When will the Kingdom come?

The Pharisees obviously having been around Jesus and his teaching on the Kingdom of God, were very keen to know when the Kingdom of God would come. They had heard both John the Baptist and Jesus preach that the Kingdom of God would come imminantly. Here they ask Jesus when the Kingdom would come? Jesus answer isn't, well on the last day at the resurrection, the Kingdom of God will come. He tells them instead that the Kingdom of God doesn't come with observation. It isn't a matter of looking here and looking there. Jesus tells them that indeed the Kingdom of God is within you. This is better translated as the Kingdom of God is in your midst rather than the Kingdom is within you.The Pharisees as a whole had not been responsive to Jesus teaching,so it was very unlikely that the Kingdom of God would be within them if they haven't received Jesus' message. However that is not the end of the answer. He instead carries on answering the question of when the Kingdom will come, but to the disciples. He says the days will come when they will long to see the days they are presently witnessing, with the Son of Man, namely Jesus. But alas the days will come when they won't see Jesus anymore. So because Jesus isn't around they will say look here and look there, but they are warned not to follow after them who are false Christs? For as the lightning flashes out of one part of heaven and shines to the other end of heaven so will it be in the Son of Mans day!! Next Jesus says first that he Jesus must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. before we go on, we see that Jesus is answering the question the Pharisees asked about when the Kingdom will come. Jesus is saying that the answer to that question is caught up in what will happen to him. So far the kingdom will come after Jesus has suffered many things and been rejected by that generation. That is why the disciples musn't look elsewhere for another Christ but must look to the life and ministry of Jesus to see when the Kingdom comes. Also the Kingdom is caught up and intertwined in the day of the Son of Man.
Jesus then brings an unexpected turn of events into his answer about when the Kingdom will come. He brings in what happened in the days of Noah, to what will happen in the days of the Son of Man. What is that you ask? Well life will go on like it always has,people will eat and drink and marry. But then a horrible event will happen to them just as the horrible event of the flood happened to the people of Noahs generation when they were all destroyed. Jesus makes the point again from what happened to Sodom after Lot left. It rained fire and brimstone and they were destroyed. Jesus then says it will be just like what happened in Noah and Lots generation when Jesus the Son of Man is revealed. So Jesus is saying they will be destroyed when Jesus goes away from them. Just as when Noah went out from among them and later when Lot went out from among them, when Jesus goes out from among them they will be destroyed. This is what it means when Jesus says in vs30. Even so will it be when the Son of man is revealed. Jesus continues to elaborate on what will happen on that day!! He says those who are on the roof top should not go fetch their goods first, likewise with the person who is in the field. Don't turn back to go in among them otherwise you too will be destroyed just like Lots wife who turned back toward Sodom. This is what Jesus means when He says whoever seeks to save their life will lose it,and whoever loses his life will save it. So to save their lives in those days of the Son of Man, they must go out from among that generation for if they go back to it to save themselves by getting their goods they will be destroyed. This is elaborated in Matthew 24 to mean when they see Jerusalem sieged by the Romans they must flee and not seek family or goods inside Jerusalem. Then Jesus tells us about two being in a field,in a bed and grinding together. The one will be taken and the other one left. This not talking about rapture but is talking about one been taken out to judgement. The context will give no room for rapture to heaven theories. They then asked, Where Lord? So Jesus told them wherever the body is there the eagles will be gathered together. For Jews been Being occupied by Romans they would have been very familiar with the eagle symbol of the Romans. Jesus is talking about the events which took place in AD 70. This was Israels doomsday, which was the judgement of God for rejecting their Messiah. This doomsday of AD70 fits in with the framework of what was to happen after John the Baptists ministry. For Malachi 4:5 says I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord. So then clearly in the context of the book of Luke, after John the Baptist, the Kingdom came in the ministry of Christ in a now and not yet way. Then would come the great and terrible day of the Lord. This day of the Lord is not the final judgement of the wicked but is the judgement of wicked Israel in ad 70. This chapter 17 must be seen together with Matthew 24,Luke21 and Mark13 to get the bigger picture and then all that in the context of the first chapters of Luke. So then the answer to the original question of the Pharisees, when will the Kingdom come? It will come after the Son of Man has suffered many things and been rejected by that generation. After this happened in Jerusalem culminating at the cross of Christ at Calvary, Jesus rose agin and ascended to the right hand of God and so was declared by Peter in Acts 2 to be the Christ. If Israels King had been enthroned and poured out the Holy Spirit from heaven then the Kingdom of God had begun, for the New creation of man had begun. It is a now and not yet situation. For we await Jesus our King from heaven and then His Kingdom will be over all the earth. Sadly for Israel when the Kingdom began it was only forty years later that this promised destruction came upon them. They have only returned to Israel in the 1940's and then even to live in a deathly hell and not all Israel belongs to them.