By Ronaldo Gomes Analysing the Scriptures
Rules of interpretation
There are in the scriptures two rules of interpretation that I always follow:
“Being conscious in the first place that no man by himself may give a special sense to the words of the prophets”
2 Petter 1:20
“My brothers, it is because of you that I have taken Apollos and myself as examples of these things, so that in us you might see that it is not wise to go farther than what is in the holy Writings, so that no one of you may be lifted up against his brother.
1 Corínthians 4:6
Jesus set a time for your return
Throughout the gospel, Jesus said His coming would be soon:
“Jesus says to him, You say so: but I say to you, From now you will see the Son of man (soon) seated at the right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven”
Mathews 26:64
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave him so that his servants might have knowledge of the things which will quickly take place: and he sent and made it clear by his angel to his servant John;”
Apocalipse 1:1
Soon, not two thousand years after.
People from the time of Jesus would see his coming:
Mathews 10:23
“Truly I say to you (APOSTLES), There are some of those here who will not have a taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.”
Mathews 16:28
“And then the sign of the Son of man will be seen in heaven..... Truly I say to you, This generation will not come to an end till all these things are complete”
Mathews 24:30-34
Jesus says to him, You say so: but I say to you (CAIAPHAS), From now you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.
Mateus 26:64
Can I say this would be a future event? Do you remember the rules?
Jesus came soon in that generation. The coming of Jesus was in judgment upon that generation and not a future event. All references around you are references to destruction.
Come in the clouds
“And Jesus said, I am: and you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of power, and coming with the clouds of heaven”
Mark 14:62
"See, he comes with the clouds, and every eye will see him, and those by whom he was wounded; and all the tribes of the earth will be sorrowing because of him. Yes, so be it”
Apocalipse 1:7
“Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a word of authority, with the voice of the chief angel, with the sound of a horn: and the dead in Christ will come to life first;”
1 Tessalonians 4:16
Many people take this as literal, as if Jesus really came in the clouds. but Jesus also said that He was coming as a thief. Can I take this as literal too? I don’t think so:
“See, I come as a thief. Happy is he who is watching and keeps his robes, so that he may not go unclothed, and his shame be seen”
Apocalipse 16:15
“For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night”
1 Tessalonicenses 5:2
Both coming in the clouds and coming as a thief are figures of languages. Coming like a thief means coming suddenly. And coming with the clouds means coming with destruction because clouds bring storms that destroy everything:
“The word about Egypt. See, the Lord is seated on a quick-moving cloud, and is coming to Egypt: and the false gods of Egypt will be troubled at his coming, and the heart of Egypt will be turned to water”
Isaiah 19:1
“And you will go up, you will come like a storm, you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your forces, and a great number of peoples with you”
Ezequiel 38:9
Even Jesus used the symbolism about his coming:
Mathews 24:37-39
Then two men will be in the field; one is taken, and one let go;Two women will be crushing grain; one is taken, and one let go.
Mathews 24:40,41
The people who were taken at Noah's time were taken to their deaths and not to heaven. That was what Jesus was talking about. Then his coming would be the destruction of Jerusalem that happened in the seventies.
Precise date
Jesus said in Mathews 24 when he would come:
“Truly I say to you, This generation will not come to an end till all these things are complete”
Mathews 24:34
Jesus said this around the year 30. A generation according to the bible is forty years old:
“Then the Lord was angry with Israel, and he made them wanderers in the waste land for forty years? till all that generation who had done in the eyes of the Lord was dead”
Numbers 32:13
“For forty years I was angry with this generation, and said, They are a people whose hearts are turned away from me, for they have no knowledge of my ways;”
Psalms 95:10
So, 30 + 40 = 70
The year of the fall of Jerusalem
What is an alliance? An alliance is a pact between two people. In the bible covenant is a covenant between two beings, one in heaven and one on earth. The being of heaven is God and the being of earth is man. Haven and earth.
When God made a covenant with Israel he said:
“Give ear, O heavens, to my voice; let the earth take note of the words of my mouth:
Deuteronomy 32:1
land (הָאָ֖רֶץ) refers to the land of israel:
“for from the prophets of Jerusalem unclean behaviour has gone out into all the land”
Jeremiah 23:15
All the land it’s not a whole world it’s the land of Israel only.
So the covenant was betwee God in the haven and the earth of Israel:
“The vision of Isaiah, the son of Amoz, which he saw about Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Give ear, O heavens, and you, O earth, to the word which the Lord has said: I have taken care of my children till they became men, but their hearts have been turned away from me.
Isaiah 1:1,2
“The agreement which I made with you when you came out of Egypt, and my spirit, are with you still; have no fear. For this is what the Lord of armies has said: In a short time I will make a shaking of the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land;”
Ageu 2:5,6
Then we see in all scripture that the heavens and the earth refer to the covenant;
And according to the new testament Jesus made a new covenant:
Take of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is given for men for the forgiveness of sins.
Mathews 26:28
New Jerusalem
“And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were gone; and there was no more sea. And I saw the holy town, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, like a bride made beautiful for her husband”
Apocalipse 21:1,2
Paul talked about two allegorical jerusalem. each Jerusalem symbolizes a covenant. One was a slave to her children. And the other free that came down from heaven and was already present in Paul's time. Same as John saw in heaven along with new heavens and new earth:
“Which things have a secret sense; because these women are the two agreements; one from the mountain of Sinai, giving birth to servants, which is Hagar. Now this Hagar is the mountain Sinai in Arabia, and is the image of the Jerusalem which now is: which is a servant with her children. But the Jerusalem on high is free, which is our mother.”
The kingdom of Jesus
Because John saw a new Jerusalem in the apocalypse, many Christians think it refers to a physical city or future kingdom of Jesus. But thath’s not true. Acctually jesus said:
“And when the Pharisees put questions to him about when the kingdom of God would come, he gave them an answer and said, The kingdom of God will not come through observation: And men will not say, See, it is here! or, There! for the kingdom of God is among you”
Lucke 17:20,21
This already shows that the new Jerusalem is not a physical city. It is a spiritual city. And as we saw earlier Paul said that this new jerusalem already existed in his day.
“Which things have a secret sense; because these women are the two agreements; one from the mountain of Sinai, giving birth to servants, which is Hagar. Now this Hagar is the mountain Sinai in Arabia, and is the image of the Jerusalem which now is: which is a servant with her children. But the Jerusalem on high is free, which is our mother”
Gálatas 4:24-26
The new Jerusalem was the church, the kingdom that Jesus said did not come with an outward appearance. The church he founded.
“And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock will my church be based, and the doors of hell will not overcome it. I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatever is fixed by you on earth will be fixed in heaven: and whatever you make free on earth will be made free in heaven”
Mathews 16:18,19
And the apocalypse speaks not only about a city in heaven, but also about the birth of Jesus:
Apocalipse 12:5
So if we know this is just a symbology, then so is the city.
Therefore Christians should not wait for a kingdom that Jesus has already made. Must be part of him, the church
let's see more in the another post
See ya!
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