Between the time when Adam and Eve lost the earthly outpost of the kingdom of Heaven to Satan the pretender and the time when Jesus the Christ appeared announcing its restoration, thousands of years passed. Now the questions are: Why did God wait so long before reestablishing His Kingdom on earth? Why did He allow so much time to pass? Why was Christ born in that particular time in history? Why not earlier or later? Now in answering these questions, we must understand first how the Lord God views time and history. He views it differently than we humans do because He is not bound by either. From the perspective of eternity, God, the Lord and Creator, can take all the "time" He needs to accomplish His purpose. Simon Peter made a profound statement:
But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
Next, the Lord God waited until He had guided human history to the place where optimal conditions existed for the earthly arrival of His Son and the announcement of the return of His Kingdom on earth; what God's Constitution calls the "fullness" of time.
But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. In other words, Jesus the Christ came at exactly the right time. Now the question: Why was the time right? Because when Jesus appeared, announcing that the Kingdom of Heaven was near, the Lord God was once again expanding His heavenly government around them to see a tangible example of the kind of kingdom and the kind of expansion God had in mind.
The full authority of the Kingdom was in Jesus. 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. Jesus didn't teach or preach on healing. They were attributes of the Kingdom. They were not the subject or topic.
2 Peter 3:8-9 Galatians 4:4-5 Matthew 4:23
~~W.R. Luchie
But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.
Next, the Lord God waited until He had guided human history to the place where optimal conditions existed for the earthly arrival of His Son and the announcement of the return of His Kingdom on earth; what God's Constitution calls the "fullness" of time.
But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. In other words, Jesus the Christ came at exactly the right time. Now the question: Why was the time right? Because when Jesus appeared, announcing that the Kingdom of Heaven was near, the Lord God was once again expanding His heavenly government around them to see a tangible example of the kind of kingdom and the kind of expansion God had in mind.
The full authority of the Kingdom was in Jesus. 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. Jesus didn't teach or preach on healing. They were attributes of the Kingdom. They were not the subject or topic.
2 Peter 3:8-9 Galatians 4:4-5 Matthew 4:23
~~W.R. Luchie
