Answer to a Friend On Eschatological Questions About Mt 10:23 & Mt 26:64
Recently a friend I'll write as D.W. asked me an eschatological question. This is the response I felt would be adequate. I hope it assists others as well. My friend asks how I would respond to full preterist when they try and use Matthew 10:23 and Matthew 26:64. Jesus told His Apostles in Matthew 10:23, “You will not finish going through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man comes.” How would you handle that passage of Scripture? From an honest perspective, Matthew 10:23 I would say can be interpreted a few ways. For example, one could say maybe that it is referring a bit about the destruction of Jerusalem to some extent. If it was then this would not contradict the Patristics as they all say that the destruction of Jerusalem was a type and prefiguring event of what is to come in the future when the Christ in His 2nd Coming comes in a visible, physical bodily event. Some thoughts though... If “before the Son of Man comes” meant that the Parousia is expected before the