“by the way- noone is squirming”
Not yet perhaps.
“if we are wrong then so be it- life goes on”
If the prognosticators are wrong, most likely they will find some way to weasel around and say the words really predict it will all happen a couple decades later, like they always do. That way they buy themselves more time to shear the flock.
[[Not yet perhaps.]]
Not ever- If He doesn’t come back- oh well- We’ve lost nothing- life goes on as usual- You seem to be of the mindset that we’re staking everything on Him coming back at that date- as though We’ll be somehow devastated and nonfunctional if He doesn’t- That’s just silly-
It -could be- another decade- as a generation is between 70 and 80 years- or it could be another 1000 or more years- ALL we’re saying is that some signs —appear to be lining up— and for folks to keep an eye out incase they actually are the signs that indicate the end is near-
You seem mighty put off by this for some reason?
[[If you are going to read the Bible and say “in other words, blah blah blah”, you might as well just write your own “bible” and be done with it.]]
No thanks God gave us His word- no need to write my own- It’s pretty clear that He told John there will be a sign in the heavens
[[I’m saying God never said He was talking about a sign at all,]]
Really? Hmmm: “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken” (Matthew 24:29). (Heavenly Sign of the end of tribulation)
“And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood and fire and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord” (Joel 2:30-31). (Another heavenly sign that something is about to happen)
Now a great sign appeared in heaven:
a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet,
and on her head a garland of twelve stars.
Then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.
REVELATION 12:1-2 (Another series of signs-)
[[Sure, it was common to say that because it was convenient for those foretelling imminent doom, just like “70 years” is convenient for them now.]]
Sorry- if you look into it- it wasn’t just a common saying- it was a scientific fact- generations always referred to those who survived infant issues- not on infant deaths- those who survived on average survived 70-80 years- just like today-