You might start by figuring out that Israel being discussed in Luke 21 is at the timeline 70AD. The Israel being discussed in Matt 24 and Mark13 is a future event. The scripture is very clear on this. It not even something that can be questioned by anyone that wants to know the truth.It is error to try and undo what our Lord Jesus already foretold us will occur in that time. Luke 21 does not stand on its own. The other versions of what He told His disciples there while on the Mount of Olives is in Matthew 24 and Mark 13. So those other versions must be put together in study with Luke 21. Each version gives some different info.
In the Matthew 24 and Mark 13 versions, the order of His return and gathering of the Church is emphatic, after the tribulation like He said. That also is the order Apostle Paul showed in 2 Thessalonians 2.
So our Lord Jesus must have been speaking of another type idea concerning escaping those things. Afterall, He told them when they 'see' those things, to know that the kingdom of God is at hand. So how would they 'see' those events He warned of if they were physically gone?
Pre-trib makes a huge error about the future tribulation, treating it as a time of all out chaos, war, storms and earthquakes, etc. God's Word showed it's actually going to be a time of world peace when the Antichrist shows up. And using that peace he will destroy many souls. So the temptation to escape is not going to be a physical one, but a spiritual one, refusing to bow to that coming Antichrist as God, and refusing His mark.
That is why Jesus said this in Luke 17, where the left-behind idea is twisted by the pre-trib school:
Luke 17:33-34
33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.
KJV
Whosoever seeks to save his life shall lose it. How's that? The coming tribulation causing physical death to our flesh is what we are NOT to be concerned about. It's spiritual worship to the wrong Jesus that we are to be concerned about during the tribulation. And if we have to lose... our life (flesh death) to preserve it (our soul), and remain in the Faith on Jesus Christ, then that... is what we are to do.
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