Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Re: Mark 1:15
Posted by at 5:47 PM
So... if the Kingdom of God, is composed of the Church Invisible, the Body of Christ, and the good news is the word of God is Jesus, Mark 1:15 could basically be "The time is here, I am near, repent and believe me."?
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14 Now after John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God, 15 and saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe in the gospel.
Interesting that the "gospel" definitely can't be Christ's death in this passage. What do you think the writer(s) of Mark had in mind, Dwight?
Mark does include the rending of the temple curtain (15:38). It makes me wonder about the possibility of two reconciliations. 1) The incarnation of God as man; 2) the sacrifice of Jesus as a sinless man. The one most often pondered, I think, is the latter--Jesus' blood as the means of reconciliation with the Holy of Holies. But that certainly de-emphasizes what must've been very real to those Jesus was proclaiming to in this early passage of Mark, who would have thought purely of the former.
You clearly have things on your mind, Dwight, but I'm kinda shooting in the dark here in terms of trying to grasp what exactly those things are. Help a brother out, yeah?
I don't see why he can't be talking about both the incarnation and his death and resurrection here. The time has come (the incarnation) and the kingdom of God (to be ushered in by his death and resurrection) is at hand...
What's on my mind is that I hear long talks on stuff that the closest they get to the gospel is saying "the gospel" or something similar.