Davy
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Here is what Jesus said about it and what the Jews thought
Luke 19:41-44
41 As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it 42 and said, “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes. 43 The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side. 44 They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God’s coming to you.”
I suppose I missed that response...
Lord Jesus' prophesy about not one stone atop another shows a dual prophecy, not yet completed.
Reason is, because at the temple mount area in today's Jerusalem, there are still many huge stones standing atop one another, called the Western Wall, or Wailing Wall, the old temple mount structures during the 2nd temple. And that's not even to mention the Dome of The Rock structure.
When Lord Jesus returns to the Mount of Olives in our near future, the great valley to be formed there when His feet touch down will probably destroy any and all... structures in that area of the temple mount. That's the real event in Matthew 24 with the time of not one stone atop another there. He was giving the 7 main Signs of the end leading up to His future coming, not really events for 70 A.D.
The danger of assigning those Signs in Christ's Olivet discourse to 70 A.D. is with disregarding the purpose Lord Jesus gave us those Signs, so we'd be forewarned of the events leading up to His future return for the FINAL GENERATION that He said will 'see' all those things.