[BornToBeAmerican]

You are ignoring that Jesus said: “This Generation” and also “some standing here today” with him would see him return. Please read the bible with the mindset that neither God nor Christ can lie, so ALL UNDERSTANDING must be based on their words. If it cannot, then it MUST be discarded.

Please read the history of the Roman conquest of Jerusalem in 70AD and learn of the absolute desolation the befell on that city at that time.

[rebel25]

Gods word can speak of past present and future simultaneously, it is a Divine work. Those words were simultaneously speaking of 70 ad and the rapture, leatlrn of the prophetic nature of the jewish feast given to moses.

[Cronos]

bornToBeAmerican is correct - Jesus promised that the events of the destruction o f the earthly 2nd Temple and the coming of the spiritual temple (Jesus body) would occur within the 40 years of his sacrifice (c 30 AD) - and He was true to His word - Jerusalem was destroyed as we read in the Book of the apocalypse in 70 AD

And boatbums saying "Jesus didn't say the generation of people he was speaking to but the generation when Israel became a nation again" is again false for multiple reasons:

1. It ignores the text itself - Jesus explicitly says THIS generation
   
   
2. Even if you say it was for the generation of people living when Israel became a nation -
   1. israel never ceased being a "nation" - they remained in contact in dispersal.
   2. if you mean as a de facto and de jure country then Israel was a country in 1948 - and one generation is 40 years - so the rapture occured in 1988? Oh wait that was the year Blondie released "Rap ture" - but the real floating up to the cloudies didn't happen
   3. you want to change "generation" for your own meaning? Well most of those alive in 1948 in Israel are dead now. Sorry another failure

Jesus is explicit that it occurs in the 40 years after His crucifiction. And josephus confirms the very destruction of Jerusalem, the melting of the stones and the burning of the earth and the 10th legion cross the Euphrates

[Cronos]

bornToBeAmerican, your post #100 hits straight to the point -- Jesus repeats and repeats "some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming" - there can be no clearer statement.

Pushing it 2000 years thanks to Scofield is just incorrect.

boatbums says that transfiguration is "the Son of Man coming in His kingdom" is again incorrect.