You know what is really odd? You quote Matthew 24. But if you would consider the first verses of Matthew 24, you would realize it refers to the events around 70 AD.
You are assuming that the stones Christ spoke about in Matthew 24:1–2 must refer exclusively to the physical stones of the temple building and that His prophecy must therefore be confined to the events of AD 70. But have you considered how Scripture itself uses stones to represent God’s people and His spiritual house, humm?
Christ’s words must be understood in the broader context of God’s redemptive plan, not merely through the physical destruction of a building.
In Matthew 21:42–43, Christ identifies Himself as the rejected stone and declares that the kingdom of God would be taken from those who rejected Him and given to a nation bringing forth its fruits. This judgment followed Israel’s rejection of the Messiah, the Prince. The old covenant congregation, as the kingdom’s former representative, was judged, and its kingdom privileges were taken away.
Now consider how the New Testament describes God’s true spiritual temple:
1 Peter 2:5 declares,
“Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.”
Likewise, Ephesians 2:19–22 describes believers as the stones being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Jesus Christ Himself as the chief corner stone. The whole building grows into a holy temple in the Lord. These living stones are born-again believers in Christ, including Jews who believe in Him, joined together into the New Testament congregation.
Therefore, the fall of the old covenant congregation must be understood in light of the judgment upon those who rejected their Messiah and the establishment of Christ’s spiritual house.
The kingdom was not ultimately about preserving a physical temple made of dead stones, but about the living stones whom Christ builds into His spiritual temple. The destruction of the old order must not be confused with the ultimate fulfillment of Christ’s prophetic teaching concerning His coming and the end.
Now consider Matthew 24:20:
“But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day.” Why must we automatically restrict these words to literal weather conditions and Jewish Sabbath observance? Scripture frequently uses physical circumstances to communicate spiritual realities.
The Sabbath signifies rest from labor. Hebrews 4:9–11 speaks of a rest that remains for the people of God and urges us to enter into that rest. In the prophetic application I am presenting, the Sabbath signifies the time when the opportunity to labor in the kingdom’s work has ended. When that appointed time arrives, no one can continue the work of the present day of salvation.
Winter, likewise, can signify the passing of the harvest season. Christ teaches in John 4:35,
“Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.” The harvest imagery reminds us that there is an appointed time for gathering. Spiritually understood, winter represents the passing of the harvest opportunity—the time when the gathering of the elect has ended and the day of salvation is no longer available.
This is why the warning is so serious:
Pray that you are not left until the spiritual winter comes or until the Sabbath rest begins, when the opportunity to do the work appointed for this present age has passed. Do not presume that the door of salvation will remain open
indefinitely.
So, no, I do not accept your assumption that Matthew 24 must be reduced to a prediction about physical stones falling in AD 70, with so-called "Judean Christians" fleeing Jerusalem, literal winter weather, and Sabbath restrictions. Those are physical interpretations, but the New Testament repeatedly directs our attention to the spiritual realities of Christ’s kingdom, His living temple, His harvest, and His judgment.
The essential issue is this: God judged the old covenant congregation with stone falling (professed Jewish believers) for rejecting the Messiah, and Christ is building His New Testament congregation out of living stones (Born again Christians). We must understand His warnings in the light of that redemptive transition and the urgency of completing the harvest before the appointed time ends. The Olivet Discourse was not for physical nation Israel in the first century, but for the New Testament congregation AFTER the fall of Old Testament congregation (verse 1-2) right prior to the Second Coming.
Selah! 
