We live in the End Times

At least that’s what many in today inherited churches are teaching. But is that valid?

If we are living in the End Times, what were Paul and Peter talking about?

Now these things happened to them as a warning, but they were written down for our instruction, upon whom the end of the ages has come. 1Cor. 10:11

He was destined before the foundation of the world but was made manifest at the end of the times for your sake. 1Pet. 1:20

The end of all things is at hand; therefore keep sane and sober for your prayers. 1Pet. 4:7

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God? 1Pet. 4:17

If they were living in the End Times, what ended? Obviously Paul and Peter did not use this phrase to mean the end of ALL time or the end of OUR time. They were not thinking it was the end of our time, They had no concept or our time. They must have been speaking of THEIR time. In their time, the kingdom of Judea was at its end. The Messiah had told them that the Kingdom of Heaven/God was here. (See Also: The Kingdom of Heaven)

The second problem we now have is most of the inherited churches in the twenty-first century have miss understood the nature of the Kingdom and teach that the Kingdom of Heaven/God is delayed. The Kingdom was announced by both John the Baptists and Messiah Himself, therefore unless one thinks they were false prophets, there is something about the nature of the Kingdom that those teaching a delayed Kingdom have missed.

Those that teach a delayed Kingdom want a perfect world with the Messiah on a physical throne sitting in a physical temple. Just as the Pharisees had wanted the perfect Jewish Kingdom, where the Jews ruled the Gentiles, and all nations would have to come to Jerusalem to worship in a physical temple. They didn’t like a non-temple kingdom, where all are sons of Abraham.

There is a time coming for a New Jerusalem, but that is not The Kingdom John the Baptist, Messiah, Paul, or Petter were talking about.

The time of Jewish polity was ending, and the faith was going out to the Gentiles.