Why Did Jesus Not Predict the Destroyment of the Temple?

A lot of scholars read this and think Jesus thought that the temple would be destroyed and the world would end all at the same time. He just prayed that it doesn't happen in winter, he says. If there's no place in the world left, everybody's obliterated, then what difference if it's the summer or winter? And so the idea of it, not pray that it don't happen in the winter, is so that you may have a way of escape. Michael: We know that at the end of time, before the coming of the son of man, there's going to be tribulation and suffering. In Matthew, that's exactly what precedes the destruction of the