That's excellent. And you are free to believe it. Some people are worried that it's happening now. And in that case, let what you say be a comfort to them. But Jesus said if you're willing to accept it, John the Baptist came in the spirit of Elijah.
You're technically correct in that it's past to our present. But how far past? I wasn't alive during WW1, or WW2. The Olivet starts in the 20th century. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. Me and a couple other guys figured out the empirical in 2015 on another forum. It was the most exciting thread that I'd ever participated on. I still think you can start to figure it out too, if I can point you in the right direction.
Price action makes for market commentary. This is where we trade the charts, do not trade a story, because there's a lot of stories out there. For us to fly by instrumentation in the Biblical Prophecy world, our focus has to be on the 18 prophetic time periods found in Daniel and Revelation. Even though there's no specific mention of a prophetic time period in Matthew and Mark's Olivet, Jesus did direct us to an "abomination" spoken of by the prophet Daniel. It has a 1290 day duration that, when identified, will force the doctrine, the market commentary, on where the "earth" is that helped the "woman", where the "holy place" is where the abomination ought not to be standing, and exactly what that "abomination" is. And it will show us where Matthew and Mark's Olivet is in time.
"And every day he was teaching in the temple, but at night he went out and lodged on the mount called Olivet. And early in the morning all the people came to him in the temple to hear him. - Luke 21:38-38
But Luke 21 is not the Olivet. I know that's not what you've always been taught since time immemorial. Luke 21 was the morning and the day before the Olivet discourse. Luke 21 found Jesus sitting INSIDE the temple, looking at the precious stones and offerings from INSIDE the temple. He was sitting in an area INSIDE the temple, a place called the women's court. That's where the treasury was. That's where the poor widow was putting her coin into when Jesus "looked up". It was full of people, all the disciples were there, early in the morning all the people came to him in the temple to hear him .
"These words He spoke in the treasury, as He taught in the temple; and no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come. John 8:20
Matthew 24 was different. It was at the end of the day. Jesus was "leaving the temple and walking away. The "noble stones and offerings" were no longer visible from outside the temple. When the disciples pointed out to Jesus the buildings (plural) of the temple. He answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”
“Do you not see all these things?
No different than looking at this:
“Do you not see all these things?
Or this:
You see all these things? There will not be left here, (on planet earth), one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.
They then made their way down the temple mount, across the Kidron Valley, and up to the mount called Olivet. A 20 minute walk to this day. It would have been getting dark by then. It was just Jesus alone with His disciples. All the people who came to see Him in the temple had gone home. There were no poor widows putting money into the treasury jars. No scribes or pharisees hanging on His every word. Even two thirds of the disciples were going to sleep. But four of the disciples were concerned. They must have been troubled by Jesus' words: “You see ALL these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” Did just 4 of the disciples get it? Were they remembering the old Day of the lord prophecies where the earth would stagger to and fro like a drunkard? The earth is violently broken? The earth is split open? A foreboding sense of gravity must have befallen the third of them.
The earth is violently broken,
The earth is split open,
The earth is shaken exceedingly.
The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard,
And shall totter like a hut;
Its transgression shall be heavy upon it,
And it will fall, and not rise again.
(Every mountain and island moved out of it's place)
So just 4 disciples, Peter, James, John, and Andrew, asked Him privately.
As He sat OPPOSITE the temple.
"And as he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign when all these things are about to be accomplished?”
No noble stones, no costly offerings.
For at night He would lodge on the Mount called Olivet.
"Early in the morning He came again into the temple, and all the people were coming to Him; and He sat down and began to teach them. - John 8:2
"And every day he was teaching in the temple, but at night he went out and lodged on the mount called Olivet. And early in the morning all the people came to him in the temple to hear him. - Luke 21:38-38
Peaceful Sabbath.
