He is inserting the second coming of Christ within the context of John 14, this is the wrong context that he is applying. The context of the entire chapter of John 14 is of the giving of the comforter on Pentecost and not specifically pointing to the second coming because Jesus closes his instructions (commandments) at the end of the chapte by the following statement.....
I read his full commentary not his concise one that you have now provided, but within the concise that you have brought to my attention, I see he redefines the context of the giving of the Holy Ghost who came on Pentecost to the second coming doctrine. Since Jesus speaks entirely on the comforter coming, therefore this commentary in an way introduces a contradiction by introducing an event thousands of years ahead of Pentecost and that is a usurp of Pentecost. For Jesus to speak of two major events that crisscrosses in instruction would be counterproductive and will loose the meaning of Pentecost entirely.
When he usurps the intended context of Pentecost early on, he then starts to collapse the context by then venturing off into other non related versus throughout the New Testament. This is credulously accepted by those who don't see the slide of hand.
He first tries to soften the verse that states that Jesus will not leave us as orphans and he will come to us, by implying after his resurrections and specifically to his disciples and then he knows that this context alone can't get him past the line, so he combines the resurrection context with another context which is the second coming to finish sewing up the saying of Christ when he makes his home with us in spirit by projecting it in the future at the end time, that is the second coming.
Either way he avoids the Pentecost calling by usurping it and deflecting the attention of the credulace reader to events before and after Pentecost and not Pentecost itself, this to me is a Red herring, hehehe. He is sprung!
For sure these commentaries are not meant to be the Word.
I think you misread the second coming thing, though. What I read is that he was saying that Jesus was now leaving the earth, not to return before the second coming as a way of clarifying that these were some of Jesus last words.
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