The fact that I am looking for Him to come again in the flesh in no way means that I don't think He came in the flesh the first time!
That should've been obvious.
No, what is obvious, is that you do not believe He "
finished" what He came to do in the flesh, even though He said He did.
You should consider that Jesus will not drink of the fruit of the vine until He drinks it new with us in the kingdom.
Why do you consider drinking new wine in the flesh to be better than drinking new wine in the spirit, in glory? Anyway, you are wrong, the scriptures say "
in glory."
Also,
John 2:19-21 finds Jesus predicting that He will rise bodily from the dead. I suppose you think He was lying?
John 2:19-21
19 Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”
20 Then the Jews said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?”
21 But He was speaking of the temple of His body."
Yes...and He did. But that was not Him ascending/going to the Father. That is not the resurrection of prophecy, the promise of eternal life. That is proof of His power over life and death in heaven and earth. But that is all.
The actual resurrection unto eternal life, is not a worldly hybrid evolution of the flesh, it is the spirit of God "
returning to God who gave it." The flesh "
returns to the dust" and "
is burned with fervent heat and with fire."
Colossians 2:9 places Jesus as God dwelling bodily in human flesh.
You have been "
cheated." Read also verse 8, which warns against your thinking as men of flesh and as the world thinks, not accrediting to Christ all the glory of God, whom is spirit:
8 "
Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ."
...On the contrary, I accredit Him with all glory.
Luke 24:42-43 (kjv) has Jesus eating a piece of broiled fish and honeycomb after rising from the dead.
Again, that speaks of Jesus rising bodily from the dead--not going to the Father, not ascending unto glory.
In Acts 1:9-11, Jesus ascends bodily into heaven; and the angels declare that He will return in like manner as He went up.
We just covered this: Jesus went "
to the Father" whom "
is spirit", which "
no man has seen except the Son"--they only saw Him leave, that's all. They did not see His body enter the kingdom of God, "
for flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom." Surely, you have read all of what I am repeating to you, that these things are true. This is not me talking...this is what is written.
When all is said and done, He will drink wine with us new in the kingdom. The wine He is referring to in the passage, is the same, physical, wine, that they were all drinking at the Last Supper.
This indicates a physical body that the Lord will be able to partake of wine in.
You are drawing your own conclusions by "
your own understanding", not accounting for all that is written.
It doesn't say that. That is just you speculating.