NOTES for Luk 21:29-33
Jesus says, “My words will not pass away,” in the context of prophetic descriptions of Jerusalem’s destruction and the trials that Christians of the last times will apparently have to endure. Everything Christ speaks of will certainly come to pass, and by seeing these prophecies fulfilled it will be possible to judge how near His coming is. For clarity, the Lord even gives the parable of the fig tree, whose leaves announce the approach of spring.
But in the context of our own lives, this phrase can be understood much more broadly. At times it seems to us that God does not fulfill His promises, that He is deaf and blind. In such moments of crisis, these words can instill confidence that the Lord says and does nothing in vain, that not one word that has gone out from His mouth and not one covenant He has made with us will pass away.