The Crisis in Eschatology: Understanding the End of the Age
As we continue now with our study of the crisis in eschatology, the point I want to look at in this session is this question: When Jesus spoke about His coming at the end of the age, did He mean by that phrase the 'end of the age'? The end of world history, or was He talking more specifically about the end of the Jewish age? That's one of the critical points that are in dispute here with respect to timeframe references of New Testament eschatology.
I'd like to read a portion of the text of Matthew for you from the New King James Bible, or the New King James translation, where we read in chapter 13, verse 38, Jesus' interpretation of the parable of the tares. He says, and I quote:
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