Douggg
anytime rapture, non-dispensationalist, futurist
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The original audience in Matthew 24 were the disciples.No. You have to read into it to come up with that understanding. The original audience certainly wouldn’t have.
On the way to the Mt. of Olives, leaving the temple, the disciples in Matthew 24, pointed out the grandeur (implied) of the buildings of the temple v1. Jesus responded with v2.
1 And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
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Now they are upon the Mt. of Olives....
3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
Then you have read all the way through the verses to get to the end.
14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
Then end times begin in Matthew 24:15. Matthew 24:15-31 applies to the Jews, Israel, of the end times.
15 When ye [Jews, as the disciples were Jews] therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand : )
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