At The Revelation of Jesus Christ. 1st Peter
The general mindset of believers in Christ has to do with His return, as if He must still do something because maybe we were left us wanting. That we cannot be completed until He comes back? And this phrase “At the Revelation of Jesus Christ” seems to leave people wanting and waiting until He comes back. But how does that fare with the truth that when you were “born again to receive Christ into your heart, what did that look like? And with the truth that “we have been given everything that pertains to life and Godliness through the knowledge of Him who has called to glory”. With Glory being our obtainable objective and purpose of the gospel according to godliness, then why would that verse refer us to ‘At the revelation of Jesus Christ” as though it is an inaugural, singular event? Like maybe at a “second coming”? We’ll go find that phrase in scripture. It’s not there.
As we look the Greek interlinear, and chapter 2 and verse 8, in English it says “ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory”. Whereas in the Greek it says “having been glorified’ to mean the gifts been given.
You have Paul put it like this to those in Rome”25 Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began, 26 But now is made manifest, by the scriptures?
What does this have anything to do with any physical event?
To then have Paul say in Galatians “12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation (or more correct, revelations) of Jesus Christ.
As through the, or a revelation of Jesus Christ had already happened for Paul. And if you remember, it did.
For it was Paul on the road to Damascus who was blinded by a bright light. To have Paul “hit his knees and fell to the ground, and heard a voice (but he saw no form) saying unto him, Saul (Paul), why persecutest thou Me? 5 And Saul (Paul) said, Who art thou, Lord? And Christ said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutests.”
For Saul, this was not The Revelation, but a revelation, one of many, of Christ that many today would refute because instead of a “bright light” which just means an epiphany, which is synonymous with revelation as being like “a bright light from Heaven up above”.
This kind of light takes place in the spirit of your mind like all unveilings do. Unveilings also translated, reveling the core word for revelation. For Saul to become Paul, this would be one of many epiphanies, a word synonymous with Revelation. So the idea that The Revelation of Jesus Christ is a singular event, may be extracted from the text and solidified through translations over the years. But the Revelation of Jesus Christ, can happen anywhere at anytime to anybody, and has happened to many in the same way as Saul/Paul. This is why “The Kingdom of God is at hand” in a proverbial way. Proverbial from proverb, pro-verbs and pronouns.
That in the beginning was the Word, and the Word became flesh to dwell among us. But His original construct was word to begin with. But if He must appear in a way to appeal to your carnal exterior? That is Him having to continually put back on the flesh to appease you, all the while scripture teaches us to “put of the flesh” with its deeds and its needs. With this we ask, who are the transformed and who is the transformer?
Scripture teaches us that “we are being transitioned into Christs self same image, from the Glory to the Glory as by the Spirit.” And with this being so, why would many think that Christ is coming back in a way to appeal to your flesh appearing again as a men, when we are being transitioned. We have been instructed to put off not the flesh, but the deeds of the flesh. After all, isn’t it us that are in the process of change? That when we see Him as He is (not how we want Him to be like us) we shall be like Him” is to see Him as He already was before the Word became flesh. And since”In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Doesn’t it make more sense that if we are transitioned to be like Him, then we should be able to emulate Him by using His words and testimonies the way He did?
Snf from John “that which we’ve heard, that which we’ve seen and that which we’ve handled concerning Christ, that we declare to you so that you too may have fellowship, coinania, and oneness with and in Gods Only Begotten, who said ‘I go to the Father and you see Me again no more. Who also told us “Lo, I am with you always, even throughout the ages. Have you realized that this must be so, for The Kingdom of God” to be “at hand”. To mean proverbially within reach.
And as the apostle John said “Children keep yourself from idols. That is what a second coming Christ is. A false hope. And what about those invited to the wedding, who went to the world for their wedding garments. Upon returning to the wedding, the Master of the feast said “depart from Me ye workers of iniquity for I know you not from where you are”. They took were expecting a wedding to appease their worldly expectations and found the doors closed. Wow to those who claim to be Christians, to sit and wait and go about life without taking the gift that accords to god-likeness serious. And quite likely because they are waiting to see His physical manifestation. That will never happen. The transition is yours,, for a short time only.
The Kingdom of God is at hand, still for a short while. Amen