---
title: "The Olivet Discourse, Week by Week"
category: "prophecy"
description: "Matthew 24 in six weeks: the disciples' question, the coming of the Son of Man, the fig tree, words that outlast heaven and earth, the day no one knows, and one taken, one left."
tags: ["olivet-discourse", "matthew", "eschatology", "dispensationalism", "audience/teaching", "small-groups"]
draft: false
primary_passage: "Matthew 24:3"
series:
  cut: passage
  sessions:
    - study: last-things/olivet-discourse.md
      why: "The whole discourse first: four men ask for a sign, and Jesus names one, His own return."
    - study: last-things/immediately-after.md
      why: "Matthew 24:29-31: the Son of Man's coming, and where Daniel puts the long interval."
    - study: last-things/fig-tree-and-this-generation.md
      why: "Matthew 24:32-35: reading the signs, and which generation sees them."
    - study: last-things/heaven-and-earth-will-pass-away.md
      why: "Matthew 24:35: Jesus stakes His words against the whole creation, and Peter and Paul build on it."
    - study: jesus/the-day-no-one-knows.md
      why: "Matthew 24:36: \"nor the Son,\" and the day that is the Father's to know."
    - study: last-things/one-taken-one-left.md
      why: "Matthew 24:37-41: Noah was the one left; who is taken, and where."
date_created: 2026-10-22
date_modified: 2026-10-22
ai_provider_models:
  - anthropic/claude-opus-5.5
---

# The Olivet Discourse, Week by Week

**In one sentence:** Jesus refused His disciples a checklist and named one sign, His own return; His
words will outlast heaven and earth and the day is the Father's to know, so you are to stay awake and
ready for Him.

Week one reads the whole discourse; the rest take Matthew 24:29-41 a few verses at a time, in order.

## The weeks

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