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Sermons  Matthew 24:15  2369  Jun 3, 1984
The Abomination of Desolation. gty.org



In that very brief statement, the Lord says that the world is to look for a time that will be worse than any other time it has ever known.  And the Lord even gives it a name:  Great Tribulation.  Now, this isn’t anything new because there have been other prophets than our Lord Jesus Christ who also have spoken of this same time.  It is a time of tremendous trouble, which encompasses the world but centers on the nation of Israel.  To see how the prophets of Israel spoke of it, let’s go back to Isaiah chapter 10.  Isaiah chapter 10.  And as Isaiah looked forward to that day, that day of the Lord, that day of great judgment, that day of establishing the kingdom of Messiah, that day of salvation for Israel, that great climactic day when man’s work on earth, as it were, done by his own hand and design is done and God takes over, he says this in verse 20:  “It shall come to pass in that day” – that great day, the end of man’s day, the beginning of God’s day – “that the remnant of Israel and such as have escaped of the house of Jacob shall no more again lean upon him who smote them but shall lean upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.”