John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Luke 17:20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation:
This should show that Dave-L is correct when he says that thinking that there will be a physical kingdom some time in the future is a Pharisee doctrine.
If there was to be a physical kingdom then people who are NOT born again would see it and the Lord Jesus would have mis-spoke. If there was to be a physical kingdom then the kingdom of God WOULD come with observation and the Lord Jesus would have mis-spoke.
I'm gonna have to assume the Lord Jesus doesn't mis-speak. That's a pretty easy theology.
Tell me. If the Kingdom is not physical, why do we need a body to house our spirit like we do now?
Only THEN, we will have a glorified, sinless body.
Assurance of the Resurrection
5 For we know that if our earthly house,
this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our
HABITATION which is from heaven, 3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. 4 For we who are in
this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life.
HABITATION:
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- a dwelling place, habitation
- of the body as a dwelling place for the spirit
Jesus was not just Spirit in His resurrection Body. He ate and drank. And had a PHYSICAL Body:
John 20:27 New King James Version (NKJV)
27 Then He said to Thomas, “Reach your finger here, and look at My hands; and reach your hand
here, and put
it into My side. Do not be unbelieving, but believing.”