(September 25, 2013 at 2:02 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: No, he said that "this generation shall not pass from the earth until all these be fulfilled." In other words, all the end times prophecies he was making were supposed to happen in that generation. He said nothing about the temple in Matthew 24.His prophecies in Matthew 24 are linked to his prediction regarding the destruction of the temple. The first three verses read:
Matthew 24:1-3 Wrote:1 Jesus left the temple and was walking away when his disciples came up to him to call his attention to its buildings. 2 “Do you see all these things?” he asked. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.” 3 As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”The "sign of your coming" part is what Christians use to link the following parts with a future event, since Christ did not return in the lifetime of the disciples. When this happened, his words in Matthew 24 had to be re-interpreted to have a future meaning, otherwise the story pretty much ended back then.
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