God's Kingdom in the Now

God's Kingdom in the Now

Studying around God's Kingdom from the gospels and other scriptures, so much is being revealed to show that though to the disciples are given to know the mysteries of this Kingdom, very little has actually been known or taught of this phenomenon that brought about the essence of salvation and the new birth.

The hope the message of the Kingdom of God brings is something worth looking forward to but are we? It's understandable as we have seen the kingdom of this world as the ultimate and are mesmerised by the advancements in this present world.

However, the happenings in the present world should get us thinking. The violence, the wickedness, the evil and the temptation to join the band which have all defied the scientific and academic advancements that thrill us in humanity.

God offers us a Kingdom where righteousness and peace reign, a Kingdom where a good king reign and the people rejoice.

[My Offline Bible] Proverbs 29
2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

[My Offline Bible] Isaiah 32
1 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. 2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

Yet, the Kingdom has come and those who are born of the Spirit and of the Word of God are already delivered from the alternate kingdom of darkness and translated into the Kingdom of Christ and of God.

Here at the present time however, the two kingdoms are growing together as wheat and tares which Jesus told of in the parables, the goats and the sheep, the fishing net with all sorts of catch and in so many other parables He told of the Kingdom. We are both lumped up here at same time in the same space...though for a while.

The essence of this is that the full manifestation of either of the two kingdoms cannot be seen in the logjam as they withstand each other from full manifestation of their potentials. [My Offline Bible] 2 Thessalonians 2
7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.

Each of this kingdoms as at today, has the capacity to manifest to some level and the world would enjoy it or suffer it as the case may be. But while we are still here we are the salt of the earth and the light of the world.

That's the reason why when Jesus Christ taught us to pray, He could only ask that we pray not to be led into temptation and to be delivered from evil. This is because for now temptations still abound and evil can't be prayed away by reason of the other kingdom, their king and the evil and unjust principles upon which it is run.

But our own kingdom offers us a way of escape to whatever temptation the  kingdom of darkness offers and provides deliverance from any evil organised against us.

But we keep our gaze on that day when evil and temptations won't exist again. When violence shall not be heard within our borders again, when the total separation would be effected and the harvest would have taken place.

But for now, we grow together. The little leaven kept in the dough is growing Matthew 13:33. The little mustard seeds is growing to become the greatest of all trees Matthew 13:31-32, the blade and the ear of the planted corn is out and the full corn in the ear is about to be harvested Mark 4:26-29. The fullness of the kingdom of God is about to be revealed...

The birth pangs are here and Christ, the king of the Kingdom is about appearing, the signs are here, our harvest and separation is close.

But while we are still here we enjoy the ambassadorial exigencies and bring to bear the practice, the power  and the glory of the Kingdom we belong within this no man's land, ruled by a god who didn't create it.

We enjoy the power and  the glory of the Kingdom yet to fully manifest as we live by its constitution and righteousness. We enjoy the health care system provided by the stripes of Jesus Christ, we enjoy the economy provided and demonstrated by Christ,  an economy powered supernaturally, we enjoy the peace as He left it for us not as the world offers through unattainable and unjust treaties and agreements. We enjoy its longevity where a child dies at hundred, and subdue the enemies of God's will under His feet. We enjoy the security of the Kingdom today being delivered by the power of God from the evil one, His agents both spiritual and physical and his violent works.

The Kingdom of God is worth looking forward to. Because it won't be business as usual when we are totally separated. The light and the salt will be missing and the hold back the church offers against the man of sin would be removed. Darkness will display the fullness of its fury against those who out of unbelief refused salvation and the way into the Kingdom of God.

The good news is that we have the Way to life... Jesus the righteous, would you follow?

Good day to you