John 14:2-3 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
Jesus said He would come again, but Jesus did not say ‘how’ He would come so there is no reason to think this one verse is Jesus saying He will come to earth again in the same physical body He had when He walked the earth 2,000 years ago.
You said that Jesus never said that He would come back again. John 14:2,3 shows Jesus saying that He was going to come back. Jesus was speaking so I presume that He means that He, Jesus, was going to come back, just as Acts 1: 11 means that the
same Jesus that the disciples saw going up to heaven was going to come back and do it the
same way the disciples saw Him go.
When Jesus said “I will come again” He was not referring to His physical body coming again. Jesus said that His work was finished here and He was no more in the world: (
John 14:19,
John 17:4,
John 17:11).
Since Jesus said
He was no more in the world and
the world would see Him no more we know that when He said "and receive you unto myself" He was not talking about His physical body, but rather He was referring to His spirit. Also please note that Jesus did not ever say He would come again and ‘do’ anything on earth that would require a body, like building a Kingdom of God on earth, as most Christians believe Jesus will do.
"and receive you unto myself" is obviously about the Spirit of Jesus, not about His physical body, because there would be no way that the disciples Jesus was speaking to could receive the body of Jesus on earth since they were no longer living on earth. Where Jesus was in heaven and that is where the disciples also are, so that is where Jesus received them. That is why Jesus said that He went to prepare a place for them, a place in heaven, not on earth.
I have already answered with scriptures about Son of Man coming in the clouds and judging and how this has to refer to the Son (John 5:22,23) and Jesus also said that He would come back and take His disciples to be with Him. Jesus will do this at the resurrection when they are resurrected into the same type of bodies Jesus was resurrected with.
Christians don't see Jesus coming back to build a Kingdom. The Kingdom began a long time ago and people have been entering it's citizenship from the time of John the Baptist. (Matt 11:12) As I showed (Ps 2) this is the Kingdom on earth that Jesus has become the King over to rule and judge.
Jesus comes back in glory as King to rule the Kingdom and judge the nations. The Kingdom of God is already here and in your midst. (Luke 17:21) and will be revealed when Jesus returns.
The spirit of Jesus did come again, in the Person of Baha'u'llah who was the return of Christ that Jesus promised. So when Jesus said “I will come again” He meant that His Spirit would come again because He would send His Spirit from the Father, and we see that in the verses that follow in John 14. Jesus promised not to leave us comfortless and then He said He would send a Comforter. The Comforter refers to the person who would be the return of Christ. So when Jesus said I will come again, He meant He would send His spirit in the person of the Comforter who would do what it says in
John 14:26.
John 14 KJV
18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
25 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
27 Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
28 Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
29 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.
Oops you missed a few verses which show us that the Comforter cannot be Baha'u'llah since they tell us that the Comforter would come to the disciples that Jesus was speaking to 2000 years ago AND would be with them forever and would be IN them.
I guess it's time to go back to the drawing board and see that the Comforter is not Baha'u'llah but is the Holy Spirit that was sent to the disciples at Pentecost (Acts 2) to be with them and in them forever.
John 14:15 “If you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
"and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also” is referring to heaven, not earth, because Jesus was going to heaven to prepare a place in heaven, not on earth. Jesus was preparing a place in heaven so they could be with him in heaven.
John 14:3 is one of the most misunderstood verses in the New Testament so it is no wonder the Bible commentaries do not agree on what it means.
The heavenly Jerusalem is where Jesus is going to be and so that is where His disciples will be. The heavenly Jerusalem is going to come down out of heaven to earth.
Rev 21:2
I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man, and He will dwell with them. They will be His people, and God Himself will be with them as their God.…
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To summarize, Jesus did not say "my body will come again." The spirit of Jesus did come again, in the Person of Baha'u'llah, and that was what Jesus promised to send. Jesus was a Comforter who brought the Holy Spirit and Baha’u’llah was another Comforter who brought the Holy Spirit.
John 14:16-17 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Ahh so you have read how John 14:16-17 shows that the Comforter cannot be Baha'u'llah but no doubt you deny that it means what it says.
You even know that the Comforter is the Holy Spirit (John 14:26) and that the Holy Spirit was given at Pentecost (Acts 2) but for some reason you want the Holy Spirit to be Baha'u'llah.
Sorry that is impossible as you have seen John 14:15-17 and know why.