The Imminent Judgment in Matthew

Many Christians read these passages as if they were referring to some far distant event rather than the end of the old covenant order. Many do struggle to read them as referring to anything that has already happened in history partly because they do not really grasp the way that biblical imagery works. The destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 just does not seem like a suitable contender for the events being spoken about by Christ in these chapters. It just seems so grand a description of what is about to happen. That the fall of Jerusalem is just a minor event to a backwater nation in the very far distant past. Yet as we understand it properly we will see that it is an event of the most immense importance. It