A lot of dates have been set over the millennia. They all of course have been wrong. Matt 24 has always been difficult to interpret - I don't understand it either. First - I think he was talking about the future destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem. And second - he was talking about the second coming? He put the two different events together, but then he also said that he didn't know himself the time of his coming.
So there were two events with an unknown (if any) period of time between them. Some say this was a coming in judgment and he gathered his people out of the city - which did happen. ??? He also said that some of those who heard him would see his coming - kind of supports the latter view.
I think the idea that we should live every day as if it were the day of his coming is a good idea - but it has been almost 2,000 years. Prophetic people are saying that in the next 20 - 30 years God is going to bring in a billion people into the Kingdom. ???
Lauren
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