1) had the rich young ruler truly been keeping all the commandments since a youth?
2) oh look: Jesus taught Two Ages - this age, and an age to come: eternal life.
no interim Millennium.
I dont know the guy so I cant say 100%, but it would seem Yahshua was trying to get him to understand the Spirit of the Law, the same account is in Matt 19, but worded slightly differently.
"IF you wish to enter into life keep the Commandments..."
then He goes on to say sell everything. He didnt say forget the Commandments He said r, "very well for keeping also sell give to poor." Cant do step b before a. Foundation, if it did not matter Yahshua wouldnt have asked.
and we cant isolate Scriptures:
Isayah 42:21, "Yahweh is well-pleased, for His righteousness' sake, to magnify the Law, and make it honorable"
Mattithyah 5:19, "Whosoever, therefore, will break one of the least of these Laws, and will teach men so, he will be called the least in the Kingdom of Yahweh; but whosoever will do and teach them, the same will be called great in the Kingdom of Yahweh."
Yahchanan 14:15, "If you love Me, keep My commandments."
Mattithyah 5:18, "For truly I say to you; Unless heaven and earth passes away, one yodh--the smallest of the letters--will in no way pass from the Law, until all things are perfected."
Luke 16:17, "But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one yodh of the Law to fail."
Revelation 22:12-15, "And behold, I come quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work will be. I am the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. Blessed are those who keep His Laws, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For outside are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and worshipers of gods and everyone who professes to love, yet practices falsehood."
I see you have brought the debate from the other thread here...
2 ages, is not the 1000 years the age to come?
no 1000 years huh?
Revelation 20:2-5, "And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, who is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a
thousand years--And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more,
until the thousand years should be finished; and after that he must be loosed a little season. And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them. And I saw the souls of those who were beheaded for their witness of Yahshua and for the word of Yahweh and who had not worshiped the beast, nor his likeness, neither had received his mark in their foreheads nor upon their hands;
and they lived and reigned with the Messiah a thousand years--
But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection--"