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....and you stand with the majority on this Amy, of course:

http://www.baptistboard.com/showthread.php?t=73340&highlight=bound

 

We are presently living in the Kingdom because God's Word says we are. You can watch the news all you want, but that will not improve your insight at all into what the Kingdom actually is, the nature of it. There are several passages that can be adduced to show that Christ is reigning in His kingdom now.

Neither do I buy into the already/not yet framework. I used to believe in it - right up until the very last seeming Scriptural support for the doctrine was kicked out from under my previous paradigm.

The devil - the adversary - of I Peter has had his last meal almost 2000 years ago. He has since, according to Revelation, been bound, no longer able to deceive the nations. Christ, in the Apocalyptic vision, binds Satan. But, according to Gospel usage, it is also correct to say that Christians bound him, as they went throughout the Empire, using their Christ-given keys of authority.

I underlined a part in Peter's verse because the verse is almost always quoted as a snippet, as if the emphasis was on curtailment of power, rather than cessation of doctrinal and spiritual opposition. It is because of this binding that the Gospel leaven was able to permeate the entire dough of the Roman Empire.

The background of the binding of Satan passage - almost totally neglected today - is the stubborn, blind resistance of apostate Jews to the preaching of Christ's Kingdom.

So, yes, we are in His Kingdom. Have been for centuries. But it is according to Scripture, not according to the glitzy charts, posters, and imaginative movies.

 

Thanks, OR. I am aware of the disagreements, and that they have always been agreeable disagreements, if you know what I mean.

 

Jesus isn't sitting on the throne of His glory now? You mean that He hasn't usurped David yet, and taken David's place? When will this happen?

 

Remember Sissy, Jesus' Kingdom comes with out observation. Jesus is the Head of the local church, as well as the Church, His Body. In the local church, it is smattered with hypocrites, but in the Church, His body, there is not one hypocrit. This is the Kingdom(the invisible body/church), which Jesus reigns over. Sure, He reigns over all of us, whether we be saint or sinner, but He watches over us(the Church) with His everprotecting love.

 

Don't believe him, Brother Tom!! I have seen him curse you to your back. He has used the unfavorable curse words, "fish paste", and "tartar sauce", so be wary of him......be veeerrryyy wary of him.......:laugh: J/K Brother O.R.

 

"Fish paste" - hmm. I don't know how to answer that!
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Greetings Tom,

Where then or to whom does all the sin and death in this world get attributed?

What of this sin and death all around us? Will it go on forever?

1 John 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.

HankD​

 

Verse 16 After this I will return,

After what? Will he return after he is through taking out a people for his name?

What did the sacrifice of the passover do? Did it take away the sin of the world?
Pay the death penalty, the wages of sin?

The feast of unleavened bread. The day following the passover, a holy convocation the day after the death of the Lamb of God, what did it do for us?
1 Cor. 5:7 cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened, for also our passover for us was sacrificed -- Christ,
A feast of seven days with the last day being also a holy convocation; meaning we are to keep this feast all of our lives by keeping the leaven purged from our lives.
1 Cor. 5:8 so that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened food of sincerity and truth.
How do we do that?
1 John 1:8,9 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us [our] sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.


The next feast, a feast of harvest, the feast of firstfruits, a holy convocation.
Fifty days from the morrow after the weekly sabbath following the passover
the firstfruits of the Spirit was sent setting apart, a people for his name. Romans 8:23 And not only [they], but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. Eph. 1:13,14 In whom ye also, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
The throne of his glory? Maybe?


After this, I will return. Waiting for? What will take place when Jesus returns?
Are there trumpets associated with the day of the return of Jesus?

The feast of trumpets, a holy convocation.

I wonder what that is all about? I wonder why God gave these feasts to Israel anyway being they seem to be more about us than them? I wonder if maybe we should be keeping these feasts?

I believe there may be three more feast days following these. Umm?

Food for thought.

 

Is the church, those in Christ, made up of flesh and blood humans and or also those flesh and blood humans who died in Christ, the dead in Christ of 1 Thess 4:13?

That is the church.

Can flesh and blood inherit the kingdom of God and is the scripture clear about when those who are and were flesh and blood are no longer flesh and blood and fit for the kingdom of God?

1 Cor 15:50-55

 

OR

I showed with scripture where it was the sacrifice of the Lamb, the shed blood of Jesus, his death about 3pm on the 14th Nisan that freed us from sin (Egypt) the 15th was the feast the day we left sin (Egypt) leaven was removed from us. This happened the day following the sacrifice. The sacrifice did not negate us being unleavened, it began it and upon confession of sin that same blood continues to cleanse us of unrighteousness for all our life pictured by the second feast day on the 21 Nisan.

According to you the sacrifice did away with the feasts which began the day following the sacrifice. According to you there was no reason for the 120 to be gathered together when Pentecost was fully come. That it was just a coincidence the Holy Spirit fell on them on that feast day, commanded holy convocation, of the LORD.

Was it by coincidence or by the plan of God?


Does scripture associate the coming of the Son of Man to sit on the throne of his glory with trumpets. Is that the day the dead are raised to evermore be with the Lord. 1 Thes. 4:16 1 Cor 15:52 Does the term last trump imply others before it? From 2 Tim 4:1 does it appear the dead being judged is at the same moment of his appearing and his kingdom? What takes place when the seventh of seven trumpets are blown? Is that when the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our Lord and His, Christ and the dead are given rewards? Rev 11:15-18

I guess I must lean toward post trib because that gives at least 10 days for the marriage supper of the Lamb before the Christ has to deal with, Azazel .

Oh I forgot the strongman has already been dealt with nothing demonic is going on on presently.

Lord teach us to pray.

On earth as it is in Heaven.

 

The Church, the Lord's body, of which Jesus is her head, is a Spiritual Church/body. The souls of the Christians are who are cleaned by the blood of the Lamb. The body hasn't been cleansed yet.

You see here that in the resurrection, our bodies will be changed from natural to spiritual. In our flesh, dwells no good things. Our flesh must be changed to enter through the portal of heaven. No flesh will glory in His prescense.

In our physical bodies, we can not live forever, neither stay in the lake of fire forever, because our physical bodies would burn up in seconds. The saints and sinners will both be given spiritual bodies, but we, the christians, will have glorified spiritual bodies, like Jesus' body. That is why we will have immortality, because in heaven, we will live forever in our new bodies, and the sinners will have bodies that the flames of the lake of fire will never consume(sp?).

 

This which you have posted, has either flown over my head, or around it. I will need to study this more in depth before I can give what I would believe to be an adequate response.






Now, onto something I'd like to present:



Hebrews 8
1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.





Hebrews 12
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.



Jesus is sitting on the Throne now, on the right hand of His Father. He has already usurped David and taken his place.


1 Timothy 2
1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;

2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;

4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.

5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;

6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.



Jesus, being on the right hand of the Father in heaven, sitting on His throne, is our mediator, our advocate, our big Brother, our intercessor. This is why I believe He is on the throne of David now.