21 ¶ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
22 Son of man, what is that proverb
that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are
prolonged, and every vision
failetha?
23 Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a
proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the
aeffect of every vision.
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22a The days are prolonged, and every
vision faileth In the Hebrew language when written there is no
sentence punctuation. The King James translators add a question mark here, but
who is to say. The probverb or saying was one which meant that having been
warned for so long and so many times, the message had lost its ergency. That
is, since the days were prolonged so and it seemed that the prophetic 'visions'
or warnings were not being fulfilled, interest and fear of them was no longer
what it should have been, people inferred it was not to be or at least not
yet. This seems likely to be the case of the Second Coming, it will come when
unexpected; when it has been fortold so much, that it will seemed that it is
always 'prolonged to happen' and 'its visions of happening will seem to have
failed'. And then unexpectedly as a theif in the night it will happen as did
the destruction of Jerusalem upon the Jews in the days of Lehi, Jeremiah,
Ezekiel and Zedekiah.
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