Then they asked him, “Teacher, when will this happen? And what sign will there be when all these things are about to happen?”
One of them said to the man clothed in linen, who was upstream, “How long shall it be to the end of these appalling things?”
I heard, but I did not understand; so I asked, “My lord, what follows this?”
As he was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples approached him privately and said, “Tell us, when will this happen, and what sign will there be of your coming, and of the end of the age?”
“When you see the desolating abomination standing where he should not (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains,
Amen, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place.
“All that you see here—the days will come when there will not be left a stone upon another stone that will not be thrown down.” The Signs of the End.
He answered, “See that you not be deceived, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and ‘The time has come.’ Do not follow them!