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The point I would drive home (and they made in passing) is that the same original language Greek word is used both times in Matthew 25:46 (aiōnios). The English translators in some versions with no clear reason to me chose to use different English words instead of using the same one. "Everlasting" or "eternal" are suitable and have no discernable difference in meaning here. Notice that several translations do use the same English word for each. Always check several versions, an interlinear, and perhaps a good concordance like Strong's to research Bible word usage... 🙏
The answer to the big question today is a woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. Seriously though, excellent lessons today as always brethren!
Apparently Roger hasn't connected 2 Pet 3 with Paul's 1 Thess 5. 1 Thess 5:1-3 “Now, brothers and sisters, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, 2 for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 While people are saying, “Peace and safety,” destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.” Notice that the Day of The Lord would be a day of DESTRUCTION those living when it came. 1 Thess 5:4-6 “But you, brothers and sisters, are not in darkness so that this day should surprise you like a thief. 5 You are all children of the light and children of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. 6 So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober.” How was it even possible to effect Paul's recipients, unless it was to occur WHILE THEY WERE ALIVE? And the Apostle Paul had already informed them that the Lord's return was within their lifetime just a few passages earlier: 1 Thess 4:15-18 “For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that WE' who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then WE' who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.” And that emphatically-expressed, first-person, Greek personal pronoun confirms it! Those to “WEs” are emphatic. They refer specifically to those living breathing Thessalonians Paul had written his letter to. It had no reference to peoples hundreds and thousands of years in the future. This is one of those deficiencies in our English translations. They do not recognize the Greek emphatic pronoun “eg-o.” Like Jesus, Paul also confirmed that the coming of the Lord was indeed in their own lifetime!! The Apostel Peter knew this, and in no way in his 2nd letter countered what Paul said. And fact, Peter told his readers to 2 Pet 3:12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God,” Why should THEY look for, and actively hasten the coming of the day of God.................unless it was to come in their lifetime?
