I don't take it be involving what took place in 70 AD to begin with.
This is confusing. You stated in post #44 "The events concerning 70 AD mainly had to do with judgment on the unbelieving Jews at the time".
But then you disagree that Jesus' woes to the scribes and Pharisees, and prophesies of judgment on Jerusalem didn't take place in 70ad?
The audience is clearly 1st century Jerusalem:
Matthew 23:13 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces
Matthew 23:15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert
Matthew 23:16 Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath
Matthew 23:23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin,
Matthew 23:25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence
Matthew 23:34-36 Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town. And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.
This is very much intimately connected to the 2 past chapters (matthew 21 and 22), which specifically mention the destruction of Jerusalem for the killing of the servants and son.
Matthew 21:43-45 Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.
k He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”
When the chief priests and Pharisees heard Jesus’ parables, they knew He was speaking about them.
Matthew 22:6-7 The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.
The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.
***Was Jerusalem and the temple destroyed in 70ad, yes or no?
It seems to be applicable to the following in
Revelation 18 though.
Revelation 18:24 And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
Absolutely it is applicable. It fits well because the woman, who is Babylon the great, is the great city, which is Jerusalem. We should always use scripture to interpret scripture.
Revelation 17:4-5 And the woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls. She held in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality.
On her forehead a mysterious name was written: Babylon the Great,
the mother of prostitutes and of the abominations of the earth.
Revelation 17:18
And the woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth.”
Revelation 11:8 bodies will lie in the street of the
great city—figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where their Lord was also crucified.
Revelation 18:24
And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on earth.”
Matthew 23:35-36
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,
f whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar. Truly, I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.
And I still feel I made a good point about
Matthew 24:9---and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. Though I neglected to address that further in my last exchange with you.
If all nations isn't meaning in a global sense, then it shouldn't be meaning in a global sense in any of the following unrelated passages either.
Some examples.
Psalms 72:17 His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.
Psalms 82:8 Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.
Psalms 86:9 All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
Psalms 113:4 The LORD is high above all nations, and his glory above the heavens.
Matthew 25:32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats:
Revelation 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;
All meaning literally ALL becomes a tricky argument. I typically refrain from using the "ALL" argument, as all doesn't always mean literally all.
Here are at least 2 examples:
Did Cyrus literally have control over ALL kingdoms of the earth
2 chronicles 36:23 says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever is among you of all his people, may the Lord his God be with him. Let him go up.’”
Did God bring the fear of David upon literally all nations over the whole earth?
1 chronicles 14:17 And the fame of David went out into all lands, and the Lord brought the fear of him upon all nations.
As the roman empire was the world at that time, I would argue the multiple nations that made up the roman empire are what is in view.
Greek word for earth: oikoumené ((properly: the land that is being inhabited, the land in a state of habitation), the inhabited world, that is, the Roman world, for all outside it was regarded as of no account.