If your Church is wasting its time ruminating about world politics while brainwashing the congregants, I suggest that you bail out.
Replacement theology? Yes or No.
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I think we are agreeing just in different way. I pointed out that the work was accomplished at the cross. Marking the "beginning" of the end of the OT and the beginning of the NT. What I believe you were saying is the transition from old to new was on going till the temple destruction, marking the complete end of OT?
Here's what you should know about "the last days" as they are written in the Bible:
The Bible uses the phrases "last days" or "latter days" to describe multiple distinct time periods and events, primarily categorized into three main contexts:
- The Church Age: In the New Testament, these terms often refer to the period inaugurated by Jesus Christ’s first coming and continuing until His second coming. This includes the pouring out of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost (Acts 2:17) and the current era of the Church (Hebrews 1:2; 1 Peter 1:5).
- Future Eschatological Events: Other passages use the terms to describe future events associated with Christ’s Second Coming, the Great Tribulation, and the establishment of the Millennial Kingdom (Isaiah 2:2; Micah 4:1; Daniel 10:14).
- Historical Judgment on Israel: In the Old Testament, the phrases frequently refer to the final days of the Old Covenant or the Jewish state, specifically pointing to events like the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 or the Babylonian exile (Jeremiah 23:20; Jeremiah 49:39; Deuteronomy 4:30).
Yes, that happens quite a bit on CC.
I think the image I posted is the best way to explain what scripture is saying, there was still work to be done on earth during the time of transition with the believers.
Yes Christ Jesus clearly stated it is finished and that is why futurism is so every wrong.
Exegete these passages.....if you are able. We already know that you are not willing.....
Mat 12:32 - “Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.
Isa 65:20
“No more shall an infant from there live but a few days,
Nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days;
For the child shall die one hundred years old,
But the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.
And then read Isaiah 65:17-25.
In fact only in the millennial age the AGE TO COME, will sinners be born who can CHOOSE to reject Christ.
Your summary treats “last days” as three categories, but biblically the controlling definition is the one the inspired writers explicitly give.
The Messianic age inaugurated by Christ’s first coming (Acts 2:17; Heb 1:2; 1 John 2:18), while the other usages (future prophecy or national judgment) are contextual applications of the same phrase, not separate doctrinal categories;
Isaiah, Micah, and Daniel use “latter days” for distant future events, and Jeremiah uses it for covenant‑judgment, but the New Testament defines the theological meaning as the era between Christ’s first and second coming, which is why the apostles say we are already in the last days and why every other usage must be interpreted through that lens rather than treated as independent systems.
There is still work to be done on earth and prophecies to be fulfilled. The only thing that is "finished" is God/Jesus' plan for salvation where Jesus died for all of our sins.
"This generation" applies to every generation that's being spoken about for each time, event and category.
Many fail to understand that the Day of the Lord BEGINS with the 70th week of Daniel tribulation.
The tribulation itself is the beginning of the DOTL, the AGE TO COME.
There are vast tracts of Scripture both OT and NT that CLEARLY state that the BIRTH PAINS themselves are the beginning of the Day of the Lord.
Do the CT's and amils understand any of this? Are they WATCHING? Are they preaching WARNING to the world?
No, no and no.
Many fail to recognize that the Day of the LORD is not restricted to the single moment of Christ's visible Second Coming. Scripture presents it as a broader eschatological period of divine intervention and judgment.
The birth pains themselves belong to the opening phase of that judgment complex.
Paul explicitly states:
“The day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night… then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child” (1 Thess. 5:2–3).
Christ likewise calls the wars, famines, pestilences, earthquakes, and associated upheavals “the beginning of birth pains” (Matt. 24:4–8), after which the discourse advances through persecution, the Abomination of Desolation, the Great Tribulation, cosmic disturbances, and finally the visible return of Christ (Matt. 24:9–31).
This imagery comes directly from the prophets. Isaiah 13 describes the approaching “Day of the LORD” and says men will be seized with “pangs and sorrows” like “a woman that travaileth” (Isa. 13:6–13). Jeremiah 30 similarly compares the Time of Jacob's Trouble to labor pains and calls it an unparalleled “day” from which Jacob will ultimately be delivered (Jer. 30:6–11).
Zephaniah 1, Joel 2, Isaiah 13, Jeremiah 30, and numerous other passages portray the Day of the LORD as a period of wrath, distress, warfare, cosmic upheaval, judgment, and eventual deliverance—not merely the instantaneous appearance of Christ at its climax.
Thus, within the futurist-dispensational framework, Daniel's 70th week belongs to the opening judgment phase of the Day of the LORD. The judgments intensify through the birth pains and Great Tribulation, culminate in the Second Advent, and are followed by the judgments and kingdom events associated with Christ's earthly reign.
The Second Coming therefore does not initiate everything described as the Day of the LORD; rather, it is the climactic intervention toward which the preceding Day-of-the-LORD judgments have been moving.
I believe we are in tribulation and it will continue to get worse till the man of sin is reveled. Then the last 7 years of the world as we know it winds down to Christs arrival.
“this generation” never floats as a universal principle applied to any group at any time.
Jesus uses hautē (“this”) as a specific demonstrative pointing to the audience He is addressing in that moment,
and every usage in Matthew proves it (Matt 11:16; 12:41–42; 12:45; 23:36; 24:34),
while the future‑oriented demonstrative ekeinē (“that”) is used for eschatological events (Matt 24:36),
meaning “this generation” is always the generation in view, not a timeless category applied across eras.
He doesn't have to, that's why He spoke in parables and used vague language to describe different events.
Are you talking about Mathew 24 ? That is the only "this generation" that comes to mind to me, and if so how do you get it applies to every generation ?