Jesus was actually seeing the future happen, that hasn’t happened yet but He saw it happening.
Look what He says, it’s fascinating. “For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side, and level you, and your children within you,” sounds like what’s going on in Ukraine right now, “to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”
That’s how He starts Palm Sunday. His last week.
Look what He says. “Then Jesus went out,” Verse 1 of Matthew 24, “departed from the temple, and His disciples came up to show Him the buildings of the temple.” They were just excited. He’d just gone through this triumphal entry on Sunday and everything. The city is buzzing and they’re oblivious to the horrors ahead, of the cross. “
Jesus said to them, ‘Do you not see all these things? Assuredly? I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down.’ “ I love that little modifier, this thrown down. When you go to Israel, all of you that have been and any of you that go, that’s one of the most beautiful sites.
I always get people and we stand on that pile of rocks that the Roman soldiers threw down from the Temple Mount, down to the street below. I say, this is the most vivid fulfilled prophecy you’ll ever see before your eyes. Jesus said they would be thrown down and 40 years later, there they are. They’re still there, weighing tons and tons and tons. They pried them apart to get the gold.
Look what happens. Verse 3, “As He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, ‘Tell us, when will these things be?’ “ In other words, how it all ends, when will this be and how will it be? They were just like us. They were bewildered, how in God’s plan, it would include the destruction of Jerusalem and the destruction of all those million people that Vespasian and his son Titus ended up massacring in AD 70.
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