He said the resurrection was what David foresaw. That's why in the gospel narratives the kingdom is near, in their midst (very, very close) and in Acts it is underway.
You'd have to be 'educated' out of this not to see it in Acts.
The power conferred in Acts 1 was a king's adminstrative term; it was the unstoppable work of the Holy Spirit kick-starting the mission to the nations, as obviously happened.
D'ism is a psychotic fraud of a system by comparison.
"Fraud," you speculate, magician, sorcerer, as your magic wand eliminates most of the "volume of the book?" Good one, Col. Klink. One more time, to protect the sheep/babes from this fraud, posing as a member of the boc, with his "spiritual" contortions, back flips, cartwheels,that even the Chines women's gymnastic team would envy.
Does the scripture testify that Satan is the god this world? Yes, it does. Does scripture testify that Christ is in exile, i.e., not ruling this world today? Yes, it does(a study of king David as a "type" of the Lord Jesus Christ, a king in "exile" would be profitable). Does most of this world reject the Lord Jesus Christ? Yes, it does. Is he currently reigning as "...KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS..."(Rev. 19:16 KJV), ruling with a rod of iron on earth from Jerusalem? No, He is not, and does not. Is the LORD God still in control? Yes, He most assuredly is.
Sovereign control is not equivalent to reigning physically on earth, and in the heavens.
The Lord Jesus Christ is not reigning physically on earth today-we live in a Christ-rejecting world. Satan is the "god of this world" today, and if many cannot see this, and not believe what Paul, their our apostle is telling them, by command from the risen, ascended, glorified, and yes, exiled Lord Jesus Christ from heaven, not on earth, I will let them "be ignorant"(biblically, "ignorant" does not mean "stupid"-"stupid" only applies to those like Stooge Curly interplanner-"ignorant" merely means "lack of knowledge"). But He will. I cannot make them see this, nor Eph. 3:9 KJV. They cannot, and will not, distinguish between the spiritual kingdom of God, and the literal, earthly, physical kingdom of heaven on earth. The believing remnant of the nation Israel were promised a literal, physical reign on earth under the Lord Jesus Christ(He will be reigning physically from Jerusalem) in resurrected bodies, as part of the spiritual/physical benefits of the NC. This has not happened, but will happen, in spite of others' disbelief. The body of Christ has no land promise on this earth-none. The curse of Genesis will be lifted, and we will experience "…
the days of heaven upon the earth…"(Deut. 11:21 KJV), "…the times of refreshing…"(acts 3:19 KJV), including "...the times of restitution of all things…"(Acts 3:21 KJV), and this "all things" includes the restoration of both the earth and the "heavenly places" under the LORD God's control. The Holy Spirit in the book, a book of details, is very particular in His choice of words: "In the beginning God create the heaven and the earth….", not "universe". The LORD God's purpose in the Lord Jesus Christ is to restore dominion/control of both spheres, and has designated the earth for the Jews, and the heavenly places for the body of Christ.
Psa 110:1 KJV does not demonstrate that the Lord Jesus Christ was seated on David's throne at the right hand of the father until all of His enemies are made His footstool. No scripture says that the Lord Jesus Christ is sitting on David's throne in heaven right now. He's in heaven all right, but not on David's throne.
David's throne is never said to be in heaven-it is on earth.
The Lord Jesus Christ is seated at the right hand of God, therefore He is currently on God the Father's throne.
The Lord Jesus Christ's throne-on earth:
"And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one
on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom." Mt. 20:21 KJV=will be on earth
"To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in
my throne,even as I also overcame, and am set down with
my Father in his throne." Rev. 3:21 KJV
NOTICE: "my throne", ie., the Lord Jesus Christ's throne, is differentiated from His Fathers's throne-"his throne." Details.
Again, the Lord Jesus Christ's throne-on earth:
"And he said unto her, What wilt thou? She saith unto him, Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom." Mt. 20:21 KJV
"To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in
my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with
my Father in his throne." Rev. 3:21 KJV
Vs.
God the Father's throne:
"Which he wrought in Christ, when
he(God the Father-my note) raised him from the dead, and set him at
his own right hand in the heavenly places," Eph. 1:20 KJV
"Blessed be the
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings
in heavenly places in Christ:." Eph. 1:3 KJV
"And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together
in heavenly places in Christ Jesus..." Eph. 2:6 KJV
=Members of the Body of Christ will sit with the Lord Jesus Christ in the heavenlies upon God the Father's throne, but kingdom members will sit upon the Lord Jesus Christ's throne on earth.
The Lord Jesus Christ is in exile until He returns in wrath and power. He will not be on His own throne until His return to earth to reclaim His earthly Kingdom. And this will be done by force-a kingdom is always set up by force. The reign of a king is never said to be ushered in by a gradual process of world improvement; on the contrary, this reign is introduced suddenly, and with great violence/force-"set up"(see also Mt. 11:12 KJV, Mt. 24:27; Malachi. 3:1 KJV; Isaiah. 11:4 KJV, Isaiah 19:1 KJV; John 6:15 KJV):
"And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven
set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever." Daniel 2:44 KJV
"In those days, and at that time, will
I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land." Jeremiah 33:15 KJV
vs. the body of Christ, the church in this dispensation, is said to be gradually "built up":
"For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another
buildeth hereon. But let every man take heed how he
buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ." 1 Cor. 3:9-11 KJV
"Rooted and
built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving." Colossians 2:7 KJV
"And are
built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the
building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are
builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit." Ephesians 2:20-22 KJV
The Lord Jesus will literally set His feet back on the Mount of Olives, as the angel in Acts 1 indicates. And thus Deut. 11:21 will be fulfilled:
"That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them,
as the days of heaven upon the earth." Deut. 11:21 KJV
If these words are not to be viewed as literal, then I suggest we all "pack it in, go home, class dismissed-we can learn nothing from each other, and we can teaching each other nothing."
Oh, yes...interplanner:Figurative....The days of literalism are over...
Most refuse to distinguish from the Body of Christ's calling/reign to be in heavenly places, with spiritual blessings, not physical, and not on earth, vs. the believing remnant of the nation Israel's calling/reign being on earth, with their promised physical blessings. Members of the boc-"...we are translated into His kingdom." Yes, we are considered spiritually delivered into his heavenly places now, not Israel's earthly kingdom, merely awaiting the redemption of our bodies to reign in the heavenlies. We are not Israel, and have no reign on earth, and none of Israel's land is ours:
"That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children,
in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven
upon the earth." Deut. 11:21
David's throne is never said to be in heaven. Acts 2:29-32 KJV is stating, that the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ was the assurance, the promise, that, from David's loins, THE KING, the Lord Jesus Christ, would "sit on his throne", "his throne" being David's throne! This throne is on the earth, where the Lord Jesus Christ will reign over all the earth, with Israel as the head nation.Again, David's throne was on earth. It was never said to be in heaven.
Zechiariah 14 KJV
16 And
it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of
all the nations which came against Jerusalem
shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. 17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth
unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. 18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. 19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and
the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
interplanner; figurative...metaphor...it shall not "come to pass"..........
Zechariah 8:23 KJV
Thus saith the Lord of hosts; In those days
it shall come to pass,
that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
There will be a literal, earthly, kingdom of heaven on earth, with the Lord Jesus Christ reigning on earth, with His HQ in Jerusalem, despite any denials. The body of Christ's position of reign in the heavenlies is nowhere to be found outside of Paul's epistles, and was unheard of in Jewish thought in the OT. The body of Christ has no part in this earthly kingdom,and we have no land.
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Psalms 2:6 KJV
Yet
have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
Praise be to the Lord Jesus Christ, as God the Father will glorify His only begotten Son, for what He went through, for us, the most beautiful person to ever have walked this graveyard having had his beard ripped off, spit on, whipped, mocked as a king, and crucified, as He installs Him His King.....All to one "end game"-The glory of God.
This will happen, and there is NADA you "spiritual" contortionists, thieves/robbers of the promises of the book can do about, despite your protests and tantrums.
