Okay now I've watched it, and LOVE Chuck BTW, but I believe this is VERY easily exsplained and comes no where close to the meaning he was trying to suggest.
The Disciples where asking about when will the temple be destroyed brick off of brick and it says:
10 Then he said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. 11 There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
Okay we're tracking no problem the He says:
12 But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake. 13 This will be your opportunity to bear witness. 14 Settle it therefore in your minds not to meditate beforehand how to answer, 15 for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict. 16 You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers[c] and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death. 17 You will be hated by all for my name's sake. 18 But not a hair of your head will perish. 19 By your endurance you will gain your lives.
These are the things that will be taking place before the 70AD temple destruction, they will be delivered to synagogues and prisons, should bear witness, and all that. So for the 40 years (a generation by the way) between Jesus ascension and sitting on His Throne at the right hand of the Father, these are the things that would be happening. And did happen exactly that way just like Jesus said.
NOW Jesus is jumping back to the main subject and telling the (the more gentile styled writing of Luke to a more gentile audience mentions the armies surrounding the city as a warning to get out and not the abomination of desolation the the Jews were familiar with, and also the more Hebrew centric writings of Matthew were written more to an audience that understood what that was.
Jesus Foretells Destruction of Jerusalem
20 “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near. 21 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the city depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it, 22 for these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written. 23 Alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress upon the earth and wrath against this people. 24 They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
Like I said before the scripture fits this view better tan any option in my opinion. Genius Chuck Missler here is trying to make the text mean his idea more than letting the text shape his understanding in my opinion.
The Disciples where asking about when will the temple be destroyed brick off of brick and it says:
10 Then he said to them, “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. 11 There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
Okay we're tracking no problem the He says:
12 But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake. 13 This will be your opportunity to bear witness. 14 Settle it therefore in your minds not to meditate beforehand how to answer, 15 for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict. 16 You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers[c] and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death. 17 You will be hated by all for my name's sake. 18 But not a hair of your head will perish. 19 By your endurance you will gain your lives.
These are the things that will be taking place before the 70AD temple destruction, they will be delivered to synagogues and prisons, should bear witness, and all that. So for the 40 years (a generation by the way) between Jesus ascension and sitting on His Throne at the right hand of the Father, these are the things that would be happening. And did happen exactly that way just like Jesus said.
NOW Jesus is jumping back to the main subject and telling the (the more gentile styled writing of Luke to a more gentile audience mentions the armies surrounding the city as a warning to get out and not the abomination of desolation the the Jews were familiar with, and also the more Hebrew centric writings of Matthew were written more to an audience that understood what that was.
Jesus Foretells Destruction of Jerusalem
20 “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near. 21 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the city depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it, 22 for these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written. 23 Alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! For there will be great distress upon the earth and wrath against this people. 24 They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
Like I said before the scripture fits this view better tan any option in my opinion. Genius Chuck Missler here is trying to make the text mean his idea more than letting the text shape his understanding in my opinion.
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