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THE BIBLICAL LAST DAYS: As Defined by Scripture

Are you looking for current events to identify the “biblical last days” of “End Times”? If so, you are reading your own presuppositions into the text. Theologians call that “eisegesis.” That’s an illegitimate methodology for biblical interpretation. Instead, we should be trying to glean the meaning intended by the biblical authors themselves―and the understanding of the original audience, i.e. “exegesis.” Let’s avoid newspaper-eschatology and go to the Bible to define the “last days” or “end times.”

The Bible never speaks about the end of the world―only about end of the AGE. The King James Version of the Bible has misled readers for 400 years. For example, in the book of Matthew we see the phrase “end of the world” (Matthew 13:36-50; 24:2-3; 28:18-20). But the Greek word for “world” in these passages is not KOSMOS, but rather AION. AION is better translated as “age.” Most modern translations have corrected that error, rendering it “end of the age.” The END is about the close of the old covenant age, which ended in finality in AD 70 when Jerusalem fell and the temple was destroyed.

Now, let’s consider an important passage from the Old Testament: Daniel 12. This chapter is about the “TIME OF THE END” (12:4, 6, 8, 9, 13). The fulfillment of this passage is clearly delineated. It would be fulfilled when “the power of the holy people comes to an end” (12:7) and when “the regular burnt offering is taken away” (12:11). This clearly happened in AD 70 when God sent the Roman army as the instrument of his judgment against Old Covenant Israel. At that time, the temple was destroyed and the historic Jewish animal sacrifices for sin ended forever (Matthew 23:1-24:2; Luke 21:20-24). This was the Abomination of Desolation predicted by Daniel (12:11) and Jesus (Matthew 24:15). Jesus said all this would happen in his own generation (Matthew 23:35; 24:34).

In the New Testament, there are 19 primary texts about the last days/end times (or end of the age). The writers of the New Testament spoke with one voice that THEY were living in the last days. Contrary to popular opinion, the setting and fulfillment of the last days can only be placed within the first century! Here are seven passages, which one can ignore, futurize, or try to explain away―but you cannot do that and deal honestly with the text:

• “The appointed time has grown VERY SHORT. . . . For the present form of the world IS PASSING AWAY.” (Apostle Paul, 1 Corinthians 7:29-31)

• “Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, ON WHOM THE END OF THE AGES HAS COME.” (Apostle Paul, 1 Corinthians 10:11)

• “Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in THESE LAST DAYS He has spoken to us by his Son. . . .” (Writer of Hebrews, Hebrews 1:1-2)

• “He has appeared once for all at THE END OF THE AGES to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.” (Writer of Hebrews, Hebrews 9:26)

• “He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but WAS MADE MANIFEST IN THE LAST TIMES for your sake.” (Apostle Peter, 1 Peter 1:20)

• “The END OF ALL THINGS is AT HAND.” (Apostle Peter, 1 Peter 4:7)

• “Children, IT IS THE LAST HOUR.” (Apostle John, 1 John 2:18)

Here are the other twelve, which I suggest you look up and compare in context to the above: Matthew 13:38-42; 24:2-3; 13-16 (ref. v. 34); Acts 2:14-20; 1 Corinthians 1:8; 15:24; 1 Timothy 4:1; 2 Timothy 3:1-5; Hebrews 3:14; James 5:1-6; 1 Peter 1:5-7; Jude 17-23. It is clear. You cannot push the last days beyond the generation of men who were writing the New Testament without doing violence to the text.

There is only one logical conclusion. The last days are not about the end of the world. In fact, the Bible never speaks about the end of the physical universe, and indeed teaches that the earth abides forever in some sense (Psalm 78:69; 104:5; 148:3-6; Ecclesiastes 1:4; Ephesians 3:21). They are not about a supposed end of the Christian age, which has no end (Daniel 2:44; Isaiah 9:7; Luke 1:31-33; etc.). They are not about a future millennium. Rather, they marked the last days of the OLD COVENANT AGE, which came to a violent end in AD 70 at the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the temple.

This is confirmed by the writer of Hebrews who declared, “In speaking of a new covenant, He makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.” (Hebrews 8:13) So, what was coming to a close in the first century? The Last Days of what? The Old Covenant order!

Let’s put something else to bed. The last days/end times did not just begin in the first century―and continue until now. That would make the end time longer than the period to which it was an end! That is, we have been in the New Covenant era for 2,000 years, which is longer than the Old Covenant era which was 1500 years, beginning with Moses and lasted till the first century (Hebrews 8:5-13). “At hand” and “It is the last hour” cannot be 2,000 years later. The biblical last days were the END OF SOMETHING―NOT THE BEGINNING OF SOMETHING.

The culmination of the last days/end times were in the near future to the New Testament writers:
• Writer of Hebrews―Hebrews 3:14
• Paul―2 Timothy 3:1-5
• Peter―1 Peter 1:5; 1 Peter 4:7
• John―1 John 2:17-18
• Jesus―Matthew 24:14 (ref. Luke 2:1; Romans 1:8; 10:18; 16:26; Colossians 1:6, 23)

AD 70 is when God judged Israel for her sins (Matthew 23:35-36), her refusal to accept Jesus as Messiah (Matthew 23:37-39), and for her participation with the Roman authorities in Jesus’ conviction and crucifixion (Matthew 27:24-25). This was the end of biblical Judaism. No longer would the temple be the focus of faith, but rather Jesus became the focus (John 2:19-21; Revelation 21:22).

Where do you suppose that these writers of the New Testament got such an idea? Well, from our Lord himself, of course, in such passages as Matthew 21-24. In these and many other passages, Jesus placed the “end” at the time of the destruction of the temple, during his own generation (Matthew 24:1-3, 14, 34).

For more detail on the end-times passages, see the section on the Last Days/End Times at my website:

https://prophecyquestions.com/category/last-days

You're the false prophet who wrongly claims the Second Coming has already happened.

Only the most anticipated event since the resurrection and NOT ONE in antiquity writes about that event having already happened.

You are the biggest fraud on the entire forum.

You have zero theological training.

Bkmk

Only the most anticipated event since the resurrection and NOT ONE in antiquity writes about that event having already happened.

And how do they explain Isaiah's, Peter's and John's prophecies:

Isaiah 65:17
For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.

II Peter 3:13
But in keeping with God’s promise, we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.

Revelation 21:1
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.

Isaiah 66:22
“For just as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, will endure before Me,” declares the LORD, “so your descendants and your name will endure.

I haven't seen that happen yet, have you?

Well written and thanks for taking the time to do so, yes end of the age, last days, the same; but I personally dont buy the preterist postion at all, no offence,

Today, we are in the last days, closer to the end of the church age, more than ever, since all things are growing and moving EXPONENTIALLY in every facet before the rapture of the church, then the 7-year tribulation age, and then the 1000-year Kingdom age.

the Day of the Lord starts with the night, then the day - 7 years of tribulation, then the 1000-year kingdom ete

Maranatha

No they haven't happened.

The poster who pushes this nonsense keeps pimping his blog.

He accuses others of being a false prophet when he is actually the biggest false prophet in pushing this nonsense.

He has zero theological training.

Zero biblical comprehension.

They fought to CONCEAL this evidence that shows the Bible is TRUE. Dr. Andrew Snelling highlights how certain rock layers both contradict the evolutionary timeline and confirm the biblical flood account.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeB6GO9n1cw