SIGNS OF THE END OF THE AGE (Part 2) – Mark 13:5-13
2 Peter 1:19 says: And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
G. Campbell Morgan said; A text taken out of Context is a pretext.
I. Vss. 5-8: Watch and Beware:
The word translated “sorrows” means “birth pangs.”
“Take heed” means “to be constantly looking for; expecting.”
Mark Twain once said; “The lie runs around earth twice before the truth gets its shoes on.
1 John 2:18-19: Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us.
Matthew 24:24 tells us “For false Christ’s and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.”
Nation against nation in Greek is “Ethnos” This means “a tribe, nation, people group”.
troubles hear refers to pestilence, sickness or disease.
II. Vss. 9-13: Jesus Gives Personal Warning:
Matthew 5:10-11: “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
John 15:18-19: “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
Revelation 14:6-7: Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead, with an eternal gospel to proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language and people. And he said with a loud voice, “Fear God and give him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.”
Matthew 10:34-36: “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household.
Endures is translated from the ancient Greek word hupomeno, which literally means to “remain under.”
2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 says: The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.