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Originally Posted by pelathais
Hey EB! When did Jesus return? I know you have a reasonable explanation and that I need to go over a bunch of material to truly understand the FP position; but can you give it to me in a nutshell?
When was the Second Coming? Matthew 24 - ..."And then shall the Son of Man appear..." and so forth. When did He appear and raise the dead? |
Jacob became Israel, Israel had sons these sons had children, these children became tribes these tribes made God mad.
These tribes wanted a king, and didn't want God, the first king was a hypocrite, and would repent, and mess up, repent, and mess up.
The next king God loved, because he would mess up, and repent also, but because he loved God, God loved him. The first king just loved being a king.
The second king had a son who would build a temple, and this temple would be the throne room of God, and all of Israel was supposed to pray at this temple. A stiff warning was given in
1st Kings 9:6-9, and that warning was if they stopped loving God, He would remove His temple and they would become an object lesson for all generations.
The third king dies, and two kings arose in his place, one goes south and the other goes north. The northen kingdom goes into idolatry, and the southern kingdom becomes cruel.
The northern kingdom disappears and gets mingled with Gentiles, and the southern kingdom later gets God angry and is sent and preserved in Babylon.
The king of Babylon is used as a tool of God to punish this cruel souuthern kingdom, and the prophet to this southern kingdom is told that for 70 years they would be in captivity.
After the 70 years is up another pagan king releases the Jews and helps them to rebuild their temple and city.
This southern kingdom was foretold that it would be under occupation of tthe Babylonians, Media Persia, Greeks, Romans, and then they would politically mingle themselves with the Romans. The Romans would hate them, and they would hate the Romans.
Their Christ would come born as the prophets foretold, and 30 years later He would come and teach and preach and warn the Jewish people of an impending danger, all those Jews had to repent and be baptized calling on tthe name of the Lord. Jesus had a forrunner who was a baptizer, and he also warned of a coming danger and that the kingdom of God was coming to manifest itself. Those religious who sought to be baptized were refused, and witth that refusal these words were spoken, "Who hath warned you to flee the wrath to come?"
Obviously there was a wrath, and that wrath was closing in on that Jewish world. Their true coming King was there and ready to right all wrongs, and He would be rejected by the high priest and the rest of the rulers, and they the potter's clay would use the iron to crucify their King.
After the death burial and resurrection of their King, He promises to return within a generation of the time of His death burial and resurrection.
Within 40 years the followers of the King preach the Kings message and gather all those together natural branches and wild branches, a remnant of the domestic branches are taken in and the wild branches continue to be taken in to this day,
When the time of Roman occupation comes to its end all the remnant who accepted their True King are taken in, and the cup is filled to the brim, the army of the Roman Empire surround Jerusalem and lay her even with the ground with her children in her. The old Jewish Law system and her government destroyed and thrown into the wine press of God, the angel had thrust in its sickle and gathered the grapes of wrath. All those who took part in the Jewish law system's world from the one who broke the first law to those who broke the last law, all stood before their king in judgement. Those who slept in the dust of the earth stood before their judge.
In a momeent in a twinkle of an eye, at the last trumpet, those who slept were awoken, and those who were not yet sleeping in death would never have to ever go to a death sleep but went on to be with the Lord at their deaths.
Only one Kingdom would go forth, and only one saving message, and only one people who make up one temple. They only have one leader and only listen to His voice and another they will never follow.
In Jesus name
Brother Benincasa
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