Ah Robert, your lack of understanding of what a Biblical generation means clouds your limitation in understanding.
A time span of a Day of the Lord and a Generation is interchangeable. Both are slightly longer than 1,000 years and this number can be countered upon your ten fingers with good dexterity and control of your fingers and thumbs. The year in which Isaac, King David and Christ were born, within the bounds of story telling accuracy, confirms the fact that that this is so.
Now you referenced Mat 24:6-7, however me thinks that your are grasping at straws to justify the conclusion that was reached in claiming that "the appointed times of the nations came to their end in 1914
and Jesus became the ruling King in heaven."
Matthew 24:4-14: - 4 And Jesus answered and said to them: "Take heed that no one deceives you. 5 For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will deceive many. 6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes/turmoil in various places. 8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
9 "Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for My name's sake. 10 And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. 11 Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. 12 And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
Let us consider when Jesus is given dominion over all of the peoples of the earth such that they should worship Him.
In Daniel 7:9-14 we are told the sequence of the events surrounding when Jesus is given this dominion. First the beasts in heaven are judged and then Christ comes before the Father and is given dominion over the peoples of the earth and a kingdom.
In Daniel 2 we are given this information: -
Dan 2:34-35, 44-45: - 34 You watched while a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain, i.e. religion, and filled the whole earth.
. . . . .
44 And
in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
45 Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold — the great God has made known to the king what will come to pass after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure."
Robert, God did not set up His everlasting Kingdom in 1914, because no nation had dominion over the Land of Babylon at that time. It was not until the year 1926 that the two ages of the devastation and desolation of the Land of Babylon ended when Britain and France remembered the Land of Babylon once more before God, as told to us in the Seventh Bowl Judgement, and the fourth segment of the statue prophecy came into view. Around 80 years later, the many kings that that formed the fifth segment of the statue, i.e. the feet, came into view and as we are told in Daniel 2:44 it is during the time of these kings that God will set up His everlasting Kingdom.
Robert, the JW's understanding of the End Times is flawed and the accepted understanding that Jesus will shortly appear on the earth in our near future with the "church" to rule the earth for 1,000 years, while on the earth, is also flawed.
It is my understanding that God will establish His Everlasting Kingdom on the earth when the kings of the earth and the heavenly hosts are judged and imprisoned in the Bottomless pit for 1,000 years so that the earth will not be troubled by Satan, the Beasts and the false prophet during this period of time. The Kings of the earth will be judged at a place called Armageddon and this event is in our near future, most probably within the next 20-25 years from now.
It is my understanding that the JW's understanding of when God will establish His Everlasting Kingdom is too early and is out by around 130 years. The revealed evidence so far as to when God will establish His Everlasting Kingdom confirms that the JW's understanding is flawed.
But the subject of this thread is "
When are we told that Christ is returning?"
Robert, your digression into what the JW's believe has been an interesting diversion from the question that I have asked.
Oh well let us see if that are other "learned" people out there in the silent void, who feel confident that they too know the answer as to when Christ is set to return to the earth.
Jesus tells us in a parable in Luke that He will come to the earth to judge the kings of the earth at Armageddon, but is that visitation His Second Coming, where he will also sit in judgement of the peoples of the earth?
Shalom
