ISB ~ Luke 21 v5 - 36

Jesus’ Olivet Discourse foretells the coming devastation of Jerusalem in language that makes use of several OT images and themes (21:6, 24). His words were confirmed a generation later, when the Romans trampled the city and the Temple to the ground in A.D. 70. The catastrophe was a historical preview of the end of the world, showing how God’s judgment upon the one nation of Israel at the end of the Old Covenant era prefigures the judgment of all nations at the end of the New (CCC 585-86). See topical essay:End of the World? at Mt 24.