His Olivet Discourse (Matt. 24–25; Mark 13; Luke 21:3–36; 17:22–37) In his Olivet discourse Jesus corrected his disciples’ thinking about some aspects of his Second Advent which will terminate the “now age” and usher in the “age to come.” In so doing he gave the church its most complete description of that future event and its concomitants. Its Setting The Olivet discourse is “prophetic/apocalyptic” literature. In it Jesus addresses in a more sustained way than he does anywhere else events of the