(July 3, 2014 at 9:44 pm)orangebox21 Wrote:(July 2, 2014 at 4:11 pm)Irrational Wrote: The context of Matthew 13:41 never suggests the kingdom is established before the coming of the Son of Man.If, at the time of His second advent, Christ will send out his angels and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil, his kingdom would have to already be in existence. If not, there would be no kingdom with which to send the angels to, in order to weed out everything that causes sin and all who do evil. It says right in the text he sends his angels to his kingdom.
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?
Where in the text? That's what I'm trying to get you to answer.
I see the verse saying that, once in the kingdom, the Son of Man sent angels throughout the kingdom to weed out the evildoers. Which fits very well with other stuff Jesus said other passages in the Synoptic Gospels.
