Matthew 24:6 - Wars (1st century historical fulfillment?)
Matthew 24:6 (1st century historical fulfillment?)
Matthew 24:4-5 & Luke 21:8 - The time has drawn near (1st century biblical fulfillment?):
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Matthew 24:6
Matthew 24:6 & Mark 13:7 - The end... of what? (1st century understanding & imminence?):
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Matthew 24:7 - Famines and earthquakes (1st century biblical & historical fulfillment?):
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Matthew 24:6: "And you-will-be-about (to) hear (of) wars and rumors (of) wars. See (that) you are not alarmed! For (they) must take-place, but it is not-yet the end."
1st century audience?
Jesus said in Matthew 24:6: "YOU-will-be-about (to) hear (of) wars and rumors (of) wars".
Who can be the "YOU" (Matthew 24:6) in "YOU-will-be-about (to) hear (of) wars" (Matthew 24:6) in this passage? 3 verses earlier, Jesus spoke to His 1st century disciples, as "the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us" (Matthew 24:3) and "having-responded, Jesus said (to) them" (Matthew 24:4) these things.
1st century imminence?
Jesus said to His 1st century disciples: "YOU-WILL-BE-ABOUT (mellēsete 3195 in Greek) (to) hear (of) wars" (Matthew 24:6). The Greek word for "you-will-be-about" (melló 3195 in Greek) is a verb that can be translated as "is-about-to".
Jesus would have spoken those words around AD 30.
1st century events
Regarding events that happened in the 1st century, the Roman historian Tacitus, who was born in the 1st century, recorded that during the reign of Tiberius (a Roman emperor from about AD 14 to about AD 37) there was generally a period of peace.
The Roman historian Tacitus wrote in "Histories":
The Roman historian Tacitus wrote in "Annals":
"In this year, war broke out between the Armenians and the Iberians [around AD 51-54]…"
The Roman historian Tacitus wrote in "Histories":
1:2: "The history on which I am entering is that of a period rich in disasters, terrible with battles, torn by civil struggles, horrible even in peace. Four emperors [around AD 68-69] fell by the sword; there were three civil wars [around AD 68-69], more foreign wars [around AD 66-73], and often both at the same time. There was success in the East, misfortune in the West. Illyricum was disturbed [around AD 69], the Gallic provinces wavering [around AD 69-70], Britain subdued and immediately let go [around AD 60-61]. The Sarmatae and Suebi rose against us [around the late AD 60s]; the Dacians won fame by defeats inflicted and suffered [around the late AD 60s]; even the Parthians were almost roused to arms through the trickery of a pretended Nero [around AD 69]. Moreover, Italy was distressed by disasters unknown before or returning after the lapse of ages. Cities on the rich fertile shores of Campania were swallowed up or overwhelmed; Rome was devastated by conflagrations, in which her most ancient shrines were consumed and the very Capitol fired by citizens' hands [around AD 69]. Sacred rites were defiled; there were adulteries in high places. The sea was filled with exiles, its cliffs made foul with the bodies of the dead."
The 1st century historian Josephus wrote in "The Wars of the Jews":
4:9:2: "Now as Vespasian was returned to Caesarea, and was getting ready with all his army to march directly to Jerusalem, he was informed that Nero was dead [...] how those that occasioned his death were, in no long time, brought themselves to punishment: how also the war in Gall [around AD 68] ended: and how Galba was made Emperor, and returned out of Spain to Rome: and how he was accused by the soldiers as a pusillanimous person, and slain by treachery [...]. And besides, what troubles there were under Vitellius, and the fight that was about the Capitol: as also how Antonius Primus and Mucianus slew Vitellius, and his German legions; and thereby put an end to that civil war; I have omitted to give an exact account of them, because they are well known by all, and they are described by a great number of Greek and Roman authors; yet for the sake of the connexion of matters, and that my history may not be incoherent, I have just touched upon everything briefly."
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