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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." |
Bible Question:
Hello Tom, How important is it that Jesus came back in 70A.D. or not? Anything my Lord and Savior dose is important to me. And if He did not why are they teaching it? Quote " I believe the disciples hearing Jesus say to them,"34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled." could have no other understanding than that their generation - them and others living at that time - were the ones meant, and that after all signs detailed from verse 4-33 were fulfilled, then would be His Coming." Tom do you believe Jesus came back in 70A.D.yes or no? "I agree He couldn't reveal more than the Father would allow and to do so would be a sin.Moreover, to say He didn't know if He did know would also be a sin." We are in total agreement hear. Do you believe that Matt. 24:34 is part of the proof that Jesus came back in 70A.D.? Still looking for Truth, Brian P.S. God's days ,He is the only one that counts. |
Bible Answer: Hi Brian, good to hear from you again. If Jesus came in final judgement in 70AD - and yes, I beleive He did - It confirms His prophesies of that event throughout the Gospels, and it removes the argument of atheists, Jews, Muslims, and others that He was NOT the Messiah because the things He predicted didn't come to pass in the time frame indicated. You ask why are they teaching it? By "they" I assume you mean Preterists. Why does any denomination, creed, or faith teach their interpretation over another? Because they beleive it to be the Truth. I beleive Matt. 24:34 was a prophesy to the disciples that the generation living at the time He spoke would not pass until the things He had just described came to pass. And I beleive these things did come to pass culminating in His judgement in 70AD, confirming His prophesy. Let me ask you to mentally travel back in time and be one of those disciples. Leave your beleifs here because they didn't yet have a beleif system, they were learning one. Jesus had been describing the signs that would precede His coming and the end of the age. Then He said, "Verily (Listen up! What I'm about to say is important!) I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled." Would you have honestly thought He was talking about a people living thousands of years later? OK, I know you would like to stay there, but come on back to the present. If one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day, then two of His days could be two thousand of our years, right? Amazing how the math works out. Now, allow me to digress a bit to give you some idea where I'm coming from. Although I became a Christian in my younger days I never became a serious student of the Bible. I read it from time to time but didn't get much out of it. Most of the OT may as well have been in Hebrew. The NT was easier to understand, but Jesus seemed to be telling the disciples and others that some of them would live to see His coming. That wasn't what I'd been taught. I couldn't tolerate the doubt this caused me so I had to conclude I was just too dumb to understand it. Keep in mind this was before I had heard of Preterism. After I retired 3 1/2 years ago I decided to make another attempt. I would sit and read and before long find myself nodding off. And I got about as much out of it while nodded off as when awake! I would hear something on a religious documentary and not knowing where to go in the Bible to see if it were true, I turned to the internet. Before long I stumbled upon a Preterist site. The more I read the more sense it made. Suddenly the NT came alive, and so did I. I've been studying intently - sometimes obsessivly - ever since. Now I'm by no means an expert - if what I know would fill a kitchen cupboard then what I don't know would fill a warehouse, but I hope this is helpful to you. Researching to try to answer your questions has been helpful to me. Tom |