ANSWERS TO THE DISCIPLES' TWO QUESTIONS OF MATTHEW 24:3

SPECIAL TOPIC: ANSWERS TO THE DISCIPLES' QUESTIONS ON THE MT. OF OLIVES AFTER JESUS TRIUMPHAL ENTRY TO JERUSALEM

The questions
1. Matthew 24:3 (3 questions; Matthew 23 is a crucial precursor)
  1. When will the temple be destroyed?
  2. What will be the sign of Your coming back?
  3. What will be the sign of the end/consummation of this age?
2. Mark 13:4; Luke 21:7 (2 questions)
  1. When will the temple be destroyed?
  2. What will be the sign when "all these things" will take place?
A warning against being misled, by false messiahs or great calamities, into thinking that this is the end
1. Matthew 24:4-8
2. Mark 13:5-8
3. Luke 21:8-11
A prediction of persecution between Jesus' death and the destruction of Jeruisalem and the promise of help (i.e., The Spirit)
1. Matthew 24:9-14
2. Mark 13:9-13
3. Luke 21:12-19
An answer to the first question, relating to the destruction of Jerusalem and the scattering of its inhabitants
1. Matthew 24:15-28
2. Mark 13:14-23
3. Luke 21:20-24
An answer to the first question using OT apocalyptic imagery of God coming in judgment on a nation
1. Matthew 24:29-31
2. Mark 13:24-27
3. Luke 21:25-27
An exhortation to watchfulness in the situation leading up to the fall of Jerusalem (note Mark 13:30 uses same vocabulary as the disciples' question)
1. Matthew 24:32-35
2. Mark 13:28-31
3. Luke 21:29-33
An exhortation to watchfulness for the coming of Christ and the end/culmination of this age
1. Matthew 24:36-44 (Matt. 25, Judgment Day)
2. Mark 13:32-37
3. Luke 21:34-36
I have modified F. F. Bruces' outline.

(adapted from F. F. Bruce in Answers to Questions, p 57).
I have become convinced that most of the Olivet Discourse, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, and the book of the Revelation deal with events in the first century (Partial Preterism).