The word that you are looking for is "Imminency," which means on the horizon, about to happen, in the workings, looming, etc. It carries the same idea that the Lord demonstrated when he said for us to watch because we wouldn't know at what time he would return, only that it is always near (imminent). Regarding "soon" and "quickly," regarding "the day of the Lord," the OT saints used the same words in regards to it being near and coming quickly and the day of the Lord has yet to take place.
Well, I would have to disagree.
You, I'm sure, have noticed that many of prophets spoke of things happening in a present tense when they didn't actually happen for hundreds of years. The NT shows how these things were fulfilled in Jesus' lifetime and shortly after. And I am also sure that you know that the apostles make several references to those days being the "last days":
in
these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world.
But realize this, that
in the last days difficult times will come. [SUP]
2 [/SUP]For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
[SUP]3 [/SUP]unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
[SUP]4 [/SUP]treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, [SUP]
5 [/SUP]holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power;
Avoid such men as these. (This was addressed to Timothy - how would Timothy avoid these men if they were not there)
But Peter, taking his stand with the eleven, raised his voice and declared to them: “Men of Judea and all you who live in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and give heed to my words. [SUP]
15 [/SUP]For these men are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is
only the third hour of the day; [SUP]
16 [/SUP]but
this is what was spoken of through the prophet Joel:[SUP]
17 [/SUP]‘And
it shall be in the last days,’ God says,
‘That I will pour forth of My Spirit on all mankind;
And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
And your young men shall see visions,
And your old men shall dream dreams;
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18 [/SUP]Even on My bondslaves, both men and women,
I will in those days pour forth of My Spirit
And they shall prophesy.
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19 [/SUP]‘And I will grant wonders in the sky above
And signs on the earth below,
Blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke.
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20 [/SUP]‘The sun will be turned into darkness
And the moon into blood,
Before the great and glorious day of the Lord shall come.
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21 [/SUP]‘And it shall be that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’
Here, Peter testifies to the fulfillment of something specifically assigned to "The Last Days" as being fulfilled at that time.
