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16. They were in the period we studied that is known as “this age” or “this present age” which is the Old Covenant.
17. The phrase “the sign of thy coming” indicates to me that Jesus had to leave the disciples and then come back again (known as the Parousia). He did leave when He ascended after His Resurrection.
19. That the man being described would come to eternal life in the “age to come,” the New Covenant age. Those who believed in the future day when the Messiah would come went to a place called Sheol when they physically died during the Old Covenant and had to wait there until Jesus died on the Cross and the judgment of the sheep and goats took place.
21. He was writing during the Old Covenant and refers to the New Covenant “which is to come.”
23. The Father sent His Son “in the last days” that would indicate the Old Covenant was ending.
25. By the expression “and the powers of the age to come” we can conclude the book was written during the Old Covenant.