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Ecclesiastes 2:18 (kjv) 'Yea, I hated all my Labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.' Labour: referring to all that is produced by it

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Hello @ScottA, I do not deny that Christ came in the flesh, for it is a matter of record that He came. He fulfilled the work of Him that sent Him, and destroyed the work of the devil by His death and resurrection. The potential for His return was there, and could have been fulfilled quickly, had Israel repented, but they did not, and the kingdom purpose is now in abeyance. Have you not heard of the patient waiting of Christ? (Matt.12:36; Heb.10:12,13; 2 Thess.3:5) The suffering of Christ took place at His first advent, the glory of Christ is yet to come at His second advent. Luke 4:16-21, records a day when the Lord stood up to read from the book of Isaiah in the synagogue, and he closed the book after reading just a few verses, at which He said, 'This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears', if He had continued He could not have said that, for what followed referred to a yet future day, in which His ministry would take on a very different form. A gap of time would elapse before that would take place, and we are still awaiting it. Do you deny, Scott, that the Lord will return? In Christ Jesus Christine

Hello @ScottA, The Lord Jesus Christ came to fulfill the promises made to the Fathers (Romans 15:8) as you say. Following His resurrection, and during the period of approx. 40 years covered by the book of the Acts of the Apostles, the epistles written during that time confirm the fact that the believers of that day were expecting His imminent return, which depended on the repentance of Israel. 'But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all His prophets, that Christ should suffer, He hath so fulfilled. Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; And He shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:' (Act 3:18-20) * This did not happen, Israel did not repent, they rejected the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ at His first advent, and the opened door and ministry of Christ Jesus the risen Lord, performed through the Apostles of the circumcision, and Paul, following His resurrection. Then at Acts 28:28, following the quotation of Isaiah 6, in Acts 28:25-27, salvation was sent to the Gentiles, for they would receive it. * Today is indeed the day of salvation and the church of the One Body, of which Christ is the Head, is being called out, a united, spiritual company who are ONE in Him, they now await His appearing in glory, when they too will appear with Him. ( Col.3:4 & Eph. Phil.) 'For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;' (Tit 2:11-13) In Christ Jesus Christine

'And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with His mighty wind shall He shake His hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod. And there shall be an highway for the remnant of His people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that He came up out of the land of Egypt.' (Isa 11:15,16) 'In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria, and the Egyptians shall serve with the Assyrians. In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land: Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance. (Isa 19:23-25) ' And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory.' (Isa 20:3-5) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/02/death-nile-egypt-fearsethiopian-dam-will-cut-water-supply/ Hello there, A news report this week concerning the building of a vast damn on the river Nile in Ethiopia and it's possible consequences, has brought to my mind the prophecies concerning the drying up of the Nile delta, and I wondered if anyone else has had similar thoughts. Looking up the reference in Isaiah that I wanted concerning this, I found others, which may have no relevance whatsoever, but which I found interesting with their reference to Egypt and Ethiopia. I would value your thoughts. In Christ Jesus Christine