The Kingdom of God is inward, attitudinal with occasional
and too infrequent bursts of power, but one day, perhaps sooner than we know
that will change. Why? Because Jesus Christ is coming again and then
the Kingdom of God will be outward, with an unquestionable attitude, and no
limits to its power.
I can hear it now, “What right has He got to come and rain
on my parade?” Could it be God has His
own agenda and timetable? That God and
man have different agendas has been the problem from near the beginning of God’s
relationship with man. It seems God has
this novel notion that since He created all things, including man, He holds the
“trump” cards—all of them. But out of
this position of strength, God has actually wanted to share everything He has
with mankind, with only one restriction!—to not partake of the fruit of the
tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
How perverse is it that this one restriction, rather than
all the available possibilities, should consume the attention of the first man
and woman? But that’s what happened and
continues to happen. It boils down to
this, each person wants his or her own way (the basis of sin). However benign such a notion appears, its
consequences are frightful—actually leading to much heartache and ultimately
death. This takes us back to the different agenda scenario.
In time, with plenty of warning revealed by all kinds of
signs on the earth, in the heavens and among men, God is going to shut down
this present order of things before man blows it up. Then, once again, God will start building His
Kingdom upon the earth, featuring King Jesus upon a throne in Jerusalem and
King Jesus’ representatives governing throughout the world. He will have exactly 1,000 years to see what
He can do, reigning as a Jewish King under Jewish law. For most it will be a blest time.
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