WHY THE WORLD NEEDS GOD S KINGDOM NOW! (KOG Seminar #1, Segment II)

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1 WHY THE WORLD NEEDS GOD S KINGDOM NOW! (KOG Seminar #1, Segment II) INTRODUCTION Our wrld is in a terrible state f affairs. It s a predicament f ur wn making with n small help frm Satan the devil. As the fulfillment f the Bible s end time prphecies reach their fcal pint in the mnths and years immediately ahead f us, it is clear that this present evil wrld s time is up. As Jesus phrased it in Mark 1:15, The time is fulfilled. But Jesus Christ has a slutin the wrld needs Gd s Kingdm NOW! We als each need Christ and Gd s Kingdm in ur lives NOW! Sme lingering questins: What s ahead fr America and all natins? Why can t man slve his wn prblems and bring wrld peace? Hw will Christ intervene t prevent humanity frm annihilating itself? What s ahead when the Jesus Christ as King f Kings f the Kingdm f Gd rules the wrld? Hw can yu persnally cnnect with the Kingdm f Gd thrugh its King Jesus Christ tday? SPS As we cnclude this Kingdm f Gd seminar tday, we see that when Jesus said the time is fulfilled fr the end f man s way f ding things, it is als the time t be fulfilled fr ushering in a new and wnderful age that will slve all mankind s prblems and lead t eternal life in the Kingdm f Gd an age and a Kingdm that we can persnally be invlved in thrugh Jesus Christ even tday. This segment shws why the wrld and we need Gd s Kingdm nw! BODY 1. What s ahead fr America and all natins ur age specifically prphesied America s rle in mdern histry Funding clnists viewed America in biblical terms: New Israel, New Prmised Land, a city n a hill. 1

2 America s system f law is based n the Bible and biblical values (summarized by the 10 Cmmandments, which were prminently displayed n U.S. gvernment buildings). Fr the last century the U.S. has been the main natinal pwer hlding at bay the frces f wrld-ruling tyranny f Nazism, Marxism and cmpeting religins. Even with its many faults, America has been man s last best hpe (A. Lincln). The U.S. has been a bastin f freedm and pprtunity fr the entire wrld. Yet America may have been man s best hpe but nt Gd s the best that America is r has ever been is dust n the scales cmpared t Jesus Christ s rule f the Kingdm f Gd n earth that is t cme. But why is America f particular nte at this time in histry? At every critical histrical juncture Gd has identified key natins in the Bible. Egypt and Israel at the Exdus 1400 B.C. Assyria, Babyln, Egypt, the Huse f Israel (the lst 10 tribes) and the Huse f Judah (ancestrs f the Jews) when Gd punished all the Israelites with defeat and captivity 700 s t 500 s B.C. Rman Empire, Parthian Empire, Greece, Judaea, Egypt and thers at the time f Christ and the apstles A.D. first century. Tday, America is ne f the key natins prphetically identified in the Bible. The Bible cntains a histry f the family f ne man: Abraham Abraham had tw sns: Ishmael father f the tribes that became the mdern Arab natins Isaac father f Esau and Jacb Jacb (als knwn as Israel) had 12 sns: Judah, father f the mst f the Israelis and Jews, received the prphesied scepter r rulership thrugh the descendent line f King David, which included ryal families f many natins, but the prphecy specifically applies t Jesus Christ. Jseph had tw sns: Ephraim the ancestr f the British natins Manasseh the ancestr f the United States Gd s gave the natins descended frm the ancient Israel much many blessings, and He expected much frm them: Luke 12:48 Thse mral and spiritual expectatins have nt been fulfilled, s nw is als the time f Jacb s truble: Jer. 30:4-7 And truble lves cmpany all the natins nw face unprecedented, but prphesied, trubles. 2. Why can t man slve his wn prblems and bring wrld peace? There s always a bigger war man des nt knw the way t peace: Isa. 59:7-9 2

3 Man has a sinful nature that prevents any human r evlutinary utpia: Jer. 17:9-10 The Devil is a great deceiver and c-perpetratr in the sins f humanity: Rev. 12:9; Eph. 2:2 3. The Slutin the Wrld Needs Gd s Kingdm NOW The secnd cming f Jesus Christ: Matt. 24:29-31 Jesus Christ literally returns t earth at the sund f the seventh prphetic trumpet f Revelatin. The elect, als knwn as thse wh are Christ s at His cming, are gathered t Him. The resurrectin f the dead ccurs at Christ s secnd cming: 1 Cr. 15:50-53 One must be changed t spirit t enter r inherit the Kingdm f Gd. The resurrectin f the dead and f the elect still physically living at that time takes place at the sund f the seventh trumpet at Christ s return. Sleep is a reference t being physically dead because by the resurrectin Gd awakens a persn t live again. Resurrected saints rise t meet Christ in the air: 1 Thess. 4:13-17 T sleep in Jesus is t wait in the grave until He returns t earth t resurrect His elect. Nte again the reference t the trumpet (seventh) f Gd. This describes the resurrectin f the dead. Christ and the resurrected saints then land n earth: Zech. 14:1-4 Christ des nt stay in the air at His return nr d thse resurrected at His cming. He ges t the Munt f Olives at Jerusalem. There He fights a great final battle with the human armies arrayed against Him. Christ prclaims victry ver man s frces f evil and claims the natins as part f the Kingdm f Gd: Rev. 11:15 The visin f Christ s cming as King f Kings f Gd s Kingdm: Rev. 19:11-16 After resurrecting His saints, Christ will discipline the remaining human pwers wh ppse Him, His Kingdm and His way. Christ will return as a cnquering King t rule the natins. He will then begin t actively rule all natins and bring true peace t humanity. 4. Christ has Satan bund: Rev. 2:1-3 At His return Jesus will have Satan imprisned where he can n lnger deceive the natins fr 1,000 years. His deceitful, sinful, hateful spirit will have n impact n mankind fr 1,000 years! Imagine the cultural changes that that will have n earth during the millennial rule f Christ. 5. The Millennial rule f Jesus Christ: Rev. 20:4-6 Fr at least 2,000 years man has been fascinated with a utpia that lasts 1,000 years. 3

4 The elect will rule with Christ as resurrected spirit children f Gd fr 1,000 years. Reigning with Christ means that there will still be peple t rule ver as they reppulate the earth. The rest f the dead are histrical humanity wh never understd Gd s truth and must physically live again t chse Gd s way r nt (mre abut them in next KG Seminar). This is the launch f the Kingdm f Gd n earth fr the first 1,000 years n the way t frever. 6. But what abut wrld peace? First must cme peace with Gd thrugh Jesus Christ: Eph. 1:7-10 The elect, thse Gd is calling nw seek peace with Gd and with fellw man. The mystery f His will reveals that humanity des nt yet knw Gd s plan! The fullness f the times this age ends, and the new age f the millennial rule f Christ the wnderful wrld tmrrw begins. All things which are in heaven include Gd and the angels but nt man. When heaven and earth are bth ruled by a Christ, then man is at peace with Gd smething ur wrld has never understd. Let s lk at the millennial pictures f peace: The nature f man and animals is changed: Isa.11:6-10 The nature f animals will be changed t illustrate the vastly mre imprtant change in the nature f man. The whle wrld will knw and fllw the true Gd f the Bible. Jesus Christ is the Rt f Jesse (Jesse was the father f King David, wh was a physical ancestr f Jesus). There will be n mre wars during the Millennium. The beauty f divine law bringing wrldwide disarmament: Isa. 2:3-4 A wnderful irny the beating swrds int plwshares sculpture at the United Natins building was dnated by the Sviet Unin in the 1950s. 7. But what abut yur persnal inner peace in the Kingdm f Gd nw? Thrugh ur sn-cming King Jesus Christ we need t change ur minds and lives nw what the Bible calls repent and believe. We need inner peace in a trubled wrld that cmes frm persnally cnnecting t the Kingdm f Gd nw. Cl. 1:13-14 : He has delivered us frm the pwer f darkness and cnveyed us int the kingdm f the Sn f His lve, in whm we have redemptin thrugh His bld, the frgiveness f sins. The Kingdm f Gd will cme, Jesus Christ as King will rule the whle wrld, but He will if we chse t let Him rule ur lives as ur King tday we need the Kingdm f Gd nw! CONCLUSION The time f the wrld, the age f man, is shrtly cming t an end its time is up. 4

5 The time f Jesus Christ s return t bring the new wrld f the Kingdm f Gd n earth is cming. Gd the Father and Jesus Christ want us t inherit that spiritual Kingdm, t be part f that new wrld t welcme us t the Kingdm f Gd! Thank yu fr attending this Kingdm f Gd seminar. Watch fr the annuncement in The Gd News magazine and n Beynd Tday televisin abut ur next Kingdm f Gd Seminar in abut fur mnths time. Yu are als invited t ur fllw-up Bible studies n tpics related t Gd s Kingdm and way f life. If yu have questins r wuld like t knw mre, please ask. We lk frward t seeing yu at the next Kingdm f Gd Seminar when, in even greater detail, we analyze Jesus statement that the Kingdm f Gd is at hand. 5

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