Tradition must give way to the clear statements of the Scripture

 Very truly, I tell you, when you were younger, you used to fasten your own belt and to go wherever you wished. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten a belt around you and take you where you do not wish to go.” (He said this to indicate the kind of death by which he would glorify God.) After this he said to him, “Follow me.”  Peter turned and saw the disciple whom Jesus loved following them; he was the one who had reclined next to Jesus at the supper and had said, “Lord, who is it that is going to betray you?” When Peter saw him, he said to Jesus, “Lord, what about him?” Jesus said to him, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you? Follow me!”  So the rumor spread in the community that this disciple would not die . Yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but , “If it is my will that he remain until I come , what is that to you?” John 21:18–23  His la...

    Gabriel, (Dan. 9:21; Lk. 1:19,26) explain the vision to this man. So he approached where I was standing; when he came near, I was terrified and fell facedown. (Ez. 1:28; 44:4; Dan. 2:46; Rev. 1:17) “Son of man,” he said to me, “understand that the vision refers to the time of the end. ” (Dan. 11:35, 40) While he was speaking to me, I fell into a deep sleep, (Dan. 10:9; Lk. 9:32) with my face to the ground. Then he touched me, made me stand up, (Ez. 2:2; Dan. 10:10, 16, 18)  and said, “I am here to tell you what will happen at the conclusion of the time of wrath, because it refers to the appointed time of the end.(Mt. 13:7) Dan. 8:16–19 CSV  Seventy weeks have been decreed concerning your people and your holy city: to restrain transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for lawlessness, to establish everlasting righteousness, to conclude vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place. Dan. 9:24 ISV “ Upon thy people and upon thy holy city ...