DIFFICULT CONSIDERATIONS FROM THE SCRIPTURES

1. JESUS TAUGHT ABOUT AN IMPENDING JUDGMENT THAT WAS TO COME IN THAT GENERATION, THE LIFE TIME OF THOSE WHO HEARD HIM THEN. ( Mk. 13:24-32, Matt. 23:35-36, and others)
2. JESUS TAUGHT THAT THE KINGDOM OF GOD WAS AT HAND. IT IS ASSOCIATED WITH HIS COMING AND WOULD BE SEEN IN THE LIFE TIME OF THOSE TO WHOM HE SPOKE. (Lk. 9:26-27, Mk. 8:38-9:1 and others)
3. IN PAUL'S DAY THE KINGDOM OF GOD HAD NOT BEEN INHERITED. (I Cor. 6:9-10, Gal. 5:21 and others)
4. NEW TESTAMENT WRITERS IN THE EPISTLES TAUGHT THAT JESUS COMING WAS SOON AND EAGERLY AWAITED. (I Pet. 4:7, James 5:7-8, I Cor. 10:11, I Cor. 1:7 and others)
5. JESUS WAS EXPECTED IN THAT GENERATION. (Phil. 1:6-9, I Thess. 1:8-10, 5:23, Heb. 10:25, I John 2:18 and others)
6. JESUS PROMISED TO COME QUICKLY. (Rev. 22:9-12)
7. THE PRESENT TENSE IN SOME KEY SCRIPTURES INDICATES A FRUITION OF THESE THINGS IN THAT AGE. (Matt. 13:40, II Thess. 2:1-10, Heb. 12:28 and others)
8. THE LAW AND PROPHETS WOULD NOT PASS AWAY UNTIL ALL WAS FULFILLED. THIS HAPPENED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM. (Matt. 5:17-18, Luke 21:20-32)
9. AFTER JESUS DEATH THE LAW WAS STILL IN PLACE. (ACTS 21:18-26)
10. ARE WE STILL WAITING EVEN AFTER DEATH? (HEBREWS 11:39-40)