Fall Of Jerusalem & The End Of The Age Series

The Fall of Jerusalem & the End of the Age

Matthew 24:1-22

I. A Prediction about Pretension (3-5)

A. Religious Deception

1. Imitation gods (golden calf)

2. Imitators of Christ

B. Satanic Deception

1. John 5:43, “I am come in my Father’s

name, and ye receive me not: if another

shall come in his own name, him ye

will receive”

2. Daniel 9:27a, “And he shall confirm the

covenant with many for one week: and

in the midst of the week he shall cause

the sacrifice and the oblation to cease,

and for the overspreading of

abominations he shall make it desolate”

II. A Prediction about Perversion (6-8)

A. Wars

B. Famines

C. Pestilence

D. Earthquakes

E. Death

III. A Prediction about Persecution (9-14)

A. Discrimination

1. Betrayal

2. Political upheaval

3. Callous attitudes

B. Deliverance

1. Believers who endure (survive) will enter

the kingdom

2. Gospel message will spread to the world

before the end of time

a. Revelation 7:1-8 (144,000 Jewish

witnesses)

IV. A Prediction about Perdition (15-22)

A. Abomination of Desolation

1. Daniel 9:23-27; Daniel 12:11

2. 2 Thess. 2:3-4, “Let no man deceive you

by any means: for that day shall not come,

except there come a falling away first,

and that man of sin be revealed, the son of

perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth

himself above all that is called God, or

that is worshipped; so that he as God

sitteth in the temple of God, showing

himself that he is God”

3. Dragon of Revelation 13 (Antichrist)

see vs. 14-15

B. Admonition to flee

C. Mercy in judgment (22)