Summary of Olivet Discourse in KJV

The Order for Reading the Olivet Discourse KJV

This is for the "KJV only" people, since my work is done in NASB. I am going to show the order in which to read the Olivet Discourse (Mat 24, Mark 12-13, and Luke 21) in the quickest way that I can. I will just concentrate on two places where the order is shown in the discourse and will do it using KJV.

Mat 24:7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. :8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

Mar 13:8 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.

Luk 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. :12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.

The word in Strongs for Sorrows is ōdin and the meaning is 1. the pain of childbirth, travail pain, birth pangs
So, from now on I will just call them birth pangs. I am sure you all know that this is labor pains that take place before the birth. This means these will take place toward the end of the events that Jesus is going to tell them about.

That is why Luke simply says, "But before all these" Meaning before the birth pangs start, these other events will take place first. Jesus is speaking about what the apostles will go through. Luke goes on to say "they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake." Jesus is speaking about what the apostles will go through. Mat 24:10-13 says the same thing and goes on to tell of the apostasy that will take place, as do the other two accounts.

The next event to take place will take place in the Temple. The one that Jesus said would be left with not one stone upon another, which was Herod's temple that they were looking at.

Mat 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

Mat 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
Mar 13:14 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 Judaea flee to the mountains:
Luke says; Luk 21:20 And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.

This was Herod's Temple and it's desolation would take place just a few short years after the Abomination of Desolation is set up.

So, at this point I am going to do something I have never done before in an article and that is to reference Dan 11:31, The Discourse, and 2Thess in one article to explain who the Abomination to God that would bring about the desolation is in both Dan 11:31 168 BC (time of the Maccabees fighting against Antiochus IV) and also in 70AD. In 168 BC Antiochus IV set up the statue of Zeus in the Temple and some believe this was the A of D of those days. But if we read Paul 2Thes, It is clearly a man standing in the Holy Place, not a statue.
2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; :4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

So, it is up to us to look back to Dan 11:31 and the history that took place at that time, to find out who the abomination of Desolation was back then. A man who puts himself above the Law of God given to Moses. That is why it is an abomination to God.

In 175 BC Antiochus IV got rid of Onias the High Priest and replaced him with a Hellenized High Priest named Jason, who over time didn't make the daily sacrifices. In 170 BC Jason sent Menelaus to pay the tribute to Antiochus, which had gone back to Egypt to make war. But, Menelaus betrayed Jason and bought the High Priesthood for himself. Menelaus was also Hellenized (Greek teachings) and didn't make the daily sacrifices, but he also stoled from the Temple to pay the debt of 300 talents to Antiochus. In 169 BC a rumor that Antiochus had died in Egypt hit Jerusalem. The Jews celebrated his death. Now Jason, the deposed high priest, took advantage of this and waged a battle against Menelaus, defeating him in 168 BC and Jason then set himself up as the High Priest. Antiochus, who did not die, heard of this and in a rage he returned to Jerusalem and began killing thousands of Jews. He reinstates Menelaus again, a person of the tribe of Benjamin. This is an act that is against God's Law. An illegal High Priest standing in the Holy Place. It is said that Menelaus suggested that pig be sacrificed on the altar to Zeus and would have been making those sacrifices. This brings on the desolation that followed. Any Jew that refused to eat pig was killed. The Jews quickly rebelled. (the Maccabees) and ultimately defeated Antiochus IV in 165 BC. The Jews then rededicated the Temple and it is celebrated each year with Hanukkah, The Festival of Lights, and declared Israel an independent country. Antiochus IV later died in Persia.

But now we have to find out what happened in 70 AD that would make it the same as in Dan 11:31. So, lets go back to the time of Paul writing to the Thessalonians. 2Thess 2 Paul tells them that first the apostasy would happen. Then tells us that he reminded them that an event still had to happen before the lawless one could stand in the Holy Place. 2Th 2:6 "And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time." Lot's of people make guesses as to what is stopping the man of sin from taking his place in the Holy Place. But remember that in Daniel 11 it was the legal High Priest standing in the way and he had to be removed before the usurper, the illegal, High Priest could take his place in the Temple.

What happened in 70 AD?
2Th 2:6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time." The appointed High Priest around 66AD was Mattathias ben Theophilus. He is the one that withholdeth. He has to be taken out of the way first before the man of sin can take his place in the Temple.

The Jews knew. They could see the proper High Priest was making sacrifices in the Temple when Paul wrote this letter. It is us, 2000 years later, that don't know.

So, this is another long story of the history at that time, but I will try to make as short as I can. There were rebels, called Zealots by Josephus, the Jewish historian that lived during that time. *Flavius Josephus, The Wars of the Jews, Book IV (6)[147]: They were an army of men that were trying to fight against the Romans. They tricked the Jewish guards of the city into opening the gate to Jerusalem. They soon took over the city by killing or jailing all the town leaders. Around 66 AD the zealots began fighting amongst themselves and broke into two factions and began warring against each other. One group took the Temple. They got rid of the High Priest, Mattathias ben Theophilus. This means the one that was withholding has now been taken out of the way! The Zealots sought to replace him. They cast lots (rolled dice) to decide who they would appoint as High Priest. Josephus tells us that it was a man named Phannias ben Samuel who lived in a village outside Jerusalem that knew nothing about the duties of a High Priest, and was not of the Priestly line. They dressed him up in the High Priest garb and showed him what to do. This is an illegal High Priest that Paul was speaking of that they were expecting to come in their time. Josephus writes that an old High Priest, Ananus, was heart sick hearing of the abominations going on in the Temple and secretly sent a man to the Romans asking them to come and put an end to the Zealots. So, because of this abomination in the Holy Place, desolation would come upon the city and the Temple at the hands of the Roman army. Only much worse than it was in the time of Dan 11:31.

So let's get back to the Olivet discourse and see what event is next in Jesus's time line of events. They are told that when they see the army surrounding Jerusalem run into the hills of Judea.
Mat 24:20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: :21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

People think this is speaking of our future and the tribulation we will have to go through before the Lord appears in the sky and sends out His angels to snatch us up to the clouds (the rapture). But it isn't, as you will see from the scriptures in Luke 21. It is the great and horrid tribulation of those that are in Jerusalem. It is what they will go through for three years as the Roman army laid siege to the city. Thousands starved to death. Any Jew trying to escape the city was gutted because the Romans believed the Jews would swallow their money and jewels. And that is just the half of it. The people would be killed, the city and Temple would be burned, and then the city and Temple would be taken down stone by stone and laid even to the ground, as prophesied by Jesus.

Luk 21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

Many Jews tried to hide in the caves and tunnels below Jerusalem but all were found and those that remained alive would be taken into captivity into the nations. And Jerusalem (the land and new city built over the old ruins would be trodden down by gentiles until the time of the gentiles in Jerusalem had run it's course. This would be in 1967 when the Jews captured Jerusalem and took control of the city for the first time since 165 BC.

So, now it is time for the birth pangs to take place. Jesus tells the apostles where to mentally insert the birth pangs back into the time line.
The birth pangs began with; Mat 24:5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
So, when laying the three accounts of the discourse side by side we can discover where we mentally insert the birth pangs back into the time-line. Here is where Jesus repeats what He said in the beginning of the birth pangs;

Mat 24:23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
Mar 13:21 And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not: :22 For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.

Jesus says to them; Mat 24:25 Behold, I have told you before.
Yes, He did! He told them when he began telling them about the false Christs at the beginning of the birth pangs.

(By the way, the birth pangs are the first 5 seals of the Book of Revelation so Jesus is telling the same course of events here as in the book of Revelation. The sun darkened and moon shall not give her light in Mat 24 is the same event as the 6th seal.)

Mat 24:29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
Rev 6:12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;

This means immediately AFTER the tribulation of our time (meaning the first 5 seals, which include the Gog Magog war in the 4th seals, which is nations against nations in the birth pangs)

Once the 6th seal is broken then the resurrection/rapture takes place so we will see the same thing here in the discourse.
Mat 24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Mat 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Amen! Amen!

Now as for Paul, when he wrote to the Thessalonians, around 55 AD, they still believed that Jesus would return during their life time.
Mat 24:36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

-Norma

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