The Kingdom of Jesus Christ on Earth

the kingdom of God is in the here and now, present in and through the Church. Yet it is a mixed reality that will only be perfectly realized at the end of history. This current “mixed” state can be seen as the Church on earth which now grows in the field of the world with both weeds and wheat until the harvest when Christ says he will “tell the reapers, Gather the weeds first and bind them in bundles to be burned. But gather the wheat into my barn” (Matt 13:30).

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True, as we read in John chapter 1: 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

Jesus as the Logos, the Word of God came to bring light to the world and to inaugurate His kingdom

Waiting for that wonderful time of God’s Kingdom coming to Earth.

What is the fifth kingdom of iron and clay? This is the kingdom of the Antichrist, which has not yet come to pass.

Daniel’s 69 weeks (483 years) began in between Artaxerxes’ Decree to Ezra in 457 bc and Artaxerxes’ Decree to Nehemiah in 445 bc. The most likely date of the crucifixion of Christ was Friday, April 3, 33 ad. So we have,
33 - 483 (69 weeks) + 1 (no year zero) = 451 bc. This prophesy is extremely precise. But the 70th week has not yet come to pass, yet.

We know from Matthew 21:43 that Jesus would “take away” the Kingdom of God from the Jews.
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Jesus was talking about the religious leaders of that time, who rejected Jesus as Messiah, and fulfilled prophesy. The Holy Spirit filled the Apostles first, who were Jews. God has a plan for Israel and in the end, all Israel will be saved. It is a great mystery.

“I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you will not be conceited: A hardening in part has come to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:” Rom. 11:25,26

Constantine brought Christianity to the Roman Empire in 324 ad (see Nicene Creed). The HQ was officially moved from Constantinople to Rome with the crowning of King Charlemagne in 800 ad, now the largest Christian church, the Catholics, brothers and sisters in Christ.
But when Jesus returns to judge the world, he will establish his kingdom and rule on Earth (for 1,000 years) with his HQ in Jerusalem. Let us not confuse this present would with that which is to come, when paradise returns to Earth.

Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven:
“The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.” Rev. 11:15

But of course it's not a "literal kingdom." Just like the Six Days of Creation weren't "literal days."

Meanwhile hypocritical Catholics await the Great Catholic Monarch or the Emperor of the Last Days or the Restored House of Bourbon or the Reign of Mary to create the same "earthly kingdom" Fundamentalist Protestants get criticized for. The only difference is the latter are waiting the literal "messiah" and the former are not.

The thousand year reign has already occurred. From Constantine to Martin Luther. He has reigned in the Catholic Church, and he resides in tabernacles all over the Earth.

When He comes again, He says “look up, for your salvation is at hand”. He will make all things new. If you think He will reign for a thousand years, you are being set up for the Anti-Christ.

I know that my Redeemer lives!

The thousand year reign has already occurred. From Constantine to Martin Luther. He has reigned in the Catholic Church, and he resides in tabernacles all over the Earth.

During the Dark Ages, eh? In a homosexual infested religious organization that kept people from God's Word? THAT Catholic church?

Did He head up the Inquisition, too?

And we're supposed to believe that THAT was the 1,000 year reign of Christ?

And then what did He do? Abandon us?

He has reigned in the Catholic Church, and he resides in tabernacles all over the Earth.

Scripture tells us otherwise.

Acts 17:24-25 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.

FWIW, He dwells within Christians.

Romans 8:9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

1 Corinthians 3:16-17 Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you? If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy and you are that temple.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

2 Corinthians 6:16For we are the temple of the living God; as God said,“I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

2 Timothy 4:14 By the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you.

Galatians 4:4-7 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!” So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.

1 Timothy 1:14 By the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you.

List of verses (copy and paste) provided in support of future The Establishment of the Kingdom of God on Earth in the Old Testament, though there are believers on both sides.

Sources: https://www.openbible.info/topics/the_millennium https://www.onepagebiblesummary.com/prophecy/P01_prophecylist_eng.pdf

List of prophecies:
1. Ezekiel 20:30-39: Clear prediction of God removing idolatry from Israel during the
exile.
2. Ezekiel 36:16-38: Concurrent restoration of the land and filling by the Holy Spirit.
3. Ezekiel 38-39: Battle of Gog, God’s great rescue of Israel in the Tribulation.
4. Hosea 6, 11, 14: Predicting Israel’s demise yet with restoration when repentance
occurs.
5. Malachi 3:16 – 4:6: Promise of care and restoration for the true spiritual remnant.
6. Zephaniah 3:1-13: Prophecy of a purified remnant like the 144,000 during the
Tribulation.
7. Amos 9:11-15: Restoration of the Jewish Remnant who will be leading Gentiles to
Christ.
8. Daniel 9:24-27: God’s timeline of full restoration for Jerusalem and His people the
Jews.
9. Ezekiel 34:11-22: God brings salvation but removes the bad sheep before the
Millennium.
10. Hosea 1:10-11; 2:23; 3:4-5: All conditions are met for the return of the Messiah.
11. Isaiah 10:20-34: Remnant emerging during the Tribulation will face a key enemy at
Nob.
12. Isaiah 11:10-16: Areas of God’s remnant migration in the end time before the
Millennium.
13. Isaiah 34:1-10, 63:1-6 and Ezekiel 35:1-9: Battle of Bozrah to deliver Israel’s
remnant.
14. Jeremiah 23:1-12: Shepherds will be raised for the remnants returning to Israel.
15. Jeremiah 30-33: Book of Consolation: Nature and timing of God’s restoration for
Israel.
16. Joel 2: 28-32: Holy Spirit’s coming at Pentecost and to Messianic Jews in this same
era.
17. Luke 21:20-28: Fall of Jerusalem and her recapture to fulfil “the times of the
Gentiles”.
18. Matthew 10:17-23 & Luke 17:22-37: Same as in days of Noah and Lot – when will
it be?
19. Matthew 24, 25 & Mark 13: Jesus’s Olivet Discourse dealing with the end times.
20. Micah 5: The Messiah’s coming and God working again through His victorious
remnant.
21. Micah 7:13-17: God protects the fleeing remnant during the Tribulation as in the
Exodus.
22. Revelation 14:1-7: the spiritual characteristics and the mission of the 144,000.
23. Rev. 12:13-14 and Isa. 16:1-4; 41:17-20: A special hiding place prepared for the
remnant.
24. Romans 11: 25-27: The partial hardening of the Jews will end.
25. Zechariah 12:1 to 14:5: Israel’s national repentance with Christ returning to save
them.

More (though ESV)

Serious concern with Christians believing they’re the Jewish remnant that will be the land owners of Israel/Jerusalem because the Jews reneged on the promise God gave to Abraham

The thousand year reign has already occurred. From Constantine to Martin Luther. He has reigned in the Catholic Church, and he resides in tabernacles all over the Earth.
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What about the Indulgence Controversy, where the Church sold permits to commit sins, for like theft or adultery etc? That was Martin Luther’s primary complaint? Was that part of Christ’s reign on Earth?

Serious concern with Christians believing they’re the Jewish remnant that will be the land owners of Israel/Jerusalem because the Jews reneged on the promise God gave to Abraham

That is why "blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:' (Romans 11:25-26)

If you follow their, them, they in Romans 11 alone then it foretells a future time when the judicial curse shall be removed, and so all (what is left of) Israel shall be saved. And thus the extensive detailed prophecies in Ezekiel, Zechariah etc. Spiritualizing such away as being the church is simply absurd.

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My take re: AI and problem of interpreting crow "language" is that AI struggles with “crow language” not because there isn’t enough data, but because there’s no way to close the meaning loop.

With humans, sounds and words can be mapped to intentions, explanations, and even delayed actions because people can tell us what they mean and correct us when we’re wrong.

With crows, we can sometimes map calls to immediate context or behavior, but we have no reliable way to link calls to later actions, abstract plans, or internal thoughts. Without that grounding, AI can detect patterns in crow vocalizations—but it can’t translate them as language in the human sense.

Oops, wrong thread.;-)

When I see a crow in a tree or on top of a building, I caw at him. He caws back. There’s a back and forth until he either holds his ground or flies away. Most of the time, he flies away. I like cawing at them.

Haha. So do I.

Being a peaceful man I pray we can forego all the horrors of what will happen with Israel but every knee will bow before the King of Kings.

51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven. 52 If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever; and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, for the life of the world. 53 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying: How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 54 Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen I say unto you: Except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. 55 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day.

Note...[54] “Eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood”: To receive the body and blood of Christ, is a divine precept, insinuated in this text; which the faithful fulfil, though they receive but in one kind; because in one kind they receive both body and blood, which cannot be separated from each other. Hence, life eternal is here promised to the worthy receiving, though but in one kind. Ver. 52. If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever; and the bread that I will give, is my flesh for the life of the world. Ver. 58. He that eateth me, the same also shall live by me. Ver. 59. He that eateth this bread, shall live for ever.

56 For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed. 57 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him. 58 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father; so he that eateth me, the same also shall live by me. 59 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead. He that eateth this bread, shall live for ever. 60 These things he said, teaching in the synagogue, in Capharnaum.

The Establishment of the Kingdom of God on Earth in the Old Testament

The Prophecy of Daniel

Jesus Fulfills King Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream

Other New Testament Verses about the Kingdom

The Covenant with Abraham Fulfilled in the Church

A Heavenly Kingdom as Well?

The Kingdom in the “Our Father”