Jesus didn’t preach poetry…he preached the truth, and by his many illustrations, he got his message across to the few who were really touched by his simple teachings.
The apostles were to spearhead the work the Master assigned to them….to continue what he started and to make more more disciples. But preaching was to be engaged in by all his followers who heard it and responded….then offering the same opportunity to others. (Rev 22:17)
Luke 10:1-2…
”After these things the Lord designated 70 others and sent them out by twos ahead of him into every city and place where he himself was to go. 2 Then he said to them: “Yes, the harvest is great, but the workers are few. Therefore, beg the Master of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.”
So not just the apostles….Christ’s disciples were to go out and make more disciples…this is how Christianity was to be spread.
No…..at no time did the Messiah identify himself as “God”. He identified himself as "the son of God".....not the same.
And “the good news of the kingdom” never changed…..what was “good news“ about it then, is still good news to this day.
But you didn’t answer my questions, which is nothing new in my experience…..those who subscribe to the teachings of Christendom have no idea what the kingdom is, how it comes, or what it will do for redeemed humanity….they are too busy trying to get to heaven, when that was never a destination for the majority of humans in the first place.
Only a chosen few would get that privilege and God would be doing the choosing.
These have a specific role…..as “kings and priests”, ruling with Christ. (Rev 20:6) But kings need subjects and priests needs sinners for whom to perform their priestly duties. They will have these on earth where the kingdom will rule saved humanity. (Rev 21:2-4)
You see, that is the good news! That, what we lost in Eden, is given back to us at the end of the Kingdom’s 1000 year rule.…when Jesus hands back rightful rulership to his Sovereign, God and Father, having accomplished what he was “sent” to do……to restore everlasting life in paradise on earth for those who are humble and obedient to the Creator, in spite of the devil's trickery.
In the first century, miracles were a common thing and this demonstrated that God had turned his attention away from the corrupt Pharisees and the continuing disobedient nation they led, and was blessing the apostles who received the holy spirit from Jesus after his departure. Before then, miracles could still be performed by the mention of Jesus’ name. Now it was their own possession, a token of their heavenly inheritance and the means by which many would come to Christ. But it was not to last….
Paul wrote….
”But if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away with; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away with. 9 For we have partial knowledge and we prophesy partially, 10 but when what is complete comes, what is partial will be done away with. 11 When I was a child, I used to speak as a child, to think as a child, to reason as a child; but now that I have become a man, I have done away with the traits of a child.. . . .Now, however, these three remain: faith, hope, love; but the greatest of these is love.” (1 Cor13:8-13)
Christians had to grow up and move on to maturity, so the identifying traits of a mature Christian now, was not the witnessing of miracles, but the qualities of “faith, hope and love”…….so the gifts died with the apostles who were the only ones who could pass them on to others by the laying on of hands. After the death of the apostles, an apostasy was foretold….but Christendom pretends that it never happened. (Acts 20:29; 1 Tim 4:1-3; 2 Pet 2:1-3)
There are no miracles now as there was in the first century, otherwise there would be no hospitals or doctors or surgeries that we have to pay large sums of money to "fix" us. The miracles were only performed on unbelievers to bring them to Christ….they were never used on themselves or their fellow Christians and there were no failures. But the devil is a mimic and he will prey on the ignorance that is promoted in the church system to see these less than perfect “miracles” as coming from God, when it is really the work of the one whom Paul said can transform himself into “an angel of light”. (2 Cor 11:13-15) The devil has power too....but nothing like God's power.
No, that is not, ”the good news of the Kingdom”, which has to be based on what that “kingdom” is…..and how it “comes”, so that God’s will is “done on earth as it is in heaven”…...what it will do for those redeemed by Christ’s sacrifice.
You have done what most do when confronted with these specific questions…you skirted around them by referring to peripheral things connected with that “good news”…..but unless you understand “WHAT” the kingdom of God is, you will never be part of it, or enjoy its rulership because you are preaching the wrong message, with a false Christ, and false expectations for the majority.
You are trying to unify something that is not of God, so it will never come together as much as your intentions are noble. Christendom is a disunited, bickering mess…..and Christ has never set foot in its many divided churches because they have accepted a counterfeit Christianity that was sown by the devil so long ago, that no one even notices that it is failing because of perpetuating the same corrupt teachings with which it began.
When Jesus says at the judgment….”I never knew you”….he means “never”….which is ”not ever”. (Matt 7 :21-23)