Oswald Thompson Allis
(1880-1973) Amillennialist
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(On Matthew 16:28)
“Here there is no room for doubt as to the meaning of the expression which describes those who are to witness the coming. It concerns some of those alive and present when the words were uttered. They are to witness the coming. Consequently, we may say with positiveness, that this coming must have taken place during the lifetime of the apostle John. The claim that these words of Jesus referred to the transfiguration is plainly inadequate. That event was too near at hand (about a week distant) to make the fact that some of Jesus’ immediate followers would live to see it a sufficiently important matter to mention. The coming referred to seems most likely to be the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, at which time there was so far as we know no visible appearance of Christ.” (Prophecy and the Church (Phillipsburg: The Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1947, p 177)
(On the Kingdom of God/Heaven)
“The thought of the kingdom is prominent in the Old Testament; and the passage which naturally suggests itself is Dan. 2:44 where we read: ‘And in the days of those kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which will never be destroyed.’ This will be the kingdom of the God of heaven. Consequently, it is quite as proper to abbreviate it to ‘the kingdom of heaven’ and the ‘kingdom of God,’ as it is that ‘the ark of the covenant of the LORD’ should be called ‘the ark of the covenant’ and ‘the ark of the LORD’ (e.g., Josh. 6:6-8). That the two expressions are equivalent is indicated especially clearly by the fact that they are used in synonymous parallelism in Mt. 19:23, and also because three of the parables which appear in Mt. 13 as parables of the kingdom of heaven (the Sower, the Mustard Seed, and the Leaven) appear in Mark or Luke as parables of the kingdom of God.” (The Church in Prophecy, p. 67.)
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Date: 18 Jul 2007
Time: 09:41:03
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On Matthew 16:28
The coming referred to seems most likely to be the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus, at which time there was so far as we know no visible appearance of Christ.”
Jesus spoke only to His disciples when He said that they would not all be alive to see Him in His kingdom. When was that?
It could not have been the transfiguration, because that happened too soon after He spoke, as mentioned by Dr. Ellis.
It did not happen at the destruction of Jerusalem, because the disciples were raptured before that time.
It was fulfilled just after Christ’s resurrection.
The biblically based story can be found at WWW.tribulationhoax.com/postponed.html
C.P. Machovsky