Some standing here

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Originally Posted by James LeDeay

Did not say that, Olive where Jesus shall set foot on earth, can be seem from that point.

Yeah and there shall be some standing in Macon which shall not die, but be changed in a twinkling of the eye.

That's not what was said. Jesus said some standing there in that very moment among those people, would not die BEFORE Jesus came.

And Jesus spoke of ONE coming in Matthew before Matthew 24. The coming of destruction.

Matthew 21:40-41 When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? (41) They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons.

Is that not a coming of the Lord? That was speaking of the very people who killed Him. He told them to their faces they would kill him when he gave that parable. They knew it, too, because we read later they perceived he spoke of them. That was called HIS COMING. the vineyard was Jerusalem and the temple. The grapes were the hearts of the people praising God and serving Him. And the religious leaders robbed God of tall all that and kept it for themselves. they took Jesus out of the vineyard, Jerusalem, and killed Him. Some of those people were still alive when destruction came in AD70 forty years later.

And when Jesus said HE WOULD COME and destroy those people, the pharisees knew He meant them!

Matthew 21:45 And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them.

And the other place where Jesus spoke of COMING was here:

Matthew 10:23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.

The other place is Matt 16.

Matthew 16:28 Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.

He did not say there would simply be people still alive when He comes. He said some of THOSE PEOPLE THERE THAT DAY would still be alive when He came. Not when he would be transfigured and not centuries later when they're all dead. WHEN HE WOULD COME.

That is the ONLY coming we read about in Matthew before chapter 24. So THAT is the coming of Matt 24. That's not the second coming, though. The second coming has no destruction associated with it. Read 1 Thess 4 and 1 Cor 15 for the second coming. Jesus was not talking about that any where before Matthew 24, though.