The End, Part 1 - Sign of the Times

Stay up late enough at night flipping through TV channels, you will come across the Bible prophecy guy on an obscure cable network. You know the guy, weird white suit, bad comb-over, and he is the guy who has unlocked the key to the Bible prophecies so that you can know when Jesus is coming again. The end times and return of Jesus has been a topic of interest for followers of Jesus for two thousand years. There are so many promises and key events that are pictured, and for centuries Christians have debated the final meaning of all these passages. Mark 13 contains a section of Jesus teaching on this topic from an event called the Olivet Discourse. From the Mount of Olives which overlooks the Temple, Jesus pronounces judgment on the Temple and Jerusalem, but then shares that this judgment is a foretaste of the final day when He will return. For the next two weeks we will look at this section of Mark, but also discuss the overall Biblical teaching called eschatology, which means the study of end things.