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Because of this statement, the apostles asked Christ to explain when these things would happen to Jerusalem and the end of the temple worship, Levitical priesthood and sacrificial offerings… the end of their age (Lk. 21:5-20; Mat. 24:1-3). He answered, “When you see Jerusalem compassed by armies, know that the desolation thereof is near… For these are the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.” “This generation shall not pass, till all these things are fulfilled” (Mat. 24:34).

A sign of Christ being the Messiah, the sign of his being present, was his future vengeance on Jerusalem, the surrounding of Jerusalem with armies and the destruction of Jerusalem during their generation, not our generation today (Mat. 23:36).

The Messiah was to come to end an age and to begin a new age (Mat. 12:32). He came to die in “the end of this age” (Heb. 9:26), “in these last times” (I Pet. 1:20; I Cor. 10:11).

Just as there was an invisible army when Cyrus crossed the Euphrates to conquer Babylon (Rev. 16:12), there was likely that same invisible army, or an “unseen hand from somewhere”, which wrote upon the wall of Jerusalem in 70 AD (Rev. 16:19). The eastern gate of the temple, which took 20 men to close, opened of its own accord during the Roman siege (Josephus, Wars of the Jews, 6.5.3).

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TABLE 1. Lunar Calendar Matches Lunar and Solar Eclipses
Hebrew Calendar Dates New Moon	NASA Dates Solar Eclipses	Hebrew Calendar Dates Full Moon	NASA Dates Lunar Eclipses
		Iyar 14, Apr 25 (Passover?), 31 AD	Apr 25, 31 AD
		Heshvan 14, Oct 19, 31 AD	Oct 19, 31 AD
Sivan 1, May 11, 31 AD	May 10, 31 AD
Nisan 1, Mar 21, 71 AD	Mar 20, 71 AD	Adar 14, Mar 5, 71 AD	Mar 4, 71
		Elul 14, Aug 29, 71	Aug 29, 71
Iyar 28, Apr 17, 1996	Apr 17-1996	Nisan 14 (Passover) April 3, 1996	April 4, 1996
Tishri 29, Oct 12, 1996	Oct 12-1996	Tishri 15 (Tabernacles) Sep 28, 1996	Sep 27, 1996
Elul 1, Sep 3, 1997	Sep 3, 1997	Adar II 14, Mar 23, 1997	Mar 24, 1997
Keslev 1, Nov 4, 2013	Nov 3, 2013	Nisan 14 Mar 25, 2013	Mar 25, 2013
Nisan 29, Apr 29, 2914	Apr 29, 2014	Nisan 14 (Passover) Apr 14, 2014	Apr 15, 2014
http://www.cbcg.org/Calendar/index.html http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/phase/phasecat.html http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEcat5/catalog.html http://www.livius.org/ja-jn/jewish_wars/jwar04.html http://www.friendsofsabbath.org/ABC/Kenneth_Herrmann/ http://www.cbcg.org/franklin/calendar_of_Christ_part2_section2.pdf
Does the Hebrew Calendar need Adjusting? Beginning at Creation in the fall of 3761 BC, the first year consisted of 365 days, and the first 12 moons were about 11 days short of fulfilling 365 days. This amounts to 33 days in the first three years. To keep the lunar years in sync with the seasons of the solar years, an extra moon needed to be inserted in years 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17 and 19, seven extra moons every 19 years. The 235^th moon ends at the end of the 19^th year. However, Marc Cohn, in The Mathematics the Calendar, shows that the “Jewish year on average is longer than the Gregorian calendar by 0.0043 days per year or 43 days over 10,000 years” and one day every 233 years. Therefore, he proposes that one moon (or lunar month) should be subtracted from the Jewish calendar in about 2500 AD. How can the lunar-solar calendars be this far off? If this method of intercalation were faulty, how could the eclipses occur on the first day and 14^th day of the lunar-solar calendar like they have from 71 to 2014 AD? If 235 moons in 19 years are longer than 19 years, this overlap must have somehow been corrected over the last 2,000 years, otherwise the eclipses would not continue to fall on the proper day of the lunar months of the calculated calendar in our modern times, as in TABLE 1. Moreover, the Era of Nebonezzar began on the new moon of March 27, 747 BC and lasted 2509 years, until 1762 AD. The new moon that started a year after March 21 (after the equinox) would gain a day every 228 years until the latest moon (in a 13-month year) would reach April 19. Instead of beginning a year after April 19, the calendar proceeded to open again on March 21. This sets precedence for rules governing the Hebrew calendar.