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A generation is 70 years according to Psalms 90:10.
No, this is a life span.
This is... really weak.
And here we go, pushing the date to the future, failure after failure. Substract at least 20 years, because "to see" is not about a just born baby. That makes it 2017.
Another date that will fail.
In the past, since 1948, there was thinking that Israel a nation again was the base year for the parable of the fig tree generation. So 1948 +70 years = 2018 as the year Jesus would return by. Which did not happen.
Yes, pushing it to the future failure after failure, looking for excuses or changes in the calculation.
You do not get it. You cannot include persons born in 1967. They were not the generation that witnessed the event.
The event is the fig tree/Israel taking control of Jerusalem, try to focus.
No, the event that the parable of the fig tree generation will witness is Jesus's return.
You just deliberately associated the fig tree parable with taking back Jerusalem (not biblical), you then associated it with modern political event in 1967 (also not biblical) and then you tried to calculate the return of Christ with simply taking 1967 and adding 70 years to it (neither logical nor biblical).
The Jews regaining total control of Jerusalem was the result of the 1967 six day war. It was a military event.
Having nothing to do with the Bible. The eschatological connections you invented are built on sand.
Stop calling the bible fake and phony.
Really? What should I do? Throw all these out?:
Amen.
But nobody knows the day or the hour. Jesus said it. Please tell your Pretrib false prophets.
He didn't. He called your false teaching fake and phony. You have zero biblical support. Pretrib avoidance of that over the years has proved that. You are a prime example. All you have is avoidance and ad hominem.
It was written to the first church, not to us. We do not wait for anything, we enter the kingdom of God through faith and we share it and widen it more.Really? What should I do? Throw all these out?:
Blessed Hope, "looking, watching, and patiently waiting For The LORD Jesus Christ!"
(2 Thessalonians 2:1; Romans 8:18-19; Romans 8:23; Romans 8:25; 1 Corinthians 1:7;
Ephesians 6:12-18; Philippians 3:20; Colossians 4:1-3; 1 Thessalonians 1:10;
1 Thessalonians 5:5-11 AV)
"Looking for that Blessed Hope, and The Glorious Appearing Of
The Great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ!" (Titus 2:13 AV)
Amen.
The word in your sentence is pretty much what the issue is all about. The word is "soon." Is it a word denoting in a short time. Or, is it a word that indicates next in sequence. This is why the NT is not in error by saying the Rapture would happen soon. The Greek word is quite flexible and often means next in sequence. The problem stems from a poor translation. The Greek reader doesn't see a contradiction.
I am a Greek reader and what you say is not true. The Greek behind “soon” in the New Testament generally emphasizes swiftness or imminence, not "next in sequence".
Why not read Psalm 90:10 again. It says a generation _ if you are strong _ is 80 years. The average lifespan is about that depending on the country.
