Now most believers are not in agreement with where the Rapture happens on the Olivet Discourse’s timeline, and they disagree because too many believers fail to see that the Olivet Discourse is not completely sequential. Matthew 24:3 Mark 13:4 Luke 21:7), and the signs and time of the Lord’s Parousia or Second Coming (cf. Then, after Christ Jesus leaves the Temple area and Jerusalem and climbs to the top of the Mount of Olives, the Olivet Discourse proceeds to the prediction of the Temple’s destruction (cf. Matthew 23:33-36), and with His lament over Jerusalem and curse on the Temple (cf. Matthew 23:1-36 Mark 12:38-40 Luke 20:45-47), with the unbelief He found in the Jewish people, as a whole (cf.
Moreover, the Olivet Discourse starts with the backdrop of the Lord’s severely critical judgment/criticism of the Jewish religious leaders’ hypocrisy (cf. Luke 21:20-24) and His own eschatological Second Coming ( Parousia or His bodily return). Furthermore, it is important to note that in the Olivet Discourse the Lord is referring to two distinct events: the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple and Jerusalem, both of which happened in 70 A.D.
Parts of the Lord’s Olivet Discourse are recorded in The Gospels According to Saint Matthew, Saint Mark, and Saint Luke, which means the entire discourse is not in one particular synoptic gospel. For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.
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