(July 14, 2015 at 3:31 pm)Crossless1 Wrote:(July 14, 2015 at 12:20 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: What you need to understand is that many many prophecies refer to both immediate and future events. You also must remember that Jesus, the Prophets, and Apostles explicitly used parable and allegory (Mark 13:14 "let him that readeth understand.."). Mark 13 and parallels like Matthew 24 refer to both the end times and to the destruction of the Temple in 70 A.D. i.e. "the abomination of desolation" contained in Daniel 7. So you are completely wrong. That is the part of the prophecy was actually fulfilled "within this generation". You're just referring to the wrong part of the prophecy.
Well, I wasn't referring to Mark 13 or Matthew 24, but thanks for the unnecessary remedial lesson in the use of parable and allegory. Since you brought up those chapters, I'm curious to know when you date the likely composition of Mark.
Jesus didn't come to give us a book. He spoke those words before the destruction of the Temple. We know this because His words are recorded in two parallel texts. It doesn't matter when they were recorded.
