(July 2, 2014 at 1:12 pm)orangebox21 Wrote: How can the kingdom be established at the end of the world when Christ returns (that these two events are temporally synonomous) when Christ says in Matthew 13:41 He shall send His angels to gather out of his kingdom? This implies that the kingdom has already been established prior to the second coming.
The context of Matthew 13:41 never suggests the kingdom is established before the coming of the Son of Man.
Read again what it says:
The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil.
That's what it says. To send out angels throughout the kingdom that he had already established to weed out the evildoers. Where does it say he hadn't arrived yet?
