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Subject: -A WORLDWIDE MESSAGE-
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coolit 15.03.09 - 03:30am
Matthew 24:14 says: 'And this GOOD NEWS OF THE KINGDOM will be preached in all inhabited earth for a witness to all nations; and then the end will come.' WHAT IS THIS 'GOOD NEWS OF THE KINGDOM'? Interestingly, Jesus main theme in his ministry is 'THE GOOD NEWS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD'(Luke 4:43) Jesus commanded his disciples to 'keep telling the people that 'THE KINGDOM OF GOD HAS DRAWN NEAR'(Luke 10:9) He also taught his disciples a model prayer saying: 'Our Father in the heavens...Let your KINGDOM come.'(Matthew 6:10) What,then, is the KINGDOM OF GOD? What will it accomplish? *
coolit 15.03.09 - 03:51am
The KINGDOM OF GOD is the expression of Jehovah's sovereignty toward his creatures, or the means used by him to express that sovereignty. It is a real heavenly government established by God with a King chosen by him. Jehovah God is the owner of the Kingdom -Psalm 103:19 proves that. Here's what it says: 'Jehovah himself has firmly established his throne in the very heavens. And over everything his own kingship has held dominination.' WHO IS THE ONE CHOSEN BY JEHOVAH GOD TO RULE IN HIS KINGDOM? Daniel 7:13,14 answers, 'With the clouds of the heavens someone like a son of man (Jesus Christ; Mark 14v61,62) happened to be coming; and to the Ancient of Days (Jehovah God) he gained access, and they brought him up close even before that One. And to him(Jesus Christ) there were given rulership and dignity and KINGDOM, that the peoples, national groups and langguages should all serve even him.' *
coolit 15.03.09 - 03:59am
WILL JESUS RULE ALONE IN HIS FATHER'S KINGDOM? No. He will have corulers. Consider the prophecy at Revelation 5:9, 10: 'You (Jesus Christ) were slaughtered and with your blood YOU BOUGHT PERSONS for God out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation, and you made them TO BE A KINGDOM and priest to our God, and THEY are to RULE AS KINGS over the earth.' HOW MANY ARE THESE CORULERS? At Rev. 14:1-3 these 'bought from the earth' to be rulers with the Lamb, Jesus, on heavenly Mount Zion, God's Kingdom, are said to number 144,000 *
coolit 15.03.09 - 04:21am
WHAT WILL THE KINGDOM OF GOD DO? (1) It will destroy all the earthly goverments/rulerships. -Daniel 2:44: 'In the days of those (earthtly) kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be brought to ruin. And the kingdom (of God) itself will not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these (earthly) kingdoms, and it (the kingdom of God) itself will stand to times indefinite.' *
coolit 15.03.09 - 04:28am
(2) it will vindicate and sanctify Jehovah's name and sovereignty. -Ezekiel 38:23: 'I shall certainly magnify myself and sanctify myself and make myself known before the eyes of many nations: and they will have to know that I am Jehovah.' *
coolit 15.03.09 - 04:35am
(3) it will put an end to Satan's rulership over the world. -Rev. 20:2,3: 'He (the heavenly King, Jesus Christ) seized the dragon, the original serpent, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. And he hurled him into the abyss and shut it and sealed it over him, that he might not mislead the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. ' Thus mankind will be freed from the satanic influence that has made life very difficult for people who want to do what is right. *
coolit 15.03.09 - 04:45am
(4) it will unify all creation in worship of the one true God. -Rev. 5:13; 15:3,4: 'And every creature that is in heaven and on earth and underneath the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying: To the One sitting on the throne (Jehovah God) and to the Lamb (Jesus Christ) be the blessing and the honor and the glory and the might forever and ever.' ' 'Great and wonderful are your works, Jehovah God, the Almighty. Righteous and true are your ways, King of eternity. Who will not really fear you, Jehovah, and glorify your name, because you alone are loyal? For all the nations will come and worship before you, because your righteous decrees have been made manifest.' *
