Here, at the beginning of the Olivet Discourse, the longest speech in Mark and perhaps the oldest written document about Yeshua/Jesus, Yeshua responds to the disciples question of “When the heck is the Temple going to be destroyed??!!” with a bunch of false signs which won’t tell them much of anything because, as He says, “These are all just part of normal life.” And so why, when so many non-scholars read them, do they get moved out of the immediate context and into predictions of still future events?
Episode 130: Mark Part 61—The Plot, the Anointing, and the Betrayal
Episode 129: Excursus—The Biblical Calendar
Episode 128: Sukkot—When the Season of Our Joy isn’t Joyful
Episode 127: Yom Kippur, Job, and the Prosperity Gospel
Episode 126: Rosh HaShanah and the Barren Woman
Episode 125: Mark Part 60—No One Knows the Day or Hour…Except the Guys on YouTube
Episode 124: Mark Part 59—The Coming on the Clouds and the Fig Tree
Episode 123: Mark Part 58—The Abomination that Causes Desolation
Episode 121: Mark Part 56—The Fall of Jerusalem and the Temple of Doom
Episode 120: Mark Excursus—Apocalypticism, Prophecy, and Eschatology in Context
Episode 119: Pharmakeia in Context/Mental Illness, Suicide, and the Church
Episode 118: Is Polygamy/Polygyny Really a Biblical Thing?
Episode 117: Gender-Identified Religion and the Anti-Missionary Menace
Episode 116: Mark Part 55--The Scribes and the Widow’s Mite
Episode 115: Mark Part 54--The Great Commandment and the Son of David
Episode 114: Mark Part 53—Death and Taxes
Episode 113: Mark Part 52—The Tenants and the Cornerstone
Episode 112: Mark Part 51—The Baptism of John and the Rejection of the Messiah
Episode 111: Shavuot 2021—Ruth and the Reverse of the Curse
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