So Jesus did not warn us that children will deliver their parents up to death and parents will deliver their children ....
.... how awful IS this persecution [tribulation]?
Folks try to say that this is the Jews but that doesn't make sense, if a Jewish child delivers up her Parents for being Jewish she is declaring that she also is Jewish and the same with parents. No this persecution Jesus warned about is against the church who will refuse the mark of the beast.
The end-times will be perilous.
.... how awful IS this persecution [tribulation]?
Folks try to say that this is the Jews but that doesn't make sense, if a Jewish child delivers up her Parents for being Jewish she is declaring that she also is Jewish and the same with parents. No this persecution Jesus warned about is against the church who will refuse the mark of the beast.
The end-times will be perilous.
For the most part (except for a portion of Luke 21 describing the destruction of Jerusalem) the Olivet Discourse is speaking to THE JEWS. Israelites. Exclusively. The place and time is ISRAEL and THE 70TH WEEK OF DANIEL aka the time of Jacobs trouble.
The vast majority of people, Christians and non-Christians alike, fail to understand this crucial matter. Blame the teachers and pastors.