I apologize, I forwarded this to the wrong Calvin college list, it was
supposed to go to the SCUP list, please forgive.
Rev. Edward J. Hassertt
Reason By Faith Ministries
Student: Florida Southern College
Lakeland, Florida
----- Original Message -----
From: Edward Hassertt <rbfm@usermail.com>
To: Mark Steele <steele@MDCSystems.com>
Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: Some standing here
> He came into his glory at His resurrection and took the thrown of the
> kingdom at His ascension and began to rule His kingdom from heaven:
>
> Matthew 16:19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of
heaven:
> and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and
> whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. (how can
> Jesus give the keys of control to something that didn't exist yet?)
>
> Luke 11:20 But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the
> kingdom of God is come upon you. (It was there at that time!)
>
> Luke 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold,
the
> kingdom of God is within you. (WE have the best description of the Kingdom
> here, its not a political rule for a thousand years, its an internal reign
> of Christ in our lives)
>
> Luke 22:16 For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it
be
> fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
>
>
> The common misconception is to place this in our future, when Jesus said
it
> was in the immediate future. It depends on the presupposition you come to
> the verse with...
>
> Since the Messiah is shown being born in Revelation 12:5 And she brought
> forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her
> child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. The Kingdom is clearly a
> result of the Messiahs mission to earth, not some nebulous future
prophetic
> event.
>
> Satan is bound in Revelation 20: 2-3, this is easy to interpret since we
> have Jesus own words of when this occurred in history: Matthew 12:29 Or
> else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods,
> except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
> Jesus gives an accurate time reference that we can equate with John's
> apocalyptic gospel in Revelation. Jesus says he bound Satan in Matthew
12,
> an event John records in Revelation 20.
>
> Revelation is an apocalyptic vision of the Olivet Discourse. This
important
> sermon is contained in all of the gospels, except John, because John gives
> us the Olivet Discourse in the for of apocalypse!
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mark Steele <steele@MDCSystems.com>
> To: 'scp@lists.calvin.edu' <scp@udomo3.calvin.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 2:55 PM
> Subject: Some standing here
>
>
> >
> > Daniel,
> >
> > You wrote: >Matt 16:27-28
> > > 28 Assuredly, I say to you, there are some standing here who shall not
> > >taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom."
> > >NKJV
> >
> > So which of the apostles is still alive and walking around without
> > having tasted death?
> >
> > Mark
>
> Ed Hassertt
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