If you seek it and the righteousness of God you would need nothing from any other rulers of the world. The kingdom of God is for the living, not the dead. He the appointed that kingdom to his called out little flock who connected the people in Tens. in Matthew 21:43 Jesus said he would take it from those who sat in the seat of Moses and give it to those who would bear fruit. The Kingdom of God is from generation to generation. Greek, Latin and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS. Pilate, as Procurator of Rome, had already agreed that Jesus was the rightful “King of the citizens of Judea,” and would proclaim it so on an official epigraph written in three languages and nailed to the cross. Jesus was simply telling Pontius Pilate, seated as the ruling judge of a Roman court, that his Kingdom was not a part of Pilate's constitution, order, government or state and Pilate had no jurisdiction to judge Jesus nor the kingdom God had given Him. Jesus was not saying that His kingdom was not on the planet. meant originally the discipline of an army, and next the ordered constitution of a state.” The word came from the Greek “komizo” meaning “to care for, take care of, provide for” or “carry off what is one’s own.” Kosmos did not mean planet, inhabitable place, or age. The word kosmos in the Greek and Roman view of the term Kosmos “. In the 7th century BC the term "kosmos" was used in constitutions to describe the jurisdictional "office of magistrate". The word was kosmos, and it is defined in Strong's Concordance as an “orderly arrangement” and in Thayer's Greek Lexicon it is defined as “an apt and harmonious arrangement or constitution, order, government.” When Jesus told Pilate that His Kingdom was not of the “ world” we see one of five different Greek words found in the New Testament which have all been translated into the single word “ world”. The World of Pilate "Ancient texts require ancient dictionaries." The state of our modern society, its similarities to the world of Rome at the time of Christ, and the prophecy in 2 Thessalonians 2:11 of the coming of a strong delusion should compel us all to reexamine the events and words of the Gospel of the Kingdom, and what the early Church and the Christians were really saying and doing.
While its jurisdiction may reach beyond the veil of life and death it was clearly for the living, not the dead, at hand and on the earth. Today, men have created eschatologies that might lead people to believe that the Kingdom of Heaven or God is some distant event, or that it is only where you go when you die. Today the Modern Christian does no understand the Gospel of the kingdom. They turned from the covetous practices of the Corban of the Pharisees and began to seek that kingdom of God and His righteousness through the practice of Pure Religion through faith, hope and charity and the perfect law of liberty. Thousands of Jews accepted Jesus as their king and the apostles as their servant leaders when they received the Baptism of Christ at Pentecost. At Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem, thousands of people hailed Him as the highest son of David, the Messiah, the Christ, the Anointed, the righteous King.
įrom the beginning of the gospel we were told that the Kingdom of God was at hand, that we were supposed to seek it, that it was in our midst, and within our reach in a present tense.Įveryone knew that a king was born. They told their disciples to do the same. The Kingdom of God at hand was preached by John the Baptist and Jesus. That other way of righteousness starts with you repenting and seeking to be a doer of what that other king Jesus commanded. The kingdom of God was simply another way to govern yourselves. The who look to forms of government that engage in covetous practices and the force of socialism are workers of iniquity. The early Church provided a daily ministration of social welfare through Pure Religion with Christians avoiding all the benefits and the Wages of unrighteousness offered by the " fathers" of the world of Rome and provide by men who call themselves Benefactors exercised authority one over the other. It was at hand, on earth, "Ergo: Ecclesia est Status." It was simply not of the " World" of Rome. That did not bear fruit and so Jesus took the Kingdom of God which was the government of God and appointed it to His little flock, His called out, His Church. He said he would take the government away from the Pharisees because they had altered its form which " made the word of God to none effect". He fired the moneychangers, the porters of the temple, which only the king could do since the days of David. He was the anointed King of that government that operated by faith, hope and charity through the perfect law of liberty. Jesus was hailed as the highest son of David, heir to the throne.