Kylie
Defeater of Illogic
I get the sense that you are deliberately misunderstanding again? I'm not your enemy Kylie, I'm genuinely trying to help you understand this one issue. Jesus never said that he was coming back immediately to establish a material kingdom. Those were "old ideas" lodged in the minds of his followers from Judaism.
This is the order of events:
Jesus of Nazareth appears publically at Johns baptism and begins his ministry.
* Jesus gathers together 12 men, apostles who are to be the ambassadors of his spiritual kingdom which he refers to as The Kingdom of Heaven. This spiritual kingdom is comprised of those who by faith realize the fatherhood of God and by consequence the brotherhood of ALL mankind. We are ALL brothers and sisters under the Loving God and creator of the world. [It was NOT the kind of Messianic kingdom that the Jews had envisioned]. That is one reason that they did not like Jesus' gospel message.
* The Sermon on the Mount was the Ordination of the 12 and inauguration of his Kingdom.
* Throughout his 3+ year public ministry Jesus used parables to illustrate the spiritual realities of the Kingdom of heaven as a present tense reality.
* At the end of his life on earth Jesus explained how all who were in the Kingdom would benefit from the outpouring of "the spirit of truth" once he ascended into heaven.
* The spirit of the advocate came on the day of Pentecost.
“When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.” Acts 2:1-4
I fear you are misunderstanding my point, which is that you are forced to reject a plain simple reading of it because it so easily disproven. You have to try to find alternate interpretations in order to make it unfalsifiable.
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