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Renner welcome to today's program my name is rick renner and i am raring and ready to dive into today's episode we're going to see today a blaring sign that we are close to the end of the age buckle your seat belts get your bible get some paper and a pencil or pen get ready to take notes because today is going to be very important for you to understand a blaring sign that we've come close to the end of the age and i'm teaching a new series a ten part series called how close are we to the end it comes with a study guide and everything in the series is in the study guide so that you can read the material while you're seeing or hearing this series and i'm really excited about my book called signs you'll see just before jesus comes in this book i document all the signs that jesus gave us to alert us to the fact that we've come to to the very end of the age and right now as our gift to you we want to give you a beautifully designed prophetic timeline to let you know where we are prophetically it shows where we've been in the past where we are presently and what still needs to be fulfilled between now and the coming of jesus and the rapture of the church and it is our gift to you every day that i'm teaching this series so please you can get yours by going online or by giving us a call and by the way by going online or calling us you can find out about all of these wonderful resources and when you reach out to us please let us know how to pray for you we are very sincere about praying for those that reach out to us our team is well trained we know how to pray scripturally biblically and when we pray we're going to pray according to the word of god and first john five fourteen fifteen says if we ask anything according to his will that's according to his word he will hear us and we will have the petitions that we ask of him so we're going to pray scripturally and jesus is going to do what needs to be done in your life say amen but please reach out to us but reach for your bible reach for a piece of paper and something to write with and today we're going to see what is the blaring sign that we've come to the very end of the age and i want us to review very quickly the matthew twenty four three which we covered yesterday but it is so foundational to this series i very quickly want to review it one more time so when you come to matthew chapter twenty four jesus and his disciples are sitting on the mount of olives well if you've ever been to jerusalem you know that when you sit on the mount of olives and you look across the kidron valley there is the temple mount it is such a beautiful and prophetic sight jesus has been with multitudes and multitudes but now the disciples have separated and they're just with jesus just them and jesus and the bible tells us in matthew twenty four three and as he sat up on the mount of olives his disciples came unto him privately saying and i just love that they came to him privately because when you get alone with the lord you can ask him things that you can't ask in front of others and when jesus speaks to you he's going to tell you privately things that he will not tell to the masses that's why you need to start every day with the lord get along privately with him speak to him and jesus will speak to you but they came to him privately saying now here's the question tell us when shall these things be now just imagine they're sitting on the mount of olives the temple mount behind them in the background what a prophetic setting and they wanted to know lord when shall these things be and this was very indicative of questions that were being asked very widely in the first century at this particular time especially between the old and the new testament the intertestamental period there was a real fixation on eschatology and end time events people were very preoccupied with the signs of the age are we at the end of the age what's going to happen next this was really an obsession with god's people and it is again today you know why because we're coming close to the rapture of the church just like there was a fixation on end time events before the first coming now there's a revival about end time events as we approach the rapture of the church and the second coming this is very indicative of what was happening before jesus first coming but now as the spirit of the age at that time was asking prophetic questions the disciples said lord tell us when shall these things be and what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end of the age and as we saw yesterday there are several key words in this verse and very briefly i want to cover them again because if you missed it yesterday you need to understand these words so i'm going to go to the board and the first question they asked was lord when and this word when is very important it is the greek word pote in english it's spelled like this and the word poteh is very specific it's not asking for a fuzzy answer it's saying lord exactly when now remember they're alone with the lord no one else is listening so now they get real specific lord when exactly when shall these things be and then secondly they said what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end of the age and the word what is also very important in greek it is the little word t it's spelled like this in english it describes the most minute minuscule detail which means it was the equivalent of saying lord we don't want a general answer we want to know specifically give us the most minute minuscule detail what shall be the sign and the word sign in greek is the word simeon and this word simeon is very important in english it's spelled like this simeon this word simeon described signs you would see along the road and yesterday i gave the example that denise and i and our offices in russia are just outside the city of moscow we are seven and a half miles from the city limits of moscow out here where our studios are there's pasture there's trees it's beautiful but as we journey into the city the signs along the road begin to change that's the word simeon if we just look at what we see along the road we know that we're headed somewhere different by the signs that we see for example we leave these pastures and these beautiful trees and we begin to see industry then we begin to see tall apartment buildings and then we see a whole lot of apartment buildings and then the industry becomes more intense and congested a sign that we've left where we were and we're really headed to somewhere different and finally when you come to imcod which is the big big highway that circles the city of moscow there is a big sign that says moscow and that is the sign that you're no longer traveling toward moscow but now you've entered moscow that's the word that is used here signs along the way but this word simeon was also used to to describe literal road signs so road signs markers that would tell you where you are how many miles how many kilometers you have you have to go and every few kilometers or miles it changes there's a different number and a different number and because of the signs you know where you are and you're able to determine how much further you have to go to reach your destination well by using this word sign the greek word semion the disciples were literally asking lord what are the prophetic signs we will see along the prophetic road to the end of the age how will we know that we're getting closer what are the signs that we're going to see and they asked really just for one sign what is the sign but you're going to see that jesus gave them a whole list of more than twenty signs that's what happens when you get along with the lord you ask him one question which he will answer but then because your ears are open he'll tell you other things as well but they particularly said what is the sign of thy coming and the word coming is the greek word parousia it's spelled like this in greek parousia in english if you're taking notes you spell it like this it means to be present to be present but this word is used theologically parousia to describe both the rapture of the church and the second advent which is seven years later at the end of the tribulation now some people argue that this word parousia only describes the second advent at the end of the seven years tribulation but that's not true if you do a survey of the whole new testament you find this word is used to describe both events and which event it is describing depends on the context of the verses but importantly this word parousia i'm going to read to you from my notes listen to this it is a technical expression for the royal visit of a king or an emperor or for the arrival of one who alone has the authority and power to deal with the situation and to put things in order and to make everything right and my friends when jesus comes for the rapture of the church that's the moment everything is going to begin to be put in order as the seven year tribulation begins and god's wrath is poured out upon the earth and god deals with his enemies and at the end of that period jesus is going to return with us the parousia in the second event we're going to put our feet on the ground with jesus and it will begin the millennial reign but they were saying lord when poteh when exactly are these things going to happen wa ti lord please tell us factually down to the smallest detail what will be the sign the major road sign we'll see along the prophetic road to alert us that we're very near to your parousia to your coming when you're going to come and then it says and the end of the age the word end is very important now the word end is actually the greek word sun teleos tsun to leos if you're taking notes in english it's spelled like this it doesn't describe the total in but it's the wrap up it's the wrap up and in fact you could translate it how will we know we've come to the consummation to the closure or to the wrap up of the age and the king james version actually says of the world so let's look at that the word world that's the king james translation in greek is the word aionos spelled like this in english it's not the word for the world the word world is geis doesn't even look the same this is actually the word age and that's what they were asking that's what people were really fixated on how will we know when we've come to the end of the age that was the question and that would be a better translation so let's look at it lord when poteh exactly when will these things be lord what the little word t factually down to the most minute minuscule detail tell us exactly what will be the the greek word simeon the prophetic marker we'll see to let us know we're right up next to the parousia you're coming when you're going to begin the process of setting things in order at the end at the very closure the consummation the king james version says of the world the greek says ionos of this particular age now that is what they were asking and guess what that's still what people are asking today and as he sat up on the mount of olives the disciples came unto him privately saying tell us when shall these things be what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end of the world but to help you see very clearly where we are now and where we are headed i'm going to go back to the board now i'm not an artist so please forgive me if this is not very artistic but graphically i believe it's important for you to see this so let's go so we're going to begin with a timeline and we're going to put a straight line all the way across now i told you i'm not an artist but we're going to begin with the cross and the resurrection which was in the year thirty three then a few days later was pentecost pentecost and you know pentecost happened in thirty three ad at nine am that's what the bible tells us in acts chapter two peter says these men are not drunken as ye suppose seeing it is but the third hour of the day well that was nine am now this is really important because in joel two twenty eight the bible prophesied that in the last days saith god i will pour out my spirit upon all flesh that happened on pentecost and it happened in the morning and peter stood up to make his announcement about it at nine am so we can be very very exact about when the outpouring of the spirit took place because peter told us it was sometime before nine am on pentecost in the year thirty three and that began the outpouring of the holy spirit which has lasted now all these two thousand years and this period is officially called the last days that's what peter said on the day of pentecost god says i will pour out my spirit in the last days that event at nine am pentecost the year thirty three triggered the outpouring of the holy spirit and it continues all the way to the end of the last days some people call this the church age and that's very appropriate because this is the church age some people call this the age of grace and that also is true because this indeed is the age of grace and when we reach this point wow the world's going to really find out the age of grace ended but for these two thousand years we've been living in what the bible calls the last days other people have theologically called it the church age or the age of grace all of that is true but the biblical term is the last days and it has been a two thousand year episode now we're living at the very end of this age and the greek word to describe this period is the greek word eschatos it's where you get the word for eschatology it describes the very very very ultimate end of a thing the end of days it actually was a navigational term used to describe the very last port so if you sail to this port there's not another one after that and this is the word which paul uses and the holy spirit uses all over the new testament testament epistles to describe the very very end of these two thousand years and this is where we are now eschatos we've sailed to the very very end and jesus said when you come to the very very end there are going to be birth pains birth pains that are going to be felt throughout the population of the earth and just like a woman who's gone into labor when you have your first birth pain maybe you're not even sure you had one when denise was pregnant she would say ricky i think i felt something but it wasn't too long until she wasn't guessing anymore she knew she was having birth pains and they began to come faster they began to come harder and harder and harder and harder and the faster and harder they were was the indication that we're coming to the birth of our first son and that was paul well as we come to the end of the age the age is going to end with birth pains and by the way if you study scripture every age ends with pain to give birth to the next age that's the way that it always happens it's all over scripture as we come to the end of the age there's going to be a few birth pains tragic events worldwide happenings but the closer we get to the end they're going to come faster and faster and faster and faster and faster and faster and faster and faster and faster and the truth is now we're living at a time when we are experiencing such tumultuous events one on top of the next fifty years ago if one of those events happened it was big news but now it's just another event because they're happening so fast and so hard one on top of the next and the world is nearly numb to it because they're just living in the middle of it all the time jesus said when you come to this period these birth pains eschatos at the very very end of the age it is the sign that you've come to the very end of this age now that's what the apostles were asking about lord how will we know when we've come to the end of this particular age and jesus answers that question matthew twenty four eight where he talks about birth pains at the end of the age at this particular moment at the very closure of this age jesus is going to come for the church and the church is going to be raptured into heaven this is the rapture of the church and we my friends are going to be in heaven for a seven year period seven years wow it's going to be glorious and during that seven years there's going to be the marriage feast of the lamb and there's going to be the bema seat of christ otherwise called the judgment seat of christ it's going to be the marriage feast when finally christ and the church are wed we're going to have a wonderful marriage feast of the lamb and one by one during these seven years we're going to be summoned from our spots at the table to stand before jesus and jesus is going to evaluate our works which we did on the earth during this period to determine what we're going to be doing in eternity eternity is going to be very active is not just going to be sitting around on clouds and everything we're doing now is pre qualification for the future but while we are in heaven wrath is going to be poured out upon the earth in the great tribulation we will not be here for that event say amen but at the end of those seven years we are told that jesus will finally come in the first event he came in the air never put his foot on the ground but in the second event jesus is going to come with ten thousand of his saints that's me that's you and all of us that have been in heaven and jesus is going to put his foot on the earth going to be the end of the tribulation the ultimate put down of evil at that moment and it's going to begin the millennial reign of christ and i want to remind you that right now we have a free brochure we've designed for you it is an end time timeline to show you where we have been where we are what's still being fulfilled and what's going to happen in the near future i really want you to have it my friends we designed it for you just call us or go online to get your copy but then we come to the most blaring sign the disciples asked for a sign jesus gave them more than twenty that's what happens when you get along with the lord you ask him one question which he will answer and he'll tell you a lot of other things as well so they asked him privately lord what is the sign of the end of the age and of your coming and jesus said number one foremost here's number one and we find it in matthew twenty four four where the bible says and jesus answered and said unto them take heed that no man deceive you and jesus gave worldwide deception as the most blaring sign that we have come to the very end of the age and i mean this period right here we have sailed eschatos all the way there's nowhere else to go and jesus said you'll know you've come right here when deception begins to permeate society and jesus said take heed and my friends this is so important that this is where we're going to pick up in tomorrow's program i'll be back in just a moment and i'm going.