I'm confused. Reading the day's text for yesterday, they talk about Jesus coming and that it is a future time after the great tribulation. I thought they have always said he came in 1914 and earlier at other times (Russell).
Tuesday, June 2
Happy is that slave if his master on arriving finds him doing so.—Matt. 24:46.
In the part of his prophecy that is recorded at Matthew 24:29–25:46, Jesus focuses primarily on what will happen during these last days and during the coming great tribulation. There, Jesus makes eight references to his “coming,” or arrival. Regarding the great tribulation, he states: “They will see the Son of man coming on the clouds.” “You do not know on what day your Lord iscoming.” “At an hour that you do not think to be it, the Son of man is coming.”And in his parable of the sheep and the goats, Jesus states: “The Son of manarrives in his glory.” (Matt. 24:30, 42, 44; 25:31) Each of these four references applies to Christ’s future coming as Judge. Indeed, a consideration of Jesus’ prophecy in its entirety makes it clear that each of the eight references to his coming applies to the future time of judgment during the great tribulation. w137/15 1:15, 18
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