This is why it's almost impossible dealing with you Darby followers.
You guys change the definition of words.
"soon" doesn't mean soon, and "near" doesn't mean near, and "shortly" doesn't mean shortly when dealing with you guys.
(Phil 2:24) And I am confident in the Lord that I myself will come soon.
In the above verse, Paul didn't mean over 2,000 years later.
(1 Cor 4:19) But I will come to you very soon, if the Lord is willing, and then I will find out not only how these arrogant people are talking, but what power they have.
In the above verse, Paul didn't mean over 2,000 years later.
Paul also said he and his audience were living during the culmination of the ages:
(1 Cor 10:11) These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the culmination of the ages has come.
What does "the culmination of the ages" mean?