First, we went over "the beginning of birth pangs" the other day (the SEQUENCE issues of the Olivet Discourse passages).
The 70ad events must take place "BEFORE" the beginning of birth pangs" (according to Luke 21:12 and following which states "but BEFORE ALL THESE [meaning, BEFORE all the beginning of birth pangs just listed in verses 8-11]).
Once you establish that 70ad events must come BEFORE the "beginning of birth pangs," and then grasp what the INITIAL "birth PANG [SINGULAR]" consists of (the "G5100 - tis - 'A CERTAIN ONE'," who is elaborated on elsewhere in several places [and that 1Th5:2-3 is associated]), then you see that "the beginning of birth PANGS" is the first half of the [future] trib when the "CONSISTENT 'YE'" of the Olivet Discourse following that INITIAL "birth PANG [SINGULAR]" involves the Matthew 24:14[26:13] SPECIFIC MESSAGE of that future time period (not taking place "in this present age"), and that it is also THEM that will have to "FLEE" (not "the Church which is His body" who will have already been raptured out well before that point in the chronology).
And THEY will "flee" only because they will have come to faith (WITHIN the trib) and will also be being gravely persecuted "for My name's sake"... and who are the "least of these My brethren" [25:40] (having come to faith WITHIN the trib) whom the Gentiles/nations will either [at the end] be called "BLESSED" by our Lord (because they aided these) or called "CURSED" by our Lord (because they did not aid or bless "the least of these My brethren" during that specific [future] time period). [sound familiar??]
Matthew 22:8 and then 9-14 correlates with (when considering THESE SEQUENTIAL ISSUES)...with Revelation 1:1's "to shew unto His servants [ex: 7:3] things which must come to pass [i.e. the 4:1 "FUTURE" things of the Book] IN QUICKNESS [NOUN]...," NOT things which will [and have] transpire over the course of the some 2000 years since written, and not "soon" and not "quickLY" as in "shortly-to-when-it-was-written" because it's a NOUN not an adverb; and the "IN QUICKNESS [NOUN]" correlates with elsewhere-stated TIME-FRAMES in Lk18:8 (chpt17), and involving whom in Rom16:20a, etc).
To put it more simply, at the time the Olivet Discourse was spoken (answering His disciples Q's), He had NOT YET disclosed anything about "Rapture" (and wasn't answering such a question, in this CONTEXT, nor covering THAT SUBJECT). He had ALREADY spoken to them about "the end [singular] of the age [singular]" in Matthew 13:24,30,39,40,49-50 (when the angels will REAP and then "the age to come" will commence/follow), and this is why they are ASKING Him about it [further] in Matthew 24:3. It involves the "WHEAT harvest" (which is not "the Church which is His body," but instead involves the "TWO LOAVES" and "baken with leaven"-Lev23:17, and which is harvested by means of a "tribulum," or however that is spelled
). Much more, but this must suffice for now...
The 70ad events must take place "BEFORE" the beginning of birth pangs" (according to Luke 21:12 and following which states "but BEFORE ALL THESE [meaning, BEFORE all the beginning of birth pangs just listed in verses 8-11]).
Once you establish that 70ad events must come BEFORE the "beginning of birth pangs," and then grasp what the INITIAL "birth PANG [SINGULAR]" consists of (the "G5100 - tis - 'A CERTAIN ONE'," who is elaborated on elsewhere in several places [and that 1Th5:2-3 is associated]), then you see that "the beginning of birth PANGS" is the first half of the [future] trib when the "CONSISTENT 'YE'" of the Olivet Discourse following that INITIAL "birth PANG [SINGULAR]" involves the Matthew 24:14[26:13] SPECIFIC MESSAGE of that future time period (not taking place "in this present age"), and that it is also THEM that will have to "FLEE" (not "the Church which is His body" who will have already been raptured out well before that point in the chronology).
And THEY will "flee" only because they will have come to faith (WITHIN the trib) and will also be being gravely persecuted "for My name's sake"... and who are the "least of these My brethren" [25:40] (having come to faith WITHIN the trib) whom the Gentiles/nations will either [at the end] be called "BLESSED" by our Lord (because they aided these) or called "CURSED" by our Lord (because they did not aid or bless "the least of these My brethren" during that specific [future] time period). [sound familiar??]
Matthew 22:8 and then 9-14 correlates with (when considering THESE SEQUENTIAL ISSUES)...with Revelation 1:1's "to shew unto His servants [ex: 7:3] things which must come to pass [i.e. the 4:1 "FUTURE" things of the Book] IN QUICKNESS [NOUN]...," NOT things which will [and have] transpire over the course of the some 2000 years since written, and not "soon" and not "quickLY" as in "shortly-to-when-it-was-written" because it's a NOUN not an adverb; and the "IN QUICKNESS [NOUN]" correlates with elsewhere-stated TIME-FRAMES in Lk18:8 (chpt17), and involving whom in Rom16:20a, etc).
To put it more simply, at the time the Olivet Discourse was spoken (answering His disciples Q's), He had NOT YET disclosed anything about "Rapture" (and wasn't answering such a question, in this CONTEXT, nor covering THAT SUBJECT). He had ALREADY spoken to them about "the end [singular] of the age [singular]" in Matthew 13:24,30,39,40,49-50 (when the angels will REAP and then "the age to come" will commence/follow), and this is why they are ASKING Him about it [further] in Matthew 24:3. It involves the "WHEAT harvest" (which is not "the Church which is His body," but instead involves the "TWO LOAVES" and "baken with leaven"-Lev23:17, and which is harvested by means of a "tribulum," or however that is spelled
). Much more, but this must suffice for now...
