What triggers the Jewish flight from Jerusalem in the end times?
The Jewish flight from Jerusalem in the end times is triggered when they get word that the Antichrist, whatever his name may be then, has defiled the temple and turned on the Jew. This persecution prompts an urgent escape, leaving possessions behind.
Les explains that the fleeing group is a cross-section of Jewish society, not the 144,000. They will flee the city, probably to the southeast, as soon as they get word that the Antichrist—whatever his name may be at that time—has defiled the temple and turned on the Jew. Jesus instructs those on the housetop not to come down to take anything out of the house, and those in the field not to return for clothes. Les projects the housetop group as probably retired, wealthy people with expensive possessions who will be reluctant to leave, but the urgency means they must leave wealth behind. The field group represents working-age, working-class people; in Christ's day Israel was agrarian, but today it would be computer operators, office workers, stockbrokers, and the like, who must drop their work and flee fast without even getting an extra suit of clothes. Then verse 19 addresses another segment: pregnant mothers-to-be, with woe pronounced on them.
Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
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Are the people fleeing in Matthew 24:17-19 the 144,000, or someone else?
The people described in these Olivet Discourse verses are not the 144,000 but a cross-section of Jewish society who will be fleeing the city of Jerusalem.
Where will the Jewish people be fleeing from in the end times?
Les says the Jewish people in these verses will be fleeing from the city of Jerusalem.