DID YOU KNOW?
Matthew 24 is a (dual) prophecy.

The disciples asked about two events: the destruction of the temple, and Christ’s coming at the end of the world (Matt. 24:3). Jesus answered both in one discourse. That is why the chapter moves beyond Jerusalem and reaches to the second coming — which is still future.

So when Jesus says,
“Pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day” (Matt. 24:20),
His words cannot be confined to AD 70 alone.

Notice the force of this:
He places the Sabbath beside winter as a real concern in the crisis ahead.

Why, if the Sabbath were about to pass away?

Christ never speaks here as though the Sabbath is abolished. Quite the opposite. He speaks of it as something still meaningful to His people in the prophetic future.

The Sabbath was not disappearing from Christ’s teaching.
It stood firmly within His end-time outlook.