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1. Jesus Gives Us Tomorrow!

Acts 1:1-11

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Barbara Brokhoff

... book of Acts, which is the sequel to Luke’s Gospel. Reading both of these accounts, we learn from where it was that the Ascension took place. "Then He led them out as far as Bethany." That means the Bethany district or area and on the brow of Olivet. Have you ever considered what it must have been like for the resurrected, soon-to-be-ascended-and-reunited-with-His-Father Jesus to have stood there that day? Many thoughts must have gone through his mind as he prepared for his departure. It was in this area ...

2. Jesus Proclaims Judgment on the Temple and the Nation

Mark 13:1-31

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Grant R. Osborne

... land and bring devastation. However, God’s people must not be carried away by false teaching and false rumors but rather should endure patiently in the midst of the persecution. Understanding the Text The extensive discourse of chapter 13, known as the Olivet Discourse, develops the basic theme in passion week thus far: the fruitlessness (fig tree) and guilt (clearing of the temple) of the Jewish leadership, leading to the curse upon the nation and the impending judgment. In 11:12–20 the “why” of ...

3. The Four Horsemen

Revelation 6:1-17

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J. Scott Duvall

... . Neutrality is not a long-term option. God in his sovereignty exercises patience even as his people suffer injustice. But delayed judgment should not be taken to mean no judgment. One day God will judge wickedness and vindicate his people. Jesus closes his Olivet Discourse with several parables that warn of God’s coming judgment on unbelievers at the end of the age (Matt. 24:43–25:46). Teaching the Text Revelation 6:9–17 offers substantive points of application for the contemporary Christian. 1. We ...

4. The Seduction of the Palms

Luke 19:28-40

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Leonard Sweet

... city itself as a palimpsest lying between this celebratory entrance and the savagery of the crucifixion. He reminds us that in Jewish tradition, the name Jerusalem ironically means "foundation of peace." Jesus' walk through the city, beginning with the glorious procession from Mt. Olivet in today's text and continuing to Luke 19:48 with his arrival at the temple itself, acts as a kind of walking tour that points out how Jerusalem's "foundations of peace" are crumbling. Because it is the season of Passover ...

5. Luke 19:28-40

Luke 19:28-40

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Leonard Sweet

... the other Gospels, Luke puts Jesus in a very particular geographical position. While we no longer know the exact location of Bethphage and Bethany, it appears that this location was about two miles east of Jerusalem, at the foot of Mt.Olivet. Mt.Olivet itself is a powerfully symbolic starting point for Jesus' Jerusalem mission. According to Zechariah 14:4ff, this will be the Lord's chosen viewpoint when the time for Jerusalem's eschatological rescue finally arrives. Although Luke makes no explicit reference ...

6. Luke 19:28-40

Luke 19:28-40

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

7. Lesson from a Chipmunk

Acts 1:1-11

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Tony Everett

... while they wait for the gift of power Jesus promised? Maybe Jesus would come back down soon, descending as the Son of Man to do battle for Jerusalem. Maybe these are the last days that the prophet Zechariah wrote about. This was the Mount of Olivet, after all, where all this was supposed to happen! (see Zechariah ch. 14). While the apostles were staring at the clouds, suddenly two angels interrupted their silent musing. “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up at heaven? This Jesus… will come in ...

8. The Necessity of Vigilance in Light of the Parousia

Mark 13:32-37

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Grant R. Osborne

... 102:26; Isa. 51:6; 2 Pet. 3:7, 10, 12); only God’s word is eternal (Isa. 40:6–8; Matt. 5:18; cf. Wis. 18:4; 4 Ezra 9:36–37). The emphasis on “my words” builds upon Jesus’s unity with God and refers especially to the Olivet Discourse as a whole and verse 30 in particular. The disciples cannot depend on the events of world history or the strength of the world powers. All such are doomed. Only God and his word have permanence. The shifting sands of time will “pass away,” and only God’s truths ...

9. The Time Is Now!

Luke 24:50-53

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day's journey away." (Acts 1:1-12) Did you catch it? Did you spot what looks at first glance like a Bible discrepancy? Luke's gospel says the ascension takes place in Bethany, but in Acts 1:12 the same author records that Mount Olivet was the place. Is it really a discrepancy? No. In fact, anyone who has visited the Holy Land soon discovers that if someone is on the Mount of Olives, he can be said to be at Bethany. The two locations are so close in proximity that the two names ...

10. The Ascension Announces a Triumph

Acts 1:1-11

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Barbara Brokhoff

... not even a Sunday - we find it a bit difficult to get too excited about the Ascension of our Lord. But lest we miss its true importance, let us look at it one more time. Jesus and his little band of followers are standing on a knoll called Mount Olivet, within sight of Jerusalem, and emotions are running high. Jesus is about to leave them - again! Some few days ago he told them he had to die, and he did - on another hill called Calvary, also within sight of Jerusalem. That first time he was taken away from ...

11. Death Of A Dream - Birth Of A Church

Acts 2:1-13

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Barbara Brokhoff

... , one might well ask, "Don't you have any place else to go?" "Peter, couldn't you at least go back to fishing for awhile?" "Matthew, couldn't you return to collecting taxes?" Or, "Have you thought that you could build a great memorial there on Mount Olivet, marking the exact spot where Jesus stood when he left to go to the Father?" "Have any of you thought of starting your own religion? Surely you've learned a lot from your former leader, so maybe now you could choose someone more acceptable to the majority ...

12. Jesus Is Taken Up To Heaven

Acts 1:12-26, Acts 1:1-11

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Dallas A. Brauninger

... , 4: "Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? 5: This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven." 1: Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem, a sabbath day's journey away. When they had entered the city, they went to the room upstairs where they were staying, Peter, and John, and James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James son of Alphaeus, and Simon the ...

13. Readying the Twelve for Mission

Acts 1:12-26

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Donald Macleod

After two such unprecedented events as Resurrection and Ascension, certainly this question is in order: what can God do for an encore? Or, one might simply exclaim: what a hard act to follow! The eleven disciples left Mt. Olivet and returned to Jerusalem, as Jesus had commanded them. Naturally, they sought out the Upper Room, a place filled with memories that were now sacred. Other faithful persons joined them until they numbered about a hundred and twenty, (v. 15) including a number of women with Mary and ...

14. When Jesus Speaks Your Name

John 20:10-18

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Gregory J. Johanson

... shore of the oblivious years." - Whittier if we expect him to be that. And if, in faith, we expect him to be our external contemporary, he will be that for us: Warm, sweet, tender even yet A present help is He; And faith has still its Olivet, And love its Galilee. - Whittier 2) Mary Magdalene was found by Christ, even while she sought him unsuccessfully. Her earnest searching did not go unanswered. It was right for her to be seeking and searching with heart, soul, and mind. Yet she could not recognize the ...

15. His Last Supper

Luke 22:7-38

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Brett Blair

... in the words of John Wesley: if your heart is like my heart, then give me your hand and we walk together. We need to cherish our times of coming together-— as families, friends, and as the church. The day was not yet over. Jesus went up to the Mt. Olivet and prayed and spoke to a crowd. It was here that Judas came up to him and gave him a kiss. I have often wondered why he did that. I mean, why did he not spit in his Face. Why did he not slap him? But he gave him a ...

16. Like A Big Happy Family

1 Peter 3:8-22

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King Duncan

... fear. If they only knew that the church is not only people loving God but also people loving one another. In his book REBUILD YOUR LIFE, Dale E. Galloway tells about an experience when he was custodian of a large church while he was a student at Olivet College In illinois. He writes: "One Saturday as I was cleaning the sanctuary, I had the windows open and a little bird flew in. Once inside, the bird flew around, having a big time looking that huge church over. What an adventure, so exciting and new. And ...

17. Jesus Saves, We're Called To Invest

Matthew 25:14-20

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... , we have to use it or lose it. Remember Jesus Saves, We're Called to Invest in a life that honors Him and brings glory to God. 1. William H. Willimon, Remember Who You Are, (The Upper Room, Nashville, TN, pp. 27-28) 2. Adapted from The Parables In the Olivet Discourse by HamptonKeathley IV. It may be viewed at http://www.bible.org/docs/nt/books/mat/mat25.h™. 3. Andrew M Greeley 4. Parables, Etc. (Saratoga Press, P.O. Box 8, Platteville, CO, 80651; 970-785-2990), March 1998

18. Resurrection Order of Events

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Merril F. Unger

... a week later (Thomas present) Jn 20:24-29 In Galilee to the seven by the Lake of Tiberias Jn 21:1-23 In Galilee on a mountain to the apostles and 500 believers 1 Cor 15:6 At Jerusalem and Bethany again to James 1 Cor 15:7 At Olivet and the ascension Acts 1:3-12 To Paul near Damascus Acts 9:3-6; 1 Cor 15:8 To Stephen outside Jerusalem Acts 7:55 To Paul in the temple Acts 22:17-21; 23:11 To John on Patmos Rev 1:10-19

19. Poem: In Memoriam

Eulogy

Alfred Lord Tennyson

... , those four days?’ There lives no record of reply, Which telling what it is to die Had surely added praise to praise. From every house the neighbours met, The streets were fill’d with joyful sound, A solemn gladness even crown’d The purple brows of Olivet. Behold a man raised up by Christ! The rest remaineth unreveal’d; He told it not; or something seal’d The lips of that Evangelist. XXXII Her eyes are homes of silent prayer, Nor other thought her mind admits But, he was dead, and there he sits ...

20. Prophetic Actions—The Temple Condemned and the Fig Tree Cursed

Mark 11:12-19

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Grant R. Osborne

... doom upon the people. The judgments of God from Isaiah and Jeremiah are about to descend. The cursing of the fig tree and condemnation of the temple tell the “why” of the judgment to come: the people have rejected God’s Messiah and desecrated his temple. The Olivet Discourse will tell the “what,” the content of the judgment soon to come. 11:18 began looking for a way to kill him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching. The plot to kill Jesus goes back to 3:6 ...

21. Praying in Faith

Mark 11:20-25 (26)

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Grant R. Osborne

... mountains could refer to (1) the Mount of Olives, on which theywere standing and which carried apocalyptic symbolism (cf. Zech. 14:4), or (2) the Temple Mount, which would fit Jesus’s prediction of the destruction of the temple here and in the Olivet Discourse;4 the latter makes better sense here, though it could also simply be (3) a general “metaphor for accomplishing great things.”5 I would combine the second (demanded by “this mountain”) and third. As Jesus had given his disciples power to cast ...

22. The Messianic Anointing of Jesus

Mark 14:1-11

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Grant R. Osborne

... failures that will run through chapter 14. Understanding the Text In the first part of the passion story (chaps. 11–12) the conflict between Jesus and the Jewish authorities grows more and more severe, culminating in the diatribe of 11:28–30. In the Olivet Discourse the implications of their refusal to follow God and accept his Son are detailed: the coming judgment is proclaimed in 11:12–21 and described in 13:3–23, the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple. There will be no more contact with ...

23. Jesus Is Tested in Gethsemane

Mark 14:32-42

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Grant R. Osborne

... . The deep sorrow is heightened further when Jesus adds “to the point of death,” emphasizing the great intensity of the despair. The pain is so great as to be just like dying. Stay here and keep watch. The demand for spiritual vigilance echoes the theme in the Olivet Discourse (13:34–35, 37). He wants the disciples to pray with him, perhaps with an echo of Exodus 12:42: “Because the Lord kept vigil that night to bring them out of Egypt, on this night all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honor the ...

24. On the Cross Jesus Is Mocked and Dies

Mark 15:33-41

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Grant R. Osborne

... So the darkness at the crucifixion is a harbinger of the judgment to come, first in the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 and then in the eschaton, the destruction of the world of evil, at the end of history (see also the discussion of the Olivet Discourse in Mark 13). Illustrating the Text The darkness will turn to day! Classic Sermon: “It’s Friday but Sunday’s Coming,” by Tony Campolo. For the followers of Jesus, “Good Friday” must have been the bleakest day of their lives. Jesus was crucified ...

25. The Supernatural Witness to the Significance of Jesus’s Death

Mark 15:42-47

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Grant R. Osborne

... . It could have a positive purpose, signifying new access to God, with Christ’s sacrifice producing the end of the sacrificial system and a new, direct relationship with God. It could also have a negative purpose, building on the cursing of the fig tree and the Olivet Discourse to signify God’s judgment on the nation and the violent end that the temple and Jerusalem will have in the near future. A growing number of scholars are beginning to agree that this is not an either/or but rather a both/and event ...

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