Mark 13:1   And as He went out of the temple, one of His disciples saith unto Him, "Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!"

     This disciple is commenting on the great stones making the building of the Temple in Jerusalem. Some of these stones were 20 to 40 feet long, and over 100 tons in weight. It must have been a great sight to behold in that day, being made with man’s hands in a land that was mostly a desert.

Mark 13:2   And Jesus answering said unto him, "Seest thou these great buildings? There shall not be left one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down."

     This has not happened yet to this day. This does not refer to the Roman general named Titus in 70 AD that destroyed the temple, for even the Western Wall of the Temple stands today. When Jesus says that "There shall not be left one stone upon another...", He’s talking about His return on the seventh or last trump, when all the ‘rudiments’, which are the works by man’s hands, will be destroyed or consumed by fire, God’s fire, for God is a ‘consuming fire’

 

Heb.12:29. For our God is a consuming fire.

 

 That is when all are changed into that spiritual body spoken of by Paul in...

 

 I Cor.15; Read All

 

 Which ushers in the beginning of the thousand year Millennium reign of Christ on earth.

Mark 13:3   And as He sat upon the mount of Olives over against the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked Him privately,

     Here four disciples gather around Jesus and ask Him privately, about the signs of the end time. Privately means that the following teaching was not taught by Jesus to the masses there at the Mount of Olives, but to the ‘elect’ only. This is not a public teaching! It is this example of the way that Jesus taught, documenting from God’s Word, that there is a group that are ‘called’ and ‘chosen’, separate from the masses.

Mark 4:34. But without a parable spake he not unto them.

Luke 8:9-10, Read All.

Luke 12:41; Then Peter said unto him, “Lord, speakest Thou this parable unto us, or even to all?”

Matt.13:9-17. Read All

 Sorry friend, but this is not my opinion, but God’s Word. Not all that call out to God are ‘called’ and ‘chosen’, or of the ‘elect’, which the parable of the Ten Virgins should give you also this clue. God does the choosing, not man. Sweet preaching and fly away doctrines (Rapture) are not signs of being chosen. The great measuring stick is whether or not it is God’s teaching from His Word, instead of man’s ‘babblings.’ Before He will choose us, we have to know His Word, and not a bunch of traditions of men taught by those who are deceived. Are you being deceived by men’s traditions? I hope not. Better to check it out for yourself if you’re not sure.

Mark 13:4   "Tell us, when shall these things be? And what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled?"

     In Matthew 24: Read All.

 

...is another version of this question that makes the subject very clear: