Don’t overlook verse 34: “Truly I tell you, THIS generation will certainly not pass away until ALL these things have happened.”
If I am taking Jesus at his word, then these things have already happened. They just didn’t happen in the way we wanted to see it happen. He was referring to his coming in judgment on Jerusalem, not a final return.
When was this desolation supposed to happen? Within one generation. Luke further confirms that this account refers to the destruction of Jerusalem:
“When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near. 21 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country not enter the city. 22 For this is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all that has been written. 23 How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people. 24 They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations. Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.”
I know most of the readers here will not accept this interpretation, but give it some good thought. Jesus is not one to mislead his followers to believe some event that would occur thousands of years later would happen to them.
Are you saying that Jesus came a second time already? And Heaven and earth has passed away?
Amillennial?
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Luke further confirms that this account refers to the destruction of Jerusalem:
Indy,
Luke also had a Mount of Transfiguration that was 2 days later than Mathew and Mark..
Since the premise can be a 1,000 years as a day, and a day is as 1,000 years, we’ve had about 2 days (2,000) years since Mathew and Mark’s version of the Mount of Transfiguration..
That means another Mount of Transfiguration can happen. Luke’s version..
Also note that only in Mark and Luke is there talk of a man carrying a jar of water, at Passover..
That’s happened literally 2,000 years ago, but it is due to happen in the sky at some point.
It’s still the 2 Fish above our heads at Passover..
And the Woman clothed by the sun, in the fall..
When that man Carrying a Jar of Water shows up in the Spring, at Passover, the Lion replaces the Woman in the fall..
There is lots still to come.
And it’s in Luke where He weeps for Jerusalem. And warns the Daughters of Jerusalem to weep for themselves.
And it’s also in Luke where the words no man knows is not recorded.
Only in Mathew and Mark that is recorded.
If Mathew,Mark,Luke and John tell time, it’s been about 2,000 years , or about 2,000 demon possessed swine ..
The swine account is recorded in Mathew,Mark and Luke.
But only in Mark, were they numbered. About 2,000.
Like 2 days worth..
The last 2 days, or 2,000 years..
Now, that discrepancy of the 2 day delay in Luke gets interesting..
It wouldn’t be interesting to those born 1,000 years ago. Or even 500 years ago..
Skeptics would say ‘see, that isn’t inspired. It’s off by two days’..
Finding the disharmony of the gospels may be a blessing to both skeptics and believers.
For two totally different reasons..