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From the Mayans to Martin Luther to modern doomsday preachers, there’s a long list of people who predicted the end of the age and got it wrong. Does Jesus belong on that list? After all, in the Gospel of Matthew he seems to indicate the end will come within a generation, yet many generations have now passed and the world is still around. Was he mistaken, then, and was the early Church fooled by...

A B C D E F G H I J K L M Z M′ L′ K′ J′ I′ H′ G′ F′ E′ D′ C’ B′ A′ “[T]hen will appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven.” By now, it should be apparent that Matthew was consistent in how he recorded the words of Jesus. Everything within the inclusio refers to the events of A.D. 70 when the temple was dismantled. The sole exception remains the contrast that Jesus made between the Second Advent in G′ and the false messiahs in H′. And even this exception makes sense. Jesus was
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