21:29 ¶ And he spake to
them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; 30 When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of
your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. 31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come
to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. 32 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall
not pass away, till all be fulfilled. 33
Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at
any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares
of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that
dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to
escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of
man. 37 And in the day time he was
teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that
is called the mount of Olives. 38
And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for
to hear him.
See here in Jesus’
closing statements how with the age of the Christian church not revealed that
the two prophecies of events at least two thousand years apart appear to be
conflated. This confuses the Preterist who say the events of Revelation were
fulfilled in 70AD, which is nonsense.
First, it must be
understood that the events of the Fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the
Temple will happen so close in time that the generation hearing Christ will
have many who will witness them. With the First Jewish-Roman War less than four
decades away this generation will experience it.
But, He includes in His
closing remarks something more, that the
whole earth will experience, the coming of the kingdom of God physically on earth at Christ’s return. Without the
two thousand years of the Church Age in between it appears confusing to some.
But, look at the disaster the Jews faced in 70AD as a type and a portent of
what the end of human history will look like. The signs of Jerusalem’s fall and
the signs of the time before Christ’s return will be similar and Christians
will be delivered from both sets of horrors involved in those signs.
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