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  EXPOSITORY THOUGHTS ON MARK - MARK 13:1-8
  by J.C. Ryle
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The chapter we have now begun is full of prophecy--prophecy of which
part has been fulfilled, and part remains to be accomplished. Two great
events form the subject of this prophecy. One is the destruction of
Jerusalem, and the consequent end of the Jewish dispensation. The other
is the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the winding up of the
state of things under which we now live. The destruction of Jerusalem
was an event which happened only forty years after our Lord was
crucified. The second coming of Christ is an event which is yet to come,
and we may yet live to see it with our own eyes.

Chapters like this ought to be deeply interesting to every true
Christian. No history ought to receive so much of our attention as the
past and future history of the Church of Christ. The rise and fall of
worldly empires are events of comparatively small importance in the
sight of God. Babylon, and Greece, and Rome, and France, and England,
are as nothing in His eyes by the side of the mystical body of Christ.
The march of armies and the victories of conquerors are mere trifles in
comparison with the progress of the Gospel, and the final triumph of the
Prince of Peace. May we remember this in reading prophetical Scripture!
"Blessed is he that reads." (Rev. 1:3.)

The first thing that demands our attention in the verses before us, is
the prediction of our Lord concerning the temple at Jerusalem.

The disciples, with the natural pride of Jews, had called their Master\

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