Once Jesus was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, and he answered, \u2018The kingdom of God is not coming with things that can be observed; nor will they say, \u201cLook, here it is!\u201d or \u201cThere it is!\u201d For, in fact, the kingdom of God is among you.\u2019<\/p>\n
Then he said to the disciples, \u2018The days are coming when you will long to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. They will say to you, \u201cLook there!\u201d or \u201cLook here!\u201d Do not go, do not set off in pursuit. For as the lightning flashes and lights up the sky from one side to the other, so will the Son of Man be in his day. But first he must endure much suffering and be rejected by this generation. Just as it was in the days of Noah, so too it will be in the days of the Son of Man. They were eating and drinking, and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed all of them. Likewise, just as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, but on the day that Lot left Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from heaven and destroyed all of them \u2014it will be like that on the day that the Son of Man is revealed. On that day, anyone on the housetop who has belongings in the house must not come down to take them away; and likewise anyone in the field must not turn back. Remember Lot\u2019s wife. Those who try to make their life secure will lose it, but those who lose their life will keep it. I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. There will be two women grinding meal together; one will be taken and the other left.\u2019 Then they asked him, \u2018Where, Lord?\u2019 He said to them, \u2018Where the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Once Jesus was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, and he answered, \u2018The kingdom of God is not coming with things that can be observed; nor will they say, \u201cLook, here it is!\u201d or \u201cThere it is!\u201d For, in fact, the kingdom of God is among you.\u2019 Then he said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-coming-of-the-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chaplachap.com\/cloud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}