Grin! I’ll take that as intended…but…to be cynical, or uncomfortably honest, it worries me. I see two drawbacks:
If they hold good beliefs for bad reasons, you can never know what the next failure in their reasoning will be. They might change their minds abruptly, or start making conditions. (“So, when do you lay the cornerstone for the Temple? Our support is predicated upon this.”)
And…it has had the effect of alienating people who hold opposing political views on other issues. I’m an American liberal, and I support Israel, and have since 1967, when the issue of Israel’s survival became a world-shaking event. But I’ve watched so many U.S. liberals fall away from support of Israel, and I am afraid some of this is simply reaction to U.S. conservative support. “If those jerks are pro-Israel, then I’m re-thinking my position.”
Regarding the first, yes, it troubles me. If the past 2000 years have taught us something, it’s not to place too much trust in religious Christians. But it’s not as if people are lining up to support Israel, is it? Sometimes you have to take the gift horse, bad teeth and all.
As to the second, you have no idea how much it upsets a center-left Israeli like myself - which in American terms makes me a slightly hawkish, but other than that true-blue, liberal - gets annoyed when support of my country is increasingly considered a* de facto* right-wing position. I’d like to go back to the pre-1967 days in that regard, but I fear we’re just not that much of an underdog anymore. But then, who wants to be the underdog?
The Ascension is a going up, not a returning in His father’s glory. The transfiguration was not a returning either. The people after Daniel’s time was living many centuries after Daniel. Why would Jesus say those who were standing there would not see death until his return. This was also( If I remember correctly) was after he had said the world would end in that generation, saying nothing like the Book of Revelations I know some churches teach it didn’t mean that generation, but Matthew who Wrote that Jesus said that, also used the word generation as we do today, when he said there was 14 generations between David and Jesus.
We have no way of knowing how much was translated to fit the facts when questioned by some one else.
We’ve hijacked this thread long enough on this. You keep making this assertion. I keep showing where other interpretations are possible. You not only stand by your assertion, which is fine, but you ignore whatever is said to counter it. Whatever.
Except for this, Jesus said the “Aion” would end in that generation, which is translated “world” in the King James, and the Book of Revelation is not the Book of Revelations.
As have read it if it means world would end then the world hasn’t ended. I did give Revelation a plural but I am sure you know what I meant.
Of course there are many translations and many have changed over the years. Humans wrote the Books, this is a proven fact. Humans also translated it over the years that could be why there is so much contradiction in the Bible. It seems to me that when a translation was different that the person who translated the older writings could have changed it to suit the wanted wording.
I apologize if I hijacked the thread I just felt you and I see things differently.