The FaithOfJesus2 Daily Devotional
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kjv@Revelation:14:12
( FaithOfJesus thread begun by rRandyP )
Today's Verse:
kjv@Luke:17:20 kjv@Luke:17:21 kjv@Luke:17:22 kjv@Luke:17:23 kjv@Luke:17:24 kjv@Luke:17:25 kjv@Luke:17:26 kjv@Luke:17:27 kjv@Luke:17:28 kjv@Luke:17:29 kjv@Luke:17:30 kjv@Luke:17:31 kjv@Luke:17:32 kjv@Luke:17:33 kjv@Luke:17:34 kjv@Luke:17:35 kjv@Luke:17:36 kjv@Luke:17:37 (see also tcr@Matthew:24) dict:naves Kingdom filter:NT kingdom of God I was amazed looking back how many times the phrase "kingdom of God" had been used in the New Testament. Here we are some two and a half years likely into the earthly ministry and still many if not all are confused as to how it is being used and how/when it will be seen. It should go without saying that the kingdom follows where ever the king goes. If the king is on earth then it can be rightly said to us that the kingdom of God is at hand. If the king leaves earth to His throne in heaven then the kingdom is not here, the kingdom is in heaven. The next time we will see the kingdom of God on earth is a sudden and inescapable world judgement. The after judgment by His being here can rightly be thought of as the kingdom and therefore can be entered into or kept from. The kingdom can also be within because the king of the kingdom now resides also in our hearts, the seed of which can be planted. We can now seek that king, like a child we can receive that king, we can serve that king, we can be a ambassador/delegate of that king to this foreign world. This kingdom is a direct contrast to a world view minus a king made by our own good works and predicated upon our own corporate sense of right and wrong. It is a system known to be corrupt, known to be unjust and oppressive, known to be everything Jesus reveals it to be. Yet it is this world view in doing it's own right/good that puts Jesus to suffering and venomous rejection. The Pharisees themselves are proof to us of just how wrong doing what they feel to be right can be. The eagle is often used as a prophetic symbol of judgment swift and fierce and unforeseen swooping down from the sky. It has been said that Jesus did not preach judgment. I rather say that HE preached the kingdom of God which for us to get into is all about judgment. It is shameful how far we as believers have gotten today from the message of the kingdom that we are commanded to deliver. In one sense the time of His coming, the day of His judgment, can be observed as like the weather and the seasons, but in another sense the time cannot be observed, not in the terms that we would be looking for it (read geo-political/geo-economic/geo-religious etc..). It would probably appear to us in the opposite by these self assessed observations. It will come as a surprise to most. We are shown a swift global perspective where people that are in bed, people that are in the day field and people that are mill grinding are raptured in the blink of an eye. Declaring Certainty Further Resources: Comment Board:Luke:17:20-37
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kjv@Luke:16:16
kjv@Acts:8:12
kjv@Acts:19:8
kjv@2Thessalonians:1:5
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