Signs of the End of the Age
What are the signs of the EOA ? Can we know or better should we know
Jesus took exception to the Pharisees and Sadducees for not knowing , Matthew 16 -’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.
They should have known from Daniel’s seventy week prophecy that his was coming was near , as Daniel knew from Jeremiah’s writing that the 70 years of captivity was near the end.
IMO this is the sign we are looking for. If the OK was given today. The Jews could have a tent installed on the Temple Mount very quickly. There’s no need for a building program to start the sacrifices. Moses and King David used a tent before there was any building.
Jesus uses a unique word in Matt 24 concerning the consummation of the age.
I would be inclined to view this as the OC Temple/Sacrifice Age which most partial preterists and amills view as consummated with the destruction of Jerusalem and it's Temple in 70ad [as shown in Revelation 18]. That is my view but it is always subject to change.
Matthew 24:3
Yet of Him sitting on the Mount of the Olives, the Disciples came toward to Him according to own saying "be telling to us! when shall these be?
and what the sign of Thy parousia and full-end/consummation of the Age?
The author of Hebrews also uses that word, but has
ages in the plural. Not sure about the significance of that:
Heb 9:26
since it had behoved him many times to suffer from the foundation of the world, but now once, at the full end/consummation of the ages, for putting away of sin through his sacrifice, he hath been manifested;
Paul also uses the plural ages but not "full end/consummation"....
1Co 10:11
And all these things as types did happen to those persons, and they were written for our admonition, to whom the end of the ages did come,
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A lexicon also shows it to be the final, complete consummation.
Strong's Concordance with Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
4930. sunteleia from 4931;
entire completion, i.e. consummation (of a dispensation):--end.
4931. sunteleo from 4862 and 5055;
to complete entirely; generally, to execute (literally or figuratively):--end, finish, fulfil, make.
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Matthew 24:3 Commentaries: Biblehub
Meyer's NT Commentary
καὶ συντελ. τοῦ αἰῶνος]
In the Gospels
we find no trace of the millenarian ideas of the Apocalypse.
The τοῦ αἰῶνος, with the article, but not further defined, is to be understood as referring to
the existing, the then current age of the world, i.e. to the αἰὼν οὗτος, which is brought to a close (συντέλεια) with the second coming, inasmuch as, with this latter event, the αἰὼν μέλλων begins. See on
Matthew 13:39.
The second coming, the resurrection and the last judgment, fall upon the ἐσχάτη ἡμέρα (
John 6:39;
John 11:24), which, as it will be the last day of the αἰὼν οὗτος in general, so of the ἐσχάτων ἡμερῶν (
Acts 2:17;
2 Timothy 3:1;
Jam 5:3;
Hebrews 1:2;
2 Peter 3:3) in particular, or of the καιρὸς ἔσχατος (
1 Peter 1:5), or of the χρόνος ἔσχατος (
Judges 1:18;
1 Peter 1:20), which John likewise calls the ἐσχάτη ὥρα (
1 John 2:18). This concluding period, which terminates with the last day, is to be characterized by abounding distress and wickedness (see on
Galatians 1:4). The article was unnecessary before συντελείας, seeing that it is followed by the genitive of specification; Winer, p. 118 f. [E. T. 155].
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Pulpit Commentary
Sign of thy coming (τῆς σῆς παρουσίας), and of the end of the world (
συντελείας τοῦ αἰῶνος).
They look upon these two events as synchronous, or very closely connected. The word parousia, which in classical Greek means "presence," or "arrival," is used in the New Testament specially for the second advent of Christ to set up his eternal kingdom in full power and glory (see in this chapter vers. 27, 37, 39; and comp.
1 Corinthians 15:23;
1 Thessalonians 2:19;
1 Thessalonians 3:13, etc.). Referring to the same event, we find in some places the term "epiphany" used (see
1 Timothy 6:14;
2 Timothy 4:1), and in others "revelation" (ἀποκάλυψις,
1 Corinthians 1:7;
2 Thessalonians 1:7); but the three expressions denote simply the open establishment of Messiah's kingdom, indefnitely as to time and manner.
The phrase translated "
the end of the world "means literally
the consummation of the age (cf.
Matthew 13:39;
Hebrews 9:26); consummationis saeculi (Vulgate); i.e. the close of this present seen, in contradistinction from the future aeon, or the world to come. This is "the last time," "the last days," spoken of elsewhere (see
1 Peter 1:5;
1 John 2:18; and comp.
Isaiah 2:2;
Micah 4:1).
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The Destruction of Jerusalem - George Peter Holford, 1805AD
PREFACE
History records few events more generally interesting than the destruction of Jerusalem, and the subversion of the Jewish state, by the arms of the Romans. -- Their intimate connexion with the dissolution of the Levitical economy, and the establishment of Christianity in the world ; the striking verification which they afford of so many of the prophecies, both of the Old and New Testament, and the powerful arguments of the divine authority of the Scriptures which are thence derived ; the solemn warnings and admonitions which they hold out to all nations, but especially such as are favoured with the light and blessings of REVELATION ; together with the impressive and terrific grandeur of the events themselves -- are circumstances which must always insure to the subject of the following pages more than ordinary degrees of interest and importance.
Many eminent and learned men have employed their pens in the illustration of it ; but the fruits of their labours are, for the most part, contained in large and expensive works, out of the reach of numbers, to whom the discussion might prove equally interesting and improving...........
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Statement of Purpose - Eschatology Forum Statement of Purpose
- Partial Preterism: Partial preterism holds that most eschatological prophecies, such as the destruction of Jerusalem, the Antichrists, the Great Tribulation, and the advent of the Day of the Lord as a "judgment-coming" of Christ, were fulfilled either in AD 70 or during the persecution of Christians under the Emperor Nero.
- The Second coming and the resurrection of the dead, however, have not yet occurred in the partial preterist system.
Amillennialism: "no millennium", rejects the theory that Jesus Christ will have a thousand-year-long, physical reign on the earth. The amillennial viewpoint holds that the thousand years mentioned in
Revelation 20 is a symbolic number, not a literal description;
that the millennium has already begun and is identical with the current church age
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The "old age" already ended in the first century. The temple was destroyed and the gospel was given to all nations.
The old covenant was put away and the new one, better, was established.
I am in agreement with that concerning the end of that "age"......
