Luke 16:16

Luke 16:16. "The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it." Here I would observe, that when universal terms are used about redemption, they do not prove universal redemption, any more than the universal term here used proves that every man, in a strict and proper sense, did press into the kingdom of heaven since the preaching of John the Baptist. "Every man presseth into it." Christ is not so much speaking of what had already actually come to pass since John's time, as giving a description of that new dispensation that John began, and showing wherein it differed from the old dispensation under the Law and the Prophets, as to the much greater numbers that are saved, and the multitudes that, under this dispensation that John's preaching was the dawning of, flock and press into the kingdom of God. The pouring out of the Spirit in John the Baptist's time, was the beginning of a glorious harvest of souls, that continued from that time to the end of that age, wherein multitudes of all sorts pressed into the kingdom of God.

Chapter s 17-22

Luke 17:20