Hi Vin,
When you list a series of verses, I imagine you feel they are proving your point and disproving mine. However, I have considered the verses you have listed and they fit with my understanding. We read the same text, but we see it from totally different points of view. That's what makes the bible such an incredible book. To totally understand the meaning of the entire bible may not even be possible in a natural lifetime. Totally amazing book.
Anyway!!!!
Here is one of the verses:
28I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.
This tells us what they will SEE. It says nothing here about eathquakes , or wars or trumpets or anything other than what they will SEE. What will they SEE?
Well, they will SEE the son of man coming in His kingdom. This verse tells us they will be ALIVE when they SEE it. This leaves the hint that others may well be DEAD when they SEE this.
Now learn from parallel verses which is Mark 9
1And he said to them, "I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power."
Hey, it changed to the kingdom of God.....where is that?
36Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place."
So now does it clear up why only hese few men would SEE the kingdom of God while living and that physical things on earth would maybe not change all that much after the coming of the son of man.
Remember the verse DOES say they will SEE the coming of the son of man. Whether it is an actual physical sight or a vision is irrelevent, it is what they SAW.
You wrote:
No one left the planet to meet Jesus -it doesn't even say that Jesus was in the air.
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We always speak of Heaven being up and Hell being down, but really the kingdom of God is actually within you. That is the spiritualness of the whole thing.
You wrote:
Till Jesus is the One winning on this planet -I would think that His kingdom has yet to come.
So you figure God just can't quite cut it, can't quite make the grade. Too bad. He can design and construct a universe, but He just can't convince man to do what He wants...My guess is that planet earth is either progressing as this God wants it or there is no God.
You are waiting for the kingdom of God,which is not of this world, to come to this world.....can if you want. Nothing I have ever read would lead me to think that it ever will. Remember the phrase kingdom of God and the phrase kingdom of Heaven are used interchangably too. The Kingdom of God is in Heaven and nowhere that I know of in the bible says that will ever change.
Now learn from parallel verses which is Mark 9
1And he said to them, "I tell you the truth, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God come with power."
Hey, it changed to the kingdom of God.....where is that?
36Jesus said, "My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place."
So now does it clear up why only these few men would SEE the kingdom of God while living and that physical things on earth would maybe not change all that much after the coming of the son of man.
Remember the verse DOES say they will SEE the coming of the son of man. Whether it is an actual physical sight or a vision is irrelevent, it is what they SAW.
You wrote:
all the tribes of the earth
they shall see the Son of man coming
with power and great glory
-you think these people are dead?
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Well, of course they are. Read the Olivet again very careful paying attention to who are the 'you' and the 'they'. Guess who sees the coming on the clouds? It is they...the objects of God's wrath, those put to death in the great tribulation.
The way Luke explains it in his writing is the most obvious, but all three say the same.
You wrote:
We have to dwell on this -just what people is God destroying here?
the wicked
by His wrath
same as in the days of Noah
the wicked get it
during the trib -what people would be the most wicked?
beast, false prophet
those that took the mark, etc.
those of idols
How could not the wrath of God be for them?
Thus somebody's else has their time of wrath (trib time) first.
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Matthew 23 tells you all about who it is.
Justme