It's not an insult, just sound reasoning.
1. You need to let us know how an army desolating a place requires people to have wisdom or understanding when reading the prophesy (as per Jesus- those things require understanding).
2. Matt 24 and Luke are books that were arguable written after 70 AD. Paul's letters were also written around that time. Revelation was written after 70 AD. Some of these people (especially John) were still alive during the 70 AD siege yet non of them said it was the fulfillment of what Jesus said or what Daniel prophesied- surely someone must be lying.
Make me understand.
Luke 21:20 “When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near. 21 21 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country not enter the city.
Matt 24:15 “So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’[a] spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand— 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. (Christians fled to Pella from Jerusalem right before the siege began <Josephus>)
Matt 24 and Luke 21 are the harmonized gospels of the Olivet Discourse.
I can't MAKE you understand. I'm not even sure appealing to scripture sways your opinions.
How do you respond to common sense, logic and history?
Do you even realize how OLD those apostles would be if they wrote their "books" after 70AD? John being the youngest.
Johh's Revelation has been assigned to after year 90 by premils. That would make him (still on the isle of Patmos) at around 80 yrs old, (he would have to be at least 20 to be considered adult in Jewish culture when starting with the ministry of Jesus. After John was released from Patmos he went on to pastor at Ephesus, one of those 7churches he founded. According to Roman tradition, prisoners were released at the death of the one who imprisoned them.....Nero died in 67AD.
The other apostles would be even older but we know that John was the last surviving apostle of the 12.