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The discourse contains a number of statements which at face value appear to refer to future events, and most modern Christians interpret as having been intended as prophecy. The topics involved are: Prophecy, in a broad sense, is the prediction of future events. ...

1. The future destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem
2. Tribulation in Israel and the nations of the world
3. Various signs of the coming of the Son of Man

The setting on the Mount of Olives is also thought by some scholars to have not been incidental, but a quite deliberate echo of a passage in the Book of Zechariah which refers to the location as the place where a final battle would occur between the Jewish Messiah and their opponents. Combatants Roman Empire Jews of Judea Commanders Titus Flavius Vespasianus Simon Bar-Giora Yohanan mi-Gush Halav (John of Gischala) Eleazar ben Simon Strength 70,000 men 13,000 men, split among three factions Casualties Unknown 60,000–1,100,000 (mass civilian casualties) The Siege of Jerusalem in the... The Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the entities that bring false peace, War, famine, pestilence, and death. ... The Second Coming or Last Coming refers to the Christian and Islamic belief in the coming or return of Jesus Christ to fulfill Messianic prophecy, such as the resurrection of the dead, last judgment and full establishment of the Kingdom of God (also called the Reign of God), including the... The phrase son of man is a primarily Semitic idiom that originated in Ancient Mesopotamia, used to denote humanity or self. ... Zechariah or Zecharya (זְכַרְיָה Renowned/Remembered of/is the LORD, Standard Hebrew Zəḫarya, Tiberian Hebrew Zəḵaryāh) was a person in the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh. ... In Judaism and Jewish eschatology, the Messiah (Hebrew: משיח; Mashiah, Mashiach, or Moshiach, anointed [one]) has traditionally referred to a future Jewish king from the Davidic line who will be anointed (the meaning of the Hebrew word משיח) with holy anointing oil and inducted to rule the Jewish people during the Messianic...

Content of the discourse

The Destruction of the Temple and Its Signs

According to the narrative of the synoptic Gospels, a (anonymous) disciple remarks on the greatness of Herod's Temple, a building thought to have been some 10 stories high and likely to have been adorned with gold, silver, and other precious items (Kilgallen 245). However, the narrative goes on to state that Jesus says that not one stone would remain intact in the building, and the whole thing would be reduced to rubble. In Christianity, the disciples were the students of Jesus during his ministry. ... Herods Temple in Jerusalem was a massive expansion of the Second Temple along with renovations of the entire Temple Mount. ... General Name, Symbol, Number gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 6, d Appearance metallic yellow Atomic mass 196. ... General Name, Symbol, Number silver, Ag, 47 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 5, d Appearance lustrous white metal Atomic mass 107. ...

Following this the disciples asked for a sign, they asked, "when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?" Jesus first warns them about things that would happen that should not be interpreted as signs: Look up sign in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

• people who would claim to be Christ, see also Antichrist - it was a general belief that if the Jewish Messiah arrived in Jerusalem it would mean that the Kingdom of Heaven was imminent.
• wars and rumours of wars.

Then Jesus identifies the beginning ofbirth pains (some older translations read sorrows): This page is about the title or the Divine Person. For the Christian figure, see Jesus. ... // The English word Antichrist is taken from the Greek αντίχριστος antíkhristos, which literally means instead of Christ. In the Bible, the term itself appears only in 1 John and 2 John. ... In Judaism and Jewish eschatology, the Messiah (Hebrew: משיח; Mashiah, Mashiach, or Moshiach, anointed [one]) has traditionally referred to a future Jewish king from the Davidic line who will be anointed (the meaning of the Hebrew word משיח) with holy anointing oil and inducted to rule the Jewish people during the Messianic... Panoramic view from Mt. ... The Kingdom of Heaven (or the Kingdom of God, Hebrew מלכות השמים, malkhut hashamayim, Greek basileia tou theou) is a key concept detailed in all the three major monotheistic religions of the world — Islam, Judaism and Christianity. ... A war is a conflict between two or more groups that involve large numbers of individuals. ... A rumor (British English: rumour) is a piece of purportedly true information that is circulated without substantiating evidence. ...

• Nations rising up against nations, and kingdoms against kingdoms.
• earthquakes
• famines
• pestilence
• fearful events

Then He described more birth pains which would lead to the coming Kingdom. An earthquake is a phenomenon that results from the sudden release of stored energy in the Earths crust that creates seismic waves. ... A famine is a social and economic crisis that is commonly accompanied by widespread malnutrition, starvation, epidemic and increased mortality. ... A pestilence is an epidemic or even a pandemic of a virulent and highly contagious disease. ...

• false prophets
• apostasy
• persecution of the followers of Jesus
• the spread of Jesus's message (the gospel) around the world

Jesus then warned the disciples about the Abomination of Desolation standing where it does not belong. The Gospel of Matthew and Mark add that - let the reader understand -". This is generally considered to be a reference to a passage from the Book of Daniel (Dan 9:27 and 11:31. Although the passage in the Book of Daniel claims to be a prophecy dictated to Daniel by Gabriel during the Babylonian captivity, sceptics believe that the Book was pseudepigraphically written in the mid second century BC, and that rather than being a genuine prophecy the passage was a postdiction, written as a polemic against the shrine to Zeus set up in the temple in 168 BC by Antiochus IV Epiphanes, which had a Pagan altar added onto the Altar of Holocausts (Brown et al. 624 and Miller 44). Exactly how the synoptics meant it to be reinterpreted or interpreted, however, is a matter of debate; some Christians think it to be a successful prophecy about Titus's destruction of the temple in 70AD, see Preterism, and others think it to be a reference to a future Antichrist, while others see it as another vaticinium ex eventu about Caligula's attempt to put a statue of himself or of Jupiter into the temple in 37-41AD (Brown 144). False prophet is a label given to a person who is viewed as illegitimately claiming charismatic authority within a religious group. ... It has been suggested that Spiritual desertion be merged into this article or section. ... First Christians in Kiev by Vasily Perov; Christians worshipping secretly in fear of persecution Many Christians have experienced persecution from both non-Christians and from other Christians during the history of Christianity. ... For other uses, see Gospel (disambiguation). ... The transformation, by Antiochus Epiphanes, of the sacred Temple at Jerusalem into a heathen one, during the time of the Tobiads. ... The Book of Daniel, written in Hebrew and Aramaic, is a book in both the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and the Christian Old Testament. ... Prophecy, in a broad sense, is the prediction of future events. ... Daniel (Hebrew: דָּנִיֵּאל; transliterated as Daniyyel in Standard Hebrew and Dāniyyêl in Tiberian Hebrew, Arabic: Danyel, دانيال) is the name of at least three people from the Hebrew Bible: A Jewish exile in Babylon, the subject of the Book of Daniel and the most well-known of the three Daniels. ... 12th-century icon of Archangel Gabriel from Novgorod In Abrahamic religions, Gabriel (גַּבְרִיאֵל, Standard Hebrew Gavriʼel, Latin Gabrielus, Greek , Tiberian Hebrew Gaḇrîʼēl, Arabic جبريل Jibrīl or Jibrail, literally Master, of God, i. ... Babylonian captivity also refers to the permanence of the Avignon Papacy. ... Pseudepigrapha (Greek pseudos = false, epi = after, later and grapha = writing (or writings), latterly or falsely attributed, or down right forged works, describes texts whose claimed authorship is unfounded in actuality. ... The Statue of Zeus at Olympia Phidias created the 12-m (40-ft) tall statue of Zeus at Olympia about 435 BC. The statue was perhaps the most famous sculpture in Ancient Greece, imagined here in a 16th century engraving In Greek mythology, Zeus (in Greek: nominative: Ζεύς Zeús, genitive... Centuries: 3rd century BC - 2nd century BC - 1st century BC Decades: 210s BC 200s BC 190s BC 180s BC 170s BC - 160s BC - 150s BC140s BC 130s BC 120s BC 110s BC Years: 173 BC 172 BC 171 BC 170 BC 169 BC - 168 BC - 167 BC 166 BC 165... Coin of Antiochus IV. Reverse shows Apollo seated on an omphalos. ... Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning a country dweller or civilian) is a term which, from a western perspective, has come to connote a broad set of spiritual or religious beliefs and practices of natural or polytheistic religions. ... Look up Altar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see Titus (disambiguation). ... Combatants Roman Empire Jews of Judea Commanders Titus Flavius Vespasianus Simon Bar-Giora Yohanan mi-Gush Halav (John of Gischala) Eleazar ben Simon Strength 70,000 men 13,000 men, split among three factions Casualties Unknown 60,000–1,100,000 (mass civilian casualties) The Siege of Jerusalem in the... Preterism is a variant of Christian eschatology which holds that some or all of the biblical prophecies concerning the Last Days (or End Times) refer to events which actually happened in the first century after Christs birth. ... // The English word Antichrist is taken from the Greek αντίχριστος antíkhristos, which literally means instead of Christ. In the Bible, the term itself appears only in 1 John and 2 John. ... Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (August 31, 12 – January 24, 41), most commonly known as Caligula, was the third Roman Emperor and a member of the Julio-Claudian dynastyhe also liked to have sex with animals, ruling from 37 to 41. ... Adjective Jovian Atmospheric characteristics Atmospheric pressure 70 kPa Hydrogen ~86% Helium ~14% Methane 0. ...

The Great Tribulation

After Jesus described the abomination that causes desolation He warns that the people of Judea should flee to the mountains as a matter of such urgency that they shouldn't even return to get things from their homes. Jesus also warned that if it happened in winter or on the Sabbath fleeing would be even more difficult. Jesus described this as a time of "Great Tribulation" worse than anything that had gone before. Winter is one of the four seasons of temperate zones. ... This article concerns the Sabbath in Christianity. ...

Jesus then states that immediately after the time of tribulation people would see a sign, "the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken." Matthew 24:29-30).

The statements about the sun and moon sound quite apocalyptic, it appears to be a quote from the Book of Isaiah (Isaiah 13:10). The description of the sun, moon and stars going dark is also described by the Old Testament Joel. Joel wrote that this would be a sign before the great and dreadful day of the Lord, Joel 2:30-31). The Book of Isaiah (Hebrew: Sefer Yshayah ספר ישעיה) is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament, believed to be written by Isaiah[1]. // The 66 chapters of Isaiah consist primarily of prophecies of the judgments awaiting nations that are persecuting Judah. ...

Some scholars think that the intended audiences of the Synoptic Gospels were meant to be aware that these were quotations, and where they were from, and that by using these two quotations together, the Roman domination of Israel was deliberately being compared to that during the Babylonian captivity of six centuries previous, and that it was being predicted that the Roman empire would fall, and the domination end, just as Babylon had. The Roman Empire is the name given to both the imperial domain developed by the city-state of Rome and also the corresponding phase of that civilization, characterized by an autocratic form of government. ... Babylonian captivity also refers to the permanence of the Avignon Papacy. ...

The Coming of the Son of Man

In the Olivet Discourse, Jesus states that after the time of tribulation and the sign of the sun, moon and stars going dark the son of man would be seen arriving in the clouds with power and great glory. Jesus would be accompanied by the angels and at the trumpet call the angels would gather the elect (God’s chosen) from the heavens and the four winds of the earth, Matthew 24:31). The phrase son of man is a primarily Semitic idiom that originated in Ancient Mesopotamia, used to denote humanity or self. ... Glory can refer to: Glory (religion) Glory (optical phenomenon) Glory (film) Glory (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The Annunciation - the Angel Gabriel announces to Mary that she will bear Jesus (El Greco, 1575) An angel is a supernatural being found in many religions. ...

Some Christians have seen this as a prediction of Roman tyranny being overcome by Christianity. Christianity did eventually become the official religion of the Roman Empire. The Eastern Roman Empire remained Christianized until its fall to the Turks in 1453, although large portions of its former territory, such as Greece, remain largely Christian to this day. Byzantine Empire is the term conventionally used to describe the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered around its capital in Constantinople. ...

For the Christians who read the text more literally, this is taken to refer to the Second Coming. In modern times, supporters of the more literal readings tend to also be politically conservative, and argued that it is the UN or the EU that some Middle Eastern confederacy is the fourth empire of Daniel 7:23-24) that will devour the world. The Second Coming or Last Coming refers to the Christian and Islamic belief in the coming or return of Jesus Christ to fulfill Messianic prophecy, such as the resurrection of the dead, last judgment and full establishment of the Kingdom of God (also called the Reign of God), including the... This article is about the United Nations, for other uses of UN see UN (disambiguation) Official languages English, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Arabic Secretary-General Kofi Annan (since 1997) Established October 24, 1945 Member states 191 Headquarters New York City, NY, USA Official site http://www. ...

The synoptics also describe Jesus as stating that the elect would be gathered together from across the earth and heaven; technically it states that they would be gathered from the four winds, from the furthest part of the earth to the furthest part of heaven, and so, although most scholars, and almost all Christians, read this as meaning that the gathering would include people not only from earth but also from heaven, a few Christians, mostly modern American Protestant Premillennialists ^{[citation needed]}, have interpreted it to mean that people would be gathered from earth and taken to heaven - a concept known in their circles as the rapture. Most scholars see this as a quotation of a passage from the Book of Zechariah in which God (and the contents of heaven in general) are predicted to come to earth and live among the elect, who by necessity are gathered together for this purpose (Zechariah 2:10). According to the ancient gnostics, this passage was to be interpreted as implying that the teachings of the son of man would automatically bring those who heard and fully understood them (the elect) together. Heaven is an afterlife concept found in many religions or spiritual philosophies. ... Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... This article specifically relates to Premillennialism in Christian eschatology; for political millenarianism and other uses of the word see Millenarianism Premillennialism in Christian eschatology is the belief that Christ will literally reign on the earth for 1,000 years at his second coming. ... It has been suggested that Post Tribulation Rapture be merged into this article or section. ... Zechariah or Zecharya (זְכַרְיָה Renowned/Remembered of/is the LORD, Standard Hebrew Zəḫarya, Tiberian Hebrew Zəḵaryāh) was a person in the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh. ...

Immediacy

In the Olivet Discourse, Jesus stated that when you see all these signs the Kingdom would be right at the door. He went on to say that this generation would not pass until all these things had happened.

This has historically been one of the hardest passages to resolve with a literal interpretation of the text, since at face value it would seem to imply that the disciples would still need to be alive today, and so awkward legends arose suggesting that the disciples that Jesus was speaking to did not die but remain alive, eventually merging into legends like that of a Wandering Jew and of Prester John. Indeed, C.S. Lewis called this "the most embarrassing verse in the Bible" ^[1]. More scholarly explanations for how this could be justified have concentrated on the fact that, in Koine Greek, the word used for generation can also be used to mean race, "type", or "sort". For example Jesus spoke about an "evil and adulterous generation" that would seek after a sign. The Bible also speaks of the "generation of the righteous", "the generation of them that seek Him" etc. Clearly the meaning of these expressions is not that all people living at one time were upright or evil etc. "Generation" is used to express the common type. A common "genesis", a common root. and so the verse could just mean that christianity, the "generation" to which the disciples belonged, would still be in existence, or even just that humans would be. The Wandering Jew by Gustave Dor̩. See also Wandering Jew (plant) for information on the plants of the same name. ... Preste enthroned on a map of East Africa in an atlas prepared for Queen Mary, 1558. ... Clive Staples Lewis (November 29, 1898 РNovember 22, 1963), commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was an author and scholar. ... Koine redirects here. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Trinomial name Homo sapiens sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 Humans, or human beings, are bipedal apes belonging to the mammalian species Homo sapiens (Latin for wise man or knowing man) under the family Hominidae (known as the great apes). ...

Clearly some of the disciples themselves misunderstood this point. In the earliest known Christian document, the First Epistle to the Thessalonians, Paul seems to envisage that he and the Christians he was writing to would see the resurrection of the dead within their own lifetimes: "For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep." (4:15-17). Some argue that the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians was forged, essentially for the sole purpose of contradicting the first epistle. ^{[citation needed]}. However in Philippians 1:23 he talks about going to Christ as death. The First Epistle to the Thessalonians, also known as the First Letter to the Thessalonians, is a book from the New Testament of the Christian Bible. ... Paul of Tarsus (b. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Resurrection. ... The Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, also known as the Second Letter to the Thessalonians, is a book from the New Testament of the Christian Bible. ... A 19th century picture of Paul of Tarsus The Pauline epistles are those books in the New Testament that are traditionally attributed to Paul of Tarsus. ...

In the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas, Jesus is described as saying that the kingdom will not come by watching for it, and it will not be something to be physically pointed to (Thomas 113, see also Luke 17:20-21, 2 Timothy 2:17-18), and that the new world is already here but that people just can't see it (Thomas 51). In John 18:36 Jesus states to Pilate that his kingdom is not of this world, see also New Covenant (theology). The Gospel of Thomas is the modern name given to a New Testament-era apocryphon completely preserved in a papyrus Coptic manuscript discovered in 1945 at Nag Hammadi, Egypt. ... Christians believe that Jesus is the mediator of the New Covenant (see Hebrews 8:6). ...

In modern times, most scholars and Christians ^{[citation needed]} think that the Olivet Discourse is just using the apocalyptic language of his time symbolically, as many Jewish prophets did. Nevertheless, throughout history there have been many groups who read the discourse literally, and Christian thought has always included groups who say that the end of the world is near, some even giving exact dates which have since come and gone without an intervening end of world (see also Second Coming). Look up Apocalypse in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Christian philosophy is a catch-all expression for a two-millennia tradition of rational thought that attempts to fuse the fields of philosophy with the religious teachings of Christianity. ... The Second Coming or Last Coming refers to the Christian and Islamic belief in the coming or return of Jesus Christ to fulfill Messianic prophecy, such as the resurrection of the dead, last judgment and full establishment of the Kingdom of God (also called the Reign of God), including the...

See also

• Jewish revolt
• Second Coming
• Christian eschatology
• Summary of Christian eschatological differences
• Eschatology
• Last Judgement
• Armageddon
• Left Behind (series)
• The Way of the Master
• Messianic prophecy
• Kenosis

The Great Jewish Revolt (66–73 CE), sometimes called The first Jewish-Roman War, was the first of two major rebellions by the Jews of Judea against the Roman Empire (the second was Bar Kokhbas revolt in 132-135). ... The Second Coming or Last Coming refers to the Christian and Islamic belief in the coming or return of Jesus Christ to fulfill Messianic prophecy, such as the resurrection of the dead, last judgment and full establishment of the Kingdom of God (also called the Reign of God), including the... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Look up eschatology in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Image:Michelangelo - Fresco of the Last Judgment. ... The evangelist John of Patmos writes the Book of Revelation. ... Book 1 in the Left Behind Series Left Behind is a series of novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, dealing with Christian dispensationalist End Times: pretribulation, premillennial, Christian eschatology viewpoint of the end of the world. ... The Way of the Master is a Christian evangelism training ministry, created in 2002 and headed by Kirk Cameron and evangelist Ray Comfort, though there are several other key figures within the organization. ... In Abrahamic religions, messianic prophecies describe the coming, acts, authority, personality, nature, etc. ... Kenosis is a Greek word for emptiness, which is used as a theological term. ...

Notes

1. ^ C.S. Lewis The World’s Last Night and Other Essays

References

• Brown, Raymond E An Introduction to the New Testament Doubleday 1997 ISBN 0-385-24767-2
• Brown, Raymond E. et al. The New Jerome Biblical Commentary Prentice Hall 1990 ISBN 0-13-614934-0
• Kilgallen, John J. A Brief Commentary on the Gospel of Mark Paulist Press 1989 ISBN 0-8091-3059-9
• Miller, Robert J. Editor The Complete Gospels Polebridge Press 1994 ISBN 0-06-065587-9

Father Raymond Edward Brown, S.S., (born May 22, 1928, died of aids August 8, 1998), was an American Roman Catholic priest appointed in 1972 and in 1996 to the Pontifical Biblical Commission, which advises the pontiff on scriptural matters, and professor emeritus at the Protestant Union Theological Seminary in...

External links

• Powerpoint of Olivet Discourse