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 7      God's Coming Kingdom

What will life be like in the final phase of the kingdom of God? See 1 Corinthians 15:24-28, after Jesus has stepped down and God will rule directly. Paul, speaking of “surpassingly great revelations”, recounted how he “was caught up to the third heaven...to paradise. He heard inexpressible things, things that man is not permitted to tell” - 2 Corinthians 12:1-4.

In other words, the details concerning the final phase are God’s secret. It was doubtless shared with Jesus after his ascension to heaven, and here Jesus seems to have given Paul a glimpse of that paradise beyond the Millennium to boost his spiritual morale amidst his numerous and varied trials and tribulations.

But concerning the phase of the kingdom of God in which Jesus is king, the declaration of God through the prophet applies. “Surely the Lord God does nothing, unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets” - Amos 3:7. There is consequently a good deal of prophecy about the kingdom of God which will be restored under the rule of Jesus Christ.

• Isaiah prophesied at a time when God declared to his nation Israel, “Alas, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who are corrupters! They have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked to anger the Holy One of Israel, they have turned away backward” - Isaiah 1:4. Yet God made his appeal to them.

• “Many people 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 shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem” - Isaiah 2:3.

The worldwide code of laws will be Divine Law. There will be no more national laws, crafted according to tastes of particular races. The law of God will radiate from that natural centre at the cross-roads of Africa, Asia and Europe which is Jerusalem.

Three thousand years ago the rule of Solomon, under the law of God, “was over all the kingdoms from the [Euphrates] River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt” - 1 Kings 4:21. That restored kingdom will extend over all nations, when Jesus, who is called in Isaiah 42:1

“My [God’s] Servant whom I uphold, My Elect One in whom My soul delights!...He will bring forth justice to the Gentiles...He will not fail nor be discouraged, till He has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands shall wait for His law.”

While current law codes are powerless to stand up against organized corruption, this law will be administered by a true elder statesman. He will have more than two thousand years worth of experience with mankind. He knows the needs of the world and is able to cure human society of its present serious illness, as Isaiah declares -

“The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord. His delight is in the fear of the Lord, and He shall not judge by the sight of His eyes, nor decide by the hearing of His ears;

“but with righteousness He shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; He shall strike the earth with the rod of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked” - Isaiah 11:2-4.