For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city will be captured, the houses plundered, the women ravished and half of the city exiled, but the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.I'm not certain if this is jumping around in the timeline or not. If it's not jumping around, then it suggests that Jerusalem will be sacked in the prelude to Armageddon. This isn't mentioned anywhere else I can recall in the descriptions of the end times, so that is new information.
However, this sounds a lot more like it's out of the rest of the timeline, and is describing the Babylonian conquest and exile. But if that's the case, why put the very next thing in as Christ's apparent return? If the Mount of Olives gets split and used as an escape route right after this verse, isn't that jumping several millennia?
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