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my friends what do you ask to God ?
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Pegg
Jehovah our God is One
first and foremost for his kingdom to come, for satan to be destroyed, for suffering to end and for mankind to be restored
Pegg
Jehovah our God is One
Daniel 2:44 And in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be brought to ruin. And the kingdom itself will not be passed on to any other people. It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite;
God promises to rule this earth one day. he will establish his own kingdom government so that all people can live under his rulership and guidance. Until that time, we are stuck with the rule of man.
I ask for God to establish his kingdom because I want to live under his rulership. I have learned the goverments rules and regulations and I attempt to live by them right now so that when it arrives, i will hopeful y be ready.
CaptainXeroid
Following Christ
I pray for patience to remember that other people are children of God, no matter what my first impression of them is, and to love them as Jesus would.
Pegg
Jehovah our God is One
no, the NT writers and Jesus repeatedly said that the kingdom is in heaven
Matthew 3:1  In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Ju‧de′a, 2 saying: “REPENT, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.
Matthew 4:17 From that time on Jesus commenced preaching and saying: “Repent, YOU people, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.”
This is actually a major point of difference between Judaism and Christianity as written in the NT. the Jews were expecting the Messiah to re-establish the literal throne of David and rule the kingdom of God from the throne situated in the Temple in Jerusalem. Even Jesus disciples had that idea. But Jesus corrected them and shed light on the fact that the kingdom was not going to be on earth as it had been previously. Rather, iot was going to be established in the heavens. So the rulership of the Messiah would be an invisible rulership...not a physical rulership on earth.
From heaven, the kingdom will have dominion over the entire earth and over all nations of people. If it was situated on earth, with a physical human ruler, it would be limited.
SCHIZO
Active Member
No, Jesus said the kingdom is within you and all around you.
InChrist
Free4ever
According to the words of scripture, Jesus said to pray for the kingdom to come:
Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
As we forgive our debtors.
And do not lead us into temptation,
But deliver us from the evil one.
For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
Matthew 6;9-13
He said the kingdom is within you because He was there in Israel, in their midst at the time. He never said anything about the kingdom being... all around. There are dozens of prophecies which were given to the OT prophets in reference to the coming kingdom and reign of the Messiah on earth from Jerusalem, on the throne of David in Israel.
Pegg
Jehovah our God is One
Yes, the heavenly kingdom is for the purpose of bringing all mankind back into harmony with God. The first mention of such a kingdom is spoken of in the book of Genesis. A 'seed' was promised who would inflict an injury on the 'head' of Satan
Gen 3:14 And Jehovah God proceeded to say to the serpent (Satan the Devil): “Because you have done this thing, you are the cursed one out of all the domestic animals and out of all the wild beasts of the field. Upon your belly you will go and dust is what you will eat all the days of your life. 15 And I shall put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed. He will bruise you in the head and you will bruise him in the heel.
Jesus explained that a small number would join him in ruling in the heavenly kingdom... but most of mankind would continue to live on earth as subjects of that kingdom:
Matthew 5:5 “Happy are the mild-tempered ones, since they will inherit the earth
This idea that some will inherit the earth is in harmony with the hebrew scriptures:
Psalms 37:11 But the meek ones themselves will possess the earth,
And they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace
And that the heavenly hope is open to small number is seen in the following scriptures:
Matthew 5:3 “Happy are those conscious of their spiritual need, since the kingdom of the heavens belongs to them
Luke 12:32 “Have no fear, little flock, because YOUR Father has approved of giving YOU the kingdom.
Luke 22:29 shows that, even though Jesus had many hundreds of disciples at the time, only to his 12 chosen apostles did he make his covenant for them to be apart of the heavenly kingdom:
"You are the ones who have stuck with me in my trials, and I make a covenant with YOU (12 Apostles), just as my Father has made a covenant with me, for a kingdom"
And in their heavenly role, they will serve as priests:
Revelation 1:6 and he made us to be a kingdom, priests to his God and Father
It is by means of the kingdom that God will render his judgement among the nations and he has promised to remove all human rulerships by means of the heavenly kingdom. The world will be completely changed in how it is managed, and that is the 'end of the world' that the bible speaks of. It is the end of the world 'as we know it'
when God takes over rulership, he will remove any opposers, he will remove the wicked and those who refuse to put down their weapons. Any who are unwilling to learn his laws and submit to them will be removed from the earth.
Armageddon is a time of cleansing.
Revelation 21:5 And the One seated on the throne said: “Look! I am making all things new.”
2Peter 3:11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of persons ought YOU to be in holy acts of conduct and deeds of godly devotion, 12 awaiting and keeping close in mind the presence of the day of Jehovah, through which [the] heavens being on fire will be dissolved and [the] elements being intensely hot will melt! 13 But there are new heavens and a new earth that we are awaiting according to his promise, and in these righteousness is to dwell.
And the purpose of doing this is so that God can be known by all man and his sovereignty restored in the earth:
Psalm 46:9 He is making wars to cease to the extremity of the earth.
The bow he breaks apart and does cut the spear in pieces;
The wagons he burns in the fire.
10 “Give in, YOU people, and know that I am God.
I will be exalted among the nations
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