Friday, February 6, 2026
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,…” (1 Peter 1:3,4 KJV).
Perhaps we can search the Scriptures to resolve an apparent contradiction, thereby perfecting that which is lacking in superficial readers….
On the night of His arrest and crucifixion, Christ prepared the Little Flock (Israel’s believing remnant) for ministry without Him. He would soon ascend to return to His Father in Heaven, but He promised to come back at the appropriate time: “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know” (John 14:1-4). This, of course, looks to His Second Coming of Revelation 19:11-16.
A helpful cross-reference for this is found in the Parable of the Pounds (Luke 19:11-27), when He referred to Himself as “a certain nobleman.” See Luke 19:12,15: “He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return…. And it came to pass, that when he was returned, having received the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be called unto him, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading.” The “far country” is Heaven from whence He retrieves the Kingdom of Heaven, bringing it back to Israel on the Earth at His Second Coming (Revelation 20:4,6). “Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence” (John 18:36).
This is the very kingdom postponed from His First Coming….
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