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To: Uncle Chip; Lee N. Field; JohnnyM; Dr. Eckleburg; 1000 silverlings
He spent 40 days teaching the apostles that He would restore the kingdom to Israel.

The text does not say anything about Him teaching that that the kingdom would ever be restored to national Israel. That is your eisegesis.

It’s apparent that the disciples did not always "get it" on the first attempt. They asked questions that made sense to them in their limited understanding. Jesus gives them the answer of how the kingdom will be expanded in Acts 1. I twill start in Jerusalem and Judea and works its way out from there,. It will go into all the nations, and no longer be confined to one nation as the disciples were expecting. They were wrong. Jesus sets them straight by His teaching.

As I said, they finally "got it" insofar as they never again mentioned the notion of the kingdom being restored to national Israel in the rest of the NT. Not once!

That’s a fact.

Show us where Jesus said "No" to their question???

I did, but you are not paying attention.

640 posted on 10/31/2007 6:49:09 AM PDT by topcat54 ("Friends don't let friends listen to dispensationalists.")
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To: topcat54
It’s apparent that the disciples did not always "get it" on the first attempt.

What in the text makes you think that the disciples did not "get it"??? Did they all not get it??? Because they all asked the same logically pertinent question afterwards.

They asked questions that made sense to them in their limited understanding.

The question made perfect sense to Jesus.

Jesus gives them the answer of how the kingdom will be expanded in Acts 1. I twill start in Jerusalem and Judea and works its way out from there

But, topcat, Jesus had just finished telling them that only the Father knows when the kingdom would be restored to Israel. Did Jesus have an alzheimer's moment? Did He know the time or not know the time??? Did He forget what he had just told his disciples 5 seconds earlier? Or are you saying that at that moment He got a text message from His Father telling Him that it was now time to set up the kingdom? Which was it??? Was it time or not time???

Jesus sets them straight by His teaching.

No -- Jesus sets straight the subsequent preterists, replacement theologians, Marcionites, and all those who would arise to think that He would forget the words of the Old Testament prophets.

649 posted on 10/31/2007 8:19:17 AM PDT by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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To: topcat54

Show us where Jesus said “No” to their question???

I did, but you are not paying attention.

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HOGWASH. Fancy foot-work; contortionist mental mangling of Scripture and history is not in the least way a plain statement of anything.


664 posted on 10/31/2007 9:41:58 AM PDT by Quix (GOD ALONE IS GOD; WORTHY; PAID THE PRICE; IS COMING AGAIN; KNOWS ALL; IS LOVING; IS ALTOGETHER GOOD)
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