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)
