onewithhim wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2024 3:25 pm
2ndpillar2 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 9:59 am
JehovahsWitness wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2024 9:20 am
I understand that the notion is new to almost everyone but why are so many believers so resistant to the notion of Jesus ruling over the earth (from heaven) to eliminate all human suffering on this planet?
Why do so many Christians praise Jesus as KING but are clearly uncomfortable with him being a KING with this our planet earth as his domain* ? Are Christians so enamoured with human governments that they dont want Christ to take over? WHY the resistance (or avoidance) of the main topic of Jesus preaching?
*King + domain = KINGDOM
LUKE 4:43 NIV
But he said, “I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because that is why I was sent
Why do so many that love Jesus and the bible find the idea of a heavenly government taking control of this planet so distasteful or uninteresting or unimprtant ? Please help me understand this mystery!
The Good news of the kingdom
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The kingdom will be ruled by David/son of man (Ezekiel 34 & 37 & Mt 24:29-31 & Daniel 2:45) after all the previous kingdoms have been crushed, all at the same time. He will rule the nations with a "rod of iron" (Rev 19:15) from Jerusalem (Zech 14:16), not from heaven.
But that is where Jesus is---in heaven. He is with the
NEW Jerusalem which is in heaven. It is a spiritual Jerusalem, not physical. God and Jesus will be "with" mankind in the same way Jesus is "with" us now. (Matthew 18-20)
If "Jesus" was in your mist, as you say per Matthew 18-20, then why are your prayers unanswered, and the sick remain sick. I am thinking "Jesus" is not with you now, whether you have two or more, or 200,000. The Jerusalem where the "king" will rule, is where the survivors of the nations/Gentiles, with regard to the plagues, will come every year to bow down to the king, or suffer no rain. I am thinking that there is no rain in heaven. With respect to the Jerusalem of the king, it will have its cooking pots made holy, where sacrifice will be boiled. Apparently they will have pot luck dinners. (Zechariah 14:15-21). As for the Jerusalem on earth, which came down from heaven (Rev 21:2), it will have a tree of life, in which to heal the nations/Gentiles (Rev 22:2), whereas outside the gates, are those who lie, murder, etc. (Rev 22:14-15)
Zechariah 14:15-21 So also like this plague will be the plague on the horse, the mule, the camel, the donkey and all the cattle that will be in those camps.
16Then it will come about that any who are left of all the nations that went against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Booths. 17And it will be that whichever of the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, there will be no rain on them. 18If the family of Egypt does not go up or enter, then no rain will fall on them; it will be the plague with which the LORD smites the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths. 19This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Booths.
20In that day there will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, “HOLY TO THE LORD.” And the cooking pots in the LORD’S house will be like the bowls before the altar. 21Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to the LORD of hosts; and all who sacrifice will come and take of them and boil in them. And there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts in that day.