Generally speaking they do not like being challenged or to re-examine with what they have been indoctrinated, it would rock their world and destabilize them.
They go against Jesus to support a false eschatology, a newspaper eschatology. It really is sad.
I remember when 1988 was the big day... and they just keep pushing it forward making up new ways to read the words in scripture.
Jesus was clearly speaking to the people in his time period of what they would experience. Full stop.
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amen I remember this happening about once a decade growing up we moved a lot.
really whenever we part from the explainations and interpretations in the new testsment it causes confusion and begins to become “ your interpretation v jesus and the apostles “ every subject seems to be the same struggle
Paul explains so much of the law and prophets in his letters Jesus explained and interpreted so much of the law and prophets in his sermons and teachings . From Abraham in genesis 12 or things in the very beginning
aid we let the New Testament exolain the law and prophets what we find is god determined to do a new and better thing for Israel , and including all other nations tbe promised children of Abraham the father of many nations through Christ Jesus his seed of promise,
What if we just let the apostle exolain things like the “ Abrahamic covenant “ as some refer to it . Look what Paul’s doctrine to Christian’s really is talking about
“Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.
Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. ( Abrahams seed of promise ) And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.”
Galatians 3:6-9, 16, 26-29
Paul’s teaching Christian’s how to look at Abraham’s story beginning in genesis 12 to see thier father in faith and the original king standing promises made concerning them
“God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.”
“and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed. So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.”
Genesis 12:3-4 KJV
Later promosed through Abraham’s singular seed represented by Isaac when Abraham was called to sacrifice him for God
“And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, and said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.”
Genesis 22:15-16, 18 KJV
Paul’s letters are filled with explainations of how the ot should be understood in light of Christ and the gospel as well as Jesus words in the gospel or peters words or johns ect the Holy Ghost was in them just as he was in the prophets and Moses befor that who penned the ot according to his Will and spirit the new should interpret the old and then I feel like the new would be understood like the veil was removed