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 10      God's Coming Kingdom

Last time we suggested that only drastic measures can cleanse human society from the chronic and deep-rooted godlessness and crime which pervades the world. When Jesus returns and calls on all nations to recognize his divinely conferred authority they will quite naturally resist. The majority will unite in an attempt to overthrow him.

“I will declare the decree: The Lord has said to Me [Jesus Christ], ‘You are My Son, Today I have begotten You. Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for Your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron [drastic measures]; You shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel’.

“Now therefore, be wise, O kings; be instructed* [by the good laws which will obviate crime], you judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest He be angry, and you perish in the way [the ungodly will be destroyed], when His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him” - Psalms 2:7-12.

*Of that divine instruction in the Kingdom of God, the prophet declared,“Many nations shall come and say, ‘Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths’. For out of Zion the law shall go forth, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem” - Micah 4:2.

The apostle John received a vision which portrays Jesus after his return, when all the faithful believers have been rewarded with immortality. In the symbolic language of this message, he wrote: “Then I saw heaven [Jesus then ruling as King] opened, and behold, a white horse [white symbolizes righteous; the horse was chiefly used in warfare]...and in righteousness He judges and makes war...Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations [Note 1]. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron [Note 2]...And I saw the beast [Note 3], the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against Him who sat on the horse and against His army. Then the beast was captured [Note 4]...And the rest were killed with the sword [Note 5] which proceeded from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse” - Revelation 19:11-21.

Note 1 - Jesus will be commander of Israel’s forces - “For I have bent Judah, My bow” and “fitted the bow with Ephraim” - Zechariah 9:13. Recent events have shown the Israeli military performing various remarkable feats of conquest.

It appears that even after Jesus has announced his presence to the world, they will refuse to give him recognition and regard him as another dangerous religious extremist.

Note 2 - All mortal governments will be replaced by that of Christ, ruling from Jerusalem. His immortal followers will reign as local rulers and religious instructors - Rev. 5:10.

Note 3 - A symbol of that group of nations which will lead the invasion against Christ.

Note 4 - The political unity between those leading nations will be terminated.

Note 5 - All national governments will be dismantled.