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To: Jamey who wrote (27068)	9/21/1999 12:59:00 AM
From: Jamey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Rev. 1:1,3; 22:6,7,10,12,20 ? ?Behold I come quickly?- What does it mean in God?s time frame, not man?s? "There is no question that ?time? is nothing to God. A thousand years are like yesterday to Him (Psa. 90:4). But time is nothing only to God. When God communicates time to man, He reasons with His creation in a way that man can understand Him. While it is feasible from a literary standpoint that words such as ?soon? and ?near? may be figurized to mean long spans of time, it is not their normal sense. To use an exceptional case to interpret all other occurrences in not good hermeneutics. For ?soon? and ?near? are not the only terms used to indicate a first century date for Christ?s second coming. In Matt. 16:28; Mark 9:1, Jesus said, ?Some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom? [and] ?the Kingdom of God come with power?. This first century coming of Christ and His Kingdom can refer only to the second coming, not to the transfiguration or Pentecost because it is described in the preceding verse of Matthew as the time when the Son of Man would come in His Father?s glory with His angels, and reward each person according to what he had done (Matt. 16:27). This description can refer only to the second coming. " - David A. Green Santiago