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– Rapturous Silence –
To
some this poses a problem – why
the silence post Parousia? – what happened after AD 70? Could such
apparent or awkward "silence"
be explained thus:
Judg
2:10
Moreover, in time death overtook all that generation; and there arose
another generation after them, that did not know [recognise,
understand] the LORD, nor yet the work which He had wrought for
Israel.
Psa 78:42-43
They did not remember His power: the day when He redeemed them from the
enemy. When He worked His signs in Egypt, and His wonders in the field
of Zoan.
As it
was for Israel post Egyptian bondage, so might it have been for new
covenant Israel when they came out of Sin-Death bondage in AD70, within
a generation some forgot the work that God had wrought for them.
Or,
could
it have been that "Christians" who in that time were predominately
viewed as a sect
within Judaism, and that due to the whole-scale destruction of practicing
Judaism throughout Palestine in the Roman-Jewish wars, that the Church
as it was in its infancy fell into a self protective and preservative
silence.
Or
perhaps one
further thought might suffice – a simple explanation as to the apparent, and
yet frightful
to some "silence" post Parousia might simply be that of REALISED REDEMPTION
– all was complete
– there was nothing left to say. Whether it was realised or not, in the
Cross-Parousia event humanity had been fully redeemed and reconciled
back to God. Yet it has been
man-meddling "religion" on the
other hand following on somewhat later, that taking a while to gather up her
feet has delivered to us what we know of her today.
[DISCUSS
HERE]
David
G. Embury
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