
Mk 13.3-6,
Mt 24.3-5,
Lk 21.7-8.
Nope, not talking about
Anyway, enough ranting about that. Today’s passage isn’t about our present-day drama anyway.
It began
Which stunned Jesus’s hearers. This isn’t at all part of the popular first-century
Okay. So pulling the temple down is a big, big deal. It’s as if someone blew up the world trade center of a
Understandably Jesus’s students wanted to know where on earth this falls within the End Times timeline. ’Cause they unthinkingly expected things to play out the way Pharisees taught. Since
Mark 13.3-6 KWL - 3 While sitting himself at Olivet Hill opposite the temple,
- Simon Peter, James, John, and Andrew
- are asking Jesus privately,
- 4 “Tell us when these things will be.
- What’s the sign when all these things should end?”
- 5 Jesus begins to tell them,
- “Watch out lest someone mislead you all:
- 6 Many will come in my name saying, ‘I’m Messiah,’
- and will mislead many.”
Matthew 24.3-5 KWL - 3 While sitting himself upon Olivet Hill,
- the students came to Jesus on their own,
- saying, “Tell us when these things will be.
- What’s the sign of your second coming,
- and the end of this age?
- 4 In reply, Jesus tells them,
- “Watch out lest someone mislead you all:
- 5 Many will come in my name saying, ‘I’m Messiah,’
- and will mislead many.”
Luke 21.7-8 KWL - 7 They inquired of Jesus, saying, “Teacher,
- so when will these things be?
- What’s the sign when all these things should happen?”
- 8 Jesus says,
- “Watch out. Don’t be misled:
- People will come in my name saying, ‘I’m Messiah,’
- and ‘The time has come.’
- You ought not follow them.”
Okay. The most obvious sign the Olivet Discourse is about the first century, and neither our present nor the time before a future great tribulation, is right here in Jesus’s first warning of the discourse. “Don’t be misled; people are gonna come in my name and claim they’re Messiah.”