Let you and I be spoon fed together from the Word of God.
Does that mean you passed reading comprehension in school whereas some others here did not? I have no time for those who will not address and stick to the written Bible Scriptures. So let's do that.
Our Lord spoke many times to the unbelieving Jews of His day with confrontational truthfulness. He called them out for being more wicked than any other generation. They lived up to it by murdering the prophesied Messiah through unclean Gentiles. Our Lord also told them about the vengeance to come for their wickedness.
Jesus also revealed in Rev.3:9 that they only said they were Jews, but are not, but are the "synagogue of Satan".
In John 8 Lord Jesus said those specific Jews were of their father the devil, he was liar and a murderer from the beginning. So was Lord Jesus speaking about ALL Jews and all Pharisees with that? Have you understood God's Word about the "tares" of Matthew 13, and the evil basket of figs of Jeremiah 24 that crept in among Judah throughout Bible history? Those specifically is who Lord Jesus was rebuking, the scribes and Pharisees that wanted Him dead. The scribes were not even of the lineage of Israel, but were of the nations of Canaan called Kenites (Gen.15; 1 Chronicle 2:55).
In this parable, the Lord revealed to the wicked Jews their future.
(Mat 22:4-7) "Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, “See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.”’ But they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, while the rest seized his servants, treated them shamefully, and killed them. The king was enraged, and he sent his troops and destroyed those murderers and burned their city."
In this verbal exchange, our Lord clearly told the wicked Jews of that generation they would be judged for all the evil they have done and will do.
(Mat 23:32-38) "Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell? Therefore I send you prophets and wise men and scribes, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town, so that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation. “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! See, your house is left to you desolate."
In this verbal exchange, our Lord clearly told the wicked Jews of their condemnation.
(Mat 12:38-42) "Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.” But he answered them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here. The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here."
And here the Lord tells the wicked Jews they would be filled with unclean spirits for rejecting Him.
(Mat 12:43-45) “When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none. Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation.”
In his preaching to the Jewish people on the day of Pentecost when the Spirit of the Lord was given, Peter tells the unbelieving Jews “Be saved from this perverse generation”.
Once again, Jesus was not pointing that to all Jews, because Nicodemus who was a Pharisee provided spices for Jesus' burial. And we know by Apostle Paul in Romans 11 that God put 'blindness' (spirit of slumber) upon the unbelieving Jews so The Gospel would go to the Gentiles, and that when the fullness of the Gentiles comes in, God is going to remove their 'blindness'. Those Jews who were deceived by the scribes and Pharisee 'tares' that crept in, are not of those 'tares', nor the "synagogue of Satan". (see Judges 2 & 3; 1 Kings 9:19-21; Jude 4).
Jesus was specific that those of the "synagogue of Satan" were not actual Jews, but only say they are Jews. Most preachers instead treat when Jesus said that as if it applied to all the Jews, when that is not so. (And no, I am not Jewish). It shows they don't read all their Bible, and are thus daft about the crept in unawares of the Canaanites that God warned the children of Israel about early on. That is actually what Lord Jesus was revealing with His parable of the tares of the field. And the idea was even first mentioned by God way back in Genesis 3 about the enmity between the two seeds, which is about a literal matter for this present world, and not just simple metaphor.
No matter what we think, the dialogues of our Lord with the unbelieving murderous Jewish people of His day clearly prove that the days of God's vengeance was upon those people in that generation, just as foretold by Him as recorded in three of the Gospels, with Luke writing it in such a way readers could understand.
Might you be confused of how Jesus used that word "
generation" in His Olivet discourse? That word '
generation' can mean a time era of people, or a genealogical offspring of people. In Matthew 23:33-36 Lord Jesus was speaking specifically to a genealogical offspring, those specific scribes and Pharisees that wanted to kill Him; the specific seed of the "synagogue of Satan", i.e. ,those children which the devil sowed, per Lord Jesus' explanation of His parable of the tares of the field.
But in the Matthew 24:34 verse, Jesus was pointing to the idea of the final generation on the earth that will 'see' all those SIGNS of the end He gave upon the Mount of Olives, and not to any one specific offspring. Some get this confused because of the false teachings by the 'tares' that have crept into Christ's Church.
"But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near. 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, for these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written." (Luk 21:20-22)
In 70AD, Titus with the Roman armies (abomination of desolation) sent by God literally leveled the temple leaving not one stone upon another and completely destroyed Jerusalem, all as foretold by God through His prophets and Son, Jesus Christ.
Then you are not familiar with Isaiah 61
"day of vengeance of our God;" which Lord Jesus did not quote in Luke 4 when He began His Ministry?
Per Luke 4 when Lord Jesus went inside the temple and opened up to Isaiah 61, He read all of verse 1, and only the first part of verse 2, and stopped reading before He got to that,
"and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;". He stopped reading before He got to that point, closed the Book, and said that 1st verse and 1st phrase of verse 2 was then fulfilled in their ears.
The reason Lord Jesus stopped at that "day of vengeance of our God" phrase is because that is about His 2nd coming, which is still future to us.
So I would recommend that you do not confuse Luke 21:20-22 Scripture with the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. And the fact that Lord Jesus in the Luke 21:25-28 verses after that pointed directly to the event of His future 2nd coming to gather His saints, should have brought that "days of vengeance" and Luke 4 back to your memory from Isaiah 61.
Same thing happens with men's Preterist doctrines on Matth.24 and Mark 13 when Jesus' disciples commented about the beautiful temple complex structures, and Jesus foretold not one stone atop another would be there, and then His disciples asked Him what would be the Sign of His coming, and the end of the world. Preterism treats what Jesus said as part of the 70 A.D. Roman destruction as if completely fulfilled, when Jesus gave 7 main SIGNS of the end leading up to His future return, which is what His disciples were asking Him. And the reason why the orthodox Jews pray at the Western Wall (also called the Wailing Wall), thus treating it as holy, is because it was part of the 2nd temple complex (3rd temple technically, if you count Herod's modifications).
And because the huge stones of the Western Wall of the temple complex still stand today in Jerusalem, that reveals a dual-blueprint for the destruction of that area of the temple mount for Jerusalem, meaning the final... one will be fulfilled on the future day of Christ's return.
"Let God be true, and every man a liar". All of what Jesus said would happen to the wicked Jews, the temple, and the city of Jerusalem happened even if man says it did not. Even to this day, "Jerusalem will be trodden down by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled." The day soon approaches when the time of the Gentiles is fulfilled, but it is not here yet, as Jerusalem is still trodden down by Gentiles.
But that Revelation 11:1-2 prophecy you refer to has not reached its zenith per that Rev.11 prophecy, because Rev.11:1 reveals a new Jewish temple for that time, with those who worship therein, i.e., the orthodox Jews.
Rev 11:1-2
11 And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, "Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein."
2 But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
KJV
Also, that part about the Gentiles treading the holy city for 42 months is about the very end, the time of "great tribulation" which Jesus warned about in His Olivet discourse for the end of this world, just prior to His future return to gather us. That is... the 1260 days prophecy per the latter half of Daniel's symbolic "one week" of Dan.9:27. It is linked to this... about the "great tribulation" timing...
Rev 13:4-5
4 And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, "Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?"
5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
KJV
Therefore... that event of the Gentiles treading the holy city, for 42 months, is NOT about the 70 A.D. destruction by the Romans. It is about the final 42 months, or 1260 days of the coming "great tribulation" at the end of this world.
(Preterism, Historicism, and Futurism are like tethers, that per their doctrines of men allow you to understand only up to the end of the rope and pole they tie you to.)
What sits on top of Mt Zion, the place of the former temple? A mosque belonging to unbelieving Gentiles.
What is not there? The temple that was leveled in 70AD by Roman armies sent by God because He was enraged at the wicked unbelieving Jews.
God Bless
You'll be amazed when the orthodox Jews today build their coming 3rd temple in Jerusalem. Don't ask me exactly where they will locate it, but it will not be Christ's future temple that He will build when He comes per the Zechariah 6:12-13 Scripture. The orthodox Jews in Jerusalem today already have the materials ready to build their future temple, even with the cornerstone already cut. (See Temple Mount Faithful and Land of Israel movement) That new temple MUST be built for the end of this world, in prep for the coming tribulation and placing of the "abomination of desolation" IDOL.
