Okay, so let's try this one more time. Since the NT authors claimed that Jesus would come like a theif in the night - all of us living here in Jerusalem will need a favor from you//Hundreds of thousands of Jews who trusted Jesus.
When whatever you/Hundreds of thousands of Jews who trusted Jesus say/said is supposed to happen - happens - then you/Hundreds of thousands of Jews trusted Jesus post to this thread, or start a new thread, and let me know. I will look out of my window and see if something is happening; afterwhich I will confirm that what you/Hundreds of thousands of Jews who trusted Jesus say/said is supposed to happen is happening. I live in Jerusalem, so if what you//Hundreds of thousands of Jews who trusted Jesus say/said is supposed to happen - happens - it will be visable from where I live.
Is that better now?
You're making my point for me. The warning is that unbelievers will be struck suddenly, like a thief in the night, while believers will NOT be shocked that Jesus returns. I would be joyful, not shocked. Biblically speaking, there will terrible times for Jerusalem and the nations warring against Israel (not a shock if we think about how the goyim have behaved) while ones worldwide are doing their thing, working, marrying, living--just as in the days that passed until the Flood that Noach warned about--and next, the Return the believers warned about, struck the world.
My question is whether you might be a Saul who will become a great evangelist or are a different kind of leader, who was as white on the outside as a tomb on the Mount of Olives but dirty inside and unwilling to trust the true Mikveh of the Spirit of G_d. I was once like you--either potential was mine.
Bear in mind that all Yeshua said in context is sensical, not nonsense. For example, Matthew 23 where he warns the religious can be whitewashed tombs was spoken atop the very Southern Steps from which the Mount with its white tombs is visible.
You are arguing against common misconceptions about the NT scriptures that can be alleviated during a day's stroll through the Old City.
One more example? Jesus's chief miracles in Jerusalem were to heal a lame man at Bethesda and a blind man at Siloam. He also healed the blind and the lame again after overturning the money changers' tables in the courts of the Gentiles. And when David turned Jebus into Jerusalem 1,000 years before the time of Moshiach, the Jebusites mocked David that the blind and the lame could defend the stronghold, and David replied in Tanakh "whoever hates the blind and lame come with me to take the city . . . "
God thus made both a prophecy and a mark of the men of God--David and Yeshua didn't want blind and lame people to remain so. Yeshua had real power for a chance. So don't be blind (spiritually) or lame (shackled by immorality).
