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    I'm not particularly set in stone about eschatology in general, other than that Jesus will return and then there will be final judgment. The passage ought to say "that generation" rather than "this generation" for your interpretation to be correct. It seems to suggest that those things would happen while some of Jesus' audience were still alive. Or maybe an entirely different interpretation is the correct one.

    I'm not saying that your interpretation is necessarily false.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    I'm not particularly set in stone about eschatology in general, other than that Jesus will return and then there will be final judgment. The passage ought to say "that generation" rather than "this generation" for your interpretation to be correct. It seems to suggest that those things would happen while some of Jesus' audience were still alive. Or maybe an entirely different interpretation is the correct one.

    I'm not saying that your interpretation is necessarily false.

    This or that?

    Kinda splitting linguistic hairs.
    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
    (Ephesians 4:17-18)

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
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    Mark 13:32 that I quoted earlier relates the same teaching :

    Mark 13:28 “Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. 29 So you also, when you see these things happening, know that it is near—at the doors! 30 Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. 31 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.

    After saying the things that lead you to conclude that Jesus is coming back so soon that there is no time left for a climate disaster, he says the following :

    32 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father

    "that" refers back to that very teaching. Then he says :

    33 Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is.

    We should take that advice and not be arrogant about own interpretations and predictions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    Mark 13:32 that I quoted earlier relates the same teaching :

    Mark 13:28 “Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender, and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. 29 So you also, when you see these things happening, know that it is near—at the doors! 30 Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. 31 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.

    After saying the things that lead you to conclude that Jesus is coming back so soon that there is no time left for a climate disaster, he says the following :

    32 “But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father

    "that" refers back to that very teaching. Then he says :

    33 Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is.

    We should take that advice and not be arrogant about own interpretations and predictions.
    Not trying to be arrogant.

    Day and hour are different than generation.
    This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity (futility) of their mind, having the understanding darkened...
    (Ephesians 4:17-18)

    Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly...
    (Psalm 1)

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    Verse 33 says something else and it says this rather than that generation. Jesus uses "this generation" as including his contemporaries elsewhere in the context of judgments. For short, there is no clarity here that enables us to simply ignore topics like possible disasters in the near future.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GodismyJudge View Post
    This or that?

    Kinda splitting linguistic hairs.
    You go to a parking station in "this" 1980's Kia and try drive out in "that" 2016 BMW and see how hair splitting it is.

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