I don't want to have to guess as to how exactly you think Genesis 12-17 supports your view. Is it too much trouble for you to quote scripture and highlight the parts that you think support your view?
For the umpteenth time, I believe God when He told Abraham he would produce the biological nation Israel--Abraham's actual descendants forming into a nation of faith. And He then extended that promise to include many nations of faith.
How does that support my view? All of these things have happened, and yet have failed in the present and past ages. They have not yet come to fulfillment. Unless you think God lies, He will produce the fulfillment of these promises to Abraham after the 2nd Coming of Christ.
The Prophets of the Bible proclaimed the coming of the Messianic Kingdom in which all of these things will come to pass. They will never fail again, as they have in the present and past ages.
You mean a day is as a thousand years (you said "year")?
Yes, thank you. The verse doesn't prove anything, but provides an allusion to what many have thought God's timetable would be. Sounds about right, to me?
You rarely provide scriptures. You seem to think that your words are on the same level as the words in scripture. That is obviously not the case.
Yes, when what I saw reflects truth that is in Scripture I don't always need to quote it. It's truth I'm after--not just quoting Scriptures. Lots of people quote Scriptures and still do not tell the truth.
His spiritual kingdom isn't here on the earth? Why did Paul say that we have been brought into His kingdom then?
Paul said our inheritance is with Christ in heaven. We on earth have signed onto this Salvation. We own it. But we won't actually inherit this Kingdom until it comes.
Do you deny what Paul taught here? Do you deny that you are in Christ's kingdom now?
None of us are in the Eschatological Kingdom, which *is not yet here!* You're just talking about owning a down payment on our Salvation, which of course we all have, if we're truly saved. A down payment is *not the whole thing!*
Do you understand that He dwells spiritually within us?
Don't you understand that God's dwelling in us through the Spirit is *not the inception of God's eschatological Kingdom!*
So, I completely disagree with you that His spiritual kingdom is not on the earth. It most certainly is!
You're entitled to your opinion. My opinion is that the *eschatological Kingdom* is not yet on the earth. The Kingdom of heaven is still in heaven, and is indeed spiritual. As such, it is able to impact the earth through salvation and through judgment. But it is *not yet here!*
He said His kingdom does not come with observation (Luke 17:20). So, why do you contradict that by saying that His kingdom will come with observation? It won't come with observation until He returns and delivers the kingdom to the Father (1 Cor 15:22-24).
When Jesus was here the Jewish leaders tried to pass themselves off as representatives of God's Kingdom. They had been called to such, but they had failed. They had owned a temporal form of the Kingdom, but in failing to live by the Law they lost the Kingdom of God to the Gentile world.
These Jewish leaders were not able to see the Kingdom of God "with observation." They were looking for deliverance from Rome instead of looking to their own need for repentance. They utterly failed to see in Jesus the King over that future Kingdom.
You are denying the obvious here. Matthew 25:31-46 very specifically indicates that all people will be gathered before Him when He comes with His angels.
Jesus comes with his angels, and *then* he gathers the nations. Perhaps this comes during the course of the Millennium? I don't at all see it happened *at the 2nd Coming!*
Matt 25.31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats."
What this says is that at the time Jesus returns he will *sit on his throne.* It does not say he will immediately gather all nations. It does not say they had already been gathered for that moment.
Obviously, if someone is going to gather nations, it is going to take time. I surmise that when Jesus is sitting on his throne, ruling over the world during the Millennium, he will be in the process of gathering nations. Some will become Christian nations. Some will become pagan nations.
But the point is, God will be selecting who is righteous and who is not. And at the end of the Millennium he will dispatch the wicked to their place in outer darkness. But the righteous he will give a place in his fellowship forever.
You call this bias. I call it just as I see it.