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of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
     
    And then in Chapter 10 Paul wrote:  For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry .  If Paul thought Jesus was returning at some time 2,000+ years in the future, surely he would not have said: – and will not tarry!
     
    Hebrews 10:34-37
    For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.  For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
     
    Paul also wrote to the Church at Thessalonica expecting the Lord to return in their lifetime: we which are alive  
     
    1Thessalonians 4:15-18 
    For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that  we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord  shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:  Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.  Wherefore comfort one another with these words
     
    And again – that the day of Christ is at hand
     
    2 Thessalonians 2:1-2
    Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and [by] our gathering together unto him, that ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by letter as from us,  as that the day of Christ is at hand. 
     
    The Apostle Peter believed he was living in the  last days as he wrote an Epistle to Christians living in his time -  In these last times  - and again -  But the end of all things is at hand.
     
    1 Peter 1:20
    Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest  in these last times for you,
     
    1 Peter 4:7   But the end of all things is at hand : be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
     
    Another excuse offered by Christians is that time as far as God is concerned can mean that a day could be a thousand years.
     
    2 Peter 3:3-10 
    Knowing this first, that there shall come  in the last days  scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as [they were] from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgement and perdition of ungodly men.  But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.   The Lord is not slack concerning his promise , as some count slackness; but is  longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therin shall be burned up.  
     
    Peter was warning the Christians about ‘scoffers’ who would question why Jesus had not returned so far and gave them this line to use as their excuse. We should also remember that he had already told them that Jesus was virtually about to arrive. The idea that a thousand years could represent one day could not possibly suggest that