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Originally Posted by Truthseeker
The world he spoke of ended with destruction of Jerusalem/Temple. Of you look up the word world in Matt 24 it means age not literal physical world. This why he told them "when you see these things"
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Actually, it doesn't say "The end of the world"
Mat 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
And the word for "world" here
oikouménē; gen. oikouménēs, fem. noun from oikéō (G3611), to dwell, abide.
(I) The inhabited earth, the world.
(A) The Roman Empire (
Act_17:6); the Jews in the world (
Act_24:5).
(B) Of Palestine and the adjacent countries (
Luk_2:1;
Act_11:28).
(II) Generally, and in later usage, the habitable globe, the earth, the world as known to the people of ancient times (
Mat_24:14;
Luk_21:26;
Rom_10:18;
Heb_1:6;
Rev_16:14).
(A) Hyperbolically (
Luk_4:5; Sept.:
Psa_19:4;
Psa_24:1;
Isa_23:17).
(B) Metonymically, the world or the inhabitants of the earth, mankind (
Act_17:31;
Act_19:27;
Rev_3:10;
Rev_12:9; Sept.:
Psa_98:9).
(C) Metaphorically, the future age (
Heb_2:5).
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