There won't be a Second Coming after all. I'm referring to Luke 17:20-21.
2007-12-19 02:04:33 · 18 answers · asked by Warren Ferguson 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No. That's not what it means. Christ will return.
Read the rest of the chapter. It goes into more detail, and you should be able to see that Jesus is stating what will occur the day he returns.
Feel free to email me if you have any further questions.
Hope I helped. God bless you. †
2007-12-19 02:40:27 · answer #1 · answered by 1985 & going strong 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When u refer to a "2nd"coming, what are you referring to? Coming of Jesus or of the Kingdom?
However to answer ur question, That scripture NEVER implies that the Kingdom wouldnt be coming. Here is where it pays to have several different translations of the Bible, so make it more clear that others. The New World Translation renders those verses this way:
20 But on being asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, he answered them and said: “The kingdom of God is not coming with striking observableness, 21 neither will people be saying, ‘See here!’ or, ‘There!’ For, look! the kingdom of God is in your midst.”
These Verses arent saying that It will not come, its merely stating that it wont be obvious. Several Bible texts refer to the coming of that Kingdom as a thief in the night, or it warns us to keep awake so that we arent caught off guard.
The entire Bible is Harmonious, it just takes reading of it and linking the pieces to understand.
2007-12-19 02:20:05 · answer #2 · answered by BIG TIM 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The pharisees expected the Messiah to come and set up a temporal kingdom to free them from the Roman yoke, but the question was, as are many in this forum, intended as a trap or as derision of Christ's divinity. In fact, they needn't have asked the question because they had the Old Testament in their hands. Had they given attention to the scriptures and to the miracles Christ performed among them they would have seen that Christ's kingdom had already come, and that the Messiah was already among them. The promise of the second coming was given to the disciples at the time of the last supper.
2007-12-19 02:20:06 · answer #3 · answered by joseph8638 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Now having been questioned by the Pharisees as to when the kingdom of God was coming, He answered them and said, "The kingdom of God is not coming with signs to be observed; nor will they say, 'Look, here it is!' or,'There it is!' For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst." Luke 17:20-21 (NAS)
The Pharisees asked when God's kingdom would come, not knowing that it had already arrived. The kingdom of God is not like an earthly kingdom with geographical boundaries. Instead, it begins with the work of God's Spirit in people's lives and in relationships. Still today we must resist looking to institutions or programs for evidence of the progress of God's kingdom. Instead, we should look for what God is doing in people's hearts.
2007-12-19 02:13:05 · answer #4 · answered by RT 66 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
King James Bible says that the "kingdom of God is within you."
If you'd read on Jesus said how the earth will be at His second coming. Yes there is a second coming.
2007-12-19 02:17:27 · answer #5 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This would seem to contradict other parts but it doesn't. Always accept that there are no contradictions but rather flawed interruptions. Personally, long ago I accepted that there is much to know and much to learn and the most important part of that is being willing to accept that what I believe could be incorrect or incomplete. Since then many things have begun to make sense the didn't before.
2007-12-19 02:13:12 · answer #6 · answered by Alan S 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was speaking to the Pharisees, whom he also denounced as hypocrites, so he could not have meant that the Kingdom was in their hearts. But the Kingdom as represented by Christ was in their midst. Thus The Emphatic Diaglott reads: “God’s royal majesty is among you.”)
2007-12-19 02:12:12 · answer #7 · answered by papa G 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means it is not a tangible place like the kingdom of England but rather a state of God being your king. In that since it is here now in the hearts of His subjects. But we also were taught to pray "Your kingdom come , Your will be done ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN" God's kingdom will still be established completely on earth at the second coming and you can either bow now or bow later but it is in your best interest to bow willingly now than to bow forceably later.
2007-12-19 02:16:33 · answer #8 · answered by Too much information 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Something is lost in your translation of Luke:20-21. Read it again.
2007-12-19 02:12:32 · answer #9 · answered by akoypinoy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Right, there is no literal second coming.
Some carnal religious mind misintepreted the story.
It says that Jesus would return the same way he was taken.
And it says that he was taken up "out of their sight," meaning they did not see him taken, and neither will they see him return, because his return is spiritual, to the individual.
The kingdom of God symbolizes the realm of the Heart, where we are to resurrect Truth, as Jesus was resurrected in the Earth.
Earth=Heart What I call "God's cool anagram."
2007-12-19 02:18:59 · answer #10 · answered by Sandra L. Butler 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋