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Bible Note: CDBJ This is going afar afield of the original subject. I really don't want to get into the pretrib, midtrib, posttrib discussion. To me they have proven unfruitful and very divisive. Let me say many see this particular prophecy as having been already fulfilled with the destruction of the Jerusalem in 70AD These verses have been cited with saving hundreds of Christian lives. Apparently Christians reading a copy of Luke reading 21:22-24 and seeing the amassing of Roman forces decided this was what Luke was talking about and fled Jerusalem before the actual destruction. History has proven that Jerusalem has since been trampled under foot of gentiles until even now fulfilling in a sense verse 24. Scholars then see prophecy zoom ahead in time in verse 25 to the coming future. Let me give you some food for thought. When Israel turned from God, God 'allowed' 'used' the Assyrians to come in and fulfill what He had spoken through the prophets. When Judah refused to keep the Sabbath and honor God, God 'allowed' 'used' Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians to carry them off into captivity for 70 years. Again this was according to prophecy God had sent through various prophets. So when I read Luke 21:22 I understand it as God’s vengeance as He through the prophets foretold. EdB |