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## Talk
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- Tonight time travel. only 5 minutes so lets get into it.
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-- Travel back to Mount of Olives with the apostles, talking to Jesus. contain your excitement. But not like he is where we're from.
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+- Travel back to Mount of Olives with the apostles, talking to Jesus. contain your excitement. Famous.But not like he is where we're from. Besides, hes talking, we should listen.
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- Jesus just spent the day preaching the good news of the kingdom telling all about / demonstrating benefits
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- apostle asked "When will these things happen? What will be the sign?"
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- Matt. 24:6,7,14 - When we show up apostles just trying to wrap their heads around this information. Then you start to tell them about your world.
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- Talk about the great war. Over 30 nations involved, several more populous than the entire Roman Empire, many from lands far beyond what Lasted for 4 years. Estimated 15M - 21M deaths. Perhaps 1/4 to almost 1/2 of the whole Roman Empire.
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+- For perspective, the Roman Empire comprises most of what they know of the world.
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- This report from the future must seem unfathomable. Then we tell them what we call that war. World War ONE. There were Two of them. How is that hitting them?
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- What of earthquakes? In the last 26, over 500 earthquakes all over the world have taken between 900k and 1M lives. Do those numbers make sense to them? Likely not
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- What of pestilence. Go on to tell of just some plagues between their time and ours
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- Good news being preached in 241 lands. Current register of sovereign states is at 205.
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- By now our audience, except Jesus, must be completely dumbfounded
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- Now let's snap out of it, come back to present day
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-- That was quite a journey we took. Looking back on it, what did we learn?
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+- Thanks for trusting me, guide first time travel. That was quite a journey we took. Looking back on it, what did we learn?
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- Sometimes it's helpful to take ourselves out of our normal headspace to get some perspective. Think about the challenges we humans have had to endure just since 1914. Most of the historical events, and even most of the recent events that we take for granted would be nearly unfathomable for most people throughout history. Don't let the pressure and grind of these last days dull your perception of what's going on around us.
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- Jesus foretold way back then events we see unfolding today.
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