The Beginning of the End - Tribulation

The Servant of God “The Beginning of the End - Tribulation” Ma. 13:7-13 The Signs of Death (vv.7-8a-b) What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions[a] are at war within you?  2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel … (Ja. 4:1-2d). The Signs of Disaster (vv.8c-e) 27 Now in these days prophets came down from Jerusalem to Antioch. 28 And one of them named Agabus stood up and foretold by the Spirit that there would be a great famine over all the world (this took place in the days of Claudius). (Acts 11:27-28). The Signs of Dissension (vv.9-13) For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake, Phil. 1:29 8 “And I tell you, everyone who acknowledges me before men, the Son of Man also will acknowledge before the angels of God, 9 but the one who denies me before men will be denied before the angels of God.  (Lu. 12:8-9). 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 And a person's enemies will be those of his own household. (Matt. 10:35-36). 20 Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours. 21 But all these things they will do to you on account of my name, because they do not know him who sent me. (Jo. 15:20-21). 14 But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. 15 For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, 16 to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life.  (2 Cor 2:14-16b). They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But they went out, that it might become plain that they all are not of us. 1 Jo. 2:19 The 6 reasons why Biblical Prophecy is important: Reminds us that God is sovereign (Matt. 28:19-20; Rev. 1:18) Reminds us that God is good (Ro. 8:18) Reminds us to be holy (1 Jo. 3:3) Reminds us how to live today (2 Pet. 3:10-13) Reminds us to evangelize (Matt. 25:41,48; 2 Thess. 1:7-9) Reminds us of our hope (Rev. 19:7)