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• Matt. 24:1   “And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to him for to shew him the buildings of the temple. 2 And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. 3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?”
• In these verses, as Jesus and the disciples looked across at the Temple from the Mount of Olives, the disciples beheld the Temple and its beautiful buildings. Jesus said that it would all be destroyed, speaking of the coming Roman invasion of A.D. 70, where one stone would not be left upon another. The disciples wanted to know when these things would happen - or, when the end of their world (or age) would be, that is, the age of the law of Moses.