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Discussing Bible Prophecy With My 11-Year-Old Granddaughter

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Bible Prophecy Under the Microscope: Episode 12

Gary does a short Bible study with his granddaughter, who had a few questions about Mark 13 and Jesus’ coming.

In terms of audience relevance related to a study of the Olivet Discourse, students of Scripture need to begin with Matthew 21:1 where we read that Jesus and some of His disciples had come “to the Mount of Olives.” By the time we get to chapter 23, Jesus is still in the vicinity of the Mount of Olives. In this way, the chapter “serves as a sort of introduction to the eschatological discourse of Matt 24-25…. Thus the judgment of Jerusalem, primarily its leaders and its Temple, is justified in Matt 23 before it is predicted in Matt 24-25.” It’s in Matthew 23 that Jesus tells His audience that their “house” is going to be left to them “desolate” (23:38).

Jesus’ use of “house” is a reference to the temple that had been built after Israel returned from captivity and later had undergone reconstruction beginning in 19 BC by Herod the Great (John 2:19-20). Jesus was in the temple when He pronounced that the temple would be left to them desolate. We know this from what Matthew states in the following chapter. Keep in mind that there were no chapter or verse divisions in the original manuscripts or their later copies:

Jesus came out from the temple and was going away when His disciples came up to point out the temple buildings to Him. And He said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, not one stone here will be left upon another, which will not be torn down” (Matt. 24:1-2).

It’s in Matthew 23:36 where the definition of “this generation” is confirmed to mean the generation—the people then living—to whom Jesus was speaking: “Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.” Notice the use of “these things” and “this generation.” We will see similar words in Matthew 24:33-34. “This generation” is a reference to that first-century generation, not ours. Even the original popular Scofield Reference Bible confirms that “The prediction of v. 36 [in Matt. 23] was fulfilled in the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.” The KJV Bible Commentary interprets “this generation” in the same way and adds an important qualification: “While some have attempted to relate ‘generation’ (Gr genea) to the race of the Jews, indicating the survival of their race until Christ’s return, this seems somewhat stretched.”

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A first-century interpretation of the Olivet Discourse was once common in commentaries and narrative-style books that describe the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70. There is also a history of skeptics who turn to Bible prophecy and claim Jesus was wrong about the timing of His coming at “the end of the age” and the signs associated with it. A mountain of scholarship shows that the prophecy given by Jesus was fulfilled in exacting detail when He said it would: before the generation of those to whom He was speaking passed away.

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Gary does a short Bible study with his granddaughter, who had a few questions about Mark 13 and Jesus’ coming. Are there two comings mentioned in this chapter (the Olivet Discourse) and if so, how do we know what verses apply to which coming?

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    • jon

      this is a good thing. get that bible instilled in them instead of evil things like halloween.

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