Note 4 at Lk. 21:23: In Luke's account of this prophecy, it is made very clear that this distress that is being described is on the land of Israel and the Jewish people. Verse 24 further establishes that fact as it talks about the Jews being "led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled."

This would lead us to think that verses 12-24 are prophesying the destruction of Jerusalem that took place in A.D. 70 (see note 4 at Lk. 19:43, p. 356), and not any future actions of the anti-Christ described in Revelation 13 which have yet to be accomplished. The fact that the Jews will be led away captive into all nations would also make us believe that this is not the event described in Revelation. In Luke's account, the question that Jesus was answering was concerning only when the temple would be destroyed which would further lend itself to this interpretation.

However, the parallel scriptures in Matthew and Mark, which use much of the same terminology, add the statement about "the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet" which is considered by some to take place during the tribulation period described in Revelation 13:1- 18 and 14:9-11. Mark also adds that there will never again be such tribulation as will be associated with this event (Mk. 13:19).

This would either mean that Daniel's prophecy of the abomination that makes desolate has a double fulfillment (A.D. 70 and that of Revelation 13), or that it has been mistakenly applied to the Revelation account when it only applies to the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.