The Imminence of Christ, At Hand.
The “imminent return” of Christ was the state of mind that governed the behavior of the believers in the time of Christ, after His death, resurrection and on to His ascension, as we read here from the Book of the Acts of the Apostles:
This is the account written by those who had seen and talked face to face with the living Christ, after His death and resurrection from the dead, before His departure back to the Father
That you will see Him coming in the clouds with great power and glory” was promised to them back then as He spoke here .32 “Now learn this parable from the fig tree: When its branch has already become tender and puts forth leaves, you know that summer is near. 33 So you also, when you see all these things, (you) know that it is near—at the doors! 34 Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all these things take place. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.
These are the written accounts nobody wants to talk about, where Christ was seen after the cross, they saw Him Ascend into Heaven, who also had said “follow Me to where I am that you may be there also! (John 14)
And if the return of Christ was imminentt back THEN as He said to THEM of “this generation will not pass?” And if He didn’t come, then He would have falsely warned them of things that didn’t happen for them. Then He would then be categorized as a deceiver. But the deception comes from those who spread these lies today, because since those scriptures applied to them, for them to be repurpose again today speaks of another coming of an unauthorized savior.
Here are three more accounts of Christs return to that generation to dispell the myth alive today that Christ will return in His former fashion “according to the flesh” because “flesh and bone does not receive the Kingdom”.
(Note: the term second coming is a made up phrase not found in scripture. He does however come again to each one of us in our own time.)
Mark 14:62 And Jesus said, I am: and you shall see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.
For us now some supposed 2000 years later to expect to see what He told them that they would see back then, is taking scripture out of context and turning it into a lie and thereby spoiling the faith of many who have become hopeless and unable to hold on for another appearance of Christ when there is only one appearing left open ended to have to happen.
It is us, this many years later, when the gospel has run it’s course, who are in the “short season” that we were told about at the end of the Revelation where it is said “he cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more till after the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for a little while. And ” Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison To deceive the nations once more. Meaning us today, with all lying signs and wonders” showing the believability of a false interpretation of Scripture and history. It is Satan that profits off of the second coming savior, a phrase not found in the accepted texts.
To be waiting for Peters warning that “all the earth and it’s works (and all that is in it) will be burned for the Eternal to remain”. There are now no other events necessary to be fulfilled before the burning takes place, otherwise Peter would not have written that back then.
Meaning that creation gets recalled and undone by the fire (all the earth and all it’s works) as the only event left to be fulfilled as the true conclusion of “end times” last days, final event, having NOTHING to do with an erroneous second coming. There is not one place in Scripturpe that you can read about a “second coming”. There is no other saving person or event but “the gospel once and for all given to the saints.
Now reeling forward to our time. Anyone believing the imminence of Christ to be applicable today to us instead of them back then, they are taking scripture out of context to do so. Christ never referred to a stretched out time of a later date of another saving (rapture) as do those who preach a second coming, which is an unscriptural phrase as we’ve clearly demonstrated.
When New Testament documents addresses His coming again, it is always “at hand”, imminently and about to occur as happening to that generation back then. That is what “hand hand means”. Graspable, within reach and comprehension.
He always spoke in present tense verbiage. For it was the wicked servant that said his master has delayed His coming, teaching us to detach from any such rumors, lest we be categorized as a wicked servant too for supposing a delay.
Phrases like “when you see”, was not intended to mean “when they see” and “I tell you the truth, all these things will happen to this generation”, and not to “that generation”. To have happened in their lifetime and not held over for us today. It is this simple.
And “What I say to you I say to all (back then), Watch!” This phrase was audience specific for them saying “you“. Not us later when all of them are gone. Not that the invitation is gone but that “The Kingdom of God is still at hand”, but with a small window of opportunities to do so, as evidenced of this lost reality by those who try to represent it again today “with all lying signs and wonders if possible to deceive the Elect.
So do not be like the slothful Stewart who after recognizing the window of opportunities had closed, to hear the Heavenly voice say to him”depart from Me you workers of inequity. I do not know you where you are from.” Because the imminence of Christ was thought to be in a fashion to please their carnal nature, they missed out on knowing Him in His natural state of Eternal Spirit and truth, “the Lamb slain from (before) the foundation of the world”
And some more words about the imminence of Christ from His testimony in the Bible.
“When you (back then) begin to see these things, lift up your heads for your redemption draws near.” And since back then we have had the redemption by His spilt blood at the cross, and the empty tomb. And to have as many of years to get to our day. All of Scripture has had its fulfillment with the exception of the “short season” from the end of the last book of the New and final Covenant. It is for Satan to be released one last time to try that final era, in the same way as the first, New Covenant believers were tried for their sincerity. And because God is righteous, it is only fair to be similarly put to the test.
This is why “the first shall be last and the last shall be first”, because we believe what they were suppose to believe.
And we do so without knowing Christ with His physical features and the reason we do not trust our physical features either. We have done it ALL by faith, being the tools and conditions for our age.
Proving The Immediacy of The Gospel for them.
For Paul said “29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short”, and “For the form of this world is passing away.”
As a warning to them back then.
For if indeed there was to be another 2000+ years for the fulfillment of something “at hand”, then these sayings from the scriptures are all false witnesses, and the rest of humanity has a case against such charges and any accountability to the rest of Scripture. Then any such charges of ignoring this warning, is baseless and irrelevant in any court, because the gospel can be categorized as deceptive if indeed “the Kingdom of God at hand”, was not back then to His audience He forwarded.
The modern day expositors are taking ALL such testimonies out of time and context looking for another coming Jesus, by breathing new life in expired scriptures. As we were warned of an alternate coming of “another Jesus” with “another saving”, “another coming” or rescue? This is the “with all lying signs and wonders if possible to deceive the Elect”. But we, the Elect, do not fall for those notions because of these warnings.
For scripture to address that generation with that warning, then not to happen, would mean that nothing in Scripture is true or reliable, and this “second coming” guy is a deceiver and we who say His coming already happened, and He did in the way that He said it would.
And therein lies the truth. As the Christ of the Bible said, “I go to the Father and you see Me again no more and sorrow has filled your heart. However it is expedient that I go to the Father, for if I do not go, the Helper will not come”. This Helper that will be with you and shall be in you, the Spirit of Truth who will tell you all things. This one who will take what is Mine, and declare to you. That where I am you may be also. And just as Christ said “I and the Father are one” meant far more than to just in an agreement. But that their subsistencey and consistency are one and the same, verifying His claim that “I and the Father are one”, meaning, one and the same. Those who have seen Me, have seen the Father”. And now you have known Him and you have seen Him” was said to them back then, for us on “whom the ends of the age has come, to have even now what many back then refused to believe.
So that as the Father was in the Son and the Son in the Father. That we abide in Christ in this way we demonstrate. Theen we too have the Father in the same way the Son did, and as the Holy Spirit is the make up of the triune God in us. It is here we see that if we adopt these words, these truths, in this way that we become adopted into the very family of God, and continue to put in the promises of God as described in the The Will and Testament, that we become the “adopted” into the family of God, and I become part of the breed associated with the fall of Adam. To become “raised” back up from that fall. For our do over from where Adam left off after he frll
For “in the beginning was the word, the word was with (and in) God. And “”the Son (word) became flesh… It is now us who put on Word one revelation at a time, that become “complete in Him who is head over all principalities and powers”. Who are NOW joint heirs of the things that God has said called His Son. Then this is for you your second coming,,, if you are able, not only to receive it. But provided you learn how to apply “word” in your lifetime, to have it said of you. That you too are complete in Him”, in Christ, in The Word of God as we show you here.
The Kingdom of God it still at hand in the same way it always was for He was and us and us to come? The lamb slain from the foundations of the world, for anyone and everyone to participate because the price was paid in full, and it was paid in advance. What are you waiting for to enter your rest “although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. Salvation was imminent back then too.
If you are still frittering over the images of modern media, (mediums, spirits and wizards) you do not get this!
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