"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!' or 'See, there it is!' for the kingdom of GOD is within 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 with them, 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 generation.'" - 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 [Mark 13:14]. 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 [verse 37] which gather without fail wherever there is a corpse. In the same way, everyone, without fail, will be aware of CHRIST's return.)
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