I agree with Andrew’s application of Luke 13:1-9. Contextually (both the immediate context: “read the signs of the times” [cf. end of chapter 12] and the larger context of the book of Luke) it is clear that Jesus does not here – nor even in the famouse Matthew 24 passage – emphasize more than the coming destruction of an unrepentant Israel at the hands of the Romans.

Again, please consider that Luke and the other synoptics were likely written after AD 70. The churches using these texts, the authors would most certainly know, would interpret these sayings of Jesus as pointing to the immediate destruction that had, indeed, befallen Israel. The destruction was so bloody and complete the entire nation was nearly wiped out. This was seered on the consciences of the early church, no doubt, and they most certainly did not – nor, perhaps, could not in the face of the Roman Empire and the challenges therein – have interpreted most of these passages in non-historically grounded fashion.