Great post Erik!
One reason it was difficult harmonizing Matthew 24 with Luke is that a lot of what is in Matt 24 are in
other chapters of Luke, same event.....
[A concordance is actually useful in finding these similar verses.]
Here is just 1 example of many. [Mark's Gospel
never mentions the word "thief"]
Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke's Temple/Jerusalem Discourses harmonized
Matthew 24:43
“But know this, that if the master of the house had known
what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
Luke 12:39
“But know this, that if the master of the house had known
what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.
John 10:10
“The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.
I have come that they may have life, and that they may have
it more abundantly.
2 Methew 3:10
But the day of the Lord will come as
a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up.
Revelation 3:3
“Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast! and repent!.
Therefore if you will not watch
, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.
According to Josephus, it literally came upon Jerusalem as a stealth thief and it happened quickly!
https://www.preteristarchive.com/JewishWars/timeline_military.html
"..probably the greatest single slaughter in ancient history."
ROMAN SIEGE AND SACK OF JERUSALEM
The Destruction of Jerusalem - George Peter Holford, 1805AD
Vespasian, after proceeding as far as Jericho, returned to Caesarea, in order to make preparation for his grand attempt against Jerusalem. While he was thus employed, he received intelligence of the death of Nero ; whereupon,
not knowing what the will of the future emperor might be, he prudently resolved to suspend, for the present, the execution of his design.
Thus the Almighty gave the Jews a second respite,
which continued nearly
two years ; but
they repented not of their crimes, neither were they in the least degree reclaimed, but rather proceeded to acts of still greater enormity. The flame of civil dissension again burst out........
The dead bodies of priests and worshipers, both natives and foreigners were heaped together, and a lake of blood stagnated in the sacred courts. John of Gischala, who headed one of the factions, burnt storehouses full of provisions ; and Simon, his great antagonist, who headed another of them, soon afterwards followed his example. Thus they cut the very sinews of their own strength.
At this critical and alarming conjuncture,
intelligence arrived that the Roman an army was approaching the city. The Jews were petrified with astonishment and fear ; there was no time for counsel, no hope of pacification, no means of flight:-- all was wild disorder and perplexity :- nothing was to be heard but "the confused noise of the warrior, " -- nothing to be seen but garments rolled in blood," -- nothing to be expected from the Romans but signal and exemplary vengeance. A ceaseless cry of combatants was heard day and night, and yet the lamentations of mourners were still more dreadful. The consternation and terror which now prevailed induced many inhabitants to desire that a foreign foe might come, and effect their deliverance.
Such was the horrible condition of the place when Titus and his army presented themselves, and encamped before Jerusalem ; but, alas ! not to deliver it from its miseries but to fulfill the prediction, and vindicate the benevolent warning of our Lord : "When
ye see (he had said to his disciples) the
abomination of desolation, spoken or by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place,
[11] and Jerusalem surrounded by armies (or camps,) then let those who are in the midst of Jerusalem depart, and let not those who are in the country enter into her," for " then know that the desolation thereof
is nigh." Matt. xxiv. 15, 21 ; Luke xxi.
20, 1-11. These armies, we do not hesitate to affirm were those of the Romans, who now invested the city.
The day on which Titus encompassed Jerusalem, was the feast of the Passover
Nevertheless, the city was at this time crowded with Jewish strangers, and foreigners from all parts, so that the whole nation may be considered as having been shut up in one prison, preparatory to the execution of the Divine vengeance ; and,
according to Josephus this event took place suddenly ; thus, not only fulfilling the predictions of our LORD, that these calamities should come, like the swift-darting lightning" that cometh out of the east and shineth even unto the West," and " as a
snare on all of them (the Jews) who dwelt upon the face of the whole earth " (Matt. xxiv. 27, and Luke xxi 35,) but justifying, also, his friendly direction, that those who fled from the place should use the utmost possible expedition.
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Revelation 1:1
An-un-veiling of Jesus Christ, which gives to Him, the GOD, to show to the bond-servants of Him,
which-things is binding to be becoming In/en <1722>
Swiftness/tacei <5034>
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Revelation 1:3
Blessed/happy the one reading and the ones hearing the words of the Prophecy and keepings in it having been written,
That the Time is nigh<1451>.
Revelation 22:6
And said to me: "These the Words Faithful and True. And Lord, the GOD of the spirits of the holy Prophets commissions the messenger of Him to show to the bond-servants of Him
which-things is binding to be becoming In/en <1722>
Swiftness/tacei <5034>.
Revelation 22:10
And he is saying to me "no thou should be sealing the Words of the Prophecy of the Scroll, this.
That the Time/Season is nigh<1451>
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