<p>23:38&nbsp;<em>Behold, your house</em>- The temple had always been called &quot;The house of Yahweh&quot;. But now it is was theirs, as the &quot;feasts of the Lord&quot; become the &quot;feast of the Jews&quot;. The Lord's table became&nbsp;<em>their</em>&nbsp;table (Ps. 69:25,22). They had hijacked God's institutions, just as men today have hijacked the Lord's table and imposed their own guest list and rejection policy upon it. Likewise the Lord called the law of God through Moses as now being &ldquo;<em>their</em>&nbsp;law&quot; (Jn. 15:25). The breaking of bread ritual practiced by the Corinthians was eating their&nbsp;<em>own&nbsp;</em>supper and therefore their gatherings were &ldquo;<em>not</em>&nbsp;to eat the&nbsp;<em>Lord's</em>&nbsp;supper&quot; (1 Cor. 11:20).&nbsp;</p><p><em>Is left unto you desolate</em>- The Greek word is used many times and always in the sense of a wilderness. This is the fulfilment of Hos. 2:3, where God through Hosea had threatened to make His beloved &quot;a wilderness&quot;. This is the link with the Olivet Prophecy in chapter 24, which develops this theme of the desolation of the temple and a desolating abomination which was to be placed there. Clearly, therefore, the primary intention of the Olivet prophecy was to the Jewish generation and temple in which immediate context the Lord was speaking. The fact the prophecy clearly has latter day applications and did not completely fulfil in AD70 shows that there was a change of plan, as has often happened in the Divine program, with prophecies being delayed and reapplied in their fulfilment.</p>