So they simply wanted to see that?
Don't you think they would be happier if that was past?
They did not see that though Irenaeus lived closer to that time than later ECFs.
Irenaeus also was NOT taught that it was past either.
IOW it was ONLY as people became separated by place and time that the AoD was put into the past.
Nope,. none of these is correct.The 70th Week of Daniel is the 1st Coming of Christ, the AoD is the Roman destruction of the temple in 70 AD, and the Great Tribulation is the Jewish Diaspora of the NT age.
The GT is stated clearly in Rev 7 and it is affecting ALL tribes peoples and nations.
The GD is what affected the Jews through their Diaspora.
Again nope, the time of the fulfillment of the age as they KNEW Jesus was the Messiah is what they were looking for.The 2nd Coming of Christ is used by Jesus as a backdrop to the events he predicted would take place in *his generation.* He was specifically warning his Disciples and Apostles about what would happen *in their own time and experience.* He was telling them of the judgment to befall *their own generation* because of their wickedness in rejecting Christ and persecuting them.
So Jesus made it clear that just as the 2nd Coming would bring judgment against the pagan world so his 1st Coming would bring judgment to Israel in his own time. This is the pattern of history in the NT age, a time of historical judgment, to be completed only at the 2nd Coming, following world judgment. Nothing could be clearer to me! Jesus used the 2nd Coming as a backdrop for his prediction of imminent judgment in his own generation!
The backdrop was the present struggle and the destruction of the temple, but the focus was on living for Him.
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