Dominion-Image of God

Restoration of Dominion Image Of God In Man

By Abraham Israel

We all seek for prominence and identity in this life because we must understand that it is God who created us for this purpose. This purpose was the discussion that was on when God started to create men. The Bible reveals it by saying, Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” (Gen 1:26-28). Here we see that God planned us to be made in His image. If we still are not sure about the identity and essence of God’s image, God Himself explains His image by saying, “ ..In Our image…Our likeness..let them have dominion over..the sea…the air and on the earth”. This image we can call it or phrase it as the ‘dominion-image of God’.

The Hebrew word for dominion is ‘radah’ [pronounced rä·dä'] which means 1) to rule, have dominion, dominate, tread down a) (Qal) to have dominion, rule, subjugate b) (Hiphil) to cause to dominate 2) to scrape out a) (Qal) to scrape, scrape out. The dominion image of God is that heart in us which has the natural desire to rule over the surrounding in which we live. This ‘dominion-image’ is also the legal right given to man to rule over the entire earth, just as God rules over the entire universe. The Bible also confirms this by saying, “The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD’s [i.e. under His dominion]; But the [dominion of the] earth He has given to the children of men.” (Ps 115:16).

But the problem is this dominion image of God will be active only as long as man is connected to God in his spirit-man. Because when God discussed about His image, He did not speak in singularity but in plurality [i.e. He did not say ‘I will create in My image’ but He said, ‘Let Us {which includes the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit} make man in Our image’]. The strength of God lies in the role which each person of the trinity play to express His creative image of rulership, which He exercises over His Dominion. This is why God is three in person, but are one in purpose. This implies clearly that unless man is connected to God in his spirit with one purpose, he will not be able to express this dominion-image of God through his life. The power of Trinity lies in their unity. This unity can be defined as a dependency upon each other and a spirit connection of inter-penetration to one another. The Bible says, ‘Now the Lord is the Spirit’ (2 Cor 3:17). In other words, in this time-space bound now-realm of this earth, the Lord [i.e. God-connection in this earth] is the person of the Holy Spirit. It also means the one who works in us as Master over us and through us in this earth is the Holy Spirit. This dependency upon God the Spirit activates the dominion image of God in us. This dominion-image of God will give us unique identity and prominence because of the restoration of the original purpose of God in us. In other words we are wired and uniquely designed to fulfill this purpose. Praise the Lord!

God created man in His dominion-image, so that he can exercise dominion just like Him. Jesus was the one who first exhibited this exact dominion-image of God in this planet earth after the first Adam lost this image because of disobedience (1 Cor 15:45,49; Luke 3:38). For example Jesus said to the hypocritical religious leaders who opposed Jesus when He exercised dominion in the earth, “But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you.” (Matt 12:28). In other words Jesus was telling them that the dominion image of God is what He was exercising and that is done by the Spirit of God Himself. In opposing the works of the Spirit of God who was working in Jesus these people were already opposing God’s kingdom rule which has already come upon the earth through Jesus, which the Pharisees boasted as though they were the true representatives of it. In the succeeding verses Jesus spoke about their wrong critical and judgmental attitude in attributing the Spirit’s work to the work of Satan, and that cannot be forgiven even for eternity because these religious people wanted to break the purpose of God which is to exercise the dominion-image of God in the planet earth (Matt 12:31-32). Jesus represented every one of us before God and he is the “repairer of the breach” (Is 58:12) or in other words the repairer of the lost God-connection of human kind.

Jesus also confirmed this reflection of God’s dominion-image which he reflected by saying, “….Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner. For the Father loves the Son, and shows Him all things that He Himself does; and He will show Him greater works than these, that you may marvel” (John 5:19-20). Jesus also said “….the Father who dwells in Me does the works.” (John 14:10). In other words, because of the spirit-connection Jesus had with God the Father, the works that Jesus did in this planet earth was equal to Father-God Himself sitting in the earthly body of Jesus and doing His works on earth. This spirit-connection to God through the Holy Spirit brings the dominion image of God in us to be activated to rule and reign in this planet earth (Eph 2:18). The power to rule and reign in this planet earth comes in to activation proportionately equal to the flow of communication between God and us. The more we are connected to God to represent God in His likeness, that much of power of authority and dominion image of God will be expressed on this earth.

The more we express it, the more prominent and unique identity we will have in God. This is the place where all the enemies of God in the spirit world will come to recognize the dominion image of God in us and through us, as the evil spirit himself confessed when it rebounded and attacked the faithless seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish Chief Priest, who had no God-connection [i.e. dominion-image of God] in their spirit man inside them (Acts 19:13-15). As the Bible says in Acts 19:15-16, “And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?” Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.” Only when you are strong in your spirit-man with a mature dominion image of God inside you, all the principalities and powers will know you and will acknowledge the authority of God in you.

The dominion image of God was lost when Adam disobeyed God. The dominion over the world was in Adam’s hand until the day “sin entered the world” (Rom 5:12). If we ask what is sin? The Bible says, “sin is lawlessness.” (1 John 3:4). In other words sin is the lawless nature of the devil which acts against and rebels against God’s dominion continuously (1 John 3:8). When the lawless nature of Satan began to influence humans legally in the soulish realm because of Adam’s disobedience, all became sinners by an in-born nature of our soul (Rom 5:19). Adam’s spirit connection to God became dead exactly on the day of his disobedience just exactly as God forewarned Adam (Gen 2:16-17). Once Adam’s spirit connection to God was severed, Satan began to use his voice to direct man in the soulish realm because God has created the soul to be operative by spirit-direction. Jesus affirms this fact by saying that the believer will start to reject the voices of Satan and his demons, which He described as “the voice of strangers” (John 10:5). The more people get deceived by these spirit’s voices in their soulish realm, the more they will become lawless. But the real voice of God will be heard by the believers because of a brand new spirit put within them by God to connect to Him (Ezek 36:26-27). These believers will begin to recognize the voice of God and He too will call them by name and will guide them as He had promised (John 10:3-4). The Spirit of God will be the one who will connect God’s voice directly from His throne in heaven to our soul on earth. Our soul in turn will be able to recognize the voice of God on earth through our activated spirit within us (1 John 3:24; Heb 12:25; 1 Cor 2:10-12).

Hence for man to have dominion on the earth is closely interwoven with his dependency and God-connection that He experiences with God in his spirit, which is only revived, regenerated and renewed only for a born again believer in Christ Jesus (Eph 3:16; Tit 3:5; 2 Cor 4:16). So only Jesus said, …“Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” (John 3:5-6). In other words Jesus is saying only the Spirit of God can make the dead spirit of a human to be become connected to God’s heavens life of the kingdom. Only those who are born from above can hear the voice of the wind which is the Holy Spirit of God (John 3:8).

The reason many people are oppressed more than ever in times past is because they do not accept and receive this truth of God [i.e. Jesus and His voice which is the Holy Spirit], rather they love to hear and receive deceptive soulish voices which will not be in-line with the truth of God revealed in the word of God (John 8:32; 2 Thess 2:9-12). The Apostle Paul in 2 Cor 4:4 says about these things clearly in his writing, “whose [i.e. unbeliever ] minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.” The dominion-image of God will shine on us as much as we believe to receive the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ. Until a person becomes hungry to hear the truth and receive it, he will never be able to differentiate between God’s voice and the soulish voices he will hear in himself. This is the reason humans are not able to rule and reign in this planet earth, instead Satan and his evil cohort’s bully people tyrannically and is ruling the world invisibly by promoting evil, destruction and peacelessness in this planet earth. Satan has been able to blind people’s mind and deceive them is because man doesn’t have the power to have dominion exercised without God. Man is wired in such a way, the one and only way he can exercise dominion on earth is by his oneness of purpose in his spirit, soul and body with God (Luke 1:37). Jesus himself humbly confessed this fact by saying, “I can of Myself do nothing…”, even though he was the only begotten Son of God who came from heaven to this planet earth as an incarnated perfect substitute for every man (John 5:30; 3:16,17).

Satan and his evil cohorts are much more powerful as spirit beings than man, when man doesn’t have that God-connection in himself through the Spirit of God. That’s why the Apostle John wrote by Divine inspiration to the believers, “You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you [i.e. God the Holy Spirit] is greater than he who is in the world [i.e. Satan and his demons].” (1 John 4:4). In other words with God-connection in his spirit-man, man is more powerful that Satan and all his evil demons. This is confirmed in Ps 8:5-6 also, “For You have made him a little lower than the angels [i.e. Elohim.heb -> Creator God], and You have crowned him with glory and honor. You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have [already] put all things [including the angels] under his feet…”

[Note: The meaning for the word ‘Elohim’ is exactly translated as God who is the Creator. But the Jewish tradition has wrongly translated it according to their tradition, calling God as angels just because they found the word to be pluralistic. But Christians have no problem in interpreting it as God the Creator in a pluralistic way because we know and believe the doctrine of trinity.]

Here we notice three things in these preceding verses,

1) By the purpose of God in the original creation of man, man is only a little lower than only the Creator God Himself.

2) The very purpose of making man is for him to have dominion.

3) God has already put all things under His feet [i.e. feet of Jesus Christ] and has seated us humans with Him in the heavenly places. Through this elevated standing we [i.e. men who are believers in Christ Jesus] are higher than the angels (Eph 1:18-23; 2:5-6). So only in the New Testament angels are exactly described in Heb 1:14 as, “Therefore, angels are only servants—spirits sent to care for people who will inherit salvation.” [New Living Translation]. This has been confirmed by an angel himself who said, “See that you do not do that [i.e. fall down to worship me]. For I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.” (Rev 22:9), when apostle John overawed by the prophetic words and visions that came from the angel on assignment, fell down to worship the angel.

To be close to God and to be powerful with dominion-image of God is the original purpose and intention of God for man in His original creation. This is still His will for every man in this planet earth (Rom 16:20). Satan didn’t like the idea of God for him which is to be a guardian to man under him, so he rebelled against God’s project of planet earth (Ezekiel 28:13-19). This is the reason Jesus taught His disciples to pray “Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” (Matt 6:10) because Satan has rebelled against God and has been instigating and influencing men to act against God ever since the fall of first Adam. Only on earth God’s will is not done because of Satan’s evil influence over all men in this earth.

Man by God’s creation purpose is custom built to exercise dominion by depending on God and having love relationship with Him. Human being only then will have perfect peace, love and unity to exercise dominion-image of God on the planet earth. Only this will give prominence and identity that every human longs for. Are you ready? You are asking me for what? To exercise God’s dominion-image in this planet earth which is the sole purpose of our existence! Get that God-connection right and you will experience the dominion-image of God in you and through you. Praise the Lord!

Word Study – Kingdom

Word Study – Kingdom

Old Testament (Hebrew)

1) Strongs # : H4410
Hb/Gk Word : mĕluwkah
Pronunciation : mel·ü·kä’
English Equivalent : kingdom, royal, king’s

2) Strongs # : H4437
Hb/Gk Word : malkuw (Aramaic)
Pronunciation : mal·kü’

English Eqivalent : kingdom, reign, realm, kingly

3) Strongs # : H4438
Hb/Gk Word : malkuwth
Pronunciation : mal·küth’
English Equivalent : kingdom, reign, royal, realm, empire, estate

4) Strongs # : H4467
Hb/Gk Word : mamlakah
Pronunciation : mam·lä·kä’
English Equivalent : kingdom, royal, reign, king’s

5) Strongs # : H4468
Hb/Gk Word : mamlakuwth
Pronunciation : mam·lä·küth’

English Equivalent : kingdom, reign

New Testament (Greek)

1) Strongs # : G932
Hb/Gk Word : basileia

Pronunciation : bä-sē-lā’-ä
English Equivalent : kingdom (of God), kingdom (of heaven), kingdom (general or evil), (Thy or Thine) kingdom, His kingdom, the kingdom, (My) kingdom, misc .

2) Strongs # : G932
Hb/Gk Word : euaggelion

Pronunciation : yü-än-ge’-lē-on
English Equivalent : gospel, gospel of Christ, gospel of God, gospel of the kingdom, misc

Kingdom

basileia is primarily an abstract noun, denoting “sovereignty, royal power, dominion,” e.g., Rev_17:18, translated “(which) reigneth,” lit., “hath a kingdom” (RV marg.); then, by metonymy, a concrete noun, denoting the territory or people over whom a king rules, e.g., Matt_4:8; Mark_3:24. It is used especially of the “kingdom” of God and of Christ.

“The Kingdom of God is (a) the sphere of God’s rule, Psalm_22:28; Psalm_145:13; Dan_4:25; Luke_1:52; Rom_13:1,2. Since, however, this earth is the scene of universal rebellion against God, e.g., Luke_4:5,6; 1_John_5:19; Rev_11:15-18, the “kingdom” of God is (b) the sphere in which, at any given time, His rule is acknowledged. God has not relinquished His sovereignty in the face of rebellion, demoniac and human, but has declared His purpose to establish it, Dan_2:44; Dan_7:14; 1_Cor_15:24,25. Meantime, seeking willing obedience, He gave His law to a nation and appointed kings to administer His “kingdom” over it, 1_Chron_28:5. Israel, however, though declaring still a nominal allegiance shared in the common rebellion, Isaiah_1:2-4, and, after they had rejected the Son of God, John_1:11 (cp. Matt_21:33-43), were “cast away,” Rom_11:15,20,25. Henceforth God calls upon men everywhere, without distinction of race or nationality, to submit voluntarily to His rule. Thus the “kingdom” is said to be “in mystery” now, Mark_4:11, that is, it does not come within the range of the natural powers of observation, Luke_17:20, but is spiritually discerned, John_3:3 (cp. 1_Cor_2:14). When, hereafter, God asserts His rule universally, then the “kingdom” will be in glory, that is, it will be manifest to all; cp. Matt_25:31-34; Php_2:9-11; 2_Tim_4:1,18.

“Thus, speaking generally, references to the Kingdom fall into two classes, the first, in which it is viewed as present and involving suffering for those who enter it, 2_Thess_1:5; the second, in which it is viewed as future and is associated with reward, Matt_25:34, and glory, Matt_13:43. See also Acts_14:22.
“The fundamental principle of the Kingdom is declared in the words of the Lord spoken in the midst of a company of Pharisees, “the Kingdom of God is in the midst of you,” Luke_17:21, marg., that is, where the King is, there is the Kingdom. Thus at the present time and so far as this earth is concerned, where the King is and where His rule is acknowledged, is, first, in the heart of the individual believer, Acts_4:19; Eph_3:17; 1_Pet_3:15; and then in the churches of God, 1_Cor_12:3,5,11; 1_Cor_14:37; cp. Col_1:27, where for “in” read “among.”

“Now, the King and His rule being refused, those who enter the Kingdom of God are brought into conflict with all who disown its allegiance, as well as with the desire for ease, and the dislike of suffering and unpopularity, natural to all. On the other hand, subjects of the Kingdom are the objects of the care of God, Matt_6:33, and of the rejected King, Heb_13:5.

“Entrance into the Kingdom of God is by the new birth, Matt_18:3; John_3:5, for nothing that a man may be by nature, or can attain to by any form of self-culture, avails in the spiritual realm. And as the new nature, received in the new birth, is made evident by obedience, it is further said that only such as do the will of God shall enter into His Kingdom, Matt_7:21, where, however, the context shows that the reference is to the future, as in 2_Pet_1:10,11. Cp. also 1_Cor_6:9,10; Gal_5:21; Eph_5:5.

“The expression ‘Kingdom of God’ occurs four times in Matthew, ‘Kingdom of the Heavens’ usually taking its place. The latter (cp. Dan_4:26) does not occur elsewhere in NT, but see 2_Tim_4:18, “His heavenly Kingdom.” … This Kingdom is identical with the Kingdom of the Father (cp. Matt_26:29 with Mark_14:25), and with the Kingdom of the Son (cp. Luke_22:30). Thus there is but one Kingdom, variously described: of the Son of Man, Matt_13:41; of Jesus, Rev_1:9; of Christ Jesus, 2_Tim_4:1; “of Christ and God,” Eph_5:5; “of our Lord, and of His Christ,” Rev_11:15; “of our Lord, and of His Christ,” Rev_11:15; “of our God, and the authority of His Christ,” Rev_12:10; “of the Son of His love,” Col_1:13.

“Concerning the future, the Lord taught His disciples to pray, “Thy Kingdom come,” Matt_6:10, where the verb is in the point tense, precluding the notion of gradual progress and development, and implying a sudden catastrophe as declared in 2_Thess_2:8.

“Concerning the present, that a man is of the Kingdom of God is not shown in the punctilious observance of ordinances, which are external and material, but in the deeper matters of the heart, which are spiritual and essential, viz., ‘righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit,’ Rom_14:17.” [ From Notes on Thessalonians by Hogg and Vine, pp. 68-70.]

“With regard to the expressions “the Kingdom of God” and the “Kingdom of the Heavens,” while they are often used interchangeably, it does not follow that in every case they mean exactly the same and are quite identical.

“The Apostle Paul often speaks of the Kingdom of God, not dispensationally but morally, e.g., in Rom_14:17; 1_Cor_4:20, but never so of the Kingdom of Heaven. ‘God’ is not the equivalent of ‘the heavens.’ He is everywhere and above all dispensations, whereas ‘the heavens’ are distinguished from the earth, until the Kingdom comes in judgment and power and glory (Rev_11:15, RV) when rule in heaven and on earth will be one.

“While, then, the sphere of the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven are at times identical, yet the one term cannot be used indiscriminately for the other. In the ‘Kingdom of Heaven’ (32 times in Matt.), heaven is in antithesis to earth, and the phrase is limited to the Kingdom in its earthly aspect for the time being, and is used only dispensationally and in connection with Israel. In the ‘Kingdom of God’, in its broader aspect, God is in antithesis to ‘man’ or ‘the world,’ and the term signifies the entire sphere of God’s rule and action in relation to the world. It has a moral and spiritual force and is a general term for the Kingdom at any time. The Kingdom of Heaven is always the Kingdom of God, but the Kingdom of God is not limited to the Kingdom of Heaven, until in their final form, they become identical; e.g., Rev_11:15, RV; John_3:5; Rev_12:10.” (An Extract).

KINGDOM OF HEAVEN

Compared
“My kingdom is not of this world,”
Children of the
Rich people cannot enter
Keys of KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
Good news of KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
Mysteries of KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
Does not consist of meat and drink
See CHURCH
See JESUS, KINGDOM OF KINGDOM OF HEAVEN

Compared

To a man who sowed good seed – Matt_13:24-30,38-43 ; Mark_4:26-29
To a granule of mustard seed – Matt_13:31,32 ; Mark_4:30,31 ; Luke_13:18,19
To leaven (yeast) – Matt_13:33 ; Luke_13:21
To a treasure - Matt_13:44
To a pearl - Matt_13:45
To a net – Matt_13:47-50
To a king who called his servants for a reckoning (an audit) - Matt_18:23-35
To a householder – Matt_20:1-16
To a king who made a marriage feast for his son – Matt_22:2-14 ; Luke_14:16-24
To ten virgins – Matt_25:1-13
To a man, traveling into a far country, who called his servants, and delivered to them his goods – Matt_25:14-30 ; Luke_19:12-27
“My kingdom is not of this world,”
- John_18:36
Children of the
- Matt_18:3 ; Matt_19:14 ; Mark_10:14 ; Luke_18:16
Rich people cannot enter
- Matt_19:23,24 ; Mark_10:23-25 ; Luke_18:24,25,29,30
Keys of KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
- Matt_16:19
Good news of KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
- Luke_8:1
Mysteries of KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
- Luke_8:10
Does not consist of meat and drink
- Rom_14:17

See CHURCH

See JESUS, KINGDOM OF KINGDOM OF HEAVEN

Strong’s Number: 605

Greek: apokatastasis

Pronouciation : ä-po-kä-tä’-stä-sēs (Key)

English Equivalent: 1) restoration -> a) of a true theocracy

b) of the perfect state before the fall

Authorized Version (KJV) Translation Count — Total: 1
AV — restitution 1


from apo, “back, again,” kathistemi, “to set in order,” is used in Act 3:21, RV, “restoration” (AV, “restitution”). See under REGENERATION, concerning Israel in its regenerated state hereafter. In the papyri it is used of a temple cell of a goodess, a “repair” of a public way, the “restoration” of estates to rightful owners, a “balancing” of accounts. Apart from papyri illustrations the word is found in an Egyptian reference to a consummating agreement of the word’s cyclical periods, an idea somewhat similar to that in the Acts passage (Moulton and Milligan).

The Kingdom of God on earth!

Kingdom of God on Earth
By Abraham Israel

The word ‘Kingdom’ can be divided as King + Dom. This means the King and His Dominion. Dominion is the sphere of authority or the places under the authority of the King who rules it. Hence the King is the central focus of the whole Kingdom. It starts with the King and it ends with the authority which He exercises over His dominion.

• In the Old Testament times, God ruled directly over the kingdom of Israel and it was considered the Kingdom of God (1 Samuel 8:7). Even from the days of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Christ the Son was their God (Hosea 12:2-6; Isaiah 51:2; 29:22; 41:8). Jesus Christ was the King of the nation of Israel ever since the land of Egypt (Hosea 13:4-11). When people rejected His direct reigning through the Judges, He ruled the nation through the Kings whom He chose (1 Samuel 15:11, 28; 24:20; 2 Samuel 6:21).
• When the time came, God sent His only begotten Son to become a man and rule His people, they rejected Him also (Heb 1:1, 2; Matt11:16-24; 23:34-39; 21:33-42). Jesus expressed His deep anguish over this rejection of Him by His own people, and even lamented over it (John 1:11; 5:43; Matt 23:37). From this point of time He turned His focus to build the Church as the universal kingdom of God and trained His disciples to focus more on the Spiritual aspect of the Kingdom of God (Matt 16:13-28; 17:1-9). Because the people of Israel rejected their King Jesus (Matt 26:63-63; 27:11, 22, 25, 37), the Kingdom of God was taken from Israel and given to the whole world through Jesus Christ and because of Him had become a universal Spiritual Kingdom [the universal Church which is considered a nation over which God rules directly] through His Spirit (Matt 21:43; 12:28; Rom 14:17). Only when Israel will again accept Jesus as the messiah, then only the kingdom of God will be restored to them and through them to the whole world physically for thousand years (Rom 11:25-27; Zech 12:10; 13:6; Rev 20:4, 6). This is that which is called in the Bible as ‘the times of restoration of all things’ (Acts 3:21). Now the restoration is happening only for the new creation of God [i.e. human beings]. But when Jesus comes to reign in this planet earth, which is when restoration will happen to all things including nature, animals, birds and all sea creatures. This times of restoration will be when the whole earth will blossom back to its original creation purpose under the rulership of Jesus Christ as King over it (Acts 3:21). Here the Bible says ‘times of restoration’ which indicates that now is the time of soulish and spiritual [fleshly] restoration of new creations in Christ (Heb 4:7-9; Matt 11:28-29; 2 Cor 6:1, 2; 5:17). But the physical time of restoration of all things will start right on the day of Rapture and will continue during the millennial reign of Jesus Christ as King over this planet earth (Isaiah 11:6-9; Hos 2:18). This is when the world will be blessed through Israel (Is 27:6).
  

• John only came preaching about the kingdom of heaven,“Repent ye: for the kingdom of God is at hand.” (Matt 3:1-2). As a proclaiming herald [messenger] of God, John the Baptist was introducing the King to the kingdom of Israel, so that whoever accepted Jesus as the king over them were given the rights of citizenship in the kingdom of God (John 1:31-34; Matt 11:12). Jesus also came preaching after John the Baptist has been put in to prison saying “Repent ye: for the kingdom of God is at hand.” (Matt 4:17). But the difference was that He started to reign spiritually through out the land of Israel as the king through His works of power which gave evidence to His authority from God that has been given to Him already (Matt 12:28; 21:23-27; Luke 4:32; 36). God again began to reign over the nation of Israel through Jesus Christ and the evidence of it was the works that Jesus did (John 14:10-11; Acts 10:38). But they rejected His reigning as their king over them by not heeding to His words (Deuteronomy 18:15-19, 22; Luke 19:11-14).

• Jesus received the Kingdom power [to be established universally through His church spiritually (Phil 2:8-11; Eph 3:10)] after He achieved redemption for all His citizens who believed Him and became His servants. He achieved it on the cross of Calvary for them and was seated as their King at the right hand of God (Mark 14:61-62; Phil 2:8-11). The noble man in Luke 19:12 is none other than our Lord Jesus Christ (Phil 2:3-7). This parable was given to make people get better understanding about the kingdom of God because they misunderstood it (Luke 19:11). The servants who are commanded to do His business are we believers in whom He has invested His anointing. The kingdom that He had gone to receive is the Kingdom that He will come at His second coming and establish in this planet earth physically (Eph 1:22;Rom 16:20; Heb 2:8; Acts 3:21; 1:11; 1 Cor 15:27-28).
  
• Through our Glorious bodies that we receive after our resurrection which will be just like the resurrected body of Jesus Christ in essence and materiality, though that body, Jesus will use us to subdue all the earth when He reigns for a thousand years in this planet earth (Phil 3:21; Rom 8:19). But Spiritually we are already subjects of His kingdom, so only He has called us as His servants and anointed us and has given us a business to do(Luke 19:13). And the business that He has told us to do is the kingdom business of saving souls (Luke 19:13; Acts 6:3; Matt 6:33; 28:19-20; Mark 16:15-20; John 20:20-23). He has considered those lethargic and lazy servants who did not want to do the business of trading souls, as His enemies who did not want Jesus to reign over them by submitting and obeying His command [Great Commission] (Luke 19:15, 27; Eph 5:8). If we are not trading for the souls through the money that God has already provided, devil is so actively trading against the prosperity of God’s kingdom using the money for Himself and promote his own agenda (Ezek 28:4-5, 18; Isaiah 45:3).
  

• A man cannot give God anything in exchange for his soul to be redeemed, but God has provided for Himself a Divine exchange by making the soul of Jesus Christ an offering for our sin, this is what qualifies us to be part of the Spiritual kingdom (Matt 16:26; Mark 8:37; Gen 22:8; Isaiah 53:10). If this message of redemption is what qualifies every man to be part of the Kingdom of God, How much more we should do the business of God in proclaiming this message of redemption to extend the kingdom of God (Matt 6:10)? So only the Bible says, “…he who wins souls is wise” (Prov 11:30). If we don’t have a heart beat to reach the lost souls with the message of the Gospel, then we are most foolish people anybody can find on this planet earth.
  

• When the Pharisees asked Jesus when the kingdom of God would come [in the future]? Jesus answered to them that “The kingdom of God does not come with observation.” Because these Pharisees were expecting a political kingdom on earth to be established by God through His Messiah, Jesus replied that they cannot see it come. Jesus tried to convey the message that the kingdom that is coming is a Spiritual one by saying, “…For indeed, the kingdom of God is with in you [in your midst]” (Luke 17:21). This He spoke to them to correct their misunderstanding about the nature of the coming kingdom.
  

• How to enter the kingdom of Heaven?
  Unless you are converted or change your attitude towards God and become as little children, ready to be subjected to the authority of God, ready to receive correction as from a father, you will by no means enter the kingdom of God (Matt 18:3).
  

• Entering in to the kingdom of heaven is coming under the government and rulership of God.

• We suffer in the present time under the world system of governance not for a religion to be established [i.e. Christianity], but for the Kingdom of God to be established in this earth as it is in heaven, in us and through us. This kingdom of God is eternal in nature and is always the winning majority with Christ Jesus (2 Thess 1:5).

Kingdom of God

Kingdom of God

What does it mean when we say “Kingdom of God”?

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