Matt. 24:15-35
20 verses: Jesus’ detailed response to the 1st question: “When will these things happen?” … What things? “One stone will not be left on another.”
2nd question: “AND What will be the signs of the end?” Jesus is not answering that question yet!
1st Temple 2nd Temple 3rd Temple (Exile) Little “messiah” Cyrus will rebuild. 2nd Temple (Gospels) Big “Messiah” Will come. 3rd Temple (Us) Jesus Messiah Will come again.
What is this abomination that causes desolation? To His disciples: What is this abomination that causes desolation?
1st temple destroyed (no thought yet to build the 2nd) Dan 9:24-27 (NLT) To those in Exile 1st temple destroyed (no thought yet to build the 2nd)
1st temple destroyed (no thought yet to build the 2nd) Dan 9:24-27 (NLT) To those in Exile 1st temple destroyed (no thought yet to build the 2nd) Us
At the time of the gospels: 1 Cor 2:8 “None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.”
1. City and Temple will be rebuilt 2. 70 - seven’s To those in Exile 1. City and Temple will be rebuilt 2. 70 - seven’s Us Cyrus 536BC “Rebuild Jerusalem” - 2 Chronicles 36:22-23 - Ezra 1:1-4 Temple Destroyed Birth / Death of Jesus 3-33AD
1. Edict of Cyrus 536BC 2 Chronicles 36:22-23 / Ezra 1:1-4 2. The Messiah came & killed - after 62 sevens 3. 8 sevens after Jesus (appears to accomplish nothing) - Jerusalem will be utterly destroyed! 4. 7 of 8 sevens = last throes of Jerusalem (temple). 5. A last seven is left = something NEW 6. Daniel 9 is a timeline of 2ndTemple.
… KEEP YOUR FAITH!!! - There’s another Seven!! DISCIPLES AD 33: 1. City and Temple destroyed! 2. Messiah dead… seemed to accomplished nothing … KEEP YOUR FAITH!!! - There’s another Seven!! Us LIVING, MOBILE TEMPLE KINGDOM INSIDE
Dan 9 “27 as a climax to all his terrible deeds, he will set up a sacrilegious object that causes desecration” ESV “27 … And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate,”
Us Vespasian Falvius 69AD
Washington Square Arch Arc de Triomphe Paris Washington Square Arch
Daniel Cyrus 536BC “Rebuild Jerusalem” Temple Destroyed Abomination Birth / Death of Jesus 3-33AD Kingdom Inside
Dead works, worked by carrion eaters little emperors squabbling over little, dead empires
Matt 24:29-31 “29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”
… to be continued