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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Rest of God, #19
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible. And the Lord thy God will put out those nations before thee by little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee. But the Lord thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed. And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them. (Deuteronomy 7:21-24)
Our task as saints (holy ones of God) is, through the Spirit of God, to drive out of the earth every trace of Satan and his demons until even the memory of sin has been destroyed from the earth.
The purpose of the kingdom of God is not that of removing those who are "saved" to the spirit realm so they can be free of the corruption produced by Satan and his demons in the earth. Rather, the purpose of the Kingdom of God is the casting out of Satan from the nations of the earth and from the earth itself.
The work of casting out Satan from the earth began with the ministry of the Lord Jesus and continues with the believers (Mark 16:17). The purpose of the return of Christ is not to remove the saints to Paradise. It is to bring reinforcements so the work of driving Satan from his strongholds in the earth can be accomplished completely.
The Kingdom of God is the doing of God's will in the earth. The Kingdom of God always drives out the source of rebellion from the earth. The source of rebellion and sin is the devil and his angels.
But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you. (Luke 11:20)
We understand, therefore, that the rest of God includes the rulership of the nations by Christ and His co-heirs. All the peoples, the wealth, and the glory of the earth belong to Christ and to those who share the inheritance with Him.
Today we Christians, as was true of Abraham, are wandering in our land of promise as in a strange land. One day the earth will be ours to possess. The wicked never will inherit any part of the earth. They will be bound for eternity in the spiritual prisons located in the interior of the earth.
The Kingdom of God is at the right hand of the Father because Christ is at the right hand of the Father. We who are alive on the earth are ambassadors of Christ. We announce to the peoples of the earth that our King, Jesus, is coming with His angels to set up His Kingdom here. If they would be spared (saved) in that Day they must believe, turn away from their worldly practices, and be baptized in water.
As the Lord leads we can demonstrate to people the nature of what is at hand. We can cast out demons, heal the sick, and show other evidences of the Kingdom that is coming to the earth.
To be continued.