"your redemption draws near"...?

[brian]

If the Luke 21 passage is about the destruction of Jerusalem... how would one interpret Luke 21:28 and its phrase : "Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near". Specifically, what is the "redemption"?

[Mellontes]

If the Luke 21 passage is about the destruction of Jerusalem... how would one interpret Luke 21:28 and its phrase : "Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near". Specifically, what is the "redemption"?

Luke 21 does concern itself with the destruction of Jerusalem, and one other thing...

But what I found rather interesting is that the English word "redemption" is found nowhere in any of the other three Gospel accounts!

So, I searched on Greek word ἀπολύτρωσις (apolutrōsis) - Strong's 629, and still no mention in the other three Gospel accounts!

And once I was more settled in mind, I believe that the redemption which drew nigh back then would be in relation to the following:

Romans 8:23 - And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

Note: "our body" = plural possessive with a singular object...

Ephesians 1:14 - Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.

What is the purchased possession? Is it the bride of Christ, the body of Christ, redeemed Israel, the human body?

Ephesians 4:30 - And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

The "near/nigh" in Luke 21:28 is from the same Greek root as in Luke 21:20...

What one really needs to do here (IMHO) is to do a verse by verse study with all three Olivet accounts side by side to determine which verses (themes) are in all three accounts. If one does this, one will quickly discover that all three Olivet accounts refer to the same thing...sometimes it is determined that Luke 21 and Mark 13 contain things that Matthew 24 does not and vice versa. It is not that long of a study, but its conclusions will be controversial in nature.

Here is just one example...the rest I will leave up to others:

Matthew 24:15-16 - When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:) 16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:

Mark 13:14 - But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:

Luke 21:20-21 - And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
21 Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.

and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto. Could this not be in reference to the passover that would take place at this time. Hundreds of thousands would be trapped...

Anyway, I am just a sinner saved by grace...and could be entirely wrong...