Destruction of Jerusalem (AD 70)
240Times Change
16 Mar 2026
3:30¶ 12
“The thing is, Stephen might well have said something like that, because Jerusalem was under a death sentence and they had a generation –…”
36:04¶ 136
“No, this has to do with formal covenant standing before Jerusalem fell. Here God is still maintaining the outward forms with his ancient covenant…”
238On the Third Day
16 Feb 2026
11:51¶ 46
“Yes. And there’s something here that would have been right in their faces, but I think in part because theologically and just in our…”
12:37¶ 47
“So they understood. Unlike modern writers on such subjects, they understood that Jesus was talking about something really close at hand. He had given…”
12:58¶ 48
“In other words, some of the people who were alive when Jesus said that would still be alive when those things happened. So the…”
236Peter's Pattern for Preaching - Part 1
13 Apr 2026
34:51¶ 111
“Those three aren’t particularly miraculous. The easy way to get blood and fire and smoke is to start a war. Probably the allusion here…”
35:03¶ 112
“At this point, for those forty years while the church is in its infancy and trying to grow, people could still point at the…”
35:29¶ 114
“Yes, so it’s necessary for that to be swept away, and God gives Israel 40 years, as he did in the wilderness, to get…”
235The Words of the Prophets
2 Feb 2026
44:02¶ 136
“What he’s describing is the results of battle of war, and the place is going to be Jerusalem. God’s going to torch the old…”
44:27¶ 138
“All of the lights of the Old Testament – the tabernacle, the priesthood, all the rituals and the feast days – all that’s going…”
29:37¶ 94
“Generally the American church has thought the last days are the days just before Jesus returns – that is the weeks, the days, the…”
226The Road to Calvary
29 Sep 2025
9:01¶ 25
“Well, a generation is about 40 years and it’s about 30 AD. In 70 years, Jerusalem will be destroyed horribly and God’s people –…”
33:48¶ 101
“The references he makes – “The days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never…”
34:27¶ 103
“The last bit is – “For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?” – the…”
221On the Mount of Olives
21 Jul 2025
24:39¶ 82
“They had asked, “How about the temple? It’s going to be destroyed?” and Jesus says, “Yes.” All this stuff is going to happen, and…”
40:12¶ 130
“So in terms of a philosophy of history, the destruction of Jerusalem is a very important event. It capstones everything that Jesus has done…”
38:46¶ 126
“Heaven and earth have been changed, and from the time that Jesus came into our world to the destruction of Jerusalem, that roughly 70-year…”
219Passover Season
23 Jun 2025
45:46¶ 146
“With “this mountain” he’s pointing at Moriah, at the temple mount, which lays before them. So we have the image of the fig tree…”
46:25¶ 147
“New Testament Christians are to pray that God would hasten these things, because once Jesus dies and rises again, apostate Israel becomes the chief…”
42:01¶ 135
“It’s that theme that we see in the Old Testament that is particularly discussed in Daniel of the abomination that makes desolate, which happens…”