Post #2014386

inb4 salvation There are verses of being saved, and again Christians confuse two things. The people in Christ's time were living at the end of an apocalypse (which means 'uncovering'). Their "Revelation" (the one we know had not been given yet and picks up from the only one they had) was Daniel. In Daniel, there is an "apocalypse" (uncovering) of history, revealing a series of empires (Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman). They were living in the last of the ones revealed. In Daniel, there is also the prophecy of the Temple's destruction. And through the prophets, there are numerous declarations regarding what God will do in the last day. So when Christ, during the time of the final empire that had been revealed, is talking about the destruction of the Temple to soon come and about the end and His return, listeners in His day are assuming this is all one event or nearly one event. Some verses about salvation are about salvation from the destruction/judgment coming *in their day* (that scripture had spent a lot of time warning about)-- in the day of those reading these letters from Paul and hearing these words from Christ. The end of their civilization. No more kingdom. The fig tree (national symbol of the Kingdom of Judah) is cursed and will bear no more fruit. Today's readers take every instance of the word "salvation' to mean what they feel is relevant to them--the next thing, from their lifetime, like the letter (to the Romans, to the Corinthians, etc.) was written to them. It's no better than when Paula White crosses out Jeremiah's name and writes in her name to "hear" what God has to say "to her."