No. He was saying no such thing. You are denying the fact that between the first and second comings of Christ, there would be the Church Age, or the Age of Grace (and we are still in that period).
What is your scriptural support for a "Church Age" between His first and second comings? Is Jesus not clear in Matthew 24:34 when He says "THIS generation will by NO MEANS pass away until ALL THESE THINGS take place"? "All these things" involve everything He has just said to His disciples standing right there with Him. Jesus spoke of the age in which He then lived and an age that was ABOUT TO COME (Matthew 12:32). In chapter 10 He told His disciples right there with Him that THEY would not finish going through the cities of Israel before He came (vs. 23). Later, in 16:28, in said: "There are some standing HERE who will NOT taste of death until THEY see the Son of Man COMING in His kingdom.." He told Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin: "YOU will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of power and COMING on the CLOUDS of heaven" (Mat. 26:64).
The timing is clear and abundant. Jesus and later His apostles taught His SOON return. To deny that is to call Jesus and His apostles False Prophets and Teachers. Do we cling so tenaciously to our paradigms and preconceived ideas that we stumble over the obvious?
