Hi Brain Damage,
The end did come in Pauls generation. So did the parousia. So did the seventh trumpet sound, so did the great tribulation, so did the resurrection of the dead, but us bibli-ists consider the second coming to be future.
You already have noted this one:
Matthew 24
14And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
Paul tells us it is done here:
COl 1
This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.
If the gospel wasn't preached to every creature under Heaven Paul lied. You can take the statement as hyperbole, symbolism or things like that, but to come out the interpretive end with a statement saying the exact opposite to what Paul wrote just isn't acceptable.
Jesus instructs His apostles to proclaim the gospel....to the Jews...
Matthew 10
5These twelve Jesus sent out with the following instructions: "Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans.
This would happen before they finished that:
23When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another. I tell you the truth, you will not finish going through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
John the beloved would live until Jesus returned.
John 21
22Jesus answered, "If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you?
Daniel would rest until the end of the ages........
Daniel 12
13 "But as for you, go your way to the end; then you will enter into rest and rise again for your allotted portion at the end of the age."
When is that time of the end of the ages?
Hebrews 9
26 Otherwise, He would have needed to suffer often since the foundation of the world; but now once at the consummation of the ages He has been manifested to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
MAtthew 24
15 "Therefore when you see the ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place ( let the reader understand),
16 then those who are in Judea must flee to the mountains.
Where is this Holy Place? Well, there is one here:
Hebrews 9
2 For there was a tabernacle prepared, the outer one, in which were the lampstand and the table and the sacred bread; this is called the holy place.
That holy place was destroyed in 70 AD. After that the Holy place was here:
12 and not through the blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, He entered the holy place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.
Jesus is in that Holy Place, it would be difficult for an abomination to get in there because Jesus is in Heaven. It would be equally as difficult for people in Jerusalem to SEE this abomination in Heaven so they would know when to flee. Fleeing from Judea was not possible after 70 AD either because it ceased to exsist as a district then.
Finally the puzzle.........
The only possible way that all three writers can be correct in how they recorded the question and how they recorded one of he 'things' as the coming is if the 'end' and the 'coming' are connected to the destruction of that temple.
That's the short version.
Justme
