Exactly! One, such as myself should be as careful writing as he is reading and be precise in both. I will try to do better but knowing my tendencies it is likely I will make other goofs without really trying. Thanks.
It is instructive to note that in the four gospel accounts, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, there are 89 chapters that chronicles the earthly life, beginning to ending, of Jesus Christ. Of those 89 chapters exactly one third of them, 29 chapters, are concerned with the last 8 days of the life of our Lord Jesus Christ on earth. He has already been condemned to death by the national rulers of Judah and he has already responded by delaying his kingdom and national rule over Israel by necessity (they would not receive him), followed by his pronouncing a curse on his own generation whose calling it was to receive him on behalf of his chosen people as the promised Messiah and Prince of Israel.
Here are two verses that proves what I am saying in the context that I have outlined from the gospel of the King, Matthew.
Mt 12:14 ¶ Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him,
how they might destroy him.
Mt 12:32 And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world (Aion = age), neither in the world to come.
Our Lord is speaking about two distinct ages here divided by his cross and resurrection..
"This age" is the current age that he was ministering in during his time.
That age ended at this point: Joh 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.
The age to come is
this age since the resurrection while the King is absent physically. The political rulers of the nation gave voice to the people and the curse is that the nation would not be saved during this time, not that individuals would not. The nation was reckoned dead by God and it's presence passed off the scene and it was unseen for nearly two thousand years. This was by a burial in the graveyard of the nations of the world in 70 AD, the end of the generation of Jesus Christ, see Mt 1:1 & Ps 90:10) During this time both the Messiah of Israel and the body of Israel were absent the land for all this long time. The only hope for the nation Israel is a resurrection from the dead and the possession of the Holy Spirit to give them eternal life. That is in their future but every one of them left alive must be saved. Therefore there is a great baptism of fire awaiting them to purge and cleanse them. (see this future fire baptism in Mt 3:7-12)
Ro 11:13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
15 For if the casting away of them (Israel) be the reconciling of the world (kosmos), what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
Life from the dead is a resurrection.
I have not forgotten my question, "what did Barnabas see" but there are things one must know and believe to understand why God the Father replaced nearly all of those of Israel by breaking off the branches and grafting in the gentile tree and then naming this act with the title "THE GRACE OF GOD." I will pursue it further in a future post.
Meanwhile, ponder an answer to this question; why did the apostles and elders whom Jesus chose as his kingdom rulers, after the pattern established by the Moses economy, in Matthew 10 and in Luke 10 have no understanding of the sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus Christ after his entire earthly ministry and believed instead that Jesus had come to establish his earthly kingdom? According to the statement by Luke.
Lu 19:11 ¶ And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear.
This is the same day as is recorded in John 12:1.
12 He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
13 And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come.
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But his citizens hated him, and sent a message after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.
Is there any possibility that Jesus Christ really did preach the gospel of the kingdom to Israel only and present himself as the Messiah of Israel and the Son of God like the NT says? Isn't this gospel of the kingdom fundamental to all prophecy going forward? What is the explanation for all the apostles and elders who preached with him but who abandoned him after he was put to death by the Jews and then later refused to believe that he was resurrected bodily from the dead when told?
From this point in the parable, this is future for us living today
15 And it came to pass, that
when he was returned, having received the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be called unto him, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading.
16 Then came the first, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds.
17 And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities.
18 And the second came, saying, Lord, thy pound hath gained five pounds.
19 And he said likewise to him, Be thou also over five cities.
20 And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin:
21 For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.
22 And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:
23 Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
24 And he said unto them that stood by, Take from him the pound, and give it to him that hath ten pounds.
25 (And they said unto him, Lord, he hath ten pounds)
26 For I say unto you, That unto every one which hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that he hath shall be taken away from him.
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But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
28 ¶ And when he had thus spoken, he went before, ascending up to Jerusalem.
When Jesus comes again to establish his rule over the earth then every citizen of that kingdom will have been saved at it's beginning. (when Jesus ascends up to Jerusalem). Jesus said in John 3 that one cannot enter his kingdom without first being born again. Is that you?
Note: One should be sure they are believing God and his words .
