21. When Does "The End" Begin? (End-Times Series Part 2)

Welcome to the podcast where we prod the sheep and beat the wolf. This is episode 21 a question of time as We begin this study on the end times. I would like to address you from the junkyard of eschatological insanity That we find ourselves in today.

To my left lies a cardboard cutout of the late Harold camping. Beside of him a stack of books titled 88 reasons why the rapture will occur in 1988 and a few assorted posters of various blood moons pale horses and tracks about being left behind.

To my right an ever-growing pile of Antichrist candidates in the mark of the beast Hopefuls heaped on top of one another and most are now thoroughly rusted all around us is the odious stench of eschatological failure from end times views as Assuming future failure to failed past and present predictions to wild Speculations about Gog Magog and Vladimir Putin.

Is it any wonder that the church is so confused frustrated and lacking joy when they think about eschatology. In this series on eschatology. My hope is to actually bring the joy and the clarity and the hope back to this topic and to do that We're gonna need to flush everything that we've heard about the end times clean down the eschatological Toilet and wave goodbye to all of it because it's going back to where it belongs now.

I say this so strongly because I believe that there's so much bad teaching on eschatology and More than that I believe that the Bible was never meant to be a Gordian knot of confusion that frustrates and paralyzes you in your faith.

It was always meant to be a clear revelation to encourage Strengthen and give a living hope to the Saints as they face the days ahead when we return to what the Bible actually says about the end times and when we talk about those things in Biblical ways, I believe that eschatology can be one of the most encouraging topics that you will ever study.

But we have to do the work and today is no exception. So in the weeks ahead, I want us to look at what the Bible says about the end times and Today, I want to focus on the question of time. When do the end times begin.

Are They getting ready to happen here in the 21st century or are they still lingering out somewhere in the undetermined future? Or This is the view that I'm gonna be presenting. Did the end times begin sometime in the past.

The Last Days Began With Christ's Incarnation

Now with that let us begin by looking at a few passages in Scripture to gain some biblical perspective part one in times incarnation. By far one of the clearest passages in all of the Bible when it comes to the end times and when that end time will Begin is Hebrews chapter 1 verses 1 through 2.

This is what it says God after he spoke long ago To the fathers and the prophets in many portions and in many ways in these last days Has spoken to us in his Son Whom he appointed the heir over all things.

What the author of Hebrews is doing here is he's juxtaposing two very different sets of time in the history and the economy of redemption. There's an old covenant era of temples and feasts and priests and sacrifices where God once spoke to his people Through the fathers and through the prophets in that era is known as the Old Testament.

But now we're told that a new era of human history has dawned. In fact, it is the very last era of human history where Christ has come as the incarnate Son of God To reign and rule over a new kingdom.

That new era Hebrews says is the last days. You see what Hebrews is saying is that when Jesus came back or came in his incarnation He not only secured salvation for his people, but he also fulfilled all of the Old Testament and Old Covenant Expectations the types the shadows the norms all of that in himself.

He fulfilled all those things. So for instance, he's the true king that the Old Testament is looking for Hebrews 1 8. He's the true priest that can truly serve the people of God in Hebrews 2 17. He's the one who made himself to be the true and perfect sacrifice Hebrews 7 27 Offering himself in a true heavenly temple Hebrews 9 11 in order to secure a perfect and unvarnished redemption for his people.

The point of the book of Hebrews is That Jesus when he uttered it is finished finished it. He perfectly drew to a close all of the Old Covenant types and shadows. He brought that to a glorious end he fulfilled every jot and tittle of the law leaving no temple stone unturned so that he Jesus Christ alone Could become the cornerstone of a new end time era in him.

The Old Testament has been finished and in him the new end time era the last days Has truly come. Now the importance of this cannot be understated. Jesus Christ has put an end to the old era of redemption and he's began a new era called the last days.

And he did that it is coming 2 ,000 years ago. That is why the author of Hebrews can say that we are living in the end times. Because the author of Hebrews assumes that we would understand that those end times began at Jesus's first and glorious coming.

That's why he said that in verse 2 and Since that is true It's clear Uncontestable even that you and I are Living in the last days. We've been living in the last days our entire life. In fact, the church has always existed in the last days and the last days have lasted now for 2 ,000 years.

The last days are not a future oriented period of time. Where you have all of these different things that you see in the end times movies or in times books the last days began 2 ,000 years ago with the coming of Jesus Christ and Again, I know that many have wrongly stated.

Otherwise that the the church is a part of this Asterisk period where you know, hey the the Jews rejected Jesus so he went to plan B the Gentile Church and that that sandwiched in between the Old Testament and a Future millennial reign where the Jews will have a temple and all of that is hogwash.

The church was and is and will continue to be God's plan a for the world. For these last days the church is God's means To preach the gospel to all the nations to make disciples of all the nations and then The end of the end will come.

We are his end time bride on his end time mission Waiting until the final sands in the end time hourglass Fall through the crack and then our royal Savior and King will return. Whatever thoughts that you and I have about the end times at a minimum Need to be filtered through and grounded by the firm exegetical understanding of Hebrews chapter 1 verse 2 that the last days have Already come and that we are currently living in them because of Christ.

That much is abundantly clear that we are living in the last days. I would encourage you to study that passage and see if what I'm saying is true but With that being the case. I think we should continue on to a second proof that that the end times Are a past present and future event for the church mostly Past and we're gonna look at the second part of this which is called in times dissolution.

The Church as Christ's End-Time Bride

Now as mentioned above one of the reasons that we can be so confident that the end that the end times have already begun is that Jesus so carefully and Methodically brought an end to all of the old timey Old Testament stuff.

He brought a new priesthood. He brought a new temple. He brought a new mountain called Calvary. He brought a new sacrifice a new era a new bride and he's gonna be bringing about a new Covenant City the New Jerusalem and in the weeks ahead We're gonna examine some of those things in greater detail.

But for now, I just want to offer a summary about God's end time bride and his end time city. And let's begin with his end time bride in The Old Testament. There is a very specific wedding theme That's undergirding the entire Old Testament narrative and it must be understood if we're gonna have any hope of understanding what it means for us to be the Eschatological Bride of Christ in the New Testament.

So take for instance Old Testament Israel in the Bible Israel is called God's faithful and Covenantal bride Ezekiel 16 8 through 18. She's the one that God lovingly drew out of the land of Egypt and he clothed in his love and he brought her to a mountain marriage ceremony at Sinai, which is talked about in Jeremiah 31 32 in Ezekiel 16 59 through 60 and if that wasn't clear enough God explicitly calls himself the husband of Israel in Isaiah 54 5 and he Identifies the relationship that he has with Israel as a marriage in Jeremiah 2 2.

It was this people that God set his Covenantal Affections upon Deuteronomy 7 6 through 9 and it was this people Who provoked his holy? Husbanding jealousy in Ezekiel 20 verse 5 or sorry next it is 20 verse 5 in Ezekiel 16 verse 38.

It is to this matrimony matrimonial status that God appeals to Israel to repent Jeremiah 3 14 When she burned in belligerent and raunchy affections playing the whore with the other nations and the other gods Ezekiel 16 27 through 48 instead of living in purity and fidelity to her covenant husband and Lord.

She acted shamefully in Debauched spiritual adultery that's talked about in Hosea 2 3 through 7 until she finally provoked the righteous fury of her God For a time in the Old Testament. God was graciously Pursuing his faithless bride beckoning her to leave her lurid pleasures behind and to be reconciled to him Hosea 2 7 Joel 1 8 Joel 1 8 but alas it was to no avail and Israel actually exhausted all of God's mercy in the end she would not return because she was so polluted in her perversions that God himself issued those ten tribes of Israel a formal certificate of divorce Hosea 2 2 Isaiah 50 verse 1 and And God wrote them out of the annals of history Through a devastating a Syrian invasion and along with that God also warned the southern nation of Judah that if she continued to play the harlot just like Israel Then her fate would be the same as her twin harlot sister.

Jeremiah 3 6 through 10 that imagery of God marrying Israel and And Marrying Judah is the operative backdrop that is in play as soon as we turn the page from Malachi to Matthew. When we arrive in the New Testament book of Matthew, we must remember two important truths that God although he divorced Israel is still married to Judah, although barely and Number two God is not a polygamist.

Now that points a little Frank and maybe a little shocking to hear but I really think it's an important point that we need to consider because When God takes the New Covenant bride the church we all know that the church is the bride of Christ that Christ loves the church like That he loves the the church like a husband ought to love his bride that we know that God Married the church.

That's a New Testament fact. Well, we ought to remember That the only way that that's possible Is if Judah was issued a formal certificate of divorce from God Before he married the church if not Then God would be participating in polygamy, which is something that God forbids.

So while we explore this topic in a little bit more detail in the weeks ahead One of the major themes of Revelation solves this issue because there's not an explicit verse that talks about God Issuing a certificate of divorce to Judah, but the book of Revelation in pictorial covenantal demonstration talks about how the whore of Babylon Who I take to be the unrepentant unregenerate paganized Rome loving idol worshiping Judah is going to be put away by God Revelation 17 1 through 18 So that God can claim for himself a new and spotless blood-bought bride in Revelation 21 2.

If that verse means what I think it means and I'm pretty sure that it does. Then God divorces Judah in Revelation 17 so that he can marry the church in Revelation 21, which means that this end time book of Revelation is talking about a past time event where God put away Judah and Married the church and if that's the case and well, and I believe that it is Then most if not all of the book of Revelation Concerns things that have already taken place now I don't want to get in the weeds here because there's a lot that we're gonna discuss in the weeks ahead and there's a Lot that I'm gonna show you that maybe you've never heard before and I want you to think about it carefully.

I want you to consider it faithfully just like a Berean would. I want you to look at the scriptures and see what it says. But so far all that we've learned is that we can rightly assume That if God marries the church in the New Testament, then he must put away the harlot Judah.

That fact I think is fairly clear and we have to understand where God does that we know that this divorce from God must be executed in a lawful way because he's Righteous and he never is the unfaithful party in a marriage and knowing that the New Testament records ample examples of how the Jews Piled up their adulteries as high as the heavens even making Old Testament Israel blush in embarrassment it was this Judah who got into the and got into bed with Rome and Turned their back on their King God.

It was this Judah who became so blinded in her perversions and defilements that she killed God's one and only Son and It was this feckless Nation of Judah that God brought down the full fury of his righteous just and to forcing wrath.

We can know From the manifold testimony of the New Testament that Judah was put away we can learn from history that and we're gonna look at that about Josephus and his recordings of what happened in the city of Jerusalem in 1870 when Rome came in and set the city on fire and leveled it to the ground to a smoldering pile of rubble.

We're gonna look at that we can know That the end times have come. Not just because the author of Hebrews has told us so But because God has put away his Old Testament bride Israel and Judah and he's taken for his son the end time bride that Revelation describes the church a Bride that was blood-bought on a better mountain called Calvary married in his in Jesus's resurrection from the dead and Waiting for the final consummation when he returns to call her into his arms forever.

That's the mystery of the gospel in Ephesians 5 32 and it's a sure clue That we the church his bride are already living in his end time kingdom because the end time marriage has already occurred. Again, we're gonna revisit this theme in the weeks ahead as we look at the book of Revelation.

But for now, let us proceed along to our third line of evidence, which is end time demolition. Along with putting away his old wives part of Jesus's work to usher in his new covenant kingdom Was to put away the old faithless city of Jerusalem.

Jerusalem became an enemy of God's kingdom. So God had to put Jerusalem away. Now as you're aware Jerusalem was the Old Testament city of God where he would meet with his people it was in that city that he promised to dwell within the temple to live within their midst to be their God and that they were gonna be his unique chosen people and It was in that city that the epicenter of Old Covenant religion and eschatological hope Perfectly collided with every song every feast and every sacrifice in Zion.

They were expecting the coming of their king. Yet it was in this city It was in this city where God rained down his punishment on them for covenantal unfaithfulness and Put them away as decisively as the prostitute of old.

In some of the final moments, for example in Jesus's life the city of Jerusalem collectively turned against the Son of God and Sided with the Caesar as their one and only King. John 19 15. They said we have no king but Caesar crucify him crucify him in that.

Since God alone was the king of Israel the irony the idolatry and the infidelity that they were committing against God was palpable. Is It any wonder that Jesus wept over the city of Jerusalem and pronounced covenantal curses upon the city.

For all of her long-standing rebellious tendencies against God in Matthew 23 40 or 34 through 36. This is what it says. Therefore behold I am sending you prophets. This is Jesus talking. I'm sending you the city of Jerusalem prophets and wise men and scribes.

Some of them you're gonna kill and crucify some of them you will scourge in the synagogues and persecute from city to city so that upon you May fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth from the blood of righteous Abel.

To the blood of Zechariah the son of Barakaya whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. Truly I say to you. Truly I say to you all of these things are gonna come upon this generation. Jesus is not being ambiguous here.

He's making a straightforward claim that Jerusalem was entirely to blame. She is the city that systematically cut down God's prophets of old Killing them every time that God sent them and it was this Babylon loving inspired city of sin that would also Slaughter the disciples of Christ and cold-blooded murder and turn on God's one and only beloved Son like a rabid dog Slaying him and crucifying him Before the nation.

For these atrocious and inexcusable crimes of war Against their God the kingdom would not only be taken away from them and given to the Gentiles Matthew 2143 but all of God's long-suffering wrath the manifold collection of his entire fury.

That has been being stored up from the days of Abel the first murder the first murder victim All the way until the present day the final murder victim in Jerusalem. All of that wrath is going to be poured out on that generation.

Not a future generation not a past generation. On the generation standing in front of Jesus all of God's wrath and His covenantal fury would be poured out on them. And Just in case you're wondering what an episode like that would look like when God's unique one-time dispensation of of Holistic fury is poured out on a nation like Judah.

We need to look no further than Matthew 24 Mark chapter 11 and Luke chapter 21 which describes it's called the Olivet discourse that describes the Covenantal downfall and systematic cursing shredding and leveling of the rebellious city of Jerusalem.

That town would go from a thriving metropolitan religious paragon to a pathetic pile of Rural rubble all in the span of 40 years, which is exactly the length of a biblical generation. This generation shall not pass away.

Until all these things have come upon you in the weeks ahead we're gonna be looking at the downfall of Jerusalem in 8070 and Looking at Josephus and other historical events and looking at how this event is the perfect fulfillment of Jesus's prophecy in the Olivet discourse, but for today All I want you to do is to notice That God is putting away Old Testament norms patterns and institutions like the sacrificial system the temple system the priesthood the prophets the Kings his two unfaithful wives and his Unfaithful city so that in these last days as Hebrew says he could communicate To his new Jerusalem bound people entirely through his son.

In these last days God has spoken sola Christos through Christ alone. Not through Jerusalem. Not through the temple and not through the Old Covenant bride. Those things have been done away with so that his end time kingdom can come.

It is no coincidence at all that those last days have certainly and Assuredly already dawned for the people of God and as we will continue to see in the scriptures the evidence for this case is overwhelming once you begin looking the next section End-time mission.

The Second Coming and the Kingdom of God

Now among the many things that Jesus was preparing his disciples for one of the most overlooked and misunderstood Facets of his ministry was that he was getting them ready for his second coming. Now, I want you to do me a favor right now and take a huge deep breath.

Because I understand that if you've been involved in end time Circles ministries if you've heard an end time sermon if you read it in time book then what I just said Probably either calls you to scratch your head or to turn off this podcast.

I Completely appreciate when you hear the phrase second coming that you are Automatically thinking about an end time of it in the future called the rapture where Jesus comes and he raptures his church Back to heaven that is not What the New Testament is calling the second coming that is what in time?

Prophecy experts and End-time book writers have called the second coming. My challenge to you is to is to view the Bible Biblically. Don't believe something just because someone told you. Don't believe that the second coming is equal to the rapture just because you heard it in a sermon.

Look at what the Bible says and in the Bible Jesus says that his second coming is going to occur in the lifetime of his disciples. It's a shocking thing. Look Matthew 10 23 makes this clear. There's multiple verses, but let's start with that one.

Jesus says. But whenever they that's the Jews whenever they persecute you in one city then flee to the next. For truly I say to you you will not finish going through the cities of Israel until the Son of Man comes until he comes Until he comes again until he returns.

Now as long as you remember that Jesus is speaking to his original 12 disciples Who were living in first century ad? Who were being commissioned by Jesus to go out and reach all of the ancient cities of Israel and They were going to be reaching people who lived in first century Israel as long as you remember that then it is painfully obvious that some sort of coming Had to have occurred before They finished going through all the cities.

Some kind of coming had to occur in the first century or Else Jesus was lying or he was mistaken. He told them flat-out you 12 men will not finish the job that I've given you Before I come again, which is crazy.

I get it. Here's some context that we have to understand before this is gonna make any sense. By the time that the true light of the world Jesus showed up on this darkened planet Israel and the Jews had become a dim people.

They had long ago Failed in their mission to be a spotlight of God's love and his light to the nations. That's Isaiah 49 6 Israel was called to be the light of the world and they failed and Because the twelve tribes of Israel had failed in that calling Jesus came as the light of the world He chose 12 disciples who would become his new spirit Illuminated lamps and he sent them out into the dreary world to illuminate it with the gospel.

That's Matthew 5 14 through 16 where he says you are the light of the world as Lights and as lampstands and as lamps. He would send them out on a mission to all of the darkened cities and towns across Israel.

Before sending them out to the rest of the world this exclusively Jewish mission Began in the Gospels when Jesus sent out the 70 in the 72 and it continued in the early portions of the book of Acts. Even as those earliest Jewish Jerusalem Christians were met with tremendous persecution.

Think about the stoning of Stephen think about Paul overseeing the execution of Christians in Jerusalem. That's the era we're talking about. Now sometime before Peter James Paul the rest of the discipleship community Philip Andrew Bartholomew Thomas before they made it through all of the towns of Israel in fulfillment of Matthew 23 Jesus returned.

He returned his second coming happened. Now the question is what kind of return was it? Because if it's the kind of return where everyone is raptured to heaven and a blinking of an eye their clothes are laying on the Ground their false teeth are laying on the ground their sandals are in on the ground.

If it was that kind of return then I would say you're right that didn't happen in the first century. So what kind of return is the scripture talking about with that question? I? Need to it to relieve a little bit of pressure here.

When Jesus is talking about returning in Matthew 10 23 He is not speaking about his final coming where he separates the sheep and the goats. Where he separates the the wheat and the tares where he throws some the tares into the eternal flames of hell while he welcomes his people the wheat into his eternity and Into his barn where we spend an eternity with him.

That is what Jesus is going to do in the future. That event is still future for us. What Jesus is talking about and what he's preparing his disciples for in Matthew 10 is a different kind of coming it's a judgment coming against the city of Jerusalem that Absolutely did happen within the lifetime of those first century Saints.

You either have to believe and I'm gonna demonstrate this over the coming weeks I'm not gonna be able to do it fully here today, but if you believe That Jesus did not come in the first century. Then you have to believe that Matthew 10 23 is a false prophecy and therefore you have a false Christ.

He says you will not go through all of the towns of Israel until the Son of Man comes so either that happened or it didn't and The question is what kind of coming was it? I'm arguing that it's a judgment coming of Christ against Jerusalem just like God came in judgment against Jerusalem when he sent the Babylonian armies Through the leadership of Nebuchadnezzar to destroy the temple and burn it to the ground.

That's recorded in the Old Testament. We'll talk about that in the weeks ahead. I'm arguing that the same kind of coming a judgment coming where God raises up a pagan army and he sends that pagan army against his Covenant City and Destroys it and levels it to the ground that's the kind of coming that Jesus is talking about in Matthew 10 23 and that kind of coming is normal in the Old Testament where God is said to come on the clouds in judgment where God is is moving around the Sun the moon and the stars because of judgment and where God is raining out his fury on Nations like Egypt Tyre and Babylon and Israel.

Again, we'll show all of that in the weeks ahead. But what I want us to know the point that is clear in the New Testament is that Jesus had a coming in the first century a second coming. That point is so clear in the passages that I'm going to share with you that you have to work against your reason in order to believe otherwise you have to hold to Your opinion of the end times and put away what the Bible says So very clearly in order to hold to that view that that the second coming still hasn't happened.

The second coming has happened. It's not the end time coming that happens at the end of human history, but the second coming has already happened. For instance, Jesus says in Matthew 16 28 truly I say to you there is some of those who are standing here who will not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.

This verse teaches us that the second coming while again not the final end time coming at the end of human and redemptive history was a real coming of judgment that was going to happen in the first century and It was going to concern events that were specific to them.

If you don't believe that then you believe that one of the twelve disciples is still bumbling around the earth or You believe that Jesus got it wrong because he said some of you standing here will not taste death until you see the Son of Man coming.

So either they saw the Son of Man coming in the judgment of Jerusalem or One of them is still bumbling around and has it taste death ironically in The Middle Ages there was a lot of evidence that churches actually believed that John Never died because they didn't understand that Jesus had come in judgment against Jerusalem.

And they said Matthew 16 28 says some of you will not taste death until you see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom. So because the Son of Man has not come in his kingdom. Therefore one of the disciples at minimum one has to still be alive.

And because they read into some passage in some other places They said John must still be alive Bumbling around all over the face of the earth. They took the Bible more seriously than the end time prophets do today.

They would rather believe that John was a thousand years old bumbling around the earth. Then then to believe that Jesus Christ had failed in his prediction. I'm here to tell you that Jesus Christ was successful in his prediction and that that coming happened in the first century at the downfall of Jerusalem in 8070.

We're either gonna believe Jesus or we're gonna label this event as a future event calling him a liar and I refuse to do that. In a similar passage in Luke 9 27 Jesus says this. But I say to you truthfully there are some of those standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God.

Luke is gonna help us understand the Jewish nuance of Jesus is teaching in a way that Matthew can't. Matthew if you remember is written to a Jewish audience. So he's talking in very Jewish ways and he says the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.

Luke's not doing that. Luke is written to a Gentile audience who are not Super familiar with the Old Testament laws and rituals and feasts and sacrifices and all of that. So he breaks things down in a much clearer way for us.

And he says the Son of Man coming in his kingdom and Matthew Means the exact same thing as the coming of the kingdom of God. When we are talking about the end times Matthew is gonna tell us that the end times are ushered in when the Son of Man comes in his kingdom.

Luke says I'm gonna tell you this in a little bit of a different way so that you can as a Gentile understand this the end times. Come in when the kingdom comes. So quite simply when God's kingdom comes the second coming Has accomplished its attendant of intended effect.

That's what Luke is telling us now to untangle this not just a little bit further. We need to unpack two more things. First Jerusalem made herself a direct opponent of God and his new covenant kingdom.

Matthew 22 1 through 14. They were not invited to the new wedding feast. Because of her rebellion. She was going to be put away like the Israel of old and after a single 40 year generation see Matthew 24 She would be destroyed.

Furthermore as the very first enemy that was trying to stop the kingdom of Christ from expanding Judah became the first enemy of God that was crushed under the Messiah's feet. And I want you if you if you don't understand this look at Psalm 110 Acts 2 34 through 36 Hebrews 118 or Hebrews 10 12 through 14 Jesus's kingdom is going to crush its enemies.

The final enemy is death. The first enemy was Judah. The second thing that we need to understand about this passage is when God's kingdom comes and Thankfully for us that question is not all that difficult to answer.

According to Daniel God's end time kingdom would be set up by Jesus During the Roman Empire Which is Daniel 2 44 through 45. And it would and it would come about after he ascended to the Ancient of Days.

Daniel 7. Jesus tells us that this end time kingdom was already present in seed form during his ministry. Luke 17 20 through 21. He tells us that the coming kingdom was looming imminently upon the horizon of first century Judaism in Matthew 4 17.

And he proved that that end time kingdom had already come and it was already there Already operating and already present when he cast out demons by the power of the Spirit of God. Matthew 12 28. Paul clarifies this teaching by telling us that the coming of the Spirit of God at Pentecost to the believers that coming was Unmistakable evidence that we are living in the end time kingdom of God.

Romans 14 17. Which is explaining the prophecy that happened in Joel 2 28 through 32. So when Jesus tells his 12 disciples some of you standing here will not taste death. Until they see the kingdom of God.

He's letting them know that in their lifetime God's long-awaited kingdom would arrive and When that kingdom arrived it would arrive by the coming of the Son of Man. Which is what Matthew tells us. Luke and Matthew Give us a complete view of what this means.

The end times are ushered in by the coming of the kingdom of God. Which was ushered in by the coming of the Son of Man. Jesus came Against Jerusalem he put that wicked city under his feet and he gave to his people a Kingdom that will not end.

That's Daniel 2 44. That kingdom it was going to arrive When Jesus was crowned king and Lord with all authority to rule upon or to rule over the earth and his resurrection. Matthew 28 18. That kingdom was going to come when Jesus returned to heaven to sit on his end time throne to rule over his end time people first.

Peter 3 22. That kingdom would come when he sent his spirit to indwell Regenerate and create a nation of new citizens for himself to dwell in his end time kingdom. John 3 5. Philippians 3 20. And that kingdom would begin as a Mission early on to reach the city of Jerusalem.