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 32      God's Coming Kingdom

Among the ordinary events of human life it would be considered beyond reasonable expectation for a government which was overthrown in a foreign invasion more than 2,600 years ago to be restored with a greater magnificence, fame and splendour than it had before.

However, the events being referred to are not among the ordinary events in human life. There was a time in human society that the earth was believed to be flat. But more than that, any suggestion that the earth was a sphere was considered by most people to be not only a crackpot idea, but a dangerous notion.

We now know that the former belief of most people in a flat earth was erroneous and not based on the facts. In modern times we are still not free of mistaken notions. One of these is that there is no such thing as a miracle.

When we understand that a miracle is “a marvellous event not ascribable to human or natural agency, and therefore attributed to the intervention of a supernatural agent,” it cannot be rational to insist that there is no such thing as an event which is not ascribable to human or natural agency.

To offer an example, knowledge of the material world has increased immensely, to the point that people can determine which chemical elements and the proportions of each element, are in a living thing. Far beyond this, they have recently mapped the nearly 140,000 neurons and 50 million synapses in a fruit fly, as noted in sciencedaily.com.

Others have discovered that “fruit flies exhibit surprising cognitive abilities ... demonstrating a level of intelligence previously underestimated” from a blog on entomologist.net. But if men really understood what makes living things tick then they ought to be able to fashion such a simple little fly by combining the correct proportions of non-living matter.

Thus, even though this fly is small, it is nevertheless complex, and mankind makes no claim to be able to produce it from any combination of chemical elements. But the current intelligentsia does claim that the fruit fly is the product of natural agency, which they call organic evolution, a process which does not involve the operation of a mind, but only of the laws of nature.

Despite an immense effort to identify what those natural laws would be, scientist have drawn a blank, and so their belief and contention that life on earth is the product of natural agency is mere blind faith in something for which there is no scientific evidence whatsoever.

Of the three alternate causes of events, which one must have caused the existence of living things? It was not human agency, nor was it natural agency, so the rational conclusion is that it was a miraculous event, “and therefore attributed to the intervention of a supernatural agent.”

Those who believe in God and in His written message to mankind can safely ignore those irrational, atheistic mockers of their faith. The Jewish state was destroyed nearly 2,000 years ago, but the word of God long ago predicted its restoration which in fact, against all natural expectations, occurred in 1948 as a modern miracle.

The same God, who “rules in the kingdom of men, and appoints over it whomever He chooses” - Daniel 5:21, will soon send Jesus back to earth to restore the Kingdom of God in Jerusalem.