The Coming Of The Kingdom Of GOD!

Hi! and happy good Thursday to all of us; and, it's just 43 days to go before Christmas, GUYS.  Our today's "food for the soul":

 

THE GOOD NEWS (12 November 2015)

"The Pharisees asked JESUS when the kingdom of GOD was to come.  HE answered, 'The kingdom of GOD is not like something you can observe and say of it:  'Look, here it is! There it is!'  See, the kingdom of GOD is among you.' 

And JESUS said to HIS disciples, 'The time is at hand when you will long to see one of the glorious days of the Son of Man, but you will not see it.  Then people will tell you:  'Look there! Look here!'  Do not go, do not follow them.  As lightning flashes from one end of the sky to the other, so will it be with the Son of Man.  But first HE must suffer many things and be rejected by this people." - Luke 17:20-25

(When will the kingdom of GOD come?  It does not come as a revolution or the change of the seasons each year:  it is at work in people who have received the Good News.  Those who believe already enjoy the Kingdom.

 

Then come the words of JESUS  concerning the end of Jerusalem and HIS second coming.  We should not speak about the end of the world in every time of anxiety.  JESUS gives us two comparisons:  the lightning which is seen everywhere and the vultures which gather without fail wherever there is a corpse,  In the same way, everyone, without fail, will be aware of CHRIST's return.

 

Yet HIS return will catch off guard those who are not expecting it (just as in the days of Noah).  Judgment will separate the elect from the condemned - nothing separated them in daily life - from two people working side by side, one will be taken, the other left behind.)