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New Testament Prophecies on the Second Coming and Rapture: Zone of Truth or Delusion?

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  New Testament Prophecies on the Second Coming and Rapture: Zone of Truth or Delusion? T.H. Gorey original Posted on Imgflip.com on 3/8/2025 Matt 10:23  [Jesus to the disciples] “...truly, I say to you, you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.” Matt 16:28  [Jesus to the disciples] “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.” (Parallels at Mark 9:1 and Luke 9:27 ) Matt 24:34 [Jesus to the disciples] “Truly, I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place.” (Parallels at Mark 13:30 and Luke 21:32 ) Matt 26:64 [Jesus to Caiaphas the high priest and the Sanhedrin] “ . .. you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power and coming on the clouds of heaven.” (Parallels at Mark 14:62 and Luke 22:69 ) 1st Corin. 15:50-52  [Paul to the Corinthians]  I tell you this, brother...
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"You Mean We Missed It?" No, You Weren't There

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"You Mean We Missed It?" No, You Weren't There T.H. Gorey original Posted on Imgflip.com on 2/19/2025  
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Columbo on 1st-Century Rapture: Not Absence of Evidence, but Evidence of Absence

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Columbo on 1st-Century Rapture: Not Absence of Evidence, but Evidence of Absence T.H. Gorey original Posted on Imgflip.com on 1/24/2025  
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Thinking Man Reflects on the 1st-Century Rapture: You Can't Record It if You've Been Raptured

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Thinking Man Reflects on the 1st-Century Rapture: You Can't Record It if You've Been Raptured T.H. Gorey original Posted on Imgflip.com 12/26/2024  
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Further Commentary by Russell re: the 1st-Century Rapture of Living Saints

Further commentary by James Stuart Russell re: THE 1st-CENTURY RAPTURE OF LIVING SAINTS Below is the text of a 4-page leaflet written by James Stuart Russell, author of the late 19th-century masterpiece The Parousia: The New Testament Doctrine of Our Lord’s Second Coming . The authorship of the pamphlet, published anonymously before 1895, was identified through meticulous research by Mateus Fonseca Souza. The document is housed at Brigham Young University and can be accessed on the Internet ( https:// archive.org/details/therap tureofsain697engl … ). Text placed in brackets [such as this] has been added for clarity by the editor of the Russell Parousia blog ( http:// russellparousia.blogspot.com ). Text placed in bold reflects the emphasis of the blog editor. -------------------- Leaflet No. [no number given] "The Rapture of the Saints." "Then, we that are alive, that are left; shall together with them (the dead in Christ) be caught up in the clouds to meet th...
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Fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70: A Historic Event that Signified Christ's Second Coming

Fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70: A Historic Event that Signified Christ's Second Coming Below is the 42nd of multiple excerpts from Parts I and II of The Parousia , the late 19th-century masterpiece on the Second Coming by James Stuart Russell. The initial 31 posts on this blog deal with the Book of Revelation, which is cogently interpreted in Part III of Russell's magnum opus. (For all blog posts, see russellparousia.blogspot.com) [In previous excerpts, posted at the Parousia blog, Russell has painstakingly shown that an imminent, 1st-century Second Coming was a belief central to Christ's own prophecies and to the teachings of the apostles in the New Testament's epistles and the Book of Revelation. [Russell deals with three key questions in this excerpt: (1) Were Christ and the apostles deluded about the timing of the Second Coming and did God permit this to keep Christians in a state of constant vigilance? (2) Was the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple in A.D....
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The Imminence of the Second Coming; the Uncertainty of its Precise "Day and Hour"

The Imminence of the Second Coming; the Uncertainty of its Precise "Day and Hour" Below is the 41st of multiple excerpts from Parts I and II of The Parousia , the late 19th-century masterpiece on the Second Coming by James Stuart Russell. The initial 31 posts on this blog deal with the Book of Revelation, which is cogently interpreted in Part III of Russell's magnum opus. (For all blog posts, see russellparousia.blogspot.com) "Certainty of the consummation, yet uncertainty of its precise date. [Matt. 24:36: 'But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.' [Mark 13:32: 'But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.' ] "Although our Lord has defined the limits of the time within which the predicted consummation would take place [see verses below this excerpt] , yet a certain amount of indefiniteness remains respecting the mo...
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