ISB ~ Luke 21 v24

Jesus describes the atrocities ahead for Jerusalem, indicating that foreign nations will play a strategic role in administering God’s punishment (Rev 11:2).

• He draws from several OT passages that describe Jerusalem’s destruction in the past and reapplies them to its devastation in the near future (A.D. 70). Casualties falling by the sword recall Jer 21:7 and Ezek 39:23; the city trodden down evokes Is 63:18, Dan 8:13, and 1 Macc 3:45; and the times of the Gentiles refer to God’s use of foreign armies to chastise Israel, as in Deut 28:49 and Zech 14:1-2.