The heavenly Jerusalem comes down to the earth in the future, so what is the actual problem?
You do understand that the kingdom of heaven will be on the earth, right?
Yes, the kingdom of heaven will be on the earth and it will be the Lord Jesus as Man who will rule in that kingdom (Acts 2:30).
However, the following prophecy was being fulfilled in the first century and it speaks of the Jewish believer being raised to the location of both the Father and the Son after the Son had ascended into heaven:
"But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, And to Jesus the mediator of the new testament, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel" (Heb.12:22-24).
You false teaching demand that this prophecy will be fulfilled in the future despite the fact that the author of the book of Hebrews wrote--"ye are come...to Jesus." He did not write--"ye will come...to Jesus."
You can't tell the difference between things which have already happened and things which remain in the future. You can't understand simple English.
I guess that you think that Paul is confused when he writes that Israel is both NOT cast away (Rom 11:2) and that they are cast away (Rom 11:15). Was Paul schizophrenic?
Of course you do not possess the common sense to allow you to understand that being "cast away" is not the same thing as being "cast aside." Let's look at the following translation from the KJV which speaks of Israel:
"If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them. For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?" (Ro.11:15; KJV).
This translation of Paul's words here directly contradicts what Paul said earlier, that the Lord "has not cast away" national Israel. A better translation is this one:.
"For if their having been cast aside has carried with it the reconciliation of the world, what will their being accepted again be but Life out of death?" (Ro.11:15; WNT).
The words "cast aside" here are translated from the Greek word
apobole, and a form of that word (
apoballo) is translated "throwing...aside" in the following verse:
"Throwing his cloak aside, he jumped to his feet and came to Jesus" (Mk.10:50).
A blind man named Bartimaeus was sitting and begging in Jericho when the Lord Jesus entered that city. Bartimaeus cried out, saying, "Son of David, have mercy on me!" (v.48). The crowd told him to stand up because Jesus was calling him. This motivated him to "throw aside" his outer cloak which was spread out before him to collect alms and to rise and to come to the Lord.
Bartimaeus did not "cast away" his garment, but instead he cast it aside in order to facilitate his movement of rising. And the same is true in regard to national Israel. That nation was the LORD's agent to bring the truth of God to the Gentiles but when she denied the Lord Jesus is her promised Messiah the LORD temporarily cast aside her as His agent and He named Paul as the Apostle of the Gentiles (Ro.11:13).
All of this is WAY, WAY, WAY above your head because you cannot even understand what the Lord Jesus said to the Jews who lived under the law in the following verses:
"Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life" (Jn.6:47).
"It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life" (Jn.6:63).
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life" (Jn.5:24).
"And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day" (Jn.6:41).
"I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die" (Jn.11:25-26).
He told a Jewish woman that her faith saved her:
"And he said unto her, Thy sins are forgiven. And they that sat at meat with him began to say within themselves, Who is this that forgiveth sins also? And he said to the woman, Thy faith hath saved thee; go in peace" (Lk.7:48-50).
According to the Savior Himself the Jews who lived under the law who believed possessed eternal life and were therefore saved. But you and the others in the Neo-MAD camp say that the Jews who lived under the law could not be saved apart from works.
You just refuse to believe the plain teaching of the Lord Jesus because it doesn't match your false theology.
