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Last Days or Kingdom Age?

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Within evangelical Christian circles these days I often hear the statement that “time is short – we are in the last days you know!”    Some Christians spend a great deal of time studying “end time prophecy” and looking for “signs of the end” in current events and international politics.   I would like to present a refreshing, Biblical alternative to all of that.    Last Days                           My proposal is that the term “last days” as it was used by the New Testament writers referred to the last days of the Old Covenant age, and that age ended in 70 AD with the destruction of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem by the Roman legions.   If this is true then we do not need to worry about the great tribulation, the anti-christ, the “mark of the beast”, etc. because all of those prophetic elements were fulfilled nearly 2000 years ago.                           One of the favorite “end-times” passages for many Christians is Matthew 24 in which Jesus responds to so