John 7: 33 - 34.
I shall be you a little while longer, and then I go back to Him who sent Me. You will seek Me and not find Me, and where I am you cannot come.
This was spoken by Jesus about 1.1/2 to 2 years into His earthly ministry. Popular opinion has started to change, and the Pharisees and Sadducees were plotting to capture Jesus openly. Jesus is telling His followers that He will be going back to heaven, when His work on earth is finished, they will not be able to follow. Jesus said this to His disciples, before He told them about His Father's House and many mansions, and preparing a place for us, He will come again, that where He is there they shall be also (John 14:1-3). There was another group, that heard these words of Jesus. These were the unbeliever's, they did not understand about heaven; but, they knew that Jesus seemed to be able to spoil all of the religious leaders best attempts at capturing Jesus. They thought maybe Jesus was talking about visiting the Jews of the Diaspora. Diaspora is the term given to the Jews that were displaced from Israel to other countries because of their unbelief in the One True God. This is the same God, we as Christians profess to believe in. These places were all over the known world at that time; and in the unincorporated parts of Israel. Outside the grasp of the religious leaders, it was here that Jesus chose to hide from them. Where do you stand on this Jesus??
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