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The Daily Word of Righteousness
We Christians Do Not Understand the Gospel!, #4
When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? (Acts 1:6)
Let us proceed now to discuss four aspects of the one Kingdom of God, the one Kingdom presented in both the Old Testament and the New:
The announcement of the coming to earth of the Kingdom of God.
The appearance of the Savior-King of the Kingdom.
The calling-out and re-creation of the nobility of the Kingdom.
The Return of the King and His Nobility To Bring Righteousness, Peace, and Joy to the Saved Nations of the Earth.
The Announcement of the Coming to Earth of the Kingdom of God
The Old Testament prophecies are filled with references to the coming of Christ and His Kingdom to the earth and to the resulting justice and peace that will be brought to the nations at the hand of Christ and His saints.
But the Lord shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment. And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the people in uprightness. (Psalms 9:7,8)
"He (the Lord) shall judge the world in righteousness."
O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah. (Psalms 67:4)
"Govern the nations upon earth." Upon earth!
Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations. (Psalms 82:8)
Say among the heathen that the Lord reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously. (Psalms 96:10)
Such verses have always been in the Scriptures but it appears they have been hidden from our eyes. If we thought about them at all we supposed that they had something to do with the physical land and people of Israel.
How many Christians throughout the centuries have prayed for the Lord's Kingdom to come, for His will to be done in the earth as it is in Heaven? But it may be true that the coming of the Kingdom of God has not seemed real to us because of today's emphasis on going to Heaven. Perhaps it is because the coming of the Kingdom is nearer that we now are able to perceive the words of the Hebrew Prophets.
It may be true that Isaiah has the most to say about the coming of Christ and His Kingdom.
And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. (Isaiah 2:2-4)
The "mountain of the Lord's house" is Zion. Zion is another name for the Church of the Lord Jesus.
But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, (Hebrews 12:22)
To be continued.