ECT Fueing the Fire for the Anti-Semites

[Interplanner]

You can use any commentary you choose and tell us why the Apostles were in error for thinking that the kingdom would be restored to Israel. After the Lord Jesus was resurrected from the dead He spent forty days with His apostle while He personally tutored his Apostles about the things concerning the Kingdom:

"To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God" (Acts 1:3).​

Of course anyone spending that much time with the King Himself would certainly know much about the Kingdom, especially the most basic things about it. And after forty days the Apostles knew that the kingdom would be restored to Israel, as witnessed by this question:

"When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?" (Acts 1:6).​

After being personally tutored by the King for forty days they certainly understood one of the most basic facts about the kingdom, that it would be restored to Israel. If they were in error then certainly the King would correct them. But He did no such thing, only telling them that they were not to know when the kingdom would be restored:

"And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power" (Acts 1:7).​

If the kingdom was not going to be restored to Israel then it would make absolutely no sense for the Lord Jesus to say anything at all about its timing. But He did.

Perhaps the person which you follow, the Jesuit Alcazar, has an answer. If not, since your knowledge of the Bible is si vast tell us why the Apostles were wrong.

How did Christ manage to spend 40 days on that topic and miss that question? What other question is there? He did not talk about offering a civic kingdom to the zealots (who were at that moments scrambling for one). Nada, zilch, nichst. He was talking about how his message and enthronement was the powerful fact that would 'turn the world upside down' (ch 20), not as anarchists but as leaders to all people.

Yes, he did answer the question of when. he said you will receive its power, and they did through the Spirit. I guess you don't really follow the text or story, you just have these nagging D'ist problems you can't seem to fit in and you are losing sleep, asking the same question over and over INSTEAD OF A NEW QUESTION.

Such as: did Israel know its Messiah would die? From Ps 22? Is 53? Dan 9's cutting off? What happened to that knowledge? Did they suppress/deny it? I think so.

 

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How did Christ manage to spend 40 days on that topic and miss that question? What other question is there? He did not talk about offering a civic kingdom to the zealots (who were at that moments scrambling for one). Nada, zilch, nichst. He was talking about how his message and enthronement was the powerful fact that would 'turn the world upside down' (ch 20), not as anarchists but as leaders to all people.

Yes, he did answer the question of when. he said you will receive its power, and they did through the Spirit. I guess you don't really follow the text or story, you just have these nagging D'ist problems you can't seem to fit in and you are losing sleep, asking the same question over and over INSTEAD OF A NEW QUESTION.

Such as: did Israel know its Messiah would die? From Ps 22? Is 53? Dan 9's cutting off? What happened to that knowledge? Did they suppress/deny it? I think so.

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