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Is that what they needed to believe He would come again? It's not His coming that they needed a sign for. It's the SIGN they needed to believe Him.

But was the sign they wanted of His second coming, or did they need the sign of His presence in them? Without that sign, would Christ's disciples believe the world they were promised would be FOREVER would one day end?

The only thing written that I would limit to the consummation when Christ comes again are the signs in the sun, moon and stars, and Christ appearing again physically, the Son of man coming in the clouds, when He sends His angels to gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of...

Yes, Scripture is abundantly clear that "great tribulation" and persecution will come to the disciples of Christ as we faithfully proclaim His Gospel through the power of the Holy Spirit. It began in the first century AD and will not end until the spiritual Kingdom of God in heaven is completed...

Perhaps the difficulty comes because we try to literalize what might become logical when we understand the warnings of things to come must be spiritually discerned? Because Christ is detailing for His people (the Church) throughout the ages the great spiritual conflicts between good and evil as...

The difference is "the end" of telos is determined according to context. It means "the end" of whatever is in view. Where "the end" from sunteleia is always the end of the world.

I agree, and wonder too why that's so hard to understand?

I agree there was a physical end in AD 70. But the Old Covenant was done away through the sacrificial death of Christ. Through His death the New Covenant came, vanquishing the Old and ushering in the New. Hebrews 9:15-17 (KJV) And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that...

Not exactly! The breath of life is in every breathing creature upon the earth is 'spirit', not soul. The outward body and the breath of life (spirit) together became a living soul. In the following verse the dust of the ground creates the body, and the breath of life, which is נְשָׁמָה...

If you read more carefully what I've written, you will see that I did not say Christ would come down in human form. I said: "Christ in human form will again be physically seen coming in the clouds in the same manner in which He was seen leaving this earth." It is written that Christ will be...

I'm glad we find agreement thus far. All spirits return to God alive with the life-giving Spirit, or without the life-giving Spirit in silence and darkness. The part of the soul that makes every living creature complete, after physical death is physically bound to the earth in death until the...

You already have the answer! We are promised eternal life the moment we believe and are born again of His Spirit in us. The Spirit promises never to leave us before we receive that which Christ purchased for us through His sacrificial blood and resurrection. So, the Spirit sent from Christ...

Only the soul that sins returns to God without life. Because the soul (living human being) that dies in their sins does not possess eternal spiritual life through the Spirit of Christ in them. So the spirit in that soul (human) returns to God who gave it without life, and is said to be in...

You quoted the passage that explains the difference between the spirit in every living breathing creature upon the earth, and the soul the physical body of the dust of the earth becomes together with the spirit that comes from God. God took the dust of the earth and formed man's body, then...

I believe the time for total, and irrefutable destruction was delayed until the appointed time AD 70 because that's when the full measure of their damnation would be complete. Genesis 15:16 (KJV) But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is...

This passage is talking about two things that have an end. One end comes for the faithful saints when we physically die and as spiritual body ascend to the Kingdom of God in heaven. When all who shall be saved are eternally, spiritually secure in Christ then 1Cor 15:51-58 shall come to pass...

The end of all things is approaching/drawing near. It has been approaching since the advent of Christ. Peter calls this "the day of the Lord", not the end. I'm not disputing you, I agree, all things of this earth will come to an end when Christ returns, but you are comparing it with "the end"...

The Greek word 'telos' is referring to the end of their life. IOW if they remain faithful unto death (the end) they will be blameless on the day of our Lord. The end here comes for saints who physically die since Christ has come. After those who belong to Him have died and come to Him "the...

I agree! The end is reference to whatever is in view! But the end of this world with the return of Christ is the end of ALL things that belong to this earth. Christ references both the end of the Old Covenant and the end when He shall come again.

This is true! I agree that Christ is saying the Old Covenant ends, so the New Covenant through Christ would be established. I think you and I are in agreement on that much. But I don't believe the end for Old Covenant Israel was the literal destruction in AD 70. I believe it ended with the...