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Kingdom of God - of the heavens
lurquer:
I for one would love to see some speculation on that from forum members here..
I have my own personal speculations--in fact I've pondered the idea of a novel to write about this very thing, set in the future Kingdom of God. When/if I have the time to do so...
But my mind often wonders (and wanders) about such things.
Kat:
--- Quote from: indianabob on February 04, 2015, 06:56:52 PM ---I know that we will have to wait and see, but taking a hint from how God dealt with Israel can't we speculate a little about what life could be like for my family and other ancestors in their resurrection? I think it could be fun and informative.
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Hi Bob, well I do think on those things... not that I know exactly what it will be like, but some things do seem apparent to me. I know that I was saying in the other posts how terrifying the return of Christ may appear to the world, because it certainly will be a dramatic event... actually the most spectacular thing to happen in the course of human history. So it will and should shake up the people on earth in a big way and it needs to, because of course there will be some extreme changes that will take place... there has to be to set things right. One big change that will happen immediately is there will be no more war and the misery, suffering and heartbreak it brings.
Micah 4:3 He shall judge between many peoples, And rebuke strong nations afar off; They shall beat their swords into plowshares, And their spears into pruning hooks; Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, Neither shall they learn war anymore.
That Scripture shows how instead of putting resources, man power and finances into such a destructive thing like war, there will be no more warmongering. Of course farming is a much better and necessary use of all the time and effort and every things. But even farming practices would need to be revised, as many things done to get the highest yield and profit are not the best for the environment and product quality. God will put the manpower now used for destruction towards providing essential needs for the population.
Christ will set things right, but people who have lived for so many years of their lives as reprobates will not be ready or even able to change there ingrained character traits so quickly. It will take time with the elect and the new government of God enforcing peace and people will be taught to live by the 'golden rule' that Jesus spoke of when on earth.
Mat 7:12 Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
And eventually the world will learn to live by the commandment Jesus said was most important.
Mark 12:30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'
v. 31 The second is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these."
But first the world will need to be won over by Christ and the elect... when Christ was on earth one thing He did everywhere He went that brought people to Him by the multitudes, was that He healed them. Here is where Ray spoke on this at the conference 'What Is The Gospel Of The Kingdom?'
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Mat 4:23 And Jesus went about all Galilee (that‘s a pretty big area and you remember how He went about all Galilee? He walked), teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people.
v. 24 Then His fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics; and He healed them.
Syria, depending on who’s drawing the boundary lines, went all the way from the Mediterranean way across the Salt Sea and way out into the desert. Everything south of Galilee and north of the Dead Sea, where Sodom and Gomorrah was, that whole area.
Now notice what it says, “and His fame went throughout ALL Syria.” I mean not only, wherever He went people were following Him, but His fame went abroad and they came by the droves. You never see this in the movies about Christ.
Everywhere that man walked, He was mobbed, always. Why? He healed the sick! Everybody knows somebody who was sick, diseased, crippled or whatever.
Mat 4:25 Great multitudes followed Him--from Galilee, and from Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea, and beyond the Jordan.
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The Scriptures say the Apostles also healed many people.
Acts 5:12 And through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people...
Acts 5:16 Also a multitude gathered from the surrounding cities to Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed.
A really big thing that Christ and the Apostles were doing is to heal the people, and I believe that will be an important and primary need that will be filled when Christ returns. This world is fulled with sick people with diseases, disabilities, mental disorders, and handicaps of every kind... Christ and the elect will show mercy on these people and heal them all. They will show this world that Christ has returned to heal this world both physically and spiritual... first the physical healing and then the spiritual healing will come.
Today we live in a world that dishonesty is the norm, it's so common that people feel it's just the way it is and why not join in with everybody else. As the world begins to adjust to life under Christ's rule/government of righteousness and that new way of living... when righteousness begins to be the rule of the day/night, then that will become the way people want to be, because it will then be the norm and as Ray quoted so many times...
Isa 26:9 With my soul I have desired You in the night, Yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early; For when Your judgments are in the earth, The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
mercy, peace and love
Kat
indianabob:
Thanks very much Kat,
That is the type of response I was hoping to read.
It will be as you say a time of rebuilding and building righteously the destroyed cities and rural areas of the whole world. Why would we need 100 stories office buildings all over the planet?
For example, I think, there will NOT be a great need for "interstate" highways to convey working people to their place of employment each day with all the attendant pollution caused by excessive and unnecessary travel. I commuted over an hour each day in good weather and bad weather and ended up at work already tense from the stress. Not a productive way to start the work day.
Why any need for the preponderance of "get away" vacations to places such as Disney World.
When people are happy in their work and family life there is no need for an expensive and wasteful escape to an imaginary dream world with talking mice and cats or dragons.
I do sort of wonder how the great false cathedrals with phallic monuments will be dealt with. Will they all be demolished or will they perhaps become museums of a failed society to remind us of our errors. Deut. 12:1-4
It is surely going to be an interesting and exciting time for one and all, especially the younger generations.
Thanks again for your post. Indianabob
John from Kentucky:
Sounds boring.
I guess the women will wear long dresses to their ankles, which will be covered in modest black socks. Their long hair will be tied up in a knot and covered by a head scarf. No bikini. The women will clean house and churn butter all day.
The men will be farmers spreading manure over the fields.
I guess they will attend some type of religious service daily to pray to the Lord, read the good book, and keep their minds off sex.
No need for roads. Why travel? A veritable local utopia.
No electricity, no T.V., no radio. no internet. No joking or laughter permitted. Living religiously is serious business after all.
Sounds like a Christian North Korea.
Please Jesus, if that is what you have planned for the world, send me to hell with some loose women, and no Christians or any kind of religious people allowed.
lilitalienboi16:
Though John is a little more forward in his criticism, I agree that this is becoming way too literal in interpretation of what the next age has to hold. I don't think it will be as literal as some of this is sounding.
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