“Matthew 24:6-13. New International Version. 6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of birth pains.”
why do people keep wanting to speed things up. Jesus clearly said all that stuff happens and the end is still to come.
It’s not right around the corner, if anything it’s the beginning of birth pains. If a day is a thousand years and a thousand years like a day, we have a couple hundred years to go or more, since most babies take some (1-10s?) hours of birth pains and labor.
But feel free to keep whipping up the fear of others.
or if not fear the lack of being about the work of the Kingdom when Jesus does return, and instead be slacking in anticipation of “it’s likely soon”.
That's a simile, not an equivalence.
It’s been 2 ‘days’ since His death, burial and resurrection.
That’s 2,000 years..
There’s 2,000 specifically referenced in both the Old and New Testament..
In the Old:
About 2,000 cubits of distance that Israel was to keep away from the Ark as they passed over into the Promised Land.
In the New:
A legion (6,000) of demons entered about 2,000 swine...
Swine, an unclean animal, is not to be eaten or touched by Israel.
A spiritual picture of about 2,000 unclean doctrines of demon years in the last 2,000 of Satan’s 6,000 years..
The 2 days, 2,000 years,is almost completed..
Scholars give 30,31,33 AD as His death, burial and resurrection given the 40 year period Jerusalem was given until 70 AD..
2023 is about 2,000 years.
So is 2024, etc..
Hundreds of more years could also be about 2,000.
But about 2,000 is just about up if 30,31,33 AD was a marker for the deliverance of Israel bondage by the blood of The Passover Lamb.
And instead of just 40 year wilderness, it’s been 40 x 50 or about 2,000 years in the wilderness, for Israel. This time, Spiritual Israel aka Church..