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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Future Salvation, #13
Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit." (John 3:5—NIV)
Sin began in Heaven but there is no sin in the Kingdom of God.
We must be born again in order to enter the Kingdom of God, not to enter Heaven.
The Kingdom of God is God in Christ in the saints governing the creation. Heaven is, as we have said, a place in the spirit realm.
At present the Throne of God, the origin of all Kingdom law and judgment, is in Heaven. God created man so He could move His Throne from Heaven into the personalities of a company of sons. After the thousand-year Kingdom Age the Throne of God and of the Lamb will descend to earth in the glorified Church, the new Jerusalem.
It is our point of view that during the second half of Daniel's week, after the latter-rain revival, the Throne of God will move from the spirit realm into the hearts of the godly remnant who have been forced into the wilderness. Then Antichrist will govern the major cities of the earth. Antichrist will have power to reach into the heavens, but he will not have power to reach the Throne of God for by that time it shall have been established for eternity in the hearts of the saints.
Then the water of eternal life will issue from the innermost being of the saints because the Holy Spirit always comes from the Throne of God, from nowhere else.
No Sin Whatever Will Be Permitted in the Kingdom of God.
It is hard to believe but there is coming a day in which there will be no sin.
Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy place. (Daniel 9:24—NASB)
There yet will be an end of sin. There yet will be a world of everlasting righteousness. The wrestling match with Satan will be concluded and Satan will be thrown into the bottomless pit, and finally into the Lake of Fire. Hallelujah!
Notice carefully the following:
The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. (Galatians 5:19-21—NIV)
Now, why didn't the Apostle Paul say "Those who live like this will not inherit Heaven?"
The reason is, inheriting Heaven is not the issue of the Bible. The issue is inheriting the Kingdom of God. There is no sin in the Kingdom of God because the Kingdom is the realm in which God's will is done, God's will is enforced. No one can inherit the Kingdom of God on the basis of grace or mercy.
We can enter the program of salvation by grace. The purpose of the program of salvation is to help us cleanse ourselves from sin so we can be part of the Kingdom of God.
To be continued.