The Light
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The disciples then asked two questions in Matthew 24 in response to our Lord’s words.
Christ addressed both questions and both eras in chapter 24. However, because of the intermingling of His response, many Bible students suffer great confusion in identifying what aspect of the teaching relates to AD 70 and what relates to the second coming.
Matthew 24:3 records:
1. “When shall these things be?”
2. “What shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?”
Mark 13:4 records:
1. “When shall these things be?”
2. “What shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled (finished or ended)?”
Luke 21:7 records:
1. “When shall these things be?”
2. “What sign will there be when these things shall come to pass?”
There is no talk of AD 70 in these passages. That is where the confusion of most Bible students begins. Both questions speak of end times.
The disciples ask two questions. Looking at Luke, "When will these things be?" When will WHAT THINGS be?
Luke 21
5 And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said,
6 As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
7 And they asked him, saying, Master, but when shall these things be? and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass?
When will there not be one stone another? You think this has happened. It hasn't and the second question proves it. "and what sign will there be when these things shall come to pass?
Since you think that the first question occurred in 70 AD. What sign was there when these things (Not one stone upon another at the Temple site) came to pass?