/lit/ - Literature

>>20362156
This is my favourite painting.

>>19462531
>not understanding that Jerusalem and the Temple is a microcosm for the world as a whole, even after the book of Revelation clearly states that the kingdom of God on earth to come is a New Jerusalem
The destruction of Jerusalem is a foreshadowing, and type, of the end of the world. Jesus' contemporaries were alive when Jerusalem and the temple fell, just as He prophesied. And that while the microcosm of the destruction of the world (the first type of the anti-Christ and the end of the Temple) would occur while those in attendance were still there, the macrocosm to which it refers (the last type of the anti-Christ and end of the World) would occur before the generation of believers passes away.
See what the Church Fathers made of it here:
https://sites.google.com/site/aquinasstudybible/home/matthew-commentary/catena-aurea-on-matthew/chapter-1/chapter-2/chapter-3/chapter-4/chapter-5/chapter-6/chapter-7/chapter-8/chapter-9/chapter-10/chapter-11/chapter-12/chapter-13/chapter-14/chapter-15/chapter-16/chapter-17/chapter-18/chapter-19/chapter-20/chapter-21/chapter-22/chapter-23/chapter-24