Posted by Chris Just a little addition to your study on the Kingdom of God Lynn, nothing that you do not already know, but it's just good to look over these things sometimes. The parables of the Kingdom found in the first four books of the new testament, reveal the Kingdom of God, it's rejection and the rejection of the King by the people, and the result of that rejection. They also reveal that a further opportunity would be given to the people to recieve the King and the Kingdom, but that that offer too would be rejected. The meaning of the parables were not explained to the crowds of people that thronged around, but only to the disciples because their eyes and ears were opened to both see, hear and understand. (Mat 13:16) But blessed are your eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear. (Mat 13:36) Then sending the crowds away, Jesus went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, Explain to us the parable of the darnel of the field. (Mat 13:51) Jesus said to them, Have you understood all these things? They said to Him, Yes, Lord. (Mat 13:52) Then He said to them, Therefore every scribe who is instructed to the kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out things new and old out of his treasure. (Luk 24:26) Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory? (Luk 24:27) And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself. (Luk 24:44) And He said to them, These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and in the Psalms about Me. (Luk 24:45) And He opened their mind to understand the Scriptures. (Luk 24:46) And He said to them, So it is written, and so it behoved Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, (Act 1:3) to whom He also presented Himself living after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them through forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God. (Act 1:6) Then, indeed, these coming together, they asked Him, saying, Lord, do You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? (Act 1:7) And He said to them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in His own authority. In His Grace Chris
on 8/9/2006, 2:39 am, in reply to "Re: The 4 "Gospels""
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