God's Coming Kingdom

God, in the pages of the Bible, often speaks about the coming kingdom of God on earth. This page is a continuing series of articles about this coming kingdom, as shown in the Bible.

Part 20      God's Coming Kingdom

The immortal priests will be the teachers in the kingdom of God who will offer every opportunity for the people in every nation to learn how to escape the fear of death and find God’s way to salvation and everlasting life.

“Those who are wise [or, teachers] shall shine [or, enlighten] like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever” - Daniel 12:3

Parents warn their children to stay away from trouble. They tell them not to make friends with trouble-makers. God tells us the same. Evil people do not have any wisdom; they stumble into trouble like people who are walking in total darkness.

But the word of God is a shining light that shows God’s children the path of safety. The longer they read the word of God, the more enlightened they are. They keep on growing in wisdom until God will give them immortality.

1. “Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of the evil. Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on. For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.

“For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence. But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day. The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble.”

God asks mankind to listen to his words, remember what he teaches, and not forget His instructions.

Those who do not have God’s education, do not have eternal life. This is because they make no effort to know God. Like wayward children, they ignore and resist the instruction of their Maker and stumble into everlasting destruction.

God asks his children to let his word be their guide in all that they say, and in all that they do. The path that God has given his children is a straight path. Jesus said that it is a narrow way. But God’s children will be able to stay on the path to everlasting life when they are careful to remember what God teaches.

2. “My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh. Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

“Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you. Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure. Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.”

A great many, but not all mankind, will obey this call. At the end of the thousand years of Christ’s reign, only the obedient, those in the Book of Life will live: Revelation 20:13-15.