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These Are the Last Days!Knowledge That Leads to Everlasting Life
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2. What question was Jesus asked by his disciples, and how did he reply?
2 Consider, for example, the answer Jesus gave to some questions raised by his disciples. Three days before Jesus died, they asked him: “What will be the sign of your presence and of the conclusion of the system of things?”a (Matthew 24:3) In reply, Jesus told of specific world events and situations that would clearly show that this ungodly system had entered its last days.
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These Are the Last Days!Knowledge That Leads to Everlasting Life
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a Some Bibles use the word “world” instead of “system of things.” W. E. Vine’s Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words says that the Greek word ai·onʹ “signifies a period of indefinite duration, or time viewed in relation to what takes place in the period.” Parkhurst’s Greek and English Lexicon to the New Testament (page 17) includes the expression “this system of things” in discussing the use of ai·oʹnes (plural) at Hebrews 1:2. So the rendering “system of things” is in harmony with the original Greek text.
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