re: #67 freetoken
And, for those in Judea who were living in the area in the 1st century, “the end” did come, in 70AD.
Fred Clark at slacktivist talks about this quite a bit—how the Rapture theologians presume that prophecy in the text is never fulfilled in the text, it’s all for this generation.
He talks a bit about the destruction of Jerusalem, and how that relates to the ‘mini-apocalypse’ in Matthew.