Daniel's 70th week

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Originally Posted by Esaias

The ONLY coming He spoke about that they understood was coming in destruction against Jerusalem,

They asked, in Matthew 24, about "when these things will be", "the end of the world", and "the sign of Thy coming". They did not, at that time, understand His dying and raising, but that doesn't preclude them from asking about His coming. Whatever concepts they may have had about His coming (whether it was strictly a judgment upon Jerusalem, or His coming into His kingdom/reign, or His coming to resurrect and judge all men, or any other thing they may have thought of, whether correctly or erroneously), would not mean they couldn't ask about any of them. It just means they wouldn't have been thinking in terms of Jesus coming after dying and raising.

It is also interesting they didn't ask "when are you coming", but "what will be the sign of your coming". Which could mean the sign presaged the coming, signaled the coming was taking place, or indicated the coming had taken place. In other words, the sign could occur before, during, or after the parousia (depends on how one understands both the question, and the answer).

Agreed. But if we read the gospels Jesus said nothing about a coming associated with resurrection and entrance into eternity, we realize the only coming they asked about was associated with what He did say about coming, which is judgment alone.

And as I showed, if we read Mark's and Luke's accounts of their question, the SIGN of his coming was the same SIGN when the temple would be destroyed.. when "things things," that He just referred to before their question, would take place.