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Mark's account of the Olivet Discourse

Location: On the Mount of Olives.

Mark 13:3-8:
And as he sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple (opposite the Temple Mount), Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, "Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled?"

And Jesus answering them began to say, "Take heed lest any man deceive you: For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows."

What was Jesus talking about in the above passage?

Birth-pain signs of the end of the age: ✅

THE PERSECUTION AND TRIBULATION 
THAT THE DISCIPLES OF JESUS SHOULD EXPECT

Mark 13:9-14:
"But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten: and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them. And the gospel must first be published among all nations. But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost. 

Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and shall cause them to be put to death. And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judæa flee to the mountains: And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house:"

What was Jesus talking about in the above passage?

He was talking about the tribulation and persecution that the living stones of the New Testament Temple would experience FOLLOWING the birth-pain signs of the end of the age.
He was talking about the stones of the temple on the Temple Mount
✅❌

In what context did Jesus say the above?

In the context of talking on the Mount of Olives about the tribulation that the living stones of the New Testament Temple would experience FOLLOWING the birth-pain signs of the end of the age
In the context of talking on the Mount of Olives about the stones of the temple on the Temple Mount, which on the Temple Mount Jesus had said would be left not on stone upon another
✅❌


End-of-the-age
birth-pain signs


Luke 21:8-11 & 25-28



Mark 13:5-8
Matthew 24:4-8

Tribulation/persecution
of the disciples of Jesus		BEFORE
the birth-pain signs:
Luke 21:12-19
FOLLOWING 
the birth-pain signs:
Mark 13:9-23
Matthew 24:9-28
Armies gathering
against Jerusalem
given as the sign that the disciples of Jesus should flee Judea		BEFORE
the birth-pain signs:
Luke 21:20-24
No mention in Matthew
No mention in Mark
Abomination of Desolation
in
the holy place

(whoso readeth, let him understand)

given as the sign that the disciples of Jesus should flee Judea

No mention in Luke
FOLLOWING
 the birth-pain signs:
Mark 13:14
Matthew 24:15

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