I don't understand my fellow Christian mind today, Jesus said that the Kingdom of God would not come by observation, but the Kingdom of God dwells in man.
The Jewish authority in Jesus's time expected the words of the prophets to be literal, they expected a literal kingdom of God on Earth to sweep them off their feet and bring the totalitarian government of Rome to an end. They were seeing all these things like the Christian believer wants to see them today in the carnal natural understanding of scriptures.
The Christian today like the Jew than, literally believes that Christ will one day come down and split the mount of olives.
What happened on the Mount called Olives in Jesus time??
I wish that there were some people that would step out of the main stream of their denominational thinking and what the creeds say or what the Pastor teaches and just begin to think outside the box for a few moments and allow a hem of truth to begin to saturate their parched land. Just a few water droplets will get the ball rolling in another direction.
If the Jew was expecting these things to naturally come to pass and they were thoroughly disappointed, what makes us any different??
Is God going to except our interpretation of scripture using our carnal understanding, are we better than the Jew?? NO!
For we were considered as dead, without God and without hope, but now that we have been grafted in to the vine, we have been accepted in the beloved. So now there is neither Jew nor gentile, bond or free, as you are all one in Christ Jesus our LORD.
So why are we acting like the Jew of Jesus time? And why are we listening to them today in regards to all these prophecies that THEY say has not come to pass?
Did not Christ come unto His own (the Jew) and His own received Him not?
Did not Christ come at the end of the world?
Hebrews 9:26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: [b]but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.[/b]
But our carnal mind says, "Oh, this can't be true, my denomination doesn't believe that, because if sin has been put away, why is there still sin?"
Ahhh, still thinking with the carnal mind, and the carnal mind is at enmity with God.
So we dismiss this verse and throw it off in the future, and by doing that we are denying that the LORD ever came and died on a cross to make atonement for the whole wide world.
Oh, in our minds we don't deny Him, but in our creeds and in our beliefs we do.
