within the remaining week's version, we learnt what number of antichrist aspects slim their arguments to a few biblical texts which they don't even bear in mind to scorn Christ and His Church. Two of such texts which were misinterpreted and distorted to bastardise the Bible are Matthew sixteen:27-28 and Matthew 10:23.
We first regarded Matthew sixteen: 27- 28 which reads: "For the Son of Man goes to come with his angels within the glory of his Father, after which he will repay each and every person in line with what he has performed. in fact, I say to you, there are some standing here who will no longer taste loss of life unless they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom."
It is inaccurate to narrate this verse to Christ's 2nd coming to choose the realm. Verse 21 of Matthew Chapter sixteen chiefly tells us that Christ become going to Jerusalem to be killed and buried and on the third day be raised from the lifeless or come again to life. it would be understood that the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is His coming as mentioned within the verse above. And He came returned from the dead with his angles in the glory of His Father as angels have been seen on the tomb (John 20:12).
The passage below discussion additionally talks about Jesus Christ promising to repay each and every adult according to what he has finished. Now the question is: did Christ repay individuals for what they'd executed? Of direction, sure. The people who lived in that length and interacted with Him got their rewards for their work. To be satisfied with the answer, we deserve to be aware of and consider the work being mentioned during this context. be aware the Bible did not say "works" but "work".
The work Christ anticipated them to do became the work of God. And the work of God they had been expected to do became to trust in Jesus Christ. In John 6: 28- 29, Jesus taught that BELIEVING in Him was the true work of God americans have been expected to do. that is, as He preached the first rate information of the dominion of God, His hearers should still accept as true with in Him as the promised Messiah.
And so those who did that work of believing in Him were rewarded or repaid after Christ Jesus's resurrection or coming from the lifeless. They were given the reward of the Holy Spirit as their reward for his or her act of believing in Him. but folks that did not believe in Him have been denied the Holy Spirit. That turned into their reward additionally. To me, the Holy Spirit is the most suitable reward one receives in the world for doing the work of believing in Jesus Christ.
a pretty good scholar of the Bible is aware of that the first century disciples of Jesus Christ received the Holy Spirit to dwell in them and be upon them simplest after the Lord had been raised from the useless.
The Lord Jesus Christ breathed on His disciples and referred to to them, "get hold of the Holy Spirit" after His resurrection (John 20:22). And Christ fulfilled His promise of empowering the disciples by using the coming of the Holy Spirit upon them as recorded in Acts Chapter 2.
Then, in Matthew 16: 28, Jesus observed: "basically, I say to you, there are some standing right here who will now not style death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom." A misunderstanding or misinterpretation of this verse has led many to conclude erroneously that either Christ Jesus came within the first century or He would now not return at all, considering the fact that the proven fact that the entire people He made the promise to have died lots of of years in the past.
but none of those views is appropriate. What Christ Jesus basically supposed turned into that there turned into a high probability of a few of His hearers who have been standing where He become speakme death between that time and the time He can be raised from the lifeless or are available His kingdom. during this world, people die all the time.
in fact, the time span between the day He made these statements and the day He changed into raised may be a couple of months wherein some of the people might die while others might are living to peer Him coming in His kingdom. it is glaring some of the americans died while others lived. Judas Iscariot, as an instance, died earlier than Christ Jesus became raised from the dead.
however, the relaxation of His disciples and several different people lived to look His resurrection.
The Lord Jesus Christ left the earth via dying, and powerfully back to the earth alive just three days later. in exactly a second Christ changed into on this planet being crucified for the salvation of misplaced souls. He died and was buried, coming into the location of the dead, but just three days later, Jesus Christ lower back to the earth, appearing in one other kind (Mark sixteen: 12).
The Lord didn't handiest seem in one other form to individuals, however additionally visited the earth once more a further means. This time, the angel Gabriel did not seem to anyone to announce that Christ would return to the earth during this or that manner. Brethren, the Lord Jesus did not come returned to the earth via being conceived within the womb of Virgin Mary. He simply regarded suddenly to americans as a full grown man just as He died.
After His resurrection, Jesus gave the impression to some americans, on the road to Emmaus. one among them changed into referred to as Cleopas. The Lord conversed with them, however they could not recognise Him. They might establish Jesus Christ handiest after He had sat at a meal with them and taken bread, blessed, broken and given it to them to devour.
"And their eyes have been opened, and they diagnosed him. And he vanished from their sight. They referred to to each and every different, "didn't our hearts burn inside us whereas he talked to us on the road, whereas he opened to us the Scriptures" (Luke 24: 31- 32)? The verse says Jesus vanished from their sight. That means Jesus disappeared from their midst in the room.
but shortly after these witnesses had discovered the Apostles and were telling them about their come across with the risen Lord, they saw Jesus Christ standing of their midst again.
through James Quansah
jamesquansah@yahoo.com
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