakes systems, structures, mindsets,

false security so that what is real remains.

Now. I said he does not shake people, but that

does not mean that when he is shaking the stuff

within us that it does not have an impact and

an effect on us. If he's trying to break a false

mindset off you, guess who's going to be impacted

by that? You and I are. That's why sometimes

it feels like hell sometimes when the father

is trying to root out stuff within us. It's like

a doctor who is trying to remove a tumor. the

doctor is not attacking the patient he is attacking

what is killing the patient and again that is

judgment in restorative framework that's not

that's not destruction it's purification that

is hell in my opinion many times when he's going

after the quote -unquote the tumor in us it feels

like hell when he's trying to pull that out and

remove that And then we have words like the end

of the age. We see that used in Matthew chapter

Matthew 24:3

24 verse 3. It talks about the end of the age

and Greek matters here. So world in Greek is

the word cosmos and it's the ordered system.

It's not just the planet, but the organized human

order, cultural, political, religious systems,

the structured world that we as humanity live

in. That's a lot in that little word. But then

we have the Greek word Aeon, and this word gets

translated into world, but that is a horrible

translation. The world is an age, an era, a period

of time characterized by a specific order. Basically,

this is time period language. So both words,

cosmos and Aeon, get translated into our English

word world, and they are two distinct different

meanings, and it's important to know your definitions.

It's important to study these things out. that

it's not the end of the planet, it's the end

of an old covenant age. And you know, it's things

that Hebrews, Galatians, Romans all talk about,

law versus grace, flesh versus spirit, shadow

versus substance. The year 70 AD was the final

visible end of that age. So then we have Revelation

in 70 AD. Think about, we're gonna talk about

Revelation, why it was written, that kind of

thing, who it was written to. We'll get into

that in a couple of things next week or a couple

weeks. But Revelation was written to first century

believers. It's written to those who are facing

persecution, who's under Roman oppression. It's

written to those before the temple was destroyed.

Now there are some arguments with that, but that's

where I hold my argument to. And then you read

key phrases such as soon, near, at hand. This

must shortly take place. So Revelation's not

about a bunch of Apache helicopters and B -2

bombers or microchips. It's apocalyptic Jewish

imagery describing covenant judgment, Rome, Jerusalem,

and vindication of the saints. And we have Revelation

11 that talks about the temple still standing.

Jerusalem is called Sodom and Egypt, the city

where our Lord was crucified. This city was destroyed

in the year 70 A .D. So why does all this matter

to wrap some of this stuff up if 70 ad fulfilled

prophecy then my friend We're not waiting for

judgment. We're not waiting for the kingdom.

We're not waiting for Christ to rule We're not

in danger of missing an escape plan. No, we are

living a post -victory Not pre -doom Hebrews

12 says you have come to Mount Zion to the heavenly

Jerusalem Keywords here you have come so I want

you to think about how the gospel works after

70 AD. After the temple fell, forgiveness is

no longer flowed through sacrifice. Remember

my friends, Jesus is forgiving people pre -cross.

Jesus is forgiving people who does not, there's

no evidence saying they asked for forgiveness,

were sorry for what they did. Think about the

man who's lowered through the roof by his four

friends. There's no even no indication that he

wants to be there. But yet Jesus asked the Pharisees,

the religious leaders, he said, what is easier

for me to say, rise and walk, or that your sins

are forgiven? But so that you may understand

that I can do both, take your bed and walk. So

he's forgiving stuff long before cross. That's

important for us to think about. Identity no

longer flowed through lineage. God's dwelling

was no longer a building. My friend, you and

I are now the temple of the Lord. So this is

something I was going to mention earlier. If

you think about Christ coming to flip tables,

my friend, he's coming inside of us to flip tables,

to get rid of that sin consciousness within us.

It's important to note. it's Christ in you and

it became unmistakably clear go over look at

Ephesians 2 where there's no dividing wall Jew

and Gentile was one body and God dwelling in

people it's Christ inside of you and I 70 AD

did not end hope it removed the shadows so substance

could actually shine so here's something to think

about regardless you know take all this stuff

run with it go research it yourself study yourself

Don't put your trust in religious systems more

than you do in Jesus. The temple looked unshakable,

yet it fell. Anything that man builds can shake,

but here's the truth. Christ's kingdom cannot

be shaken. Jesus still warns because he loves.

He's not trying to scare people for fun. He warns

people to save them. It's like warning your children

don't touch the stove when it's on don't run

in traffic Why do you do that? Not for fear not

try to scare people but because but to save them

from pain and tragedy We must learn to read scripture

through the correct lens Jesus was not trying

to make his followers obsessed with disaster

He was teaching them to discern the times and

trust him through transition You know you think

about even what's happening today, April 26,

2026, what's happening overseas and like Iran

and that kind of place. It's impossible for us

to pray for peace. If secretly would believe

that they have to be at war for some rapture

to happen. If you secretly believe this has to

happen for God to come back, you can't pray for

peace. You can't hope to shine the light that

you and I are designed to shine. if secretly

we had this belief system that all this has to

happen anyhow for me to get out of here. Wrestle

with that. Jesus's prophecy about Jerusalem was

not just empty language. He saw a coming crisis.

He warned his people. He wept over the city and

told them what to do. And then guess what? 70

AD comes around. Jerusalem is surrounded. The

city failed. The temple is burned. This was not

failure of his prophecy. It was the fulfillment

of his prophecy. This teaches us something deeply

important important that Jesus is trustworthy

Covenant history matters and the kingdom he brings

is greater than any religious system that can

be shaken my friend again, I just submit to you

a different way to look at this a different viewpoint

if you will to really think about When we read

scripture and we put it off somewhere in the

future know Jesus was talking Specifically to

a group of people and even said this generation

won't pass away. It wasn't talking about a generation

of 2 ,000 plus years This generation will not

pass away until what I have spoken comes to pass

Think about this My friends I'm hoping this is

blessing you I'm hoping this is kind of opening

your eyes and giving you something to wrestle

with and think about and You know go dive into

yourself next week. We're gonna dive into understanding

the book of Revelation That's a fun one to get

into and then I think after that we start looking

at the talking about the rapture and talking

about the Antichrist and all that kind of stuff

so much more fun stuff ahead I Think after we

do this one We're going to go from rethinking

end times to rethinking hell. I think that's

important to look at and reanalyze too. Again,

not that you have to land at the same place as

I do. I'm just speaking from a hope. I'm speaking

from a more hopeful lens than what I was raised

with. So I pray this blesses you. Have a great

week. Be blessed, my friends. Thanks for spending

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