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- Matt 24:3,7,8,14
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- Disciples ask: When Will these things be, what will be the sign?
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- Nation against nation, kingdom against kingdom
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- food shortages
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- earthquakes
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- beginnings of pangs of distress
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- food shortages
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- pestilences
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+- world population 30 CE: 170M (McEvedy & Jones) - 300M (UN). less than current US, by a lot
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+- Roman population: 59M - 76M The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World, Schneidel, Morris, Saller) - picture the populations of Texas and California
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+- Israel population around the time, hard to know. back of the napkin math from Tacitus and Josephus put the population of Jerusalem around 1M at the time of its fall, packed with out of towners for the festival.
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## Talk
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+- Tonight time travel. only 5 minutes so lets get into it.
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+- Mount of Olives with the apostles, talking to Jesus. contain your excitement. You are now an Israelite. Jesus was famous. but not like he is where we're from.
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+- Matt. 24:3 - great question
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+- Matt. 24:6,7,14 - now for a moment, different angle. forget your history books and news events
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+- you're an israelite. look down. wearing sandals and a robe. No phone. Breathe in the air. Full of spice, life and humidity.
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+- view of the world, at once small and unimagably vast.
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