Matthew 24.1-13

 Q - Nawawala daw po ang salvation kasi sabi "Those who remain faithful till the end will be saved"?

A - That's from Matthew 24.1-13

WHAT IF:

1. "Saved" means saved from the death in the Roman Persecution of AD 68-70 and NOT saved from HELL?

WHAT IF

2. The "End of the World " is not of the end of the planet but of the end of the "Temple World", ---the existence of the Temple and Temple-based sacrificial religion ---which happened in AD 7O when Rome totally destroyed Jerusalem including/especially the Temple, effectively putting the END to the Jewish religion/world based on Temple sacrifices?

Such time was accompanied by great suffering as described.

WHAT IF

There are very strong textual bases that THE END OF THE WORLD and JESUS' "SECOND" COMING all happened in the First Century AD?

Jesus said ( Luke 9.27) that there are people among his original hearers that will still be alive when he returns / when the "world" ends.

NOTE:

a. The Temple World ended in AD 70. CHECK

WHAT IF

b. Jesus' Second Coming already happened at Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit came. (Acts 2.1-13 ) CHECK

NOTE:

Jesus said that he would not leave his people as orphans but that he would send the Holy Spirit in his behalf and that He/Jesus would be with his people soon and till the end. (John 14.18-19)

WHAT IF the count is:

Jesus' first coming was when he was born ( John 1.14) and the Second Coming was at Pentecost, through/by the Holy Spirit.?