Didn't Jesus say: " Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom?" -- Matt. 6:28
You meant Matthew 16:28? Yes. And six days later, “some” did — 3 actually, during Jesus’ transfiguration vision. (But not “all.”)
Exactly as Jesus stated: “some.”
As for the last days, people have been predicting them last days since Jesus' time
Yes, I’m aware of a few way back, like Sextus Africanus, Irenaeus, Botticelli, and others.
But what
evidence did they have to support the predictions?
Jesus provided “signs” to look for, all occurring within a “generation”.
We have all of those signs, since 1914….
There's nothing novel about this social fragmentation, and the fragmentation is multifactoral. There are neurological, psychological, social, political and historical causes.
Nothing like society has experienced since 1914! Yes, it’s been awhile, but the Last Days were prophesied to last at least a little while:
“For nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be food shortages and earthquakes in one place after another.
All these things are a beginning of pangs of distress.”(Mat 24:7)
And here’s the evidence, from many secular sources:
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Ever since 1914, everybody conscious of trends in the world has been deeply troubled by what has seemed like a fated and predetermined march toward ever greater disaster. Many serious people have come to feel that
nothing can be done to avert the plunge towards ruin.”—Bertrand Russell, The New York Times Magazine, September 27, 1953.
The London Evening Star commented that the conflict [WWI]“tore the whole world’s political setup apart.
Nothing could ever be the same again. If we all get the nuclear madness out of our systems and the human race survives, some historian in the next century may well conclude that
the day the world went mad was August 4, 1914.”–London Evening Star, quoted in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, August 5, 1960, and The Seattle Times, August 4, 1960, p. 5.
“Half a century has gone by, yet
the mark that the tragedy of the Great War left on the body and soul of the nations
has not faded . . .
The physical and moral magnitude of this ordeal was such that
nothing left was the same as before. Society in its entirety: systems of government, national borders, laws, armed forces, interstate relations, but also
ideologies, family life, fortunes, positions,
personal relations—everything was changed from top to bottom. . . .
Humanity finally lost its balance, never to recover it to this day.” (General Charles de Gaulle, Le Monde, Nov. 12, 1968, p. 9)
“In 1914 the world lost a coherence which it has not managed to recapture since. . . . This has been a time of extraordinary disorder and violence, both across national frontiers and within them.” (The Economist)
Based on the evidence, it really is a valid conclusion: these are the Last Days!
In my studied opinion.
