WE ARE TOLD TO PUT ON THE ARMOR OF GOD, SO THAT YOU MAY BE ABLE TOSTAND AGAINST THE WILES OF THE DEVIL. FOR OUR STRUGGLES IS NOT AGAINST ENEMIES OF BLOOD AND FLESH, BUT AGAINST THE RULERS, AGAINST THE AUTHORITIES, AGAINST COSMIC POWERS OF THIS PRESENT DARKNESS, AGAINST THE SPIRITUAL FORCES OF EVIL IN HEAVENLY PLACES. THEREFORE TAKE UP THE WHOLE ARMOR OF GOD SO THAT YOU MAY BE ABLE TO WITHSTAND ON THAT EVIL DAY, AND HAVING DONE EVERYTHING, TO STAND FIRM. STAND THEREFORE TAKE UP THE WHOLE ARMOR OF GOD. STAND THEREFORE, AND FASTEN THE BELT OF TRUTH AROUND YOUR WAIST, AND PUT ON THE BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
AS SHOES FOR YOUR FEET PUT ON WHATEVER WILL MAKE YOU READY TO PROCLAIM THE "GOSPEL OF PEACE." WITH ALL OF THESE, TAKE THE SHIELD OF FAITH, WITH WHICH YOU WILL BE ABLE TO QUENCH ALL THE FLAMING ARROWS OF THE EVIL ONE. TAKE THE HELMET OF SALVATION, AND THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT, WHICH IS THE WORD OF GOD. [EPH:11-17.] THEN COMES THE END, WHEN HE (JESUS) HANDS OVER THE KINGDOM TO GOD THE FATHER, AFTER HE HAS DESTROYED EVERY RULER AND EVERY AUTHORITY AND POWER. FOR HE MUST REIGN UNTIL HE HAS PUT HIS ENEMIES UNDER HIS FEET. THE LAST ENEMY TO BE DESTROYED IS DEATH. [ EPH. 15: 24-26].
HE HAS RESCUED US FROM THE POWER OF DARKNESS, AND TRANSFERRED US INTO THE KINGDOM OF THE BELOVED SON, IN WHOM WE HAVE REDEMPTION, THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS. [COL. 1:13-14].
SO WHEN THEY ALL HAD COME TOGETHER, THEY ASKED HIM, "LORD, IS THIS THE TIME WHEN YOU WILL RESTORE THE KINGDOM TO ISRAEL?" HE REPLIED, " IT IS NOT FOR YOU TO KNOW THE TIMES OR PERIODS THAT THE FATHER HAS SET BY HIS OWN AUTHORITY. BUT YOU WILL RECEIVE POWER WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS COME UPON YOU; AND YOU WILL BE MY WITNESSES IN JERUSALEM, IN ALL JUDEA AND SAMARIA, AND TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH." [ ACTS 1:6-8].
JESUS ANSWERED, " VERY TRUELY, I TELL YOU, NO ONE CAN ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD WITHOUT BEING BORN OF WATER AND SPIRIT. (BAPTISM!). WHAT IS BORN OF THE FLESH IS FLESH, AND WHAT IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT IS SPIRIT! [JN. 3: 5-6].
JESUS ANSWERED, " MY KINGDOM IS NOT FROM THIS WORLD. IF MY KINGDOM WERE FROM THIS WORLD, MY FOLLOWERS WOULD BE FIGHTING TO KEEP ME FROM HANDED OVER TO THE JEWS. BUT AS IT IS, MY KINGDOM IS NOT FROM HERE." JESUS ANSWERED, YOU SAY THAT I AM A KING HERE." PILATE ASKED HIM, "SO YOU ARE A KING?" FOR THIS I WAS BORN, FOR THIS I CAME INTO THE WORLD, TO TESTIFY TO THE TRUTH. EVERYONE WHO BELONGS TO THE TRUTH LISTENS TO MY VOICE." [JN 18: 36-37].
AND THE SOLDIERS WOVE A CROWN OF THORNS AND PUT IT ON HIS HEAD, AND THEY DRESSED HIM IN A PURPLE ROBE. THEY KEPT COMING UP TO HIM, SAYING, "HAIL KING OF THE JEWS!" AND STRIKING HIM ON THE FACE. [JN 19: 2-3].
PILATE ALSO HAD AN INSCRIPTION WRITTEN AND PUT ON THE CROSS. IT READ "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS." [JN.19:19].
IT IS NOT AS THOUGH THE WORD OF GOD HAD FAILED. FOR NOT ALL ISRAELITES TRULY BELONG TO ISRAEL, ...THIS MEANS THAT IT IS NOT THE CHILDREN OF THE FLESH WHO ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD, BUT THE CHILDREN OF THE PROMISE
ARE SO COUNTED AS DESCEDANTS. [ROM. 9:6,8].
THE LORD SAYS TO MY LORD, " SIT AT MY RIGHT HAND UNTIL I MAKE YOUR ENEMIES YOUR FOOTSTOOL".[PSALM11O:1].
AS I WATCHED IN THHE NIGHT VISIONS, I SAW ONE LIKE A HUMAN BEING ( OR "SON OF MAN") COMING WITH THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN. AND HE CAME TO THE ANCIENT AND WAS PRESENTED BEFORE HIM. TO HIM WAS GIVEN DOMINION AND GLORY AND KINGSHIP, THAT ALL PEOPLE, NATIONS, AND LANGUAGES SHOULD SERVE HIM.
HIS DOMINON IS AN EVERLASTING DOMINION THAT SHALL NOT PASS AWAY, AND HIS KINGSHIP IS ONE THAT WILL NEVER BE DESTROYED. [DAN 7:13-14].
WHEN YOUR DAYS ARE FULFILLED AND YOU LIE DOWN WITH ANCESTORS, I WILL RAISE UP YOUR OFFSPRING AFTER YOU, WHO SHALL COME FORTH FRO YOUR BODY, AND I WILL ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM...YOUR HOUSE AND YOUR KINGDOM SHALL BE MADE SURE FOREVER BEFORE ME; YOUR THRONE SHALL BE ESTABLISHED FOREVER.[ 2 SAM 7:12]. NOW AFTER JOHN WAS ARRESTED, JESUS CAME TO GALILEE PROCLAIMING THE GOOD NEWS OF GOD. AND SAYING. " THE TIME IS FULFILLED, AND THE KINGDOM OF GOD HAS COME NEAR.; REPENT, AND BELIEVE IN THE GOOD NEWS." [MK. 1 :14-15].
AND HE SAID TO THEM, "TRUELY I TELL YOU, THERE ARE SOME STANDING HERE WHO WILL NOT TASTE DEATH UNTIL THEY SEE THAT THE KINGDOM OF GOD HAS COME WITH POWER. [MK.9:1]
I TELL YOU, AMONG THOSE BORN OF WOMEN NO ONE IS GREATER THAN JOHN.; YET THE LEAST IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS GREATER THAN HE.[LK7:28].
ONCE JESUS WAS ASKED BY THE PHARISEES WHEN THE KINGDOM OF GOD WAS COMING, AND HE ANSWERED, " THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS NOT COMING WITH THINGS THAT CAN BE OBSERVED; NOR WILL THEY SAY, 'LOOK, HERE IT IS! FOR, IN FACT, THE KINGDOM IS AMONG YOU." [LK.17:2O-21].
BUT IF IT IS BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD THAT I CAST OUT DEMONS, THEN THE KINGDOM OF GOD HAS COME TO YOU....[MATT. 12:28].
SO, YOU SEE, THOSE WHO BELIEVE ARE THE DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM....AND IF YOU BELONG TO CHRIST, THEN YOU ARE ABRAHAM'S OFFSPRING, HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE.
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