Partly because of how much more feasible it is to carry out certain aspects of the book of revelation, and partly because of how at the same time there is a final day to human existence, there can simultaneously exist many 'beginnings' and 'ends' to things. We just so happen to live during the 'end' of many of them, unless there is mass repentance, reformation, and revival.
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That saying had a second fulfillment, when it came to the destruction of the Jewish temple in 70 A.D.
How do you know the hour is getting late? Jesus said no one would know the time or place and anyone claiming to is a deciever.
But then again Jesus also said it would happen within the lives of his followers so he seems to be about 2k years late.
Partly because of how much more feasible it is to carry out certain aspects of the book of revelation, and partly because of how at the same time there is a final day to human existence, there can simultaneously exist many 'beginnings' and 'ends' to things. We just so happen to live during the 'end' of many of them, unless there is mass repentance, reformation, and revival.
That saying had a second fulfillment, when it came to the destruction of the Jewish temple in 70 A.D.