What Will Be the Sign of Your Coming

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Suddenly
Unexpectedly
"What Will Be the Sign of Your Coming?"
Selectively
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Central Truth

• Signs of the times call for holy lives.

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The Fig Tree--Israel

• 32Now learn a lesson from the fig tree. When
  its buds become tender and its leaves begin to
  sprout, you know without being told that summer
  is near. 33Just so, when you see the events Ive
  described beginning to happen, you can know his
  return is very near, right at the door. 34I
  assure you, this generation will not pass from
  the scene before all these things take place.
  Mt. 2432-34

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Zechariah 122,3

• 2I will make Jerusalem and Judah like an
  intoxicating drink to all the nearby nations that
  send their armies to besiege Jerusalem. 3On that
  day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone, a burden
  for the world. None of the nations who try to
  lift it will escape unscathed.

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A third Temple

• Many plans are being made for a rebuilt Temple
  and many diverse groups in Israel are preparing
  for it. Gershom Salomon of the Temple Mount
  Faithful. LaHaye and Jenkins p. 124

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Utensils and Priests

• The Temple Institute, led by Israel Ariel, has
  made almost all the 102 utensils needed for
  Temple worship and they are on display for
  tourists to see.
• The Ateret Cohanim has established a yeshiva
  (religious school) for the education and training
  of temple priests. LaHaye and Jenkins p. 125

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Babylon Rebuilt

• Isaiah 13 and 14 and Jeremiah 50 and 51 describe
  the destruction of Babylon at the day of the
  Lord. LaHaye and Jenkins p. 135.

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Prime Time Live

• On June 28, 1990, Diane Sawyer and Sam Donaldson
  took the nation America to this incredible city
  of Babylon. They pointed out that Saddam
  Hussein had spent over a billion dollars of his
  oil wealth rebuilding the city as a monument to
  himself. LaHaye and Jenkins p. 139

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Signs in place

• The rebirth of Israel in 1948.
• The temple ready for construction.
• Babylon rebuilt and ready for Anti-Christ.
• One world religion.

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Apostasy

• 3Dont let anyone deceive you in any way, for
  that day will not come until the rebellion
  (apostasy) occurs. NIV
• For that day will not come until there is a
  great rebellion against God. NLT

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World Government

• 13And he performed great and miraculous signs,
  even causing fire to come down from heaven to
  earth in full view of men16He also forced
  everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free
  and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or
  on his forehead, 17so that no one could buy or
  sell unless he had the mark. Rev. 13

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Anti-Christ

• 27He will confirm a covenant with many for one
  seven. In the middle of theseven he will put
  an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing
  of the temple he will set up an abomination that
  causes desolation, until the end that is decreed
  is poured out on him. Dan. 9.27 NIV

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Matthew 2415

• 15So when you see standing in the holy place
  the abomination that causes desolation, spoken
  of through the prophet Daniellet the reader
  understand Jesus speaking

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2 Thess. 23,4

• 3Dont let anyone deceive you in any way, for
  that day will not come until the rebellion occurs
  and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man
  doomed to destruction. 4He will oppose and will
  exalt himself over everything that is called God
  or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in
  Gods temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

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Mt. 2434

• 34I tell you the truth, this generation will
  certainly not pass away until all these things
  have happened.

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Meaning for us

• 10But the day of the Lord will come like a thief.
  The heavens will disappear with a roar the
  elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth
  and everything in it will be laid bare. 11Since
  everything will be destroyed in this way, what
  kind of people ought you to be? You ought to live
  holy and godly lives 12as you look forward to the
  day of God and speed its coming 2 Peter 310-12
  NIV

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Central Truth

• Signs of the times call for holy lives.