What were the disciples asking when they inquired about “what will be the sign of your coming”?

[MatthewG]

Thank you for summing up some of your comments, @3 Resurrections.

 

[Davy]

In the olivet discourse of Matthew, when the disciples asked “what will be the sign of your coming?”, did they already fully comprehend at this point that Christ was going to go ascend to heaven and then return?

in other words, IF, at the time of the Olivet discourse, the disciples did not know that Christ was going to ascend to heaven and then at a future point, return, then why should the question, FROM THEIR PERSPECTIVE” be understood as “what will be the sign of your return”?

So... you are SUGGESTING... and of course wrongly, that if Christ's disciples upon the Mount of Olives with Him had a limited understanding of what He was talking about, then what Jesus taught there could just mean ANYTHING?!@? That kind of thinking ain't nothing but CONFUSION.

It is obvious you have just ACCEPTED a crock of MEN'S DOCTRINES on the meaning of Lord Jesus' Olivet discourse instead of understanding it yourself. Because if you had... understood it, then you would have known that Jesus was giving the same SIGNS He gave the Church in His Book of Revelation, specifically the SEALS of Revelation 6!

Did Christ's disciples with Him upon the Mount Olives know about the SEALS of Revelation 6? No, of course not, because Jesus had not given them His Revelation yet, not until Apostle John on Patmos. But could He still have shown them some things about the end of this world that were not recorded in The Gospel Books? Yes, of course, because at Luke 24:27 Jesus starting at Moses and the prophets expounded all things to His disciples written of Himself.