More Ed Steven Assumptions with NO BIBLICAL SUPPORTING TEXT. One deduction stacked on another with 70AD as its mortar.
Ed Stevens "The ultimate destiny for the saints has always been to receive immortality and dwell with God in the spiritual realm forever. When Adam sinned, it did not change his ultimate destiny of a life in heaven with an immortal body, but it did change how and when he would receive that destiny. Instead of going there directly without physical death at the end of his successful probation, he would now have to die physically and wait disembodied in Hades until the Redeemer came to accomplish atonement (AD 70) so he could finally receive his immortal body and go to live in heaven with God forever"
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(2 Timothy 4:7-8) I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing.
So I guess this answers the question, that Paul looked toward 70AD and not towards the reward he would receive upon crossing the finish line. Brilliant! Paul waited 2 years after he died to receive his crown. Here is another HYPER-PRET who makes this same dumb assertion.
Charles Julius Guiteau. The Truth; a Companion to the Bible. 1879.
"Yes, yes, thou Paul, waited only two years for thy "crown." Thou wert executed AD 68, and thy Master came at the destruction of Jerusalem, AD70, and gavest thee thy "crown" (Guiteau, p. 30)
