DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM: THE NEVER-ENDING STORY
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Destruction Of Jerusalem
a) Now enters the last Times of Israel — THE KINGDOM IN ALL THE WORLD — the period in which we still live today.
b) God's spiritual kingdom, the new Israel, had been spreading rapidly throughout the world. Churches had been established in numerous cities. The Holy Spirit's blessing, and the risen Christ's power, had been manifested everywhere. It was clear that Christ was reigning as both king and high priest in heaven.
c) Many, nevertheless, were blind to all this, and the Jews, especially in Jerusalem, generally just kept right on following the old way as if nothing had happened. They rejected their Christ and his sacrifice on the cross. They clung to their temple worship for forty years. But in AD 70 it was suddenly taken from them by the Romans who besieged and destroyed their city and temple — just as Jesus himself had foretold.
2. The Never-ending Story
a) By the time that the New Testament scriptures were complete, and the miraculous signs had ceased, the gospel had become known across the world in every nation. God's kingdom, Israel, was no longer a worldly kingdom, but rather a spiritual kingdom. This kingdom of heaven, the new Israel, was spread throughout the world. It was a kingdom to which people of every nation belonged whether Jew or Gentile. The king of this wonderful kingdom is Jesus Christ, who reigns from heaven.
b) The gospel of this kingdom includes the belief that Jesus Christ is coming again one day, at the end of the world to gather up his spiritual Israel, from among the living and the dead, to take its every citizen into heaven forever. And so it is true to say that there is no end to the story of Israel.
The End ...
1. Destruction Of Jerusalema) Now enters the last Times of Israel — THE KINGDOM IN ALL THE WORLD — the period in which we still live today.
b) God's spiritual kingdom, the new Israel, had been spreading rapidly throughout the world. Churches had been established in numerous cities. The Holy Spirit's blessing, and the risen Christ's power, had been manifested everywhere. It was clear that Christ was reigning as both king and high priest in heaven.
c) Many, nevertheless, were blind to all this, and the Jews, especially in Jerusalem, generally just kept right on following the old way as if nothing had happened. They rejected their Christ and his sacrifice on the cross. They clung to their temple worship for forty years. But in AD 70 it was suddenly taken from them by the Romans who besieged and destroyed their city and temple — just as Jesus himself had foretold.
2. The Never-ending Story
a) By the time that the New Testament scriptures were complete, and the miraculous signs had ceased, the gospel had become known across the world in every nation. God's kingdom, Israel, was no longer a worldly kingdom, but rather a spiritual kingdom. This kingdom of heaven, the new Israel, was spread throughout the world. It was a kingdom to which people of every nation belonged whether Jew or Gentile. The king of this wonderful kingdom is Jesus Christ, who reigns from heaven.
b) The gospel of this kingdom includes the belief that Jesus Christ is coming again one day, at the end of the world to gather up his spiritual Israel, from among the living and the dead, to take its every citizen into heaven forever. And so it is true to say that there is no end to the story of Israel.
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