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S48 || Jesus' Olivet Discourse || Mark 13:1-8 || Session 48 || Verse by Verse Bible Study
The Olivet Discourse stands as one of Jesus's most profound and challenging teachings – delivered just days before His crucifixion. Seated on the Mount of Olives overlooking Jerusalem, Jesus responds to His disciples' awe at the magnificent temple with a shocking prophecy: not one stone would remain upon another.
What follows is a sweeping prophetic timeline spanning from the apostolic age to the end of human history. As we carefully unpack Mark 13, we discover Jesus addressing three key questions: when would the temple be destroyed, what signs would precede these events, and what would signal the end of the age?
This episode tackles the challenging interpretive questions surrounding Jesus's teaching. Was He speaking only about Jerusalem's destruction in 70 AD? Was He describing exclusively end-time events? Or was He weaving together multiple prophetic timelines? We explore how understanding biblical prophecy often requires recognizing that a single passage can contain predictions fulfilled in different eras – just as Jesus demonstrated when reading from Isaiah 61 in the Nazareth synagogue.
The concept of God's Kingdom emerges as a central theme, revealing both present and future dimensions. While some emphasize the Kingdom as a spiritual reality in believers' hearts today, and others focus on Christ's future earthly reign, Scripture supports both perspectives. The Kingdom was inaugurated at Christ's first coming but awaits consummation at His return.
Jesus's warnings about false messiahs, wars, earthquakes, and famines carry profound significance. Rather than indicators that the end has arrived, Jesus describes these as "birth pangs" – preliminary signs that would intensify over time. History validates His warnings, with numerous false messiahs appearing throughout the centuries and devastating world wars unfolding just as He predicted.
Join us as we navigate this prophetic roadmap with careful attention to context, historical fulfillment, and future implications. Whether you're new to biblical prophecy or a seasoned student, this teaching offers fresh insights that will strengthen your faith and prepare your heart for what lies ahead.
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In Mark, chapter 13, we have what the theologians and Bible teachers call the Olivet Discourse. Jesus is talking from the Mount of Olives and he has one of the most profound teachings of his entire ministry. This section is quite deep, quite profound, and as such it has some difficulty in untangling exactly what he means, but it's going to be rich. I'm very excited to get into this part of the Scripture, steve, today, this Olivet Discourse. There's some controversy around it, is there not?
Speaker 2:Well, people claim that there's controversy, glenn, but I think whenever we take the approach that we do, going verse by verse through Scripture, looking at all the books, both the Old Testament and the New Testament, we see that there is a story that's being built and we see that God uses progressive revelation through his prophets and then also into the New Testament, to let us know what is going on and what's going to happen in the future.
Speaker 2:So as we go through this particular section here, glenn, we will in some sense stay strictly in Mark, but we'll also be pulling a little bit from different parts from Matthew as well to give some context as to what's going on here, because it is the Olivet Discourse. It is a time frame that he's explaining to his disciples. Here, as noted many times with eyewitnesses, they will add different things of the conversation that happened that other people don't. It doesn't mean that they're being deceptive. It just means that different parts of the conversation are being recalled. People claim it's controversy. I think if we go through verse by verse, as we do, it becomes very plain and clear what's going on. I think the key thing is is that this is a pattern that he has shown throughout history, so that we can know what's going to happen in the future, if we remember the flow of the book of Mark.
Speaker 1:It's mostly going and doing. It's a lot of action. We said in this last week of Jesus' life, the time clock kind of slows down and we get more detail of what Jesus did and what he taught. This is just days prior to the cross. Jesus is giving some of the last, most important messages to his disciples, his followers. I think that's one of the reasons why most of this chapter is one long speech from Jesus. Very rare in the Gospel of Mark to have an entire chapter full of just Jesus's teachings. I think, steve, wouldn't you agree? That's probably one of the motivations of why it goes into so much detail here is because Jesus is giving instructions to his disciples just before his death.
Speaker 2:Yes and it's something that we should note that when they ask these questions, he doesn't delay his answer or he doesn't push them away and say, oh, this is too complicated for you to know. No, he sits down with them and notes what's going on. Notes what's going on. I think we should also point out, glenn, that we don't know the exact amount of time that he spent with them going through this teaching, but it was substantially longer than what we have here depicted in Matthew, mark and Luke. We can be assured that they have this knowledge, they being Matthew and Mark being a scribe for Peter.
Speaker 2:If that's the case, we've talked about that at the beginning of the book. Here Luke, who has pulled together eyewitness accounts this is just a portion of what Jesus taught that day. So as we go through that, we'll note that there's some time frames that are depicted here, that we'll note that there's some timeframes that are depicted here, and we will note why. We believe that there are different types of timeframes that he's talking about, but it shouldn't be confused with that. Jesus was being secretive. It's just that the whole teaching that he gave that day is condensed down into just really here about 30 or 40 verses.
Speaker 1:Right, exactly, he gave this from the Mount of Olives and it says he was sitting, so he very likely could have talked all afternoon, and we have something that you can read in about two or three minutes. So it's a summary of what he taught that day. As such, we get snippets. Before we jump into our regular verse-by-verse exegesis of the passage, I'd like to give a little bit of an overview, because I think that helps our audience in understanding the perspectives on this. This is called the Olivet Discourse by most Bible teachers simply because, again, he gave it from the Mount of Olives and it's included in three different places in the Gospels here in Mark, chapter 13, and in Luke, chapter 21, and in Matthew, chapters 24 and 25,. All of those are the Olivet Discourse. Each of them gives a slightly different aspect of that because, again, he very possibly talked for a long period of time. Nowadays, in modern times, Bible teachers have different views on how to interpret this. Some of them say it's all future, that the entirety of it's in the future. Bible teachers say that it was all fulfilled in the first century and they bring in a battle that happened in Jerusalem in 70 AD that these Bible teachers would say it's all happened in the past. Some Bible teachers say it's a mixture. That was some in the first century and some in the future. Good Christians disagree. So we're not trying to say we're above anybody else. We've spent our time doing our homework and we would say, just like everybody else. I suppose that if you want to be right you'll agree with us, but nevertheless we just want to let our audience know that there is some room for disagreement here amongst good Christians. The key to, or at least one of the keys to, interpreting this is if we ask ourselves can a single passage of Scripture have elements of prophecy in it that are fulfilled in different eras? Let me repeat the question Can a single passage of Scripture have elements of prophecy that are fulfilled in different eras, different time frames? And the answer is yes. And the reason we can say that is because our Lord Jesus did just that in another section of Scripture, In Luke, chapter 4,. Jesus goes into a synagogue, picks up a scroll of Isaiah, reads from it and then closes the scroll and sets down the interesting part there is. The quote he gave was in Isaiah, chapter 61, verse 2, verses 1 and 2. Jesus stops in the middle of a sentence. He said the part that he read was fulfilled in your hearing. He said to the people that were in the synagogue that day the part that he read the first half of a sentence was fulfilled as he was standing there in his ministry the second half of the sentence that he didn't read again. He stopped in the middle of a phrase. The middle of a sentence was not fulfilled in your hearing, simply because the second half of the sentence dealt with the wrath of God being poured out on the earth. One sentence in Isaiah 61-2 had something that was fulfilled in the first century in Jesus's ministry, and something that was not fulfilled until the last days, when God pours out his wrath on the earth. That gives us a clue and I would even say gives us permission to interpret some passages that might be fulfilled in different eras.
Speaker 1:Now the clues to interpreting Mark, chapter 13 and the Olivet Discourse. We'll go through this in more detail as we get through the passage. Mark 13, verse 14, speaks of the abomination of desolation. Now, that is a specific event, and over in Matthew 24, 15, he specifically mentions the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel, and the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel places the event at a specific point in time, which is in the middle of Daniel's 70th week, and we'll explain more of that when we get to Daniel. The other timestamp that we can get out of here in Mark, chapter 13, verse 19, the tribulation is going to be the worst in history. The worst in history eliminates a lot of battles that happened in the first century or in the time of the apostles, simply because there were many that happened that were worse than that even to the Jews after the death of the apostles. Then there's other time stamps, such as verse 24 speaks of what will happen after the tribulation. As we go through that verse we'll see that they had to be after the time of the apostles.
Speaker 1:And in verse 26, Jesus' second coming is mentioned, and it's also not just in verse 26. In Mark, chapter 13, Jesus' second coming is mentioned six times. Six times in this verse mentions the second coming. Those are clues to helping us realize that there's more to this than merely the first century. Here's how, before we just jump into the verse by verse, here's how we would outline Mark, chapter 13. Verses 5 through 8 are prior to the end of the age. Then verses 9 through 13 are the events in the first century in the lives of the apostles. Verses 14 through 20 are signs of the great tribulation period, which is at the end of the age, and then in verses 21 through 37 speaks of Jesus' second coming the end of the age and the end of the great tribulation period. That's how we've outlined it and we'll go through that in more detail as we get into the passage.
Speaker 1:One other thing I'd like to mention here is one of the reasons why different Bible expositors have different interpretations of this is because they have different ideas of what is meant in the Scriptures by the kingdom. What is the kingdom? Some Bible teachers take passages out of the scriptures that say the kingdom is something that is here now. It is a present kingdom in the church. There's other Bible teachers that say, well, the kingdom is something that happens later, at the end, when Jesus sets up an earthly kingdom on the earth, and what ends up happening is these two camps tend to hit their view against the other, as if it was an either it's a spiritual kingdom in the church today or it's a future earthly kingdom with Jesus reigning from Jerusalem, and they often view it as an either-or. We here, Steve and I, reasoning through the Bible, we would see. It's not a one or the other. They tend to overlap. Well, wouldn't you agree, Steve?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do agree with that. As we go through Daniel and some of the other Old Testament scriptures, we will reveal some of these things that you're talking about as we go through. We've already gone through, as we've spoken here, zechariah. We're going to go through another Old Testament prophet whenever we get through here with Mark, and when you look at that, I think that the prophets themselves give a good foundation that talk about. For sure there's going to be a future kingdom. Well, if there's going to be a future kingdom, then what are we in right now? Obviously, during what we would call the church age or the Christian age, god is using the church, the body of Christ, as Paul puts it, in order to minister to the world, to the other nations. That was primarily Israel's responsibility in the Old Testament. That was primarily Israel's responsibility in the Old Testament.
Speaker 2:But we know for sure you mentioned Daniel's 70th week God is going to pick up again, once again with Israel and, as you mentioned, we will get to that when we get to Daniel and talk about it. But there is going to be a future kingdom. What are we left with now? Well, god is taking people and they are becoming believers in him and we have promise of eternal life. So there is an aspect of a kingdom, as you so rightfully put it. There's going to be a future kingdom, what we refer to as a restored kingdom of Israel, where Jesus is going to reign from there we went through that very strongly when we went through Zechariah, and that all the nations are going to be ruled for there at that particular point in time. So I agree with you, glenn, we're in agreement. It doesn't have to be either, or I think it's an overlap of what's going on.
Speaker 1:Let me just quickly give a few verses and show here that this idea of the kingdom is not as simple and clear-cut as many people hold it out to be. Mark 134, the kingdom is at hand. To be Mark 1.34, the kingdom is at hand. At hand means it's here. In Mark 1.34, the kingdom's here. They were saying that present tense the kingdom is here, it's at hand. Matthew 12.28, the kingdom quote has come upon you. Past tense In Matthew 12.28, the kingdom was already there. Has already come upon you.
Speaker 1:Mark 12. 34, jesus tells the scribe you are not far from the kingdom that was based on the scribe's beliefs and his ideas. So the kingdom is something that you could be close to and enter in, based off of your ideas and your beliefs. Matthew chapter 25, the kingdom is something that comes at midnight when the bridegroom returns, and the bridegroom was Jesus. So the kingdom was something that comes back with Jesus. The parable of the minas in Luke 19 makes it very clear, because he says he taught this parable because they thought the kingdom was going to come immediately. In the parable of the Minas in Luke 19, the God figure, the Christ figure, goes off to a far country to receive a kingdom and then return. Then in the parable he returns having received a kingdom. The parable of the Minas in Luke 19 is extremely clear that the kingdom is something that Jesus goes off to receive and then bring back with him.
Speaker 1:In Acts 1.6, the disciples asked Jesus about when the kingdom would come and he says it's not for you to know. Would have been a real great opportunity for him to say, oh, it's a spiritual or oh, it's a future earthly. He says not for you to know. In Acts, several places, as the apostles go out on evangelistic campaigns, they mention, they preach the gospel of the kingdom. One of those places is Acts 8.12. The kingdom is associated with the gospel. But yet, right in the midst of that same passage with the gospel, but yet right in the midst of that same passage, in Acts 14.22, the apostle is making a return trip to already saved people that were leaders of a church. He tells them quote through many tribulations, we must enter the kingdom of God.
Speaker 1:I submit that this idea of the kingdom is not as simple and easy and clear-cut, simply because there's aspects of the kingdom that were announced when Jesus was here. There's aspects of the kingdom that are associated, present tense, with the gospel. There's aspects of the kingdom not here until Jesus comes back. So the clearest thing I could hold is what I got from J Vernon McGee, which says Jesus could say the kingdom's here because the king was there, but today, my friends, the king's not here. It's not much of a kingdom without a king. If this is the kingdom, then Jesus, please come back and give us another one, because we messed it up. It's not much of a kingdom without a king. When the king returns, we're going to have a kingdom. Between now and then we may say we're citizens of the kingdom, but it's only a shadow. So that would be the best principle. With how to interpret this, let's go ahead and jump in. We can start with Mark, chapter 13, verses 1 and 2.
Speaker 2:As he was going out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him Teacher, behold what wonderful stones and what wonderful buildings. Jesus said to him Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left upon another which will not be torn down.
Speaker 1:Steve, what is he saying here about the temple?
Speaker 2:This temple had been building and, in fact, at the time of Jesus, they were still finishing the temple complex there. Herod had come along and added to the temple from a standpoint of building these ornate buildings around the temple itself and the temple complex, the different courts and great stones have been put in place very different types of ornate decorations. I've seen several videos that have reconstructed the type of architecture that was used, because they have been able to see that, even in its destruction, what it was like and I can tell you it was just something that was beautiful. It was covered in gold. The temple itself was gold-plated with real gold. This is what they're referring to as they're walking out of this temple complex. They're bragging in a way look look at all these beautiful buildings, jesus, that have been built in order to honor God and to worship God in, but Jesus gives them a stark reality that they're not going to last.
Speaker 1:I think what helps us understand the significance of why they did this was, if we think of the timeline in the Gospels, of what happened immediately prior to Mark 13, was Matthew 23. And in Matthew 23, jesus is very direct and insulting to the Jewish leaders. He was extremely passionate and almost to the point of anger, calling them hypocrites, calling them whitewashed tombs, calling them full of dead men's bones, said they were dens of snakes. So Jesus was forcing their hand and you can almost see Peter and the other disciples saying Jesus, buddy, come over here and look at the temple. Let's calm down and look at all the beauty here. Well, it says here.
Speaker 1:Jesus says all of these stones, and it was a magnificent temple. This was Herod's temple that he had built to placate the Jews Large, ornate, fancy building with many huge stones, very beautiful temple. And Jesus says you see this beautiful temple. There's going to come a time when every stone has been torn down. Now that was literally fulfilled in 70 AD, when the Roman army came and killed most of the people and tore down the stones, brick by brick, stone by stone, flattened the entire temple mount. So that was literally fulfilled, steve. I'd like to bring this to today. Many churches today have very ornate buildings and we have, over the centuries there's been very great cathedrals, built grand things. There's no pleasure to the Lord, I think, to have church in a garbage dump. So we want to have nice buildings, but Jesus could point to that nice building and say there's going to come a day when it's torn down. Can we say the same for our fancy church buildings today, these buildings that are so grand? What's going to happen to them someday?
Speaker 2:They will at some point decay. As we have noted throughout history, many of the buildings have been vacated by the Christians. Some of the ones that were dedicated to worship of God now over in different countries, they're now museums or they're turned into cafes or hotels Throughout history. As history progresses, it seems that people walk away from worshiping God or they move locations and particular buildings that were built in a downtown area. The town grows, and so that church relocates to another part of the town. There's various reasons why, but the buildings themselves, sometimes just because they get old and have to be replaced. They don't last, and God's Word does last. What should last is why they were built. They were built to worship God, and that's what should be lasting.
Speaker 2:You mentioned very well this temple was built by Herod over the temple built by Zerubbabel. That was built when they came out of the captivity from Babylon to placate the people Even in that statement. In other words, he was trying to garner support from the people themselves so that his name could be associated with the temple rather than it just being the temple of God, where God was worshiped. God wasn't present in this temple In past times. God was there and he dwelt there in that temple, in the holy place, the Holy of Holies. He's not there at this particular point in time. It is an era where the building itself is going to be torn down. Going back to your question, we need to make sure that we don't forget why the buildings were built in the first place. They're to worship God, and if we don't pass it on from generation to generation to generation, then the building that we dedicate to worship God is at risk of being turned into a museum, cafe, hotel, or even being torn down.
Speaker 1:Some of the most beautiful artwork that's ever been created in the history of mankind were created by Christians to go into Christian cathedrals and Christian monuments and things like that. Nothing wrong with that. God is a God of beauty and art is beauty. We should recognize the benefit of having good Christian artists and architects that can make nice buildings. Nothing at all sinful about having a nice building. As I said, there's nothing righteous about having church in a broken down building. But we need to recognize every one of the buildings has a purpose and the purpose is to get the Word of God into people. I've seen people at different churches over time that has built these grand cathedrals and over time the hearts of the people go away. But the building is so artful that it turns into okay. Well, we're here really just to maintain this stained glass window and all these sculptures, and this building and the buildings will indeed crumble Without the heart of the people in turning sinners to Christ. Then the buildings are really useless.
Speaker 1:Let's go ahead and read the next passage, which Jesus gives a bit of a description of what's going to happen prior to the end of the age. I'm reading, starting in verse 3. It that no one misleads you. Many will come in my name saying I am he and will mislead many. When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be frightened. Those things must take place, but that is not yet the end, for nation will rise up against nation and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places. There will also be famines. These things are merely the beginnings of birth pangs. Steve, what were the questions that he asked, or the disciples asked to Jesus there?
Speaker 2:Well, the questions that they asked were when is this going to happen and what are the signs of that's going to come, and when is going to be the end of the age? Mark doesn't record all the questions that were asked here. There's also recorded over in Matthew. But if it's going to be a sign in the end of the age, that means that their expectation is that that age that they were in was going to end and that there was going to be another age that was going to come after it.
Speaker 1:Right, exactly, he, being Mark, lists two questions here when will these things be? What is the sign for these things? As you well pointed out over in Matthew, there's a third question what will be the sign of the end of the age? It also says here they ask this as they were leaving the temple, but in verse three it says they were sitting on the Mount of Olives when he answers this. So again, he was sitting outside the city. He had gone away from the confrontation with the Jewish priest and the rest of the chapter, this long speech of the Olivet Discourse, was when he was sitting on the Mount of Olives. The reason I mention that is because he probably talked for a very long time and taught a lot of things, and we're just getting a summary. Look at verse 6. What is the subject matter in verse 6?
Speaker 2:The subject matter in verse 6 is that many will come in my name, but don't be misled by them. He says that those people will mislead many, but he's given a warning to the disciples that are there, the four of them, to not be misled. Now, glenn, in part of the research for this lesson, I did a quick search in regards to has the Messiahs that have claimed to either be Messiah themselves for the Jewish people or some other group has declared them to be the Messiah. Just real, quickly, I came up with 10 that came back. And of those 10, they were in every century, from the first century up into the 20th century, I think even in the 21st century there's been another one that's coming along. So it seems like at least in every century and those are just 10, I know there's more than that.
Speaker 2:There have been times whenever people have come forward and said I'm the Messiah and I am the Christ and you are to follow me. But guess what, glenn? Every one of those are dead. They have not risen from the dead. They're most certainly dead, many of them. Their bones have gone back to dust. Jesus is the only one who rose from the dead and lives today, but that part of it as he's talking there came about and is still going on. Many have come in the name and said I'm the Messiah, but they're not.
Speaker 1:I have a book where one author went through history and counted the number of times where people set dates of when Christ would return and would be the end of the age, and he counted 56 of them. There were ones that he had documented different dates going all the way back several hundred years, and there was three or four of them that I knew about that he didn't have on his list. So there's been many Seems like. Every generation has somebody out there that's claiming to be the Messiah or claiming to set a date. That's one thing.
Speaker 1:When they ask these questions, when will be the sign of your coming at the end of the age? The very first thing he says is don't be deceived, because there's going to be many times where people come up and say the end is near, or Jesus has come back, or it's going to happen over here or over there, over in Matthew. He mentions it about three times in the Olivet Discourse in Matthew don't be deceived, steve. It seems like there's a lot of deception and it was a very good warning that he gave us about not being deceived about these things. At the very least, what that tells us is to go slow and be careful and study these things because there's going to be false Christ and false prophets, will there not?
Speaker 2:There are and he says that these things must happen. He said they must take place. Don't be deceived, as you talked about. Later he's going to say don't be fearful.
Speaker 1:Look at the end of verse 6. The end of verse 6 gives us a clue as to how many people will be deceived by these false prophets. What does it say?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it says many will come and that many will be deceived and misled.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's been many people deceived, many people misled, many false prophets. The next verse, verse 7, does anyone get troubled or alarmed when they hear about wars and earthquakes? That's what he's saying is there's going to be wars, there's going to be earthquakes, going to be famine. Steve, I know whenever I hear about a war, earthquake, famine kind of shakes me up. So he's telling us, just because there's something cataclysmic that happens, like a major war or a major disaster, doesn't mean the end is here right, that's exactly right.
Speaker 2:This terminology here here in 7, when you hear of wars and rumor of wars, verse 8, for nation will rise up against nation and kingdom against kingdom. These are idioms really for world wars. In other words, there's been regional wars that have happened there, in the area where Israel is all. Throughout history, egypt has gone through there to battle other kingdoms up to the north and yet the empires of Greece and Medo-Persia and Rome and others. That is an area that has been trodden many, many times, but this particular terminology of nation against nation and kingdom against kingdom speaks of a world war, and of course, the first world war, glenn, was a little over 100 years from whenever the time that we're talking about here, and not less than 30 years after that, a second world war came along. War came along Then. After that, you had a war over in the Korean Peninsula, and it was the United Nations that were fighting against an enemy that was over there. Just shortly within 10 years after that, there was another similar war.
Speaker 2:Jesus mentions that. Don't be worried, though. All of these things must happen. This is just the beginning of how it's put here. Mark the birth pangs that are coming, but we're not to worry, and I think the reason why we're not to worry is what, glenn? We have eternal life. We have salvation, is that not right?
Speaker 1:All those that are in Christ, all those that have put their full faith and trust in Jesus Christ, really don't have to worry about their eternal state. Now, every war that's ever happened, large numbers of people have been killed. That's the tragedy of war. So what Jesus is saying in this part of the passage that we just read is there's going to be wars, there's going to be famines, there's going to be natural disasters. Don't panic and think that's the end, because it's just the beginning.
Speaker 1:He mentions birth pangs there. Birth pangs, of course, are like when a woman's going to have a baby. They start out mild, they get more frequent and more intense. He says what you're seeing with wars is just the beginning. Now, steve, I think we need to be real careful with that, because I've seen people prophecy students over the years that take that analogy and they get a little shaky sometimes with their. I mean, I've seen people go out and try to count earthquakes and things like that, trying to make predictions about when things are going to happen. And I think, again, the very first thing he said was don't be deceived. There's going to be disasters, don't panic, things are going to get worse, and I think that's really the main message, right? I agree.
Speaker 2:That is the main message that's here is he's just giving a generalization of what the world is going to start being like as it approaches the time of him returning. Because, again, that was one of the questions what are the signs of all of these things that are going to happen?
Speaker 1:We'll probably pause there for today because of time, but we're stopping right in the middle of a major talk here. On the Olivet Discourse, jesus has said, hey, there's going to be wars, there's going to be battles. So next time we'll get into. When are these things going to happen? Is it first century? Is it end of the age? Is it both? And so tune in next time. We hate to leave you hanging, but we're going to leave you hanging.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much for watching and listening. May God bless you.
