Matthew 24:3-13 - What is the sign of Your coming and of the end of the age?” 4 Then Jesus replied to them: “Watch out that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and they will deceive many. 6 You are going to hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, because these things must take place, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these events are the beginning of birth pains. 9 “Then they will hand you over for persecution, and they will kill you. You will be hated by all nations because of My name. 10 Then many will take offense, betray one another and hate one another. 11 Many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. 12 Because lawlessness will multiply, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But the one who endures to the end will be delivered.
FOCUS LESS ON KNOWING WHEN THE END WILL COME, AND MORE ON WHO WE ARE MEANT TO SHARE BEFORE IT DOES.
Matthew 24:14 This good news of the kingdom will be proclaimed in all the world as a testimony to all nations. And then the end will come.
As of 2025, approximately 3.4 billion people—live in unreached people groups.- www.prayforindonesia.org
There are around 7,248 unreached people groups worldwide. - www.joshuaproject.net/
The majority of these unreached populations reside within the 10/40 Window, a region spanning from North Africa through the Middle East to East Asia. - www.nationsoutreach.org/blog/christian-missionary-statistics/
Matthew 24:6, 36, 42, 44 - You will hear of wars and rumors of wars... but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 36 Now concerning that day and hour no one knows. 42 Therefore be alert, since you don’t know what day your Lord is coming. 44 This is why you also must be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
Luke 17:20-21 - Being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God will come, He answered them, “The kingdom of God is not coming with something observable; 21 no o ne will say, ‘Look here!’ or ‘There!’ For you see, the kingdom of God is among you.”
John 5:39–40 - You pore over the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, yet they testify about Me. 40 And you are not willing to come to Me so that you may have life.
Old Testament Prophetic Signs the Religious Leaders Missed
His Virgin Birth
• Prophecy: “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son…” (Isaiah 7:14)
• Fulfillment: Matthew 1:22–23
His Entry into Jerusalem
• Prophecy: “Behold, your king is coming to you… humble and mounted on a donkey.” (Zechariah 9:9)
• Fulfillment: Matthew 21:5
His Birthplace – Bethlehem
• Prophecy: “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah… from you shall come forth one who is to be ruler in Israel…” (Micah 5:2)
• Fulfillment: Matthew 2:1
His Crucifixion & Suffering
• Prophecy: Isaiah 53 vividly describes a suffering Messiah who would be rejected, pierced, and die for others’ sins.
• Fulfillment: The crucifixion (John 19, Mark 15, Matthew 27, Luke 23)
His Signs of Healing
• Prophecy: “Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped…” (Isaiah 35:5–6)
• Fulfillment: Jesus performed these signs (Matthew 11:4–5)
His Resurrection
• Prophecy: “You will not let your Holy One see decay.” (Psalm 16:10)
• Fulfillment: The Empty Tomb (Luke 24:6, Acts 2:31)
THE SIGN OF JONAH,Matthew 12:38-40 - Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.”39 But He answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation demands a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40 For as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish three days and three nights, so the Son of Man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights.
Luke 24:46-49 - He also said to them, “This is what is written: The Messiah would suffer and rise from the dead the third day, 47 and repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses of these things. 49 And look, I am sending you what My Father promised.
Acts 1:8-11 - 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come on you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” 9 After He had said this, He was taken up as they were watching, and a cloud took Him out of their sight. 10 While He was going, they were gazing into heaven, and suddenly two men in white clothes stood by them. 11 They said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up into heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come in the same way that you have seen Him going into heaven.”
DON’T GET SO FOCUSED ON THE END TIMES THAT YOU FORGOT WHAT JESUS CALLED YOU TO DO IN THE MEANTIME.
