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make it all possible. Guys, we are in Matthew 24. We got through the first 14 verses,

and Jesus is, you know, talking about the destruction of the temple. He's doing some signs of

the end of the age. He's talking about wars and rumors of wars and earthquakes and famines

and tribulation, all stuff that, you know, a lot of Christians have taken to be talking

about the end times. And we talked a little bit about how, yes, but they are in fact in the

end times. And that this is when the end time sort of like really ramps up and that the disciples are all going to experience these things specifically in their life.

We are now getting to a section where Jesus is going to talk a little bit more about the temple and the abomination of desolation.

Both Luke and Matthew have basically this discourse. There's some differences, but for the most part,

it's kind of covering the same stuff. A lot of it's about the destruction of the temple. I would argue

maybe all of it is initially about that and maybe also pointing us to the very end.

We've talked about that a little bit, how there's this sort of already and not yet dynamic to this.

And so we pick it up at verse 15.

It says, so when you see the abomination of desolation spoken up by the prophet Daniel, that's found in Daniel chapter

nine, standing in the holy place, let the reader understand, then let those who are in

Judea flee to the mountains, let the one who is on the house top not go down to take what is in

his house, and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak.

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