Matthew 24 - Introduction

The Destruction Of Jerusalem

And The End Of The World

Matthew Twenty-Four

Jesus, foreseeing the terrible destruction that would come upon Jerusalem lamented, "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! See! Your house is left to you desolate." (Matthew 23:37-38) He knew that the city and the temple would be destroyed. This destruction came in AD 70. Some questions in Matthew twenty-four relate to that destruction while others relate to the end of the world.