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ISRAEL'S TWO-LANE HIGHWAY ". . . Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come." (Mat. 10:23) This verse has troubled many over the past 2,000 years, but a simple dispensational touch explains the whole thing. Obviously, the apostles DID go over the cities of Israel without Jesus coming. He ascended to heaven in Acts 1, and he's still there in Acts 7:56, Acts 9:3-4, Romans 8:34, Colossians 3:1, I Thessalonians 1:10, Hebrews 10:12, I Peter 3:22, and Revelation 1:7. So it appears, at first glance, that Jesus' prophecy was inaccurate. But that's what happens when we "glance" at scripture instead of studying scripture. His words were not inaccurate; they were POSTPONED. Why were they postponed? They were postponed due to Israel's unbelief. Think of the ministry of Jesus to Israel as a two-lane highway with a right lane of belief and a left lane of unbelief. If Israel believes on Christ, then he returns quickly before the apostles can even cover all the cities of Israel and the kingdom is established, the kingdom that had been preached since John the Baptist and prophesied in the Old Testament. If Israel travels the left lane and does not believe on Christ, then she takes the route of the "wandering Jew" for the duration of the church age and everything is postponed until the Great Tribulation and the Second Coming, which is why we read of Israel in the tribulation chapters of Revelation. The whole thing hinges on which lane Israel takes, belief or unbelief.The key verse to understanding this is Matthew 11:14. Speaking of John the Baptist, Jesus said, "And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come." IF they receive it! What IF they don't? You see, it's a two-lane highway where Israel gets to choose to receive Christ and have the kingdom then ("at hand" - Mat. 3:2; 4:17) or reject Christ and get the kingdom after 2,000 years of spiritual blindness ("the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king" - Hos. 3:4). That's why Elijah, "which was for to come," shows up again right smack in the middle of the tribulation period (Rev. 11:3-12). It was God's "pay me now or pay me later" plan, and the payment would be Israel's faith in Christ. But without dispensational discernment, none of that makes any sense whatsoever.