Kingdom 101: The Promise of Recovery
If I have learned anything during my six and a half decades on planet earth, it is this: His Word is sovereign. The King will never go back on His Word. He and His Word are one. If you read and study the Old Testament of the Lord God's Constitution, you will discover that it is earth's file of heaven's record of the promise of the coming King and the recovery of His Kingdom. All of the representatives carried the prophecies of His arrival and what He would bring. The laws given to Moses foreshadowed the laws and principles of the Kingdom. If you were to take the time and read, you will discover that there are thousands of references to this specific announcement. Here are several worth reviewing. Moses made this statement: The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear. King David made this statement concerning the Kingdom: They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom, and talk of Your power, to make known to the sons of men His mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of His kingdom. Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your dominion endures throughout all generations. The prophet Isaiah saw the coming of the King and the Kingdom in detail: For unto us a Child is born. Unto us a Son is given. And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace, there will be no end, upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, to order it and establish it with judgment and justice from that time forward, even forever.
And the servant of the Lord God, Daniel, saw the King and the Kingdom in graphic detail: “I was watching in the night visions, and behold, One like the Son of Man, coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him near before Him. Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom the one which shall not be destroyed... I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me and made known to me the interpretation of these things: ‘Those great beasts, which are four, are four kings which arise out of the earth. But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.’... “I was watching; and the same horn was making war against the saints, and prevailing against them, until the Ancient of Days came, and a judgment was made in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came for the saints to possess the kingdom... ‘But the court shall be seated, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and destroy it forever. Then the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people, the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey Him.’ “This is the end of the account. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts greatly troubled me, and my countenance changed; but I kept the matter in my heart.”
I find it personally incredible to read these few scriptures in God's Constitution (the Bible) and see, without a shadow of a doubt, that the message of the Constitution (Bible) is about the coming of a Kingdom, and not about a religion. However, the announcement of the Old Testament was about the coming of a prophet who would prepare the way and introduce the King and Messiah to the world personally. This was referring to John the Baptist. The prophet Malachi stated: “Remember the Law of Moses, My servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”
Please note: When King Jesus appeared, preaching the Kingdom of Heaven, He was the culmination of thousands of years of preparation in the planning. What was the Lord God waiting for? Throughout history He was setting the stage and preparing an environment for His Son's appearance. He will also go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
Now He is filling those with His Spirit who have accepted His Son and embraced His message. From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”... And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.
Deuteronomy 18:15 Psalm 145:11-13 Isaiah 9:6-7 Daniel 7:13-14, 16-18, 21-22, 26-28
Malachi 4:4-6 Luke 1:17 Matthew 4:17, 23
~~W.R. Luchie
And the servant of the Lord God, Daniel, saw the King and the Kingdom in graphic detail: “I was watching in the night visions, and behold, One like the Son of Man, coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him near before Him. Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom the one which shall not be destroyed... I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So he told me and made known to me the interpretation of these things: ‘Those great beasts, which are four, are four kings which arise out of the earth. But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.’... “I was watching; and the same horn was making war against the saints, and prevailing against them, until the Ancient of Days came, and a judgment was made in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came for the saints to possess the kingdom... ‘But the court shall be seated, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and destroy it forever. Then the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people, the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey Him.’ “This is the end of the account. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts greatly troubled me, and my countenance changed; but I kept the matter in my heart.”
I find it personally incredible to read these few scriptures in God's Constitution (the Bible) and see, without a shadow of a doubt, that the message of the Constitution (Bible) is about the coming of a Kingdom, and not about a religion. However, the announcement of the Old Testament was about the coming of a prophet who would prepare the way and introduce the King and Messiah to the world personally. This was referring to John the Baptist. The prophet Malachi stated: “Remember the Law of Moses, My servant, which I commanded him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”
Please note: When King Jesus appeared, preaching the Kingdom of Heaven, He was the culmination of thousands of years of preparation in the planning. What was the Lord God waiting for? Throughout history He was setting the stage and preparing an environment for His Son's appearance. He will also go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
Now He is filling those with His Spirit who have accepted His Son and embraced His message. From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”... And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.
Deuteronomy 18:15 Psalm 145:11-13 Isaiah 9:6-7 Daniel 7:13-14, 16-18, 21-22, 26-28
Malachi 4:4-6 Luke 1:17 Matthew 4:17, 23
~~W.R. Luchie
