Lord's Olivet discourse:Literally or Symbolically?

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the importance of our Lord's Olivet discourse found in Matthew 24-25.(visit biblegateway.com to read up on it). It outlines the future to which all other prophetic sections should be related.

Matthew 24:1-8
Then Jesus went out and departed from the temple, ad His disciples came to Him to show Him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said to them,"Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left upon another, that shall not be thrown down."
Now as He sat on the Mount of Olivers, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, "Tell us, whe will these things be? And what will be the sig of Your coming, ad of the end of the age?" And Jesus answered and said to them:"Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying,'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
"For nations will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows."

Now you may ask,"Should we take it literally or symbolically?" In this case, we should take it literally. Let's look at the evidences.

In the first two verses of Matthew 24 the disciples are seen proudly showing off the temple buildings to their Master. No doubt they expected Him to ooh and aah along with them. But to say our Lord was unimpressed with what He saw is something of a understatement. "Do you not see all these things?" He asked His disciples, no doubt pointing to the gleaming structures around them. "Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down."

History records that our Lord's words were fulfilled to the letter in A.D. 70. In that year the Roman army under the command of Titus destroyed the city of Jerusalem. Fires raged through the city and in the temple area itself. After flames burned themselves out, the soldiers saw that large amounts of gold had melted and flowed into the crevices of the blocks of the temple. In order to recover the precious metal, the Romans had to take the buildings apart, stone by stone, just as the prophecy said,"Not one stone was left upon another."

Some of those stones were later used to erect the wall standing today near the edge of the temple mount. Everytime you see pictures of the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem (www.thewall.org), you see the pinpoint accuracy of Jesus' prediction. So here is a big hint that we should interpret this passage literally.