The Eight Kingdom Texts in Acts

[Hiddenthings]

All of these things will happen at or around the end of the sixth age/start of the seventh age, in around 20 years' time, about the year 2044 AD.
Shalom

I'm not a fan of setting dates...they often lead to disappointment rather than encouragement when they come and go. But you're right in your response: the tents of Judah must be saved first, then all Israel.

We are told of the circumstances surrounding this new age in Zechariah 14

Zechariah 14:7 (ESV): "And there shall be a unique day, which is known to the Lord, neither day nor night, but at evening time there shall be light."

The Kingdom age @Matthias begins with the Light of the Glorified Christ and His Saints on the mountains of Jerusalem.

The earth has never seen such a day as this one.

 

[Matthias]

Thanks. People should read the strongest arguments they can find against their position. In this article the author, a trinitarian, is a little cagey with his readers. He refers to “a deviant teaching that is almost as old as Christianity itself …”

What did you make of that? He doesn’t provide us with / identify a name for the teaching. Jewish monotheism / Judaism is thousands of years older than Christianity. So, do you think he is talking about that? If not, what do you think he is talking about?

We’ll treat it like a theological game show: Name That Deviant Teaching.

The trinitarian author misled (I’m willing to think unintentionally) his readers. He conflated Jewish monotheism (which is much older than Christianity - the author has to have known that) with an early unitarian heresy. Putting our knowledge of church history and post-biblical Christological development to good use, we’re able to surmise that the name of the deviant teaching (the teaching deviates from Jewish monotheism) alluded to in the article is Adoptionism.

Jesus of Nazareth himself is a Jewish monotheist. He wasn’t adopted by God.

If I were having a conversation with the author of the article @talons, one of the things I would ask him is if he is willing to go on record and say to his readers that the Messiah‘s own Jewish monotheism is deviant.

 

[Matthias]

The Messiah himself is a Jewish monotheist. Who will the Messiah inherit the earth from?

The Messiah will inherit the earth from the one who promised the land to Abraham and to his seed (Galatians 3:16).

And of great importance in connecting this to the gospel of the kingdom, Paul tells his gentile readers:

”And if you belong to the Messiah, then you are Abraham’s seed, heirs according to promise” (Galatians 3:29).

 

[Matthias]

“Land is a central, if not the central theme of biblical faith.”

(Walter Brueggeman, The Land, p. 3)

The connection of the land / earth with the gospel of the kingdom is essential.

 

[Matthias]

“And he said to them, ‘Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation’“ (Mark 16:15).

The gospel Jesus is alluding to in this verse is the gospel which Jesus himself preached, the gospel of the kingdom. When he commanded the preaching of the gospel “to all creation” I don’t understand him to mean that the gospel [of the kingdom] be preached only to the Jews but rather to the Jews and to the gentiles.