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 5      God's Coming Kingdom

We saw last time that the restrictions and constraints to which the mortal populations will be subjected will be relaxed near the end of the Millennium. The resulting massive invasion of Jerusalem, mounted by those seeking to bring back human government, will be overthrown.

The next event will be the final judgment.

“Then I saw a great white throne [note 1]...And I saw the dead [note 2], small and great, standing before God, and books were opened [note 3]. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life [note 4]. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books;

“The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire - this is the second death [note 5]. And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire” - Revelation 20:11-15.

Note 1 - The symbol of a righteous judge - Isaiah 1:18.

Note 2 - Everyone who had lived and died during the Millennium will be raised back to life because all were taught the way of God, and responsible for their behaviour towards it.

Note 3 - The divine record of each person’s behaviour.

Note 4 - Upon obeying the gospel by repenting and being baptized, a person’s name is written in the book of life. Only by failing to do His commandments will that name be removed. "He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels” - Revelation 3:5.

Note 5 - All who are divinely decreed worthy of death will be given over to the destroying judgment of God and those who were raised will die for the second time. This will result in the obliteration of death and the grave from the earth whose population will then be all immortals.

And so the kingdom of God will never be overthrown or superseded, although it will change. At the end of the thousand years Jesus will step down and God will reign directly over a morally and physically incorruptible population of redeemed men and women.

“Now when all things are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all” - 1 Corinthians 15:28.

God first manifested his glorious character in Jesus Christ - “...God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself;” “Jesus said... ‘He who has seen Me has seen the Father’.” - 2 Corinthians 5:19, John 14:9.

By the teaching and example of Jesus the divine character is imparted to believers. Jesus said, “Come to Me...Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me....and you will find rest for your souls” - Matthew 11:28.

In this way the entire earth will be populated with men and women who manifest the character God, when God is “all in all” of them.