Welcome to Form Now. I'm Tim Gray, President of the Augustine Institute.

And joining me is Dr. Michael Barber, who's a professor of scripture here at the Augustine

Institute. And we're going to continue our ongoing Bible study on the Gospel of Matthew.

Last time we left off in the midst of Matthew chapter 24 and talking about the end of the

temple and the end of the world. And of course, that's a big topic. And if you haven't followed our previous,

you're really going to want to go back to the previous session

to understand what we're going to be talking about today.

Definitely.

Because there's a lot of rich theology here in a deep meaning.

But in short, in some, we talked about that Jesus leaves the temple complex,

goes up on the Mount of Olives, his disciples on the way,

point out the wonderful buildings of the temple.

Jesus says, amen, I tell you, not one stone

will be left upon another, and the disciples come

and ask Jesus privately, what's the sign of that,

and when will it happen?

And so we get these two elements. Jesus is coming at the end of the age and the destruction of that and when will it happen? And so we get these two elements. Jesus is coming at the

end of the age and the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem. And of course, we talk about how

that prophecy of our Lord was actually fulfilled 40 years after he gave it. So that was probably

30 AD that Jesus' last year of his life. And then in exactly the year 70 AD, 40 years later,

Jesus' word comes true. And the Romans utterly destroy the temple and the city of Jerusalem.

After over a year-long siege. And it's a time of great... It's bloody. It's brutal. Yeah. It's catastrophic.

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