Tuesday 31 October 2017

'Time Indicating' verses; and 'Audience Relevance'

MATTHEW 26:64 

64Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

Jesus was speaking to Caiaphas. He said "shall ye see". Caiaphas apparently died in AD36. If so, then Jesus could not have been speaking of an AD70 event only. Besides, "hereafter" may even mean "from now on", not just "at a future moment".

So, since Jesus could say "ye" and yet not mean the person He was immediately addressing, and not mean AD70 exclusively, on this occasion, then why not in Matthew 16:28, or in Matthew 24:33 also?

MATTHEW 16:28
28 Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

MATTHEW 24:33
33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

When Jesus said "ye", He was addressing four of His disciples privately - and they didn't all live to see all of the events He was speaking about. In fact, maybe none of them lived to see it.

So could there have been a wider meaning intended than the immediate audience, or the lifetime of the immediate audience, or a singular moment in history. 

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