"The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ." (Revelation 11:15)
Our text seems to declare that, "....the Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ," is in the process of taking over the humanist kingdoms, a process which has been going on from the "beginning," and was declared, revealed, and demonstrated in Jesus Christ.
Maybe the Kingdom of Heaven is better demonstrated than taught. Jesus said a number of times in Matthew, "The Kingdom of Heaven is like...." According to Luke 13:20, Jesus said, "To what shall I liken the Kingdom of God?" Is there a certain inexplicableness about the Kingdom?
When one considers the parables of the mustard seed and the leaven, for example, there is a similarity in them to what I once told a graduating class of a Kingdom, aka, Christian high school. I paraphrased the "Great Commission/Command" as, "Go into all the world and take over."
Father, in Jesus' Name, may Your Church so do. Amen.
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We are planning to take some chairs to the Crow Church this August
When Peter, an 18 year old Norwegian, "heard the call to evangelize China, on that day he not only emptied his wallet into the collection plate, but included a small note with the words, 'and my life.'"
Hebrews 12:2
