Matthew 24

Charles Spurgeon

• “If the Lord does not speedily appear, there will come another generation, and another, and all these generations shall be tainted and injured if we are not faithful to God and His truth today. We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right, mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and His Word.”

Headlines

• Ebola outbreak• Ukraine ready to explode• Beheadings, burnings, kidnapping of young

girls raping them and then killing them. • Pastors in Texas ask to turn sermons over to

mayor’s office (a lesbian of course). • More and more Christians being killed for

their stand for Christ.

Questions

• Will there be another 9-11 attack?• Are there really terrorist camps in 49 or the 50 states? • Will there be an outbreak of some super virus across

America? • Will Christians be jailed for their faith in Christ in

America? • Will we ever be able to trust our government again? • If America is just as wicked as Sodom and Gomorrah,

should we expect to be spared of God’s judgment?

“Why Study Bible Prophecy?”

• Because of the use of it in the Scriptures. – Law of Proportion. This law simply says that you

can tell the importance of a certain subject in Scripture by how much space is devoted to it.

• ¼ of the Bible is predictive prophecy. • In the Old Testament there are 1800 references to the Lord’s

return. • Of the 260 chapters of the New Testament, there are more than

300 references to the Lord’s return that is one out of every 30 verses.

• 23 or the 27 books of the New Testament give prominence to this subject.

• For every prophecy in Scripture concerning the first coming of Christ, there are eight on Christ’s Coming.

• Both the proportion and prominence of the prophetic theme in Scripture argue for its importance.

• Believing Christ is coming will cause a Christian to live a purified life. – I John 3: 2, 3- “Beloved, now are we the sons of

God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.”

• If you believe we are living in the last days why would you not tell people about Jesus? Apathy prevails in the lives of so many professing Christians.

• Studying Bible Prophecy helps you to pray right.

• This world is God’s world and history is His Story!