The Second Coming (1 of 6)
Series: The Second Coming
Zach Terry
Matthew 24
OPENING ILLUSTRATION: As you know I love the people of Cuba. I love the city of Havana. I love the culture there. What a great place to visit. God is doing a great work in that nation. One of the things I remember from my first visit was seeing men argue. Cuban Spanish is like other kinds of Spanish, but LOUDER. Well as I got closer, I discovered that almost inevitably they would be arguing about baseball. Cubans are huge fans of Baseball.
Well if you heard two men arguing in first century Israel you could almost count on the fact that they would be arguing about Eschatology. Eschatology is a big word that simply means the END TIMES. Eschatology was to the first century Jews what baseball is to the Cubans. They all had their opinions and the felt them strongly.
The most common writings of the day were Apocalyptic in nature.
So not only did they have the Biblical writings of the Prophets that told them what they could expect like Daniel, Zechariah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. They also had many non biblical books that captured the essence of Hebrew thought about the last days.
For example, there was the Book of Enoch, there is the Psalms of Solomon, and there is the Assumption of Moses, the Book of Jubilees, the Ascension of Isaiah, the Fourth Book of Ezra, the Apocalypse of Baruch, and the Book of the Secrets of Enoch, the Sibylline Oracles, various religious books, revealed they're not God-written, they revealed the thinking of the Jews.
One of the modern books that capsulated the thinking of the Jews as it related to the last days is written by a man by the name of Emil Schurer. The book is entitled, ''The History of the Jewish People in the Time of Christ.''
In that series of books Schurer describes the average Hebrews eschatology as expecting.
1. A breakdown of Morality
2. A Time of Intense Suffering
3. A Preacher coming in the Spirit of Elijah
4 ...
Series: The Second Coming
Zach Terry
Matthew 24
OPENING ILLUSTRATION: As you know I love the people of Cuba. I love the city of Havana. I love the culture there. What a great place to visit. God is doing a great work in that nation. One of the things I remember from my first visit was seeing men argue. Cuban Spanish is like other kinds of Spanish, but LOUDER. Well as I got closer, I discovered that almost inevitably they would be arguing about baseball. Cubans are huge fans of Baseball.
Well if you heard two men arguing in first century Israel you could almost count on the fact that they would be arguing about Eschatology. Eschatology is a big word that simply means the END TIMES. Eschatology was to the first century Jews what baseball is to the Cubans. They all had their opinions and the felt them strongly.
The most common writings of the day were Apocalyptic in nature.
So not only did they have the Biblical writings of the Prophets that told them what they could expect like Daniel, Zechariah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. They also had many non biblical books that captured the essence of Hebrew thought about the last days.
For example, there was the Book of Enoch, there is the Psalms of Solomon, and there is the Assumption of Moses, the Book of Jubilees, the Ascension of Isaiah, the Fourth Book of Ezra, the Apocalypse of Baruch, and the Book of the Secrets of Enoch, the Sibylline Oracles, various religious books, revealed they're not God-written, they revealed the thinking of the Jews.
One of the modern books that capsulated the thinking of the Jews as it related to the last days is written by a man by the name of Emil Schurer. The book is entitled, ''The History of the Jewish People in the Time of Christ.''
In that series of books Schurer describes the average Hebrews eschatology as expecting.
1. A breakdown of Morality
2. A Time of Intense Suffering
3. A Preacher coming in the Spirit of Elijah
4 ...
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