3 Resurrections
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The manifestation of the kingdom of God to the first-century people in Israel was not "withdrawn" or put on hold simply because most of Christ's own people rejected His rule. We know that John wrote, "He came unto His own, and His own received Him not."Your claims of who the iron and the clay are not from the text. You are still not responding to Jesus' pronouncement that their house was left desolate. If the kingdom had actually started, Jesus would not have been weeping. If the kingdom had started, all other powers would have gone away.
In summary, the kingdom of God came very near, among them, then withdrew because they did not recognize their visitation.
You are not crediting Christ with enough power to maintain His own kingdom in spite of His enemies. Christ's weeping over Jerusalem was not because His kingdom failed to be realized when they rejected it. Jesus was weeping because the vast majority of His own people at that time were going to be cast out of His kingdom for their unbelief. Their second temple was left "desolate" because it had been utterly corrupted by then, and the new spiritual temple made without hands and composed of "living stones" was going to be the spiritual kingdom's New Jerusalem and New Covenant reality that would stand forever.