Pastor Bob are you an octogenarian? 

 

I am.  I’ve been studying these Scriptures for a long time, as well as secular history.  I beg to differ with you. 

 

Jesus died on the cross and three days later he arose from the dead and appeared to his believers for 40 days and on the 490th day from the beginning his ministry, or 70 weeks later, he baptized the 120 in the upper room with his Holy Spirit. 

 

So he actually did come back in the flesh and ate with them.  Through those he then began to rule and reign with a rod of iron.  He’s coming the 2nd time to gather believers to himself and take them to the New Jerusalem prepared for them.  Hallelujah !!!  jfh

 

P.S.  Oh, btw it was also 490 years, or 70 week-of-weeks, from the 7th year of Artaxerxes I (Esther’s king) that Jesus began his earthly ministry.

 

“I have researched this premise for thirty years and as a history major, I know where to locate the best sources on matters of history.  I have never found a scrap of evidence that Jesus returned or manifested Himself to any place in Jerusalem or Israel proper.”

                           I understand the below.

  “Keep in mind His first coming He came as a Lamb to the slaughter, and in His Second Coming He will come as the Lion of Judah and reign with an iron rod! 

                         He rules through his believers by his Holy Spirit.

If Jesus' second coming has already happened prior we have no evidence to that effect He has ruled and reigned with a rod of iron.  If such event had occurred we would have some evidence to that effect in the historical record. 

             Jesus rules over the Spiritual kingdom that is in control of unbelievers for he says his kingdom is not of this world.  God is a Spirit.

“Christian folks fail to realize that all the nations of the Bible world kept records, accounting records, tax records, political, military, records of births, even data on such things as year to year harvest yields and the weather, etc.  The ancient records are preserved for us and there is absolutely zero evidence that Jesus has had a second coming.  They exist but are not of interest to most of us so we simply assume of their being non-existent.” by Pastor Bob

          Yes, they put it on steles and monuments that have been translated for us today. Jesus’ coming and coming again is recorded in the heavens/stars also. Gen 1:14, Psa 19:1-4   jfh

 

There is nothing in Scripture that says there is a “gap” between those last 7 weeks.  Jesus died in the midst of the 63rd week and the Holy Spirit descended on the 120 at the end of the 70th week.

 

Proverbs 25:2 “It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.”

Rev. 5:10 “And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.”

 

I’m a king and a priest on the earth by way of the Holy Spirit in me.

 

1 Cor. 6:19 “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

 

May God bless you with the reading of His word.  jfh