1 Corinthians 7:29-31

There is not much time left. Paul may mean: (1) the persecutions which Nero would bring against Christians (in less than ten years); (2) the Jewish Wars (in which armed terrorists would rise against Roman rule) which would end in the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.; (3) the shortness of life in general. Within half a generation, civil war convulsed the Roman Empire, three emperors in succession were assassinated, and Jerusalem was razed. As though they were not. "Those who are aware of the coming crisis will from this time on think of all human relationships, conditions, and occupations as temporary and transient." For this world, as it now is. "Like the changing scenery of a theater, the pleasures, pains, and glories of this life pass us by."