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 22      God's Coming Kingdom

After Christ returns, God plans to place all nations under the righteous government of Jesus, ruling with fairness and justice. Reigning with him will be the faithful believers.

“You were slain, and with your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation. You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth” - Revelation 5:9-10.

Their government will be good because Jesus and those with him have been educated in the revealed wisdom of God in the Scriptures. They, like Jesus, may have been poor during their mortal life, but they have used their time to learn the way of righteousness and justice. And so they are the sort of people who God wants to enjoy the inheritance that the Lord promised to Abraham and his offspring - “The meek will inherit the earth” - Psalms 37:11.

The saints of God will rule well under Jesus, and also being priests, their work includes teaching and instruction of the mortal nations, offering them every opportunity 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.

This will happen when “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.

An important feature in the enlightening of the nations concerns the Wisdom of God. In the words of Proverbs 8:22, “The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old.”

Wisdom is the earliest declared possession of God. An important feature of wisdom is knowledge. A full knowledge of the facts comes by collecting the facts and making sure they are correct. It comes also by ensuring that the facts are properly understood. A collection of facts which have been merely memorized, is not to have knowledge.

That would be like an airplane which has all the necessary parts to fly, but has no pilot. The skilled pilot does not take the airplane into the air until he has a complete flight plan. He will not take off until he is sure that all systems are able to do their part to bring the airplane to a safe landing at the other end of the flight. And so he declared concerning Wisdom: "Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth, before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world.”

This is in complete contrast with the man-made idea that the universe began with a mindless explosion called the “big bang”! No, God had a plan with his creation, He had an objective that He wanted to achieve.