Second Coming-The place of His going will be the place of His coming.Ascension- After His resurrection, Jesus gave the Great Commission to His disciples and then He ascended to heaven from the Mount of Olives (Acts 1:9-12).
Betrayal and Abandonment-On the same slope where His disciples had hailed Jesus as Messiah four days earlier, Judas betrayed Him and all of them abandoned Him (Ps.Olivet Discourse-After leaving the Second Temple for the final time and pronouncing judgment against Jerusalem, Jesus sat on the Mount of Olives with His disciples and explained prophecies that anticipated Jesus' Second Coming (Matt.Triumphal Entry-Jesus officially presented Himself to Israel as the Messiah (on the very day prophecy predicted) when He rode into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey (Ps.The Mount of Olives played a significant role during the Passion Week of Jesus, during which, several Messianic prophecies were fulfilled (and were made): Courtesy of the Pictorial Library of Bible Lands) (Photo: Mount of Olives aerial from southeast. The world’s largest Jewish cemetery spreads across the Mount of Olives, and Muslim graves dot the slopes across the Kidron Valley below the Temple Mount. The belief that the Kidron Valley is the future Valley of Jehoshaphat (“The Lord Judges”), where God will judge humanity (Joel 3:2, 12), has inspired thousands of Jews to make their graves on the adjacent slopes. Jesus on The Mount of Olives-The Place of God’s Coming, Going, and Coming Again Titus camped further north with the Twelve and Fifteenth Legions on Mount Scopus.
The Tenth Roman Legion camped on the Mount of Olives, opposite the Temple Mount, when they destroyed Jerusalem in AD 70. Its view of Jerusalem proved beneficial to enemies. Regrettably, Solomon also constructed pagan shrines on the Mount of Olives-at the “Hill of Offense”-opposite the City of David at modern Silwan (2 Kings 23:13). Perhaps its high elevation gave rise to the worship of God on the summit prior to Solomon’s construction on the Temple Mount (2 Samuel 15:32). For most pilgrims ascending to Jerusalem from Jericho today, Mount Scopus still represents their first sight of Jerusalem. The mount takes its name from the Greek skopus, which refers to a “watchman” or a “mark” on which one sets his or her eye. The historian Josephus wrote that Mount Scopus, the northern-most part of the Mount of Olives, often represented “the first sight of the city” ( War 5:67-70 ). (Photo: The 3 towers on the Mount of Olives identify it from any distance.