ingliz wrote:It does not mean ‘My kingdom is not of this world now (Dan 7:13-14*), but shall be so hereafter;’ as if Christ were promising a millennium: He rejected offers of an earthly kingdom. When Pilate says, "Then you are a king?" Jesus refuses to accept the title: "You have said it, not I."
"When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone"
John 6:15 KJV
"He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not."
John 1:10 KJV
"And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world."
John 8:23 KJV
Tut, Hindsite, apostasy? Have you stopped "listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation."
* Dan 7:13-14
This cannot be understood as relating to the last judgment, for it is introduced without reference to it. There is no assembling of the people of the world together; no act of judging the righteous and the wicked; no pronouncing of a sentence on either.
You have apparently been deceived by the false prophets and teachers that Jesus and the apostles warned about. However, I do agree that the statement "There is no such thing as "the Greek text" is heresy or pure ignorance of the facts.
Daniel 7:13-14 King James Version (KJV)
I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.
Jesus often referred to Himself as the son of man. So Daniel is seeing a vision of Christ being seated at the right hand of the Father and given a kingdom on earth.
So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
(Mark 16:19)
And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
(Acts 1:9-11)
And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory. And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of heaven.
(Mark 13:26-27)
John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne; And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen
Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
(Revelation 1:4-7)
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished.
This is the first resurrection.Blessed and holy is he that hath part in
the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.
(Revelation 20:4-6)
The Second ResurrectionAnd I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
(Revelation 20:12)
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
(1 Timothy 3:16)
God revealed Himself to Israel as redeemer of His covenant people; but before God became man by the miracle of the incarnation by the virgin birth, it was a mystery to them how God could ever qualify as redeemer, which implies a blood relationship. And so God had to become one of us to redeem us from the guilt and penalty of our sin.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ...And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
(John 1:1, 14)
He was not of the world, yet he became part of the world in order to redeem us from sin.
Praise the Lord.
HalleluYah