Introduction – Mark 13 is hard to understand (and hard to preach!) Interpretive key – prophetic “telescope” (proleptic fulfillment) Near future events are seen together (“combined”) with far future events. Near future events become a foreshadowing/paradigm for far future events. Purpose Warnings (Mark 13:5, 9, 23, 33-36) Encouragement (Mark 13:13b, 20, 26, 31) Reliability […]