Being incapable or unwilling to be specific usually points to either evasion or ignorance.
The bible writers, whoever they were, were indulging in anything but inspiration.
After all, any god worthy of that title either wishes to communicate sensibly or simply jaw-jack.
So much of the New Testament is spackle to fill cracks.
Remember, Paul wrote first. Later the so-named semi-imposters (Apostles) followed up.
Jesus had been gone about as long as Kennedy has been dead, now.
Kennedy ain't comin' back! Even if somebody promised he said he would.
Speculations about "what does such and such "mean" exemplifies the total absence of SENSE.
What do these words actually amount to in scripture as to SPECIFICS?
SOON
End of the AGE
Signs
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They mean whatever anybody wants to argue for them to "mean."
If there were SPECIFICS given (context of time, place and date) this would not be possible for interpreters to get wrong.
But, noooooooo.
Instead we get one metaphor on top of another LINKED in a vague way with "signs" which themselves are open to interpretation.
If anybody has looked at the seizmic chart of earthquakes you'll quickly abandon the so-called "sign" as having any possible meaning, for instance.
"Difficult times hard to deal with" is just about every era mankind has been on Earth.
Just as the Jehovah's Witnesses take a most obvious sentence containing '...AND every eye shall see him..." and turn it into a NON-literal "see".
Everybody on this discussion group can pick up the bible and make silly putty interpretations.
You'll always be wrong, too.
Unprovable. Impossible to specificy, quantify or pinpoint.
In other words, nonsense.