32 “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. 33 Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it[e] is near, right at the door. 34 Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away. The Day and Hour Unknown 36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,[f] but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 39 and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 40 Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.This is specifically that some will die in the seige and destruction of Jerusalem in 69-70 AD
I think you are right on there, but I believe Jesus was also eluding to
the future age when he said the gospel of the kingdom would be preached
to all of the world and then the end would come.
The gospel has only been preached to all of the world in our day, today
also if you read rev 17 you can see that it is speaking of another age.
There are seven kings, five are fallen, one is and one is yet to come,
I believe it is talking about empures which are Egypt, Assyria,Babalon,
Media Persia, Greece, and Rome.
Rome was in power in John’s day but all of these powers controlled Isreal
John then tells us of the seventh king or beast that would be wounded by
the sword but did live, history plainly tells us that the seventh empire
is none othan the holy Roman empire which in the mid sixteen hundreds was
wounded by the be sword but did live.
The pope was taken captive but later realeased to become the head of the
Woman who sat on many waters, a Catholic church on every nation on Earth
and she has committed fornication with the kings of the earth.
John also said there were ten kings who had received no kingdom as yet so
we know he was talking about a later time who will help the beast destroy
the whore and her daughters, the religious institutions.
We can see this happening before our very eyes, they are going against the
word of God with a lot of help from one government or another.
In rev 18:4 God tells his people to come out of her and be not partakers of
her sins.
Yeah, sorry, but the verses you quoted very neatly debunk your own thesis:
“37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.”
Unless you can point out where the Second Coming already happened at the time of the destruction of the temple in 70 AD... because it seems every single Christian on the planet at the time (and all the non-Christian writers as well) missed that event, which we have been told the entire world will witness.
Taken; but WHERE to?