Disappointed why?
John 18:36 36Jesus said, “My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jewish leaders. But now my kingdom is from another place.”
Many, many Christians are just a blind as the Jews of Jesus’s time. They rejected him for not being “WHO” they EXPECTED him to be. They were expecting a ruler that would destroy the Romans, so that THEY could rule as kings forever.
They were looking in the wrong place then, just as Christians are expecting a Kingdom in the wrong place now.
Yet this next verse always makes me laugh too.
2 Corinthians 6:16 What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
I don’t know any Christian that doesn’t proudly proclaim to have Jesus in “their heart” and also state that they Walk with Jesus. Yet they deny that he has returned. How then can they have JESUS.
Another one. Ask a Christian where they go when they die? They will quickly respond: To Heaven!!!
How, pray tell is this possible. If Christ has not returned and ARMAGEDDON fulfilled then they MUST be in the grave. Lost alone just like the prophets of old.
So many Christians build their faith like a home owner decorating their house. They pick and choose, reject what they don’t like; Buy what they do.
If Christ has not returned. He was a fool just like CJ Lewis said. People rot in the grave in the vain hope that he is going to return....one day.......
But let’s look at the possibility he has returned. I know he has. Look around you. Look inside. Are you afraid, if so why? If not, why also? What is death than a turning of a page.
Life is good
And, further, you must ignore the fact that Jesus spent 40 days teaching the disciples of the kingdom after His resurrection but before His ascension.
Are you really going to tell me that after 40 days of instruction they STILL misunderstood the very nature of the kingdom when they asked "Lord, are You restoring the kingdom to Israel at this time?"
Jesus didn't say "Oh no my children, the kingdom is in your heart now ... there is no such thing as Daniels kingdom, you won't literally rule over the tribes of Israel, I won't be sitting on a literal Davids throne, you have it all wrong ..."
That's not what Jesus said ... He said "Not for you to know when ..."
And THAT my friend is why your position is utterly unbiblical ... you think THIS is the kingdom ... with murder, death, disease, destruction, and all matter of false religion and perversion rampant ...
Yes, if this is the kingdom I AM disappointed.