Gee, I don’t remember that. I read the bible,a long time ago. Could you tell me where it says that clearly in Revelations.
I usually cite the gospels where Jesus himself is quoted as saying;
Luke 9:27 says, “I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God.”
It is my understanding that Jesus also says he will return ‘soon’ in several places in the gospels.
For followers of ‘the way’*** Jesus return was imminent . When he didn’t turn up, the early church changed the time of Jesus’ return to some vague indeterminate time in the future,and quietly dropped it.
Although still officially part of the canon, the second coming of Jesus has not been has not been emphasised in what became to be called The catholic church, for centuries. Nor in the major protestant sects.
Today it’s the evangelical especially who rabbit on about the end of days and the rapture. These good folks are anti reason, science and facts. Their claims invariably come from a tortuous interpretation of some part of the Book of Revelation.Each time the prophecy does not come true, they simply find another. JW’s and Seventh Day Adventists are pretty good at that.
The more extreme cases we get here, such as The Flying Pig and Light_hearted also suffer from industrial strength cognitive dissonance. They may be summarily dismissed.
I think it was Cart Sagan who said “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence” .I’ve never known a believer to provide any credible evidence, ever.
Christianity has been a failed millenarian movement since the firsts century when Jesus did not return as promised.
The Catholics have always had the wit to understand that simple fact, so they have pretty much always ignored it as much as possible.
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Same with Book of Revelations.This is seen as not so much prophetic than a critique of Rome. Catholics tend to be embarrassed by Revelations, so pretend it doesn’t exist.
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** ‘The Way’ was the name by which Christianity was known widely known until the fourth century. “Christianity” only became universal after emperor Theodosius 1 began using it.