How long will Christians wait for Jesus?

[Pat Mustard]

So you're saying that the writer of Matthew, who was writing this gospel after the passing of the apostles generation, is saying that the world should have already ended?  I really think that he would have to be smarter than that and make up something different.

Why do you think he should be smarter than that? Really why when it is obvious that writer of Matthew didn't even read the book of Isaiah, epsecially Isaiah 7:14: "Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel."

Jesus was never referred to as Immanuel, especially not in "Matthew". Not to mention mother-to-be is described as almah (maiden), not bethulah (virgin). Name is probably the most noticeable failure of the prophecy stated in "Isaiah" others are: "He must gather the Jewish people from exile and return them to Israel." "He must rebuild the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem." "He must bring world peace." "He must be a member of the tribe of Judah"

So I don't think that writer of Matthew is smarter then he appears but that Christians are very gullible and self deceiving.

Almah doesn't even mean "maiden", it simply means young woman. And from the passage leading up to the "she shall give birth to a son and call him Immanuel" the description of the nameless young woman makes obvious that she was already pregnant.