For the past several weeks we have been going through a long passage where Jesus has been speaking to the disciples on the Mount of Olives, explaining to them about the world shaking events that will bring the Old Covenant world to an end, culminating with the destruction of the temple, a place Jesus condemned as The Den of Robbers, and the center of a world that will be in direct opposition to His church for the next forty years.
In the previous passage, Jesus would not give them a specific date on the calendar, but told them it would happen within their generation. He then tells his disciples a series of three parables that illustrate their role in this time period of what turned out to be 40 years.
We will look at these parables today and see what they meant for the disciples in their day and what all of this means for us.