I first posted this topic on my facebook page for all religious person or for all those with breath to comment of all they know where they will end up at the end of the day when the father of all creation call for our breath back. Unfortunately or so sad I would say, only one person made the effort to leave a comment. I am assuming that most of us do not really know why we are here and where we will be at the end of the day. Thank you very much Mr Antonio Bank for taking the time to express your view in this regard. God richly bless you and the all of my friends who fail to comment. Please, read along, you will get to know the reason Christ came, his purpose and what he left us with. I promise you that the more you get to know of the Kingdom of God, the less stressful it will be for you.
Antonio Bank i think God created man to have dominion on earth, to rule as prince and king. We have the kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven. God original plan and still is for man to remain here. Earth is man final destination, most people think Heaven is man's destination...too bad. Christ said the kingdom is in you and within you. what say ye? people
The purpose of Jesus coming was the kingdom on earth in the heart of man. Rediscovering the Kingdom purpose will defile every other principle. The Message of Jesus was the Kingdom, and Jesus came to restore these kings who lost their kingship and kingdom.
I am convince that the more you learn about the kingdom, the less you are really going to have a problem with religion and fear. When you understand the kingdom of God, it takes away all worries and anxiety.
People are suffering from what I call an alternative government. Our government so far cannot really take us to the place of security. We have heard of Boko Haram, Al-Qaeda etc. People are afraid in some countries to travel in train, plane and buses or even gathering in groups, and in sport arena etc. And the government cannot really guarantee total security. The most important component Jesus brought or sent to earth with him was the Kingdom. Isaiah 9:6. It says a very important statement about Jesus. It says. "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace". He brought on his shoulders something that is very critical and that's; not a religion, or a set of tradition, ritual or all of things we claim to be so spiritual about. He brought a government, which means that God saw that man number one need was not religion but a government for planet earth or kingdom earth. God don't grant us our want, but he gives us our need.
The number one problem in the world today, I am convince is religion. It's the source of probably 90% of much of the problem in the world. That includes even what we have reduced the biblical mandate to, that is Christian religion. It's said that religion will bring the great conflict of the 21st century. it seems we are heading in that direction. We have heard statement thrown around that it's a battle between Christianity and Islam. And when you heard things thrown around like that it brings great concerns. It means people will become indiscriminate in their attacks. They will begin to classify people base on their association rather than their individuality, which makes it more dangerous for us. Christ did say in this last days, before he consummate everything, that there shall be crisis. False prophet rising to say they are the one. Many different religious groups (churches) would say they have the only way.
God established the earth kingdom through Adam, and place in agency to run and administer it. This agency was call mankind. Human race was supposed to be a part that rules planet earth unbehalf of heaven. That was the purpose when God created man. Adam lost that kingdom when he committed treason. Adam committed himself to obey another authority, the authority of Satan, the devil, Lucifer, the fallen one whichever name you choose to call him. Romans 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? When Adam and Eve chose to obey Satan, the whole kingdom became subjugated to the authority of Satan. Adam lost the government of God. That's why when the last Adam was approached his name is Jesua Amaziah. The last Adam means original from the first print.
MATTHEW 4:8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; 9: And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
Luke 4:5 And the devil, taking him up into a high mountain, showed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.
6 And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.
7 If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
How did he get the kingdom, the power, the authority of the world. God never gave Satan any kingdom. He got it from someone who obeyed him. Jesus did not challenge Satan because he was stating a fact. Satan has so much confident to say "...because it was given to me".
Satan was the prince ruling the kingdom of earth until Christ death on the cross, and the whole human race was under his jurisdiction. John 12:31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
John 14:30 Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. (Who was this prince of the world, and why did Christ acknowledge him as the prince of the world?)
John 16:11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.
Note that whoever God gives something to, they are responsible for it. The bible says the gift and the callings of God is without recall Romans 11:29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. Once God gives you something, he doesn't take it back. He is a God of integrity. He says if you fail him he must be faithful still, His word must be kept. When Adam loose God's kingdom to Satan, God could not take it back, He has to use another Adam to get it back legally. Christ was the last Adam which means original that was why Satan challenged Him. The kingdom that Christ came to restore was always ours. He came to give us our inheritance which was always ours before the foundation of the earth. Christ came, Satan challenges him, and Christ made a promise. He said in Matthew 12:29 Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man and then he will spoil his house. Christ came, Satan challenges him, and Christ made a promise. "I am going to take this kingdom without worshipping you. I will bind you, take away your power, and strip you of all that you have that's not yours. Satan has no idea on how Christ was going to do it. He thought Christ was going to fight him. No, Christ paid the price for it with His blood. The Penalty was death.
All of Christ's teaching on earth from age 30 was one, the KINGDOM OF GOD. The kingdom is coming, the kingdom of God is among you, the kingdom is here, and the Kingdom shall be in you and within you. What's strange about this government is that the government is functional now.
The reason why Jesus did not come until the kingdom of the Roman Empire was that the Roman Empire was the first to establish a kingdom similar to the kingdom of God. God sent His WORD when the concept is understood. The Roman started an idea which the British perfected. The idea of colonization. To colonize means you don't take away the people from their territory, but simply send someone to administered and make the people like you. The other empires, take over a nation, uproot the people and take them to their countries like slaves. The Roman take over a territory, sent a governor to teach them Roman culture, language, traditions and make them like Romans. ‘When in Rome do as the Roman do’. Whenever you are in the Roman territory, you have to act and behave and think like the Romans. Unlike the Babylonians, Assyrian, Greek, they take over territory, capture the people, harvest the strong and beautiful ones and carried them away as slaves. When you make people slaves, you are going to clean them, take care, pay for their maintenance and keep them healthy, but when you colonized, you make them pay you taxes, and the Roman where able to influence the entire world without having to leave Rome.
At the fullness of time, when the time was right God sent his son, in the Roman Empire, in Palestine under Roman Empire, the governor was Pilate sent from Rome. Christ was born under Pilate when Christ start to talk everything he says was similar to what Pilate would say or Caesar would say. Caesar was a title not a name. Christ told Pilate I have a kingdom, not of this world. And they asked him, should we pay taxes? He said sure. Pay Caesar what's Caesar and pay me what's mine, the Same concept practice in a kingdom.
When you can do what the Romans do and understand them, you benefit from them. When there is an uprising in your nation, or other nation rise up against any nation under the jurisdiction of Rome. The Roman sent their army to come and fight to defend you and their territory. The Roman protects the citizen and territory and fight to defend them.
Paul was a Jew, his father obviously a Jew, but his father has an official Roman citizenship. Not every Jew has Roman citizenship, matter of fact they distance themselves from them, they term the Roman as pagan. Paul's father was a businessman. Paul was brought up in a home of high respect. He went to the best school in the city of Tarsus, the leading school of those days, the school of Gamaliel. Paul studied theology of Judaism and was the best in the school. He graduated with honour. He said ‘I was on top of my class’. He was a very unique person, and he was the one who instigated the killing of Christ's followers. He obtained legal document from the authority to persecute Christ's followers. Then they were known as PEOPLE OF THE WAY, because Christ used to say I'm the way.
One day he was interrupted, he was struck off the horse by a lightning. Then Christ arrested him for himself. Ananias received him in his blindness and prayed for him. Paul was on the mountain for training for the period of 18yrs. God prepared him for the revelation of the kingdom.
One day Paul was arrested and turned over to the Roman Local Government. He was condemned and, they began to whip Paul. The Roman soldiers were very good in whipping, forty strokes the victim will bleed to death. Their whips were laden with metal, broken bottles and all kinds of object. Paul knew that if he allows them to completely whipped him, he will be dead. Suddenly Paul realized that he has a Roman citizenship. He quoted a law in the Roman constitution which says no capital punishment should be melted on it citizen. Once you understand the important of citizenship, you ought to know your right. Paul a Jew, he was also a Roman citizen; he knows he has the keys. The soldiers began to be afraid. But when Paul says I'm also a Roman. The Bible says the soldier fell on his feet and begged him. And he says, 'please, do not report me to the governor'. Paul said, I will, I am not only going to report you, but will appeal to Caesar’s court. The highest court in the world at the time. They begged him not to go to Caesar, Paul refused.
Paul was given soldiers to protect him on the ship. They suffered shipwreck, got bitten by a viper that kills in three minutes, he survive and they arrived Rome. Caesar did not only grant Paul release and freedom, he gave Paul his house and personal guard from whence Paul wrote most part of the New Testament. In a house provided and protected by the Roman government.
Matthew 16:19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Also Mark 4:11. Christ has given us the keys. Matthew 13:11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. If you understand how it works in the kingdom more will be given to you.
WHAT DOES KEY SIGNIFY?
Key represent
1. - AUTHORITY.
2. - ACCESS
3. - OWNERSHIP
4. - CONTROL
5. - AUTHORISATION
6. - POWER
7. - FREEDOM. (The stock is in heaven, the supplies to meet your need are met in heaven, if you know how to access it. Phil 4:19.
KEYS are
1- PRINCIPLE
2- LAWS
3- SYSTEM, (Paul read the constitution, the reason why he could quote it. We don't have access to God's kingdom because we don't know the constitution, we won't read the bible).
4- FUNCTION. Luke 8:9 And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be? 10: And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
You know the scripture, but you do not know the kingdom of God. The important of the kingdom of God, Luke 4:43 And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent. (THE REASON WHY HE CAME TO EARTH – THE KINGDOM)
Christ told us plainly the reason why he came. I must preach the good news of the Kingdom of God ... Christ did not come for Calvary, nor for resurrection, or miracles. These things were not his primary goal. They were means to an end. He came to preach the Gospel of the kingdom of God. His coming was for the kingdom to be redelivered to man. Luke 12:32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Matthew 25:34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. The Kingdom was our inheritance since the foundation of the world, before the earth came to being. The earth was created in other for us to carry out the assignment. God created first children in the spirit and created a planet where they would physically administer their kingship within their territory. The reason why Christ came to deliver our kingdom back to us, our inheritance is not Calvary, not the resurrection, or blood. These are not the good news; they are process, to get us to the good news which is the kingdom of God. Revelation 5:10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. MAN IS TO REIGN ON EARTH. Religious people says our destiny is Heaven, our ultimate destiny is still Earth, because that was the original plan assignment - let man have dominion on earth over the fish... God original plan for man was earth, his final plan still is earth, God change not. Within Genesis and Revelation is a programming. Luke 16:16 the Laws and the prophets did proclaim until John. Since John the Kingdom is preach, until John the kingdom was not the emphasis. From John the Kingdom is preached. John is the most important prophet in the Bible. Every other prophet foretold Christ's coming, John actually introduced him to the world. He was the most privilege one. When this kingdom is preach people force themselves into it when they understood it. Their heart choke them when the finally understood what the kingdom was all about. Jesus looks at mankind and said the harvest is ripe and plentiful Matthew 9:13. He was talking about those who were ready for the concept of the kingdom of God.
The kingdom answers man number one problem. Man doesn't control circumstances. The kingdom give you power over circumstances. The reason why people get involves in religion, no matter what type of religion, is that it promise them power. The most helpless circumstance is death. Religion tries to help you on how to overcome death. The kingdom of God does not only gives you power over circumstance in this life, but also life after death. Christ gave us prove that it can be done. Buddha never came back, Mohammed never came back. I appreciate Mohammed, because 90% of the Quran is from the Old Testament. I gave them credit for getting a source from the good source. I appreciate the Hindu with their 600 million gods, but no Muja Raja ever came back. That's why the source is very important for the whole world. Christ did not only show authority over demons, sickness, disease, wind, storm, and ocean. He openly said I will go to the grave and conquer death. The content of a kingdom includes the following. The list is not fully exhausted, but these are the basis.
A kingdom must have:
1- King (sovereign)
2- Territory (domain to have influence and rule)
3- Citizen
(Subject, The kingdom have been misunderstood and turn into religion). Christ number one opposition was from religious leaders. Jesus never woe any sinner, but he woe religious leader Matthew 23:15 down. A kingdom does not have members, but church, religion, group has members.
We don’t experience the reality of the kingdom because we are religious member. If we could stop being a religion Christian, and become a kingdom citizen we will strive less at religion.
A kingdom has citizen. The different between a citizen and a religious person is that a citizen is a legal person. They have rights, a religious person has emotion. They try to appease their gods, the pagan are religious people. If you study Buddhism, and all the ism, you find out that they keep offering food for their gods, some cook food and put it in a little plate and place it somewhere for their gods. Why do they do this? They don't want the gods to be angry with them. There is appeasement to their gods. If a disaster struck, say earthquakes, hurricane, mudslide, volcanic eruption they say oh we have offended the gods, or they have not done something to appease the gods.
In a kingdom you don't appease the government, if you are a citizen you don't appease, you have right. Once you are a citizen you make demands. A government is there not to be serve, but to serve the citizen. That's why Jesus said in Matthew 11: 28 Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
In this kingdom, the government work for you, while in religion you work for the religion.
4- Every kingdom has a constitution, in ours, our constitution is the BIBLE.
5- Kingdom has laws that must be obeyed for the kingdom to work effectively.
6- Every kingdom has Ruling Authority, the ruling body.
7- Every kingdom has privileges. Citizen has privileges. You don't have a right to be a citizen, but once you are a citizen you have right. That's why it's difficult to become a citizen of any country. But once you become, you have right to all things. It doesn't matter if you speak the language of the country or not. Immigrant has no benefit from the government.
Christ went to the Synagogue one day, and there was this woman bent over for many years. She couldn't even look Jesus in the face. Christ stood up, and every wise men knows he was about to do something, but it was a Sabbath day. Religious clerics were standing by with Jesus to oppose him. Religion makes you comfortable in your discomfort. It makes you accept your circumstances as the will of God. It makes you accept your condition as the will of God, a condition that you have power to change. Religion makes you a liar, a pretender.
The religious people talked among themselves first, it's the Sabbath day he shouldn't be healing on a Sabbath day. Jesus heard them and shifted from their religious talk to a kingdom talk. He asked the religious clergies; ‘Is this woman a daughter of Abraham?’ He went to contract, citizen right. As a religious person, you have the right to come to church, but as a kingdom person you have the right to receive your healing. To the religious people, they wanted her tithe and offering, keep her coming to church. It doesn't concern them if she gets heal or not, so long as she keep coming to church. Christ did not heal her because he sorry for her. Religion feels that if they can move God with their emotion, if only they can make God feel sorry for them by crying. Christ asked, is she not the daughter of Abraham. Yes, she is, she is a Jew, a citizen, she has right. Didn't God make a contract with Abraham? Yes, that there shall be none of this diseases around you. If you have identify the disease which cannot or suppose not to be among you, then you have right to be cleanse of it. Christ did not ask if she was a believer or not.
8- Kingdom has code of ethics,
9- every kingdom have ARMIES. The armies are the angels. In a kingdom, the citizen never fight or go to war, they even stir up wars. God said I am given the army charge over the citizen. This put the citizen in charge of the army. When you become a soldier, you automatically give up your citizenship. When you are a soldier you are no longer a civilian. Would it be right to say that when you become a soldier, the angel are so upset at you because you would not allowed them do their Job.
As a citizen, when you have a problem, you pick up your phone and call the police. When you call, who is calling? The citizen. You have the power as a citizen when in trouble, pick up your phone and call the army or police, and they have to come. They will not only respond, they will put a siren on top of their cars, cleared every other person or vehicle off the road to get to you. This is exactly what angel does.
Daniel a child of the kingdom had a problem, and he made a request to the kingdom, and straight away an angel were dispatched to deliver his need. There were demons on the way that blocked an angel set to deliver that which Daniel asked from the kingdom. The angel radio back to heaven, angel Michael, I have a problem. Straight away Michael came and destroyed the demons and make way for him to get to Daniel. Daniel did not fight, the army of the kingdom he belongs to fought for him. For 21 days Daniel waited because he knows his government doesn't lie. He knows the kingdom will answer to his demand. When the angel did come, he said to Daniel, I have come because of your word. The day you pray, that was the day that Heaven released me. Daniel Chapter 10. When you pick the phone to call the police for help, your do not have to talk loud. They will respond not by shouting, but by your needs. Read the bible you will see that every situation was handled by the angels. When Joshua stood against the wall of Jericho, he knew he had a problem. The next thing that showed up was a man in a military gear, an ANGEL. Joshua asked him, are you for us or against us? Joshua 5:14 And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come.
Just a captain, when you see the general of the host what would you say, (Host mean armies). A religious Christian post himself as the army of the Lord, he wants to fight for himself and the kingdom he belong when he is just a citizen, not an army. That is why Demons, witches whoop them silly!
Citizen have right to command the Host (army) to come to his aid. (Heb. 1:14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?) The Angels are here to serve us, and to let you know that Christ came to preach and let us know about the kingdom. Before he dies, he preach the kingdom for three and half years, after he went to hell, got the keys; and resurrected he still talk about the kingdom, ACTS 1:3 To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: He spoke to them not of Calvary, his death, or blood spilt, but he spoke to them about the kingdom. Calvary, blood was a means to the end of getting back the kingdom to man.
Christ never curse or challenge the poor or sick, depress, the needy, but religious people was Christ greatest obstacle. He constantly woe (damn) them. He never said that to any sinner. The Pharisees, scribes, Sanhedrim etc, were religious leaders keeping the people away from God and the kingdom. At a point Christ refer to them as "Dog in a Manger" not eating the herbs and not allowing other animal to eat it. The Pharisees did exactly this, in the name of preserving religion. Matthew 23:13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
In Acts 1:6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel? He told them, I am not here to tell you the time or season or to banish Rome. The Jews were still expecting a military messiahship.
The first time Christ spoke in a trial to Pilate the governor, he never spoke to Caiaphas when tried before him, because he was a fool, he understand nothing about the kingdom. Pilate understood what is kingdom, and how it works. He asked him, are you a king? Christ answered him yes, but added my kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my soldiers would have fight for me. Another example of a religious person in action was Peter at the garden. Religion like to fight, when the soldiers came to arrest Jesus, Peter pulled out his sword and decided to fight. Jesus said in Matthew 26:53 Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? A legion is six thousand, 12 legions is seventy-two thousand strong heavenly fighting angels. Religion as I have come to know makes one a 'liar'
Other example is Prophet Elisha and his servant: 2Kings 6:17 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
The kingdom is ever ready to assist us, send us help when needed. But religion has kept us far from the truth and the way to God through Christ.
Matthew 13:11 Teaches us how to live in the Kingdom... He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. HE has given us keys of the knowledge of, not to the kingdom. The knowledge of the secret of the kingdom has been given to you, not to them who do not believe. Matthew 16:19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. CHRIST gave a key that can lock or unlock doors in another kingdom. Whatever you bound or loose on the kingdom of earth, will become lock or loose in the heavenly kingdom. The secret is getting the keys to the secret of Heaven. Greek word for bound is lock, loose is unlock. One of the keys of the kingdom is forgiveness. Forgiveness is a key that lock and unlock things in both kingdom. If you do not forgive, heaven is lock, when you forgive, heaven is unlock for you, for your songs of praise, offerings etc. Christ said in Matthew 5:24 Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. IF you don't the heaven is locked up against you and your prayers because of your bitterness against one of God's priest and king, for that is what everyone of us is. The Kingdom principle is strange. It stated if someone offended you, don't wait for him/her to come/initiate peace. God to the person to make the peace. It doesn't matter who's wrong, ours is to make peace to become the child of God. Matthew 5:9, Matt. 6:12 take about making peace and forgiveness.
Matthew 23:13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Christ message have always been the same before and after his death. THE KINGDOM. What would you about what is written in Revelation...
REVELATION 21: 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2 And I John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
Your comment and questions are welcome and I will do my best to answer them as the spirit leads me. God bless you… Amen and Amen.
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