Gospel scholars agree that the Olivet Discourse is, on the first level, clearly about the destruction of the Jerusalem temple. But apocalyptic language also naturally affords derivative historical and theological referents—typically taken to be other eschatological events around 70AD, the life of the church, and/or the return of Christ. It is underappreciated, however (though not without its proponents), how the subsequent texts of Matthew, Mark, and Luke provide those other historical and theological referents entirely within the literary worlds of the Gospels themselves. This paper contends that in the Olivet Discourse Jesus is principally talking about his betrayal, death, resurrection, and the international mission of the church, and that reference to events outside the Gospels are entirely unnecessary for understanding the meaning—including 70AD and the parousia. Critical for this reading is understanding how Jesus’ body in all three Synoptics is theologically aligned with the eschatological significance of the temple, an historically plausible reading of Daniel 7, and the nature of the gospel genre to present readers with a fully integrated narrative world. This reading provides a different eschatological understanding of the Olivet Discourse that is neither Preterist nor Futurist, and (more importantly) a solution to the “non-event of the parousia.”