@civic
And scripture says the kingdom of God is in you.
Are you referring to this verse:
Luke 17:21
“Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God
is within you.”
Civic, you are not following the method of godly men in the scriptures, where they:
Nehemiah 8:8
“So they read in the book in the law of God
distinctly, and gave
the sense, and c
aused them to understand the reading.”
You are running with the sound bites (the kingdom of God
is within you) of the scriptures and not searching for the true biblical meaning of the text you are taking you teaching from.
Luke 17:20
“And when he was
demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God
should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you."
1) The Pharisees demanded from Christ to tell them when the kingdom of God
should come, a kingdom like
YOU believe in that shall be on this present earth in Jerusalem etc.
2) The Lord made it very clear that the kingdom of God will NOT come with observation, as they believe that it would come, just as you and others believe it shall one day shall come to this earth, after a so-called seven years of tribulation period, etc.
3) Jesus said:
"behold, the kingdom of God is within you." The blinded Pharisees were still looking for God to come a set up his kingdom in the Israel, in the land of the middle east~nothing could be so far from the truth!
Jesus said ~
"Behold" the kingdom of God is within you, or,
within your very midst! They had no clue that Jesus Christ the King of the the true Israel of God was standing in their midst and they rejected and hated him for no other reason then the gracious words that fell from his lips, for no man ever spoke as he spake, tet they rejected very word that he said! They accused him of being devil possessed, just as the generation of vipers today reject his people and the truth they they teach.
The kingdom of heaven/God one and the same did not come with great pomp and observation, but the king came as poor member of the Jewish people, totally unknown by most, born not in a palace, but in the stable, to two poor parents. Lived a life of a pleasant, and did not have a place to lay his head, etc.
So your pov holds no water its nothing but your bias opinion to deny premillinnealism.
Bias opinion? I would to God just you and I would debate one on one this subject, and let us see who has an bias opinion. I try to get you to do so at the start of this thread with no success.
Let us start with
the doctrine of a secret Rapture that premillennialism whole system stands or fall. Let me know, or, we can start wherever you desire to do so.