The Second Coming of Jesus
Here's what Jesus said MORE THAN 1,900 YEARS AGO:
| "When you are persecuted in one place, flee to another. I tell you the truth, you will not finish going through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes." | Matthew 10:23 |
| "For the Son of Man is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what he has done. I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom." | Matthew 16:27-28 |
| "I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power." | Mark 9:1 |
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"I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened."
P.S. In the original (Greek), there are TWO negative words - for emphasis - ou mh - it basically says, "NO WAY IN HELL will this generation pass away until all these things have happened." |
Matthew 24:34 |
| "I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened." | Mark 13:30 |
| "Even so, when you see these things happen, you know that the kingdom of God is near. I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened." | Luke 21:31-32 |
| "Behold, I am coming soon! ... Yes, I am coming soon." | Revelation 22:12,20 |
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"'Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place ... ' — certainly the most embarrassing verse in the Bible. The one exhibition of error and the one confession of ignorance grow side by side. That they stood thus in the mouth of Jesus himself and were not merely placed thus by the reporter, we surely need not doubt ... the facts, then, are these, that Jesus professed himself (in some sense) ignorant, and within a moment showed that he really was so."
- C.S. Lewis in The World's Last Night and Other Essays |
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