If JESUS is going to go and prepare a place for us, why would The Kingdom remain here?
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.
People that overcome ...doesn't that mean now?
Revelation 3:12
Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is
new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
Is the Judgment by JESUS to end Jerusalem tell us that He is Reigning over The House of Jacob from Mount Zion (GOD'S Kingdom) as a King (Luke 19:41-44)? "and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another;
because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation."
If the Reborn are Kingdom Ambassadors, why are we waiting for a physical Kingdom like the Jews are? They are waiting for a Messianic Age, are we also or is LORD JESUS CHRIST Reigning right now?
Check out “amillennial eschatology”. What do people think is going on when they become Reborn? i’ll tell you, He becomes our KING.
Jews still haven’t figured out that GOD’S Kingdom isn’t physical. You become Reborn to enter it. You become Reborn for a Relationship with GOD.
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What Anointed King matches to the King in Psalm 72? What Jewish King asks for prayers continually besides the Ultimate King (Psa 72:15)? "prayer also shall be made for him continually; and daily shall he be praised."
First of all we need to keep the Word of GOD in our hearts -the Word is GOD - to understand the designs and purposes of our GOD. The Word is GOD, so if we keep the Word of GOD in our hearts, GOD is in our hearts, then He will be in us, and we in Him, and then we will love Him with Truth because GOD is Truth.
The thread brings a question:
If The Kingdom isn't here yet then what is JESUS CHRIST a King of?
By / through the Word of GOD we can find an interesting happening that will help us to fing a good and true answer for the question of the thread.
1 Samuel 16:v.1 to 23 KJV
1 And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.
2 And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the Lord said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the Lord.
3 And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee.
4 And Samuel did that which the Lord spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?
5 And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the Lord: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
6 And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the Lord's anointed is before him.
7 But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, Neither hath the Lord chosen this.
9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the Lord chosen this.
10 Again, Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, The Lord hath not chosen these.
11 And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither.
12 And he sent, and brought him in.
Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the Lord said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he.
13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
14 But the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him.
15 And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee.
16 Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.
17 And Saul said unto his servants, Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him to me.
18 Then answered one of the servants, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, that is cunning in playing, and a mighty valiant man, and a man of war, and prudent in matters, and a comely person, and the Lord is with him.
19 Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said,
Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.
20 And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.
21 And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armourbearer.
22 And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.
23 And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
What picture can we above see? Who was sit on the throne as whether was the king of Israel? Saul was. But who really was the king of Israel? David was the anointed King of Israel, but the Kingdom was not being ruled by him yet, but by Soul.
See, similar happening occurs regards JESUS and His people around the world as a whole, or His Church, which is His body here.
JESUS is KING, in fact He is King of kings (kings made by Him), and LORD of lords, but who is for now reigning in the world as a whole is the KING of the darkness, the Old Serpent, called the Devil and Satan, by the way, his new name now in this time of Apocalypse it is red Dragon.
But what does the Word of GOD say? Revelation 11:v.15 and 18, among others Scriptures:
15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms OF THIS WORLD (DEVIL'S WORLD) are become the kingdoms of our Lord(this will fulfill LITERALLY from now on, day by day), and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever.
18 And the nations were(will be) angry, and GOD's WRATH is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be Judged (and resurrected), and that GOD should give reward unto His servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear His name, small and great; and should destroy them which DESTROY the earth. (Yeah, GOD will destroy the esoteric and kabbalistic and spiritist Israel, that will be leaded and guided by their false messiah, the messiah of the current Israel and the great city spiritually called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.)
2 Peter 3:v.7 - But the heavens (the first two heavens-the 1st and 2nd Covenants) and the earth(the current Israel, the dry land, the clay), WHICH ARE NOW, by the same Word are kept in store, reserved unto FIRE against this Day (this current seventh and last Day) of Judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
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