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NASB | 2 Peter 3:4 and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the beginning of creation." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 2 Peter 3:4 and saying, "Where is the promise of His coming [what has become of it]? For ever since the fathers fell asleep [in death], all things have continued [exactly] as they did from the beginning of creation." |
Subject: Where do I go from here? |
Bible Note: Treadway, good to see you back. Ye Olde Forum can become mildly addictive, can't it? Now let's talk about what Jesus said in that "problem verse," Mark 9:1, and in the parallel passages in the other two synoptic gospels, Matthew 16:28 and Luke 9:27 ..... In the verse, Mark 9:1 NASB, Jesus says this: "Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power." ..... Now there have been a number of interpretations given of this statement that Jesus made, among them that He was referring to [1] His resurrection and ascension [2] the coming of the Spirit at Pentecost [3] the spread of Christianity or [4] the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70. But the most logical and contextually accurate interpretation is to connect what Christ said in this verse to the Transfiguration. The proximity of this verse to the subsequent account of the Transfiguration which occurred a week later is consistent in all three of the accounts in the Synoptics and is likely not tossed in the context in a haphazard manner. The contextual support for linking Christ's words to the Transfiguration is very strong indeed. The Transfiguration provided a foretaste of His second-coming glory; and 'kingdom' as Christ used it in this verse can certainly refer to royal splendor. Moreover, 2 Peter 1:16 seems to support this interpretation. Peter, of course, was an eyewitness to the Transfiguration ..... The weakest interpretation of all is to link Christ's words in this verse to His second coming. Not only is there no contextual support whatever for this view, it stands in contradiction of the clear facts of Scripture and would make Christ either a liar or at least someone who did not know what He was talking about. I'm reasonably sure, therefore, that to interpret His words as referring to His second coming would be the interpretation of choice among the skeptics who would love to prove the Bible false. Of course anyone can, by ignoring context, logic, reason, and sound exegesis, twist Scripture and make it seem to say just about anything one wants it to say. Even that the disciples rode in a Honda, because in the upper room they were all with one Accord. [Acts 1:13,14 NKJV] --Hank |