In this case, the claim was being made that Christ had actually come for his Church--not that it had strictly become "imminent." The context is what determines how the word is being used. It is not that the Day of the Lord was claimed to have come and to continue up until the present. Rather, it was the *belief* that it had come, and it was the *belief* that continues up until the present.
These people believed that Christ had come--not that it was continuing. That is what DW is saying, and that is not correct. And I know that because of the crystal clear context! Paul introduced the subject by identifying, clearly, what the context was. And it was the literal 24 hour day of Christ's return for his Church. No mistake about that!
This is known to be the "last day" of the age, as indicated by Jesus in the Gospels, when the Church will experience resurrection. And the 1st Resurrection is identified in Rev 20 as being *at* the destruction of the Antichrist, and not before. And since it is called the *1st* resurrection, the Rapture, with its resurrection, could not have already taken place.
That's what Paul was saying, that our victory over the world will not be completed until *after* the reign of Antichrist, when Christ comes to defeat him and to establish his Kingdom on earth.
These people believed that Christ had come--not that it was continuing. That is what DW is saying, and that is not correct. And I know that because of the crystal clear context! Paul introduced the subject by identifying, clearly, what the context was. And it was the literal 24 hour day of Christ's return for his Church. No mistake about that!
This is known to be the "last day" of the age, as indicated by Jesus in the Gospels, when the Church will experience resurrection. And the 1st Resurrection is identified in Rev 20 as being *at* the destruction of the Antichrist, and not before. And since it is called the *1st* resurrection, the Rapture, with its resurrection, could not have already taken place.
That's what Paul was saying, that our victory over the world will not be completed until *after* the reign of Antichrist, when Christ comes to defeat him and to establish his Kingdom on earth.
The KJV seems correct - 'is at hand'