Originally posted by Manifestation1*AD70
The language used closely connects the coming of the Lord with both salvation and vengeance (judgment). Nowhere does the OT teach a "second coming" to fulfill the rest of the things he was unable to fulfill the first time. And Jesus ever distinguish between his first coming? (Matthew 26:62-64)
G'day Mani
You are of course correct -there was no splitting asunder the coming of the Lord -vengeance i.e.,
judgment and deliverance i.e.,
salvation always went 'hand-in-glove,' just have a look at Lukes account of Peter quoting the prophet Joel:
Acts 2:16 But
this IS that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;
[
salvation/deliverance]
17 And it shall come to pass
in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:
[
judgment/vengeance]
19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood,
before the great and notable day of the Lord come:
[
salvation/deliverance]
21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
This time period according to Peter [inspired and filled with the Holy Ghost]
was the last days. God's visitation was two-fold, this was
THE timeframe from Pentecost AD30 to Holocaust AD70 -salvation and judgment outworking in their generation, the
"this generation" that Jesus prophesied. And yet that perverse and crooked generation would not turn and be saved:
Luke 19:41 And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, 42 Saying,
If thou hadst known, even thou, at least
in this thy day, the things which belong unto
thy peace![
salvation] but now they are hid from thine eyes. 43 For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, 44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another;[
judgment]
because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
We also have another example of the two-fold visitation of God pictured in Exodus chapter 14 where the Angel of God [Christ] separated the camp of Israel from the camp of the Egyptians -bringing deliverance = salvation to one and vengeance = judgment on the other:
Ex 14:20 So it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel.
Thus it was a cloud and darkness to the one, and it gave light by night to the other, so that the one did not come near the other all that night.
Ex 14:27 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and when the morning appeared, the sea returned to its full depth, while the Egyptians were fleeing into it.
So the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. [vengeance/judgment]
Ex 14:30
So the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. [deliverance/salvation]
Can you see the biblical patterns of deliverance and vengeance -salvation to those who will to Him, and judgment upon those who won't.
Christ's Covenant changing Parousia in AD70 brought judgment on the Law, Sin and Death, bringing Life eternal and a completed and perfected salvation!
The New Age, The New World Order, The One World Government in Christ arrived -the "
age to come" had begun.
davo