(July 4, 2014 at 11:30 pm)orangebox21 Wrote:(July 3, 2014 at 10:38 pm)Irrational Wrote:The bold part.
Where in the text? That's what I'm trying to get you to answer.
(July 3, 2014 at 10:38 pm)Irrational Wrote: 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.Yes, once He is in the kingdom (at the time of His second advent) He will send his angels.... So kingdom, then sending angels. And if He sends the angels at the same time as His second advent it would be: first kingdom, then second advent and sending angels.
No, the bolded doesn't say what you think it says.
So Jesus is already in the kingdom (as you just said near the end of the quote). So the second advent had already occurred. There is no "first kingdom". There is a figurative kingdom sometimes alluded to in the Gospels because the Gospel authors needed to adjust their theology due to the failure of Jesus' prophecy, but this passage is not one of them.
