'Do you see these great buildings?' replied Jesus [referring back to the discples comment in Mark 13:1]
'Not one stone here will be left on another; everyone will be thrown down.' Mark 13:2
This is a very helpful analysis of this chapter by France:
v2
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(No time indicator in prediction)
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v4
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WHEN?
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(and what will be the sign..?)
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v5 Watch Out - it is NOT YET (v7b)
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v8 all this is only the BEGINNING
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v9 Watch Out - it is NOT YET
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v10 gospel to all nations FIRST
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v13 the ‘end’ still in the future
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v 14 But when
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i.e., as opposed to the NOT YET of v5-13, here the sequence begins (in ‘those days’, v19)
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v21 At that time this is not the end
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v23 Watch out still beware of assuming too much
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v 24 But in those days
following that distress |
reference back
to v19 -
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so a direct, unbroken sequence from the when of v14.
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v 26
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And then
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Here at last is the answer to When? v4
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v 27
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And then
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v 28f The fig tree (a parable of necessary chronological sequence) shows that these things indicate that ‘it is near’
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v30f and therefore all these things must inevitably occur within ‘this generation’.
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v 32
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But about THAT day or hour ...
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WHICH day or hour? - no (singular) day or hour so far mentioned
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v 33 Watch out - it may be ANY time
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v 32-37 speak throughout of an UNKNOWN time, which comes without announcement, in stark contrast to the
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NOT YET
BUT WHEN
THEN
WITHIN GENERATION
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of vv 5-31
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