One of the leading topics in the Bible is the Kingdom of God. I don't think I am exaggerating when I say that the Kingdom was the central theme of most of Jesus' teachings. Because that is true, if God's people fail to grasp the importance of this truth, we are going to have a serious blind spot in our view of things relating to God and the future.
According to Bible prophesy and the events we are watching unfold on the news everyday, we are witnessing the unraveling of the governments of the world. All we need to see is the deteriorating economies and the restlessness in the people of the world. We are living in the "information age" and people are starting to figure out that their governments are little more than feeding troughs for the special interests and corrupt politicians. Justice is rare and eventually the people will hold their leaders to a righteous standard. That is why revolutions occur.
I have been saying for a couple years now that the day is coming when the governments of the world are going to betray the people they were created to serve and they will use their powers to enslave them. This will be done under the influence of the antichrist spirit that is already at work in the world today. The foundation for his tyranny are already in place. It is only a matter a time until his day comes.
But before that happens, the people of God are going to identify with the other Kingdom, the long awaited for Kingdom of God and the King of Glory. I am be ginning to see that God is going to place a hunger and a longing for the eventual appearance of the Kingdom of God to intersect human history. When we see the Kingdom of God in the Word, we have to see our role in the Kingdom as well. If we don't, we will end up doing nothing more than griping and complaining with the rest of the world over how bad things are. We are called to better things than that. We are called to preach "Repent, the Kingdom of God is at hand!"
The leading message coming from the Holy Spirit at the first coming of Christ was just that, the Kingdom of God is at hand. I believe the message before the Second Coming of Christ will be the same as before, the Kingdom of God is at hand.
The Bible says that we are ambassadors for Christ and His Kingdom, we are citizens of Heaven with God's people. It is essential that we see ourselves that way or we will never preach with any conviction or truth about the Kingdom of God.
I believe 2010 will be a year when the Holy Spirit proclaims this message to His Church in all the earth. We are all looking forward to the appearance of our great and glorious King, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is coming to bring justice and righteousness and to rule and reign with a rod of iron and judge the nations.
The Kingdom under the leadership of our awesome King, the King of Glory, is our blessed hope. Get ready, He is coming soon!
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