In this episode, I continue building our prophetic model of Matthew 24 by examining Jesus’ “later sign” — the great tribulation — and placing it firmly within its first-century, covenantal context. Moving from general birth pains to the specific crisis surrounding Jerusalem, I explore the “abomination of desolation” foretold by Daniel, the “days of vengeance” rooted in Deuteronomy and Isaiah, and the prophetic hyperbole Jesus employs to describe the horror of the Roman siege. Drawing from the historical record of Flavius Josephus, I show how the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 fulfills Christ’s warning, marks the end of the Mosaic age, and inaugurates the fully established messianic age — not as distant speculation, but as coherent, covenantal history.