I'm sorry Goatee, Jesus was talking about the end of the world. Not the end of the Jew's 1st century world, but the end of our whole wide world. This is much bigger than just a single building or two.
Nope. From the time that He left the Temple and was walking away, then until about 25 minutes passed when He arived and sat down on the mount called Olivet, He was talk'in bout my generation.
"And early in the morning all the people came to him in the temple to hear him. But at night he went out and lodged on the mount called Olivet.
When Jesus left the Temple at the end of the day, He motioned to the buildings of the complex and asked: "Do you see all these things?" He could just as easily have been motioning to every man made structure on the face of the earth, New York, Tokyo, London.
"There will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”
It is astounding, the man made architectural accomplishments that we have made in the great cities of the world. But at the end of the tribulation, 100 pound hailstones are going to fall and there will be a severe earthquake. Every island and mountain are going to be moved out of it's place. No earthquake like it has ever occurred since mankind has been on earth, so tremendous was the quake. There will not be here on the entire planet one stone left standing. At the end of the millennium, the wicked will march over the "broad plain" of the earth.
It's remains to this day about a 25 minute walk down the Temple mount, through the Kiddron Valley and up to the mount of Olives. After they got to the mount called Olivet it was night, it must have dawned on a few of the disciples what Jesus was talking about when they left the Temple. I can only imagine the looks on Peter and James and John and Andrew's faces as the asked Him privately,
“Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”
Just by measuring from where we are in the 12 prophetic time periods, we are probably approximately 2/3's of the way through Revelation's narrative. Much further through than most people realize.
"It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God,
blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven.
.