Interplanner
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On yesterday's broadcast, the talk show host and rabbi Prager made an aside about the comings of Christ/Messiah. It was only as an analogy about some other item in the news, but he said, 'if _____ was true, it would the 2nd coming for Christians--or the 1st for us in Judaism.'
It is easy to say, yes, they have a problem that way. But it is not easy for 2P2Ps to see their own problem in which they go back to what Judaism is expecting the 1st coming to be! That is not what I see in the NT at all. It is total fantasy. Anything Jesus said that comes close to that was merely borrowing an idea to help his apostles realize what they were in for. For ex:
"Can you drink the cup I'm going to drink?"
"We can"
"You will indeed! But to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared by my Father."
And of course, the mere asking for spots made the other indignant, because is entirely carnal to do so. It was not meant to happen 'literally.'
It is easy to say, yes, they have a problem that way. But it is not easy for 2P2Ps to see their own problem in which they go back to what Judaism is expecting the 1st coming to be! That is not what I see in the NT at all. It is total fantasy. Anything Jesus said that comes close to that was merely borrowing an idea to help his apostles realize what they were in for. For ex:
"Can you drink the cup I'm going to drink?"
"We can"
"You will indeed! But to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared by my Father."
And of course, the mere asking for spots made the other indignant, because is entirely carnal to do so. It was not meant to happen 'literally.'