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states it this way: \him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory [previously received], and before him shall be gathered all nations\punishment: but the righteous into eternal life\experience of the righteous in the heavenly phase of the kingdom, and \that of the wicked in the lake of fire.Other scriptures already noticed indicate that the kingdom would be received by Christ shortly upon arrival in heaven after his death, resurrection, and ascension when he would receive \28:19), and was indicated on Pentecost after his ascension as having already been accomplished.This means, then, that any references after that to the kingdom as yet future (as Acts 14:23; 2 Timothy 4:1, 18; and 2 Peter 1:11, already mentioned) have to do with it, not on earth between his first and second comings, but to its eternal continuation in heavenly glory in the world to come when and where \REST FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD\Israel according to the flesh, but not retained under the New Covenant mediated by Christ for spiritual Israel (consisting of both Jews and Gentiles according to the flesh, who accept it). Final Observations 1. Christ and the Sabbath till His Death(The Gospels).Christ lived and died on earthunder the Old Covenant law of Moses, and he and his disciples kept the seventh-day, Sabbath of the Decalogue, though at times he and they violated what had come to be the traditional Jewish interpretations of its intended restrictions --he being divine as well as human, and knowing the divine intent of it, declared himself to be \the sabbath\But as already documented, at his death, the Old Covenant law was abrogated and his shed blood was the blood of the New Covenant, which did not incorporate the sabbath command as it did in the other nine commandments of the Decalogue of the Old Covenant, forreasons that have already been noted. After his resurrection, which occurred on the first day of the week, that day begins to be featured.2. The First Day of the Week Featured after His Resurrection (Gospels through Revelation).On resurrection Sunday, the risen Christ appeared to Mary Magdalene, a group of women, the apostle Peter, two disciples on the road to Emmaus, and to all his apostles that evening except