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What timeframe specified ?
Sometimes you get that such and such is to occur in the future. Often the only timeframe is the future.
We aren't talking about prophecy in general. See
Message 279 and
Message 287. We've been talking about a specific NT prophecy supposedly concerning the destruction of the temple. The show stopper on that prophecy is the following statement supposedly made by Jesus.
Mark 13:30
I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.
As I said before, the statement concerns the generation the disciples could see in front of them, so to speak.
So the prophecy has a time limit.
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You're mad because He is not a machine ? Extending the time does not have to indicate a change of mind. It may indicate mercy in some instances. The timeframe is often - simply the future.
I'm not the one who has a problem with saying that all was not fulfilled in that prophecy within the timeframe alotted. We can make up any amount of possible excuses for why it didn't. What good is that?
Bottomline: The straightforward plain text doesn't refer to the future or anything other than the generation at the time of the destruction. You haven't shown me otherwise.
"Peshat is what I say and derash is what you say." --Nehama Leibowitz