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Compare (Luke 21:20-24).
The passage in Luke refers in express terms to a destruction of Jerusalem which was fulfilled by Titus, A.D. 70; the passage in Matthew to a future crisis in Jerusalem after the manifestation of the abomination.
See "Beast"; (Daniel 7:8); (Revelation 19:20); and
"Armageddon"; (Revelation 16:14); (Revelation 19:17).
As the circumstances in both cases will be similar, so are the warnings. In the former case, Jerusalem was destroyed; in the latter, it will be delivered by divine interposition.