READY AND WAITING FOR THE END (2 OF 5)
by Roger Thomas
Scripture: MATTHEW 24:1-4, MATTHEW 24:36-51
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Ready and Waiting for the End (2 of 5)
Series: End Times Survival Manual
Roger Thomas
Matthew 24:1-4, 36-51
Introduction: A lot of folk thought that I had lost my mind. It probably wasn't the first time. It probably won't be the last. People were sure of it when I announced that I was going to spend Y2K in the Holy Land. Most of you remember the hysteria that surrounded the beginning of the year 2000. Lots of people were convinced that civilization as we know it was going to end. Planes, elevators, computers, and nuclear power plants were all going to crash. Some expected the world to end.
Several of the couples who signed up to go with us to Israel backed out when they realized that we would be there over December 31, 1999 and January 1, 2000. I half jokingly told everyone that if Christ came back then, I wanted a front row seat. Where better to find that than Israel!
Actually we spent New Year's Eve (December 31, 1999) in Northern Israel. At the stroke of midnight we were in a prayer group on the southern shore of the Sea of Galilee. On New Year's Day morning 2000, we sailed across the Sea of Galilee from Tiberius to Capernaum. We spent the day touring the places where Jesus called his disciples to be "fishers of men," taught the Sermon on the Mount and fixed breakfast for the disciples after the resurrection. At sundown on January 1, 2000, we reenacted our baptisms in the Jordan River near the point where it flows out of the Sea of Galilee. Most people remember Y2K as the time nothing happened!
Y2K wasn't the first time for such foolishness. I have in my hand a little booklet titled "88 Reasons Why the Rapture Could Be in 1988.' Edgar Whisenant, a NASA engineer, calculated the Jewish Feast of Trumpets (September 11-13, 1988) as the date the world's last days count down would begin. That wasn't the first time someone got it wrong. I remember the Jehovah's Witnesses setting a date in the late sixties and then again in the ea ...
Series: End Times Survival Manual
Roger Thomas
Matthew 24:1-4, 36-51
Introduction: A lot of folk thought that I had lost my mind. It probably wasn't the first time. It probably won't be the last. People were sure of it when I announced that I was going to spend Y2K in the Holy Land. Most of you remember the hysteria that surrounded the beginning of the year 2000. Lots of people were convinced that civilization as we know it was going to end. Planes, elevators, computers, and nuclear power plants were all going to crash. Some expected the world to end.
Several of the couples who signed up to go with us to Israel backed out when they realized that we would be there over December 31, 1999 and January 1, 2000. I half jokingly told everyone that if Christ came back then, I wanted a front row seat. Where better to find that than Israel!
Actually we spent New Year's Eve (December 31, 1999) in Northern Israel. At the stroke of midnight we were in a prayer group on the southern shore of the Sea of Galilee. On New Year's Day morning 2000, we sailed across the Sea of Galilee from Tiberius to Capernaum. We spent the day touring the places where Jesus called his disciples to be "fishers of men," taught the Sermon on the Mount and fixed breakfast for the disciples after the resurrection. At sundown on January 1, 2000, we reenacted our baptisms in the Jordan River near the point where it flows out of the Sea of Galilee. Most people remember Y2K as the time nothing happened!
Y2K wasn't the first time for such foolishness. I have in my hand a little booklet titled "88 Reasons Why the Rapture Could Be in 1988.' Edgar Whisenant, a NASA engineer, calculated the Jewish Feast of Trumpets (September 11-13, 1988) as the date the world's last days count down would begin. That wasn't the first time someone got it wrong. I remember the Jehovah's Witnesses setting a date in the late sixties and then again in the ea ...
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