THE KINGDOM OF GOD

What is the Kingdom of God? Several answers are given to this question:

• Heaven, where God is
• The Church ruling spiritually on earth
• Jesus Christ ruling in men’s hearts
• Jesus Christ ruling on the

Only the last of these fits Bible teaching.

After His resurrection Jesus spent forty days with his disciples, “speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God” (Acts 1:3). At the end of this time the disciples “asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?”. He did not tell them that their idea of the Kingdom was wrong, but said: “It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in His own power” (vv. 6,7).

Then Jesus ascended to heaven, and angels promised the disciples: “this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven” (v. 11). Later Peter said: “[God] shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began” (3:20,21).

Putting these passages together, the Kingdom of God is to do with:

• The restoration of what once existed
• The nation of Israel
• The return of Christ
• The teachings of the Old Testament.

That the Kingdom of God once existed is shown by some words of King David: “and of all my sons . . . [God] hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel” (1 Chron. 28:5).

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