Christ answers by giving a summary of world history until the time of his return. He corrects their wrong understanding and separates out their questions.
These things will be true in the world right up until the coming of Christ and the end of the age. Here are certain things which are not in themselves indications of the end of the age. They will be typical of the world and its unfolding history. During the whole of the age, the last age from that time until the coming of Christ, there will be deceivers. Religious deceivers, false doctrine, false teaching and secular deceivers – people who give an entirely different explanation of life. The theory of evolution, or the present science of particle physics, not just exploring reality, but grasping constantly to try and find an alternative explanation for life’s origins than creation and the existence of the living God, spending vast sums of money to try to deceive the minds of the people. Religious and secular deceivers – there will be this tremendous struggle in mankind to get away from the one true and living God as Creator and from Jesus Christ his Son, who came to redeem human souls.