Yes, it was one of the many things the Jews misunderstood in the prophecies regarding the Messiah.
Right. . .as there is also no indication that they had understood it correctly.
Jesus enigmatic words actually give no indication of anything.
On more than one occasion, Jesus spoke enigmatically about what could not be understood
apart from the light of Calvary.
He likewise spoke enigmatically here about the kingdom within them, which could not be understood
apart from the giving of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, and the revelations to Paul.
This event occurred before Pentecost,
before his enactment of his promise that
the Holy Spirit would enable them to understand
and recall
all things correctly (
Jn 14:26, 16:13-15),
before Christ's personal revelations to Paul explaining justification/righteous by faith and not by law keeping,
the nailing of our sins to the cross,
the abolishing in his flesh of the law with its commandments and regulations which was a dividing wall
of hostility between Jews and Gentiles,
the
joining of Gentiles and Jews into one body of Christ, the church, the wife and Bride of Christ, the Lamb (
Eph 5:31-32;
Rev 21:9:
Jn 1:29),
Christ
in us, the hope of glory,
adoption as sons of God,
etc., etc., etc.
And what you don't find in that understanding given them, and presented in the epistles, is any presentation of a future temporal earthly millennial kingdom.
No. . .they should have realized it
after receiving the Holy Spirit and the revelations given to Paul.
And that is precisely what the epistles show; i.e, their realization that there was no future temporal earthly millennial kingdom, because it is nowhere presented in their epistles.
If it were the truth of Christ, surely they would have presented it at least once.
The silence of the epistles regarding a future temporal earthly millennial kingdom speaks so loudly
that it cannot be overcome by any private and uncertain interpretation of prophetic riddles
which can be, and are, interpreted by others to mean things entirely different.
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