The phrase "the days of the Son of man" refers back to the former topic, the second coming of Jesus Christ. He didn't say, "so shall it be when the Son of man is rejected of this generation," or "so shall it be for this generation." He said, "so shall it be in the days of the Son of man."
Well Brother Adam, isn't this debate all about exactly what constitutes the 'second coming' of Christ? IMHO, it all hinges and revolves around this particular passage that was addressed to THE JEWISH CHURCH:
so Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear
a second time, apart from sin, to them that wait for him, unto salvation. Heb 9:28
Folks have it cemented in their minds that there is ONLY TO BE TWO 'comings of Christ', and in no way is that idea cemented in my mind. He did indeed come in judgement on 'that generation' AD 66-70.
I personally expect the 'next coming of Christ' to be this one:
........Christ`s, at his coming. Then cometh the end, when he shall deliver up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have abolished all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all his enemies under his feet. 1 Cor 15:23-25
The premil dispy believes that Christ at His 'second coming' is going to [finally, at last] set up His kingdom and reign on earth for a thousand years. I don't see this in this passage. At His 'next coming' the [spiritual] kingdom is to be delivered up and then comes the end. Period.
By the way, the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 was not like the days of Noah or Lot.
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......the great city, which spiritually is called
Sodom......where also their Lord was crucified. Rev 11:8
5 They have dealt corruptly with him, they are not his children, it is their blemish; They are
a perverse and crooked generation.
20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: For they are
a very perverse generation, Children in whom is no faithfulness.
32 For
their vine is of the vine of Sodom, And of the fields of Gomorrah......... Dt 32 (The Song of Moses)
27 And Isaiah crieth
concerning Israel, If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that shall be saved:
28 for the Lord will execute his word upon the earth, finishing it and cutting it short.
29 And, as Isaiah hath said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed,
We had become as Sodom, and had been made like unto Gomorrah. Ro 9
5 .......Go not into any way of the Gentiles, and enter not into any city of the Samaritans:
6 but go rather to
the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
14 And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, as ye go forth out of that house or that city, shake off the dust of your feet.
15 Verily I say unto you,
It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment, than for that city. Mt 10
23 And thou,
Capernaum, shalt thou be exalted unto heaven? thou shalt go down unto Hades: for if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in thee, it would have remained until this day.
24 But I say unto you that
it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee. Mt 11
And Jesus answered and said,
O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? bring him hither to me. Mt 17:17
29 And when the multitudes were gathering together unto him, he began to say,
This generation is an evil generation: it seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it but the sign of Jonah.
30 For even as Jonah became a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.
31 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of
this generation, and shall condemn them: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
32 The men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with
this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater than Jonah is here.
49 Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send unto them prophets and apostles; and some of them they shall kill and persecute;
50 that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be
required of this generation;
51 from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary: yea, I say unto you, it shall be
required of this generation. Lu 11
39 But he answered and said unto them,
An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given it but the sign of Jonah the prophet:
40 for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
41 The men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater than Jonah is here.
42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with
this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
43 But the unclean spirit, when he is gone out of the man, passeth through waterless places, seeking rest, and findeth it not.
44 Then he saith, I will return into my house whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first. Even
so shall it be also unto this evil generation. Mt 12
