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 25      God's Coming Kingdom

We have filled this space for an extended time to consider an important function of the immortal rulers who will serve under Christ the king during his thousand years rule. The spiritual education which they will present to all nations is the same which is now available.

The difference between then and now is the present strength of the competition between the truth of God and the man-made notions to explain existence without an intelligent Creator. An example idea is the “big bang” theory. While men’s explosions tend to cause the disorganization of the target, such instruments as the Simonyi Survey Telescope reveal the results of their imaginary Big Bang to be instead a highly organized universe.

But the current intelligentsia carries on regardless of what is actually seen, even though there is no feasible explanation of how such an explosion could result in the organized state of the heavens. The current powers that be ensure that the purveyors of the no-God view are well funded to present it as if it were the reasonable and non-superstitious view.

The change of government when Christ returns will alter all that. Christ will be king over all nations, and his immortal saints will rule in every location under his authority. The voice of disbelief will find neither support nor any sort of platform for dissemination.

This is not to throw all the blame for disbelief on the academic community. A reading of Voltaire’s works shows that he wanted to throw out the Bible because of how the prevalent church of the time was behaving. And it can be seen that he was not alone in this attitude, considering the negative way in which the revolutionaries in France dealt with the church.

Another major cause of the widespread rejection of the Bible and God came from within the church, as we have reviewed in previous articles. The introduction in the late nineteenth century of the Documentary Theory, which was a particular attack on the books of Moses, the first five books of the Bible, suggested that these writings were a mixture of various older writings and folk tradition and legend.

Unfortunately, the 1859 publishing of Charles Darwin’s Evolution of the Species introduced a new contradiction of the Genesis account of creation. This doubtless aided in the growing acceptance of the Documentary Theory, and, consequently, rejection of the apostle Paul’s declaration that “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God” - 2 Timothy 3:16.

The return of Jesus to re-establish the Kingdom of God in Jerusalem will reverse the baneful effect of such humanistic thought. The “ten thousands times ten thousands and thousands of thousands” of redeemed and immortal saints in Christ (Revelation 5:11) will spread out and teach all nations God’s truth.

Then will be fulfilled the promise of God through the prophet, “And He will destroy on this mountain the surface of the covering cast over all people, and the veil [so they could not see the facts] that is spread over all nations” - Isaiah 25:7.

This will occur when God fulfills His “determination...to gather the nations to My assembly of kingdoms, to pour on them My indignation, all my fierce anger...For then I will restore to the peoples a pure language, that they all may call on the name of the Lord, to serve Him with one accord.”