This will be brief.
Please look up and study very carefully these three passages from Matthew’s Gospel.
Firstly, Matthew 10:23. Matthew 16:27 to 28 and Matthew 24 :32 to 34.
And when you’ve studied these carefully, perhaps you will come to a different opinion when you can understand that Jesus came back within the generation of his peers.
The alternative is that Jesus was mistaken. That was the view of the esteemed C S Lewis—see his book “The World’s Last Night”. It is also the view of many liberal scholars and Islamic writers.
This discredits Jesus.
No. Christ has already come back long ago. He came at the ‘end of the age’ i.e., the end of the Jewish (Mosaic) age or the end of the Old Covenant.
It was NOT the end of the world or the end of history. It was the end of Judaism.
Jesus came when Jerusalem and the Holy Temple were utterly destroyed (the great tribulation). It was a divine visitation or Parousia.
The very novel ‘rapture’ doctrine was created around the 1830’s by an exclusive Brethren Englishman, John Nelson Darby and propagandised by an American criminal called ‘Dr’ Cyrus Schofield who created the Scofield Reference Bible. Today millions of ‘Bible believing’ people believe this Satanic teaching. It is against the Kingdom of God and leads to pessimism and a ‘I wanna get outa here’ mentality.
Read Matthew 23 37-38 where Jesus addressed, castigated the Jewish leaders:
“As a result, you will be held responsible for the murder of all godly people of all time—from the murder of righteous Abel to the murder of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed in the Temple between the sanctuary and the altar. I tell you the truth, this judgment will fall on this very generation.
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones God’s messengers! How often I have wanted to gather your children together as a hen protects her chicks beneath her wings, but you wouldn’t let me. And now, look, your house is abandoned and desolate.”
Ian Thomson 