READING MATTHEW 24...WHAT IS GOING ON IN OUR WORLD?

READING MATTHEW 24...WHAT IS GOING ON IN OUR WORLD?

WHAT DO WE SEE AND HEAR?

The temple Is being Built Now...See...http://www.templeinstitute.org/

Matthew 24 (King James Version)

Matthew 24

 ¹And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.(MINE...This is the Temple in Jerusalem.)

 ²And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. (MINE...This Prophecy was fulfilled in 70A.D...THIS WAS A PRELUDE TO THE DESTRUCTION COMING IN THE NEAR FUTURE!)

The Siege of Jerusalem in the year 70 AD was a decisive event in the First Jewish-Roman War. It was followed by the fall of Masada in 73. The Roman army, led by the future Emperor Titus, with Tiberius Julius Alexander as his second-in-command, besieged and conquered the city of Jerusalem, which had been occupied by its Jewish defenders in 66. The city and its famous Second Temple were destroyed in 70.
The destruction of the temples (both first and second) is still mourned annually as the Jewish fast Tisha B'Av. The Arch of Titus, depicting and celebrating the Roman sack of Jerusalem and the Temple, still stands in Rome.

 ³And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?(MINE...Mount Of Olives is in Jerusalem...)

 ⁴And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

 (MINE...MANY ARE BEING DECEIVED IN THE NAME OF JESUS!

(MINE...SEE DECEPTION...http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/fprophets.html )

 ⁵For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

 ⁶And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 

(MINE...WARS AND RUMOURS OF WARS...

Conflicts in the following list are currently causing at least 1,000 violent deaths per year, a categorization used by the Uppsala Conflict Data Program^[1] and recognised by the United Nations.^[2][3] The UN also use the term "low intensity conflict," which can overlap with the 1,000 violent deaths per year categorisation.^[4]

Start of conflict	War/conflict	Location	Cumulative fatalities	Fatalities in 2010
1967	Naxalite-Maoist insurgency	India	10,500+	1,174+[5]
1978	Afghan civil war	Afghanistan	600,000–2,000,000	10,461+ [6]
1991	Somali Civil War	Somalia	300,000[7] –400,000[8]	3,000+
2003	War in Iraq	Iraq	100,746-110,043[9]	4,000+
2004	War in North-West Pakistan	Pakistan	30,452[10]	5,000+
2004	Shi’ite Insurgency in Yemen	Yemen	12,833–16,439[11][12][13]	8,000
2006	Mexican Drug War	Mexico	36,226+[14]	15,273[15]
2009	Sudanese nomadic conflicts	Sudan	2,000–2,500[16]	708
2011	Libyan civil war	Libya	2,500–10,500+[17][18]

[edit] Other conflicts

There are many other smaller-scale armed conflicts that are currently causing a smaller number of violent fatalities each year.

Start of conflict	War/conflict	Location	Cumulative fatalities
1948	Internal conflict in Burma	Burma	~121,000
1947	Arab–Israeli conflict	Israel and Various Arab states (changed over time).	120,000+[19]
1964	Colombian Armed Conflict	Colombia	50,000–200,000 [20]
1964	Insurgency in Northeast India	India	~25,000[21]
1969[22]	Insurgency in the Philippines[23]	Philippines	~120,000[24]
1978	Turkey–Kurdistan Workers' Party conflict	Turkey,  Iraq	45,000–[25] 100,000[26][27][28]
1987	Lord's Resistance Army insurgency	Uganda,  Sudan,  DR Congo and  Central African Republic	~12,000
1989	Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir	India	~68,000[29]
1990	Casamance Conflict	Senegal	~1,000
2002	Insurgency in the Maghreb	Algeria,  Mali,  Mauritania and  Morocco	6,000+
2004	Conflict in the Niger Delta	Nigeria	4,000–5,000[30]
2004	Balochistan conflict	Iran and  Pakistan	2,500+
2004	Iran–Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan conflict	Iran	150–300
2004	South Thailand insurgency	Thailand	~4,100
2005	Fourth Civil War of Chad	Chad	1,140+
2008	Cambodian–Thai border stand-off	Cambodia and  Thailand	40–200+
2009	Insurgency in the North Caucasus	Russia	1,110+
2009	South Yemen insurgency	Yemen	180+
2010	Yemeni al-Qaeda crackdown	Yemen	510+

 ⁷For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

(MINE...SEE FAMINE...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines.

(MINE...SEE PESTILENCES...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics
(MINE...SEE EARTHQUAKES... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_21st-century_earthquakes

SEE...The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are described in the last book of the New Testament of the Bible, called the Book of Revelation of Jesus Christ to Saint John the Evangelist at 6:1-8. The chapter tells of a scroll in God's right hand that is sealed with seven seals. Jesus Christ opens the first four of the seven seals, which summons forth the four beasts that ride on white, red, black, and pale horses which each symbolize Conquest, War, Famine and Death, respectively.^[1] The Christian apocalyptic vision is that the four horsemen are to set a divine apocalypse upon the world as harbingers of the Last Judgment.

 ⁸All these are the beginning of sorrows(MINE...SEE..

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse...

(MINE...SEE...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse
http://bereanbiblestudygroup.com/revelation/

 ⁹Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.

 ¹⁰And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. (MINE...CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION...SEE...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians .

http://www.persecution.org/

 ¹¹And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. 

(MINE...SEE FALSE PROPHETS... 

http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/fprophets.html 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_prophet

 ¹²And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

 ¹³But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

 ¹⁴And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.(MINE...SEE GOSPEL PREACHED...

http://www.countdown.org/armageddon/gospel.htm

http://powerpointparadise.com/endworld/signs/gospel.htm

 ¹⁵When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)(MINE...SEE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abomination_of_Desolation 

WE NEED TO STUDY  THE WORD OF GOD...

The Future Abomination of Desolation

In Matthew 24:15 Jesus says the abomination of desolation will be "standing in the holy place."

Paul tells us a major religious figure will arise at the time of the end.Notice 2 Thessalonians 2:1-4:

"Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come.Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day [of Christ's return] will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God."

Christ will destroy this apostate leader at His second coming (verses 5-8), but not before he has deceived many with "power, signs, and lying wonders" (verses 9-12).

This description fits prophecies of the second beast in Revelation 13:11-14. Echoing Paul's warning, Revelation warns that this leader will perform "great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven ... And he deceives those who dwell on the earth ..."

Since the first two fulfillments of the abomination of desolation involved the cessation of sacrifices, it appears that sacrifices will again be instituted before Christ's return. Daniel 12:9-13 describes the abomination of desolation as occurring at "the time of the end." Apparently once again sacrifices will be initiated at or near Jerusalem; armies again will surround Jerusalem, and the sacrifices will be cut off—this time for 1,290 days.

In the Footsteps of Antiochus

An influential and powerful leader will play a pivotal role in end-time events. In addition to performing great miracles, he "exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God" (2 Thessalonians 2:4). His deceptive powers will be so great that most people will believe he is God's direct representative if not a divine being himself.

God, however, calls him "the lawless one" (verse 3, NRSV). He represents a system that opposes God's law. Antiochus Epiphanes, who engineered the original abomination of desolation, may well be the forerunner of this end-time "man of sin."

Antiochus Epiphanes tried to stamp out worship of God and ruthlessly persecuted all who remained obedient to Him. Many prophecies tell us history will repeat itself. Many of God's faithful followers will again be persecuted and murdered at the time of the end (John 15:18-20; 16:2; Revelation 6:9-11; 17:6; 20:4).

Revelation 13 describes an end-time religious leader who will "cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed" (verse 15). Government and religious powers will be brought to bear on those who see through this deception and are faithful to God. Christ's end-time warning to Christians—"they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name's sake" (Matthew 24:8-9)—will be fulfilled.

 ¹⁶Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:(MINE...IF YOU LIVE IN JUDEA...FLEE INTO THE MOUNTAINS!!!

 ¹⁷Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

 ¹⁸Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

 ¹⁹And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

 ²⁰But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:

 ²¹For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

 ²²And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

 ²³Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

 ²⁴For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

 ²⁵Behold, I have told you before.

 ²⁶Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

 ²⁷For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

 ²⁸For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

 ²⁹Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

 ³⁰And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

 ³¹And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

 ³²Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:(MINE...READ THE PARABLE AND LEARN A PARABLE OF THE FIG TREE...SEE...

http://focusonjerusalem.com/israelandthefigtree.html

 ³³So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

 ³⁴Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

 ³⁵Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

 ³⁶But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

 ³⁷But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

 ³⁸For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

 ³⁹And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

 ⁴⁰Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

 ⁴¹Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

 ⁴²Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

 ⁴³But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

 ⁴⁴Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

 ⁴⁵Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?(MINE...LEARN THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS...WISE CHRISTIANS AND FOOLISH CHRISTIANS!)

 ⁴⁶Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

 ⁴⁷Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.

 ⁴⁸But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;

 ⁴⁹And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;

 ⁵⁰The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,

 ⁵¹And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

WE NEED TO STUDY OUR BIBLES...DO NOT BE DECEIVED...DO NOT BE FOOLISH...BE WISE IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS CHRIST!

THE GRACE OF GOD BE WITH YOU ALWAYS!!!