Nancy, I am not denying that Emile and I did not have differences of opinion and as far as any personal references to me, he apologized a long time ago for that. I hadn't seen either you or Alan post in some time and I remember Alan saying he was leaving this thread. I was very surprised when he responded to a post of mine to Robert. Alan immediately overacts to everything. He said terrible things about me and I have not talked with him for a long time. I do not believe that Alan can carry on any conversation unless it is totally agreeable to him else he threatens and says we are not Christians if we disagree with him. Its his way or the highway. I really don't appreciate him responding to me in this manner when my post was not even directed to him.
Further proof of the Parousia.............
"This event stands forth most prominently in the New Testament; to this every eye is directed, to this every inspired messenger points. It is represented as the nucleus and centre of a cluster of great events; the end of the age, or close of the Jewish economy; the destruction of the city and temple of Jerusalem; the judgment of the guilty nation; the resurrec-tion of the dead; the reward of the faithful; the consumma-tion of the kingdom of God. All these transactions are declared to be coincident with the Parousja.
4. It is demonstrable by the express testimony of our Lord, the uniform and concurrent teaching of His apostles, and the universal expectation of the church of the apostolic age, that the Parousia and its accompanying events were represented as nigh at hand; and not only so, but as about to happen within the limits of a given period; that is to say, in the time of the apostles and their contemporaries; so that many or most of them might expect to witness the great consummation. This is the main point of the whole question, and must be decided by the authority of the Scriptures themselves. While the proof ought to be rigorously demanded, and the evidence thoroughly sifted, it ought also to be dispassionately considered, without resorting to non-natural interpretation, un-critical and unfair evasion, or violent wresting of the plain sense of words.
5. Without going over the ground already traversed it may suffice here to appeal to three distinct and decisive declarations of our Lord respecting the time of His coming, each of them accompanied with a solemn affirmation
(1) ?Verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come? (Matt. x. 23).
(2) ?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?
(Matt. xvi. 28).
(3) ?Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled? (Matt. xiiv. 34).
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