Our understanding of this central section will have to be governed by our answer to a single question: Is Jesus still continuing his warnings regarding Jerusalem’s fall or does his vision (or that of some prophetic spirit speaking on his authority) shift to engage the drama of the end of history, its denouement? In the second case, the rationale for placing the section here ties in with Jesus’ warnings of the onset of false Christs and deceiving signs (v. 22) and “in those