The Time Between Times

The Time Between Times
Luke 17:20-21

The Kingdom is here, but not yet!

• John 18:26-38
  
• Matthew 3:2
  
• Matthew 4:17
  
• The “Beatitudes” of Matthew 5
  
• Matthew 10:7
  
• Matthew 11:12
  
• 12 parables in Matthew’s gospel reflecting what the Kingdom is like

Jesus’ Appearances on Resurrection Day!

• I Corinthians 15:5-8
  
• Four historical facts:
  
  • First, Christ was tried by His enemies, convicted, and crucified to death.
  • Second, shortly after His burial, Christ’s tomb was found empty
  • Third, many of the disciples, and also some skeptics, claimed to have seen Christ alive in the flesh, and interacted with Him following His death.
  • Fourth, inspired by the belief in Christ’s bodily resurrection, the disciples initiated a movement that, despite persecutions and martyrdom, converted millions of people to a new way of life based on Christ’s example and His teachings.

Alternative theories:

• Most popular; the resurrection is a myth, made up by the disciples
  
• A second theory is that the disciples stole the body
  
• A third theory is that Christ didn’t really die, but He just swooned and revived in the tomb
  
• Finally, the hypothesis of the hallucinating disciples

God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds; who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high Hebrews 1:1-3

The Resurrection of Jesus Christ

• Romans 4:25
  
• I Corinthians 15:14
  
• Romans 1:4
  
• I Corinthians 15:17

First Appearance
Mary and the time between times

• John 20:1-18
  
• Vs 17 - Do not cling to Me reinforces a temporary change in condition existing between Master and disciple
  
• A condition which Jesus tells Mary will be fully inaugurated with the Ascension.
  
• Hebrews 9:11-15a