The Trinity in John 16
26 Sep '18 22:151 editWe are not told too much specifically why Jesus would not let anyone touch Him in the morning of His resurrection, but allowed them to do so in the evening.
But those with experience in loving and worshipping Jesus have explained to me that it was because Jesus wanted the FIRST enjoyment and appreciation of His resurrection to be God the Father's in heaven.
Always the Father and His will came before every kind of other affection and human involvement. The Father was first in all of His love.
it could be that He ascended for the Father to be the first enjoyer of His freshly resurrected being.
Traditional Christianity only knows that Christ ascended publicly many days latter, as Luke records. There is no contradiction.
This ascension must have been a private ascension rather than a public and visible one.
You know He will return in the same manner - first secretly, quietly and privately to rapture some lovers who are truly watching and ready.
Then three and one half years latter He will come publicly on the visible clouds of glory, at the close of the great tribulation time to rapture the REST of the saints who had not been ready.
These are the ones who pass through the time of the great tribulation.
Christ ascended quietly and privately first - John 20:17.
Christ then ascended publicly some days after this - Luke 24:51, Acts 1:9-11.
Correspondingly in His second coming Christ will first come for a remnant of watching and ready ones like a thief in the night - stealing the precious saints who are living moment by moment as if ready to meet Him - Matthew 24:40-44, Rev. 3:10 .
Then as most of the church passes through the great tribulation, He will come at its conclusion, publicly, dramatically, visibly over the Holy Land, and rapture the remaining Christians to the air First Thessalonians 4:16,17; Rev. 14:14-16
Some of you should obtain a Recovery Version New Testament with footnotes. I've known some people to get a RcV and remain up through the entire night studying the notes to all kinds of difficult passages and issues.
www.recoveryversion.org
But those with experience in loving and worshipping Jesus have explained to me that it was because Jesus wanted the FIRST enjoyment and appreciation of His resurrection to be God the Father's in heaven.
Always the Father and His will came before every kind of other affection and human involvement. The Father was first in all of His love.
it could be that He ascended for the Father to be the first enjoyer of His freshly resurrected being.
"Jesus said to her, Do not touch Me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father ... (John 20:17a)
Traditional Christianity only knows that Christ ascended publicly many days latter, as Luke records. There is no contradiction.
This ascension must have been a private ascension rather than a public and visible one.
You know He will return in the same manner - first secretly, quietly and privately to rapture some lovers who are truly watching and ready.
Then three and one half years latter He will come publicly on the visible clouds of glory, at the close of the great tribulation time to rapture the REST of the saints who had not been ready.
These are the ones who pass through the time of the great tribulation.
Christ ascended quietly and privately first - John 20:17.
Christ then ascended publicly some days after this - Luke 24:51, Acts 1:9-11.
Correspondingly in His second coming Christ will first come for a remnant of watching and ready ones like a thief in the night - stealing the precious saints who are living moment by moment as if ready to meet Him - Matthew 24:40-44, Rev. 3:10 .
Then as most of the church passes through the great tribulation, He will come at its conclusion, publicly, dramatically, visibly over the Holy Land, and rapture the remaining Christians to the air First Thessalonians 4:16,17; Rev. 14:14-16
Some of you should obtain a Recovery Version New Testament with footnotes. I've known some people to get a RcV and remain up through the entire night studying the notes to all kinds of difficult passages and issues.
www.recoveryversion.org
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