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NASB | Matthew 16:28 ¶ "Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 16:28 ¶ "I assure you and most solemnly say to you, there are some of those standing here who will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom." |
Subject: Why 70 A.D. and why predictions |
Bible Note: HI Tom; Well; you make a very good argument. First of all I'd like to compliment you, it all looks and sounds very good. But; if I may, lets take a closer look. You pointed out in Gen 8:21 that god made a promise, in which it looks like God; is saying that He will never again destroy the earth. Well; you are right, it does look that way. But; lets read on just a little and look at Gen 9: starting with v) 11; "I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be cut off by the water of the flood, neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth." 12, God said, "This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all successive generations; 13, I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth. 14, "It shall come about, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow will be seen in the cloud, 15, and I will remember My covenant, which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh. Now, let me lift a couple of quotes out, and I don't like lifting verses out of context, but I don't think we are doing that here. what I am trying to do here is put things in context. "never again shall the water become a flood to destroy all flesh." and, "neither shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth." Now it seems to me, God, cleared that up in case we had a question. And; in case we didn't get it the first time; He said it twice. Now, here is your next point. v, 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease." Some have suggested that before the flood there were no seasons. And the flood set the earth of kilter, and, being that, (off kilter that is) as you know, is the reason we have seasons. well, I don't know, wasn't there, didn't see it, but, if you believe in a literal flood, like my self and many other believers do. Who knows? I don't think we should argue over that one. Your next point is. "In 2 Pet.3:13 we find; "Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelt righteousness." It would appear that Peter is contradicting God's promise. Well; may I say not if you didn't misunderstand scripture in the first place! Ok, here is the next quote from your note; "in Matt. 24:35 Jesus said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." Here it appears God contradicts Himself. How can this apparent contradiction be reconciled?" Again; we need to look back at Gods promise/covenant, and read the whole thing. Brother I hope you can see how easy it is to get fouled up when we don't read the whole of scripture to see what God is trying to say to us. Next; you ask. did God use doublespeak? No. I say again, No. God does not use doublespeak. Next; this was presented. Psalm 104:5; "Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever." Now, my self I don't know what the foundation of the earth would look like. and the earth is round and floats in space, it does not need a foundation, as we know what a foundation is. Do you suppose this could be figurative? It looks that way to me! And may I point out speaking of figurative language that your esteemed expert doesn't seem know that Isaiah, and in fact, I would say all the prophetic writers used a great deal more figurative or metaphoric language than any of the other writhers of Scripture. The word Babylon for instance is figurative for the world, and sinful man it is used in many places in the bible that way, for instance the book of revelation uses it many times. Our Lord and Peter were speaking very plainly by the way, you can see that if you read toughs passages through in context. Now; as far as your last statement and I'm quoting you now, I say that in case some one reading this might think that I said this. "heaven and earth" have passed, no matter what you feel under your feet or see when you look up. I really don't know what to say without sounding to flippant. God bless stj |