Dispite the flood of words, I still ask the same very basic question of why any of those warnings I mentioned earlier would apply to us today. They would not. Not in the slightest. They were meant for the Jews listening to Him who would see a slowly approaching army of marching soldiers from their rooftops, and would have 30 minutes to an hour or so to run before the army could reach Jerusalem. (Which, BTW, is exactly what history tells us happened.)Well, if you can dial back on the intelligence insult, that whole discourse in Matthew 24th chapter started after Jesus had prophesied that the stones of those Temple will be thrown down for when His disciples had asked Him 3 questions.
Matthew 24:1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. 2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. 3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
The first question is towards what Jesus has said about when the stones of the Temple will be thrown down. That would be 70 A.D. , right?
Then they had asked for the sign of His coming which is a separate entire question that obviously is not related to when the stones of the Temple being thrown down as it was in 70 A.D.
Then they had asked when the end of the world will be which again, it did not happen when the stones of the Temple were thrown down in 70 A.D.
Wisdom is needed here because Jesus is answering those 3 questions and not necessarily in order as He has gone back and forth in answering those 3 questions.
So for the the verse you had quoted in question;
Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
I see Jesus referring to the 3 angels that will set up the hour of temptation that shall try all remaining upon the earth for the coming great tribulation after the pre great trib rapture as the first angel is preaching the everlasting gospel everywhere so that everybody will know the gospel without excuse;
The second angel will declare Babylon ( USA ) as fallen as one third of the earth is burned up, setting the stage for the new world order and the mark of the beast system to survive in that new world order on the 2/3 rd remaining part of the earth.
The third angel will inform everyone the consequence for taking the mark of the beast to buy & sell which is the lake of fire... no ifs, nor buts about it.
So everyone will know the gospel, everyone will know of the calamity of fire on that one third of teh earth with America as fallen, and everyone will know the consequence for taking the mark of the beast which is the lake of fire as setting up the hour of temptation that shall try all remaining on the earth.
So what follows is the event in the great tribulation because it cannot be applied to the 70 A.D. event, even though preterists argues that someone did enter the Holy of holies and defiled it as such before destroying the temple. Maybe so, but the prophesy below did not happen after the everlasting gospel was preached everywhere and so..
15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand 16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains: 17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house: 18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. 19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! 20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
So it is fro Israel as they are the only ones keeping the sabbath during that great tribulation and not the saints. Do note how Jesus ascribed the event as only happening during the great tribulation below.
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
Now we can debate how verse 22 applies, but I hope you can see why I take that part of Jesus's answer as having happened after the rapture event when the 3 angels are setting up the hour of temptation that shall try all upon the earth.
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