57._ Imminence

The disciples of Jesus believed and waited all this that we have said before. But they, naturally, knew anything of the "threshold of the last emergency", neither of the "personal time", nor of the "loop in the time". They hoped that everything happened "right now", at their time, here in the Earth, imminently, as Jesus had said. They waited, for "one of these days", the prodigious event: that literally appeared Jesus Christ like Son of Man, coming on clouds to implant his Kingdom, defeating to the Romans, confusing to the Jewish authorities, judging the unjust ones, and compensating them.

Their preoccupation was by the "brothers" who died, in case they were going to lose the great event; but Paul consoled them assuring to them that those that died in that hope would revive first, that would not lose anything. It was certainly an ingenuous faith, quite absurd, although it was an unshakeable, wonderful faith, by which they risked and they left everything. They lived hoping, excited and impatient, the coming of the Lord, the "Parusia"; at any time, by surprise, since the Lord had said: "you do not know to the day nor the hour".

They hoped, surely, to see themselves soon free of the slavery, the disease, the violence, the brutality, all their deficiencies and limitations, the innumerable shortages of the life; but they were arranged to share their goods, to serve ones to others, to work untiringly, to risk and to be killed for that reason.
They thought, perhaps, that they were the "faithful rest" that would be compensated, elevated to the highest seats of honor of the Kingdom; but they invited to unite to them to all people, rich and poor, free and enslaved, Jewish and gentile, of all class and condition, opening to them generously the arms, to welcome them like brothers in their community, in their "church".