This world is facing mounting problems - from natural disasters to human calamities. Hardly a day goes by without bad news being reported in the daily press. The world's financial system is on the verge of collapse. Wars and threats of wars are ongoing in many countries around the globe. Crimes and drugs are ravaging human lives that even many sovereign governments are powerless to handle. Injustice and cruelty to humanity are so pervasive that even the authorities are no longer blameless. The list of bad effects on a world's system that is built upon the wrong foundation has been around for some 6,000 years of man's rulership is soon coming to an end. In its place, God will supernaturally intervene in the affairs of man with the establishment of His government on earth (Rev 11:15) - forcefully at the initial start as the power that be tried to resist (Isaiah 11:4)!
But the coming utopian world will result when Christ returns to rule the world as the King of kings - the kings being the resurrected spirit born members of God's Divine Family (Isaiah 32:1).Wars will be a thing of the past as nations will learn to live in peace and harmony - swords and implements of wars will be turned into useful tools for productive work (Isaiah 2:4). Deserts and wasteland will blossom like a garden, the blind will see, the deaf will hear, the dumb will speak and the lame will leap like a deer (35:5-7). Man may talk and dream about a one world government, but it is never going to work as the formation of the United Nations has shown that things will only get worse before it gets better - and only upon the return of Jesus Christ setting up a supergovernment on planet earth!
The main thrust of the Gospel message is the coming world government with Jesus Christ reigning on the throne. Shortly after Christ's victory over Satan in the wilderness (Matt 4:1-11), He began to proclaim the Gospel of the kingdom of God (Matt 4:17). The defeat of Satan entitles Christ to qualify for the throne that will be consummated upon His return. Man may have invented the spaceship that travels into space and high tech gizmos that make life more comfortable, but only the Almighty God has the power and capacity to solve all the problems mankind is facing - from looming diseases, drugs and crimes, to severe pollution and threats of nuclear holocaust. By some estimates, the earth could become inhabitable by 2050 due mainly to shortage of food and fresh water, key natural resources and all kinds of pollutions that threaten life.
The world today is plagued by lawlessness of all forms - literally from the bedroom to the boardroom. Serious character flaws are no longer a barrier to hold public office and be in positions of power and authority. Christ warns that lawlessness will abound, and the love of many will grow cold (Matt 24:12) in the last days preceding His return - But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be (24:37). Supporters are quick to brush aside lawlessness and character flaws on people of stature as personal indiscretions. People with severe criminal records are often let loose to commit more crimes, much to the agony of innocent victims and heavy social cost to society. All these injustices will be restituted on the Day of Reckoning and never ever to happen again in the utopian world to come (Heb 2:5).
The Millennium Age will see an explosion of creativity, invention and development that the past six thousand years of human achievements look like kindergarden. Imagine what life will be like when Satan is bound and man is able to develop the right education system that unlock one hundred percent of his potential instead of just a meagre ten percent. The Apostle Paul understood what it means when he quoted Isaiah, 'Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered the heart of man - the things which God has prepared for those who love Him' (I Cor 2:9; Isaiah 64:4). What this verse means is that man has yet to discover many wonderful things even the mightest microscope and telescope have been unable to do so and human ears have yet to hear of music far superior than what is being offered even through Mozart, Beethoven and Bach. What God has offered is a mind patterned like His with unlimited creative potential that is literally out of this world!
Sin has robbed the human race of all the riches that God has planned for us. But all these will change when the spirit of man will be unleashed to experience that which no man has ever seen or experience before in all of human history. Even the animal kingdom will be transformed as prophesied in Isaiah thus, 'The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and the little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall play by the cobra's hole, and the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper's den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain' (Isaiah 11:6-9). For the Word of God shall go forth in all the earth as the waters cover the sea.
God has a plan to destroy all forms of evil and death with Satan restrained, during the times of restoration of all things (Acts 3:21). A new form of government with a new standard of moral law to govern all human behaviour that will be administered by Christ with the assistance of His saints, who will be resurrected to become spirit beings born of God (born again). All peoples and nations that conform to the new order of worship and obedience will be blessed. Although the Millennium Age will be earth's brightest period, the short years preceding it will be the darkest the world will ever know. For darkness will precede dawn with the Great Tribulation looming as Satan unleashed his wrath just before yielding his earthly throne to the Lord Jesus Christ upon His imminent return (Rev 11:15)!
The prophet Isaiah posed the question, 'Who would receive our report?- Isaiah 53:1 - meaning who would believe what was written about the coming utopia (the kingdom of God) in the prophetic book that bears his name. Sadly, the same is true even today. Jeremiah is spot on when he asked, 'can a leopard change its spot?' - Jeremiah 13:23 - the rebellious naysayers simply will not believe God. Only when the spirit of man is changed through the power of Christ and his saints will hope of lasting peace and prosperity engulf the whole world and turn it into a paradise!
But the coming utopian world will result when Christ returns to rule the world as the King of kings - the kings being the resurrected spirit born members of God's Divine Family (Isaiah 32:1).Wars will be a thing of the past as nations will learn to live in peace and harmony - swords and implements of wars will be turned into useful tools for productive work (Isaiah 2:4). Deserts and wasteland will blossom like a garden, the blind will see, the deaf will hear, the dumb will speak and the lame will leap like a deer (35:5-7). Man may talk and dream about a one world government, but it is never going to work as the formation of the United Nations has shown that things will only get worse before it gets better - and only upon the return of Jesus Christ setting up a supergovernment on planet earth!
The main thrust of the Gospel message is the coming world government with Jesus Christ reigning on the throne. Shortly after Christ's victory over Satan in the wilderness (Matt 4:1-11), He began to proclaim the Gospel of the kingdom of God (Matt 4:17). The defeat of Satan entitles Christ to qualify for the throne that will be consummated upon His return. Man may have invented the spaceship that travels into space and high tech gizmos that make life more comfortable, but only the Almighty God has the power and capacity to solve all the problems mankind is facing - from looming diseases, drugs and crimes, to severe pollution and threats of nuclear holocaust. By some estimates, the earth could become inhabitable by 2050 due mainly to shortage of food and fresh water, key natural resources and all kinds of pollutions that threaten life.
The world today is plagued by lawlessness of all forms - literally from the bedroom to the boardroom. Serious character flaws are no longer a barrier to hold public office and be in positions of power and authority. Christ warns that lawlessness will abound, and the love of many will grow cold (Matt 24:12) in the last days preceding His return - But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be (24:37). Supporters are quick to brush aside lawlessness and character flaws on people of stature as personal indiscretions. People with severe criminal records are often let loose to commit more crimes, much to the agony of innocent victims and heavy social cost to society. All these injustices will be restituted on the Day of Reckoning and never ever to happen again in the utopian world to come (Heb 2:5).
The Millennium Age will see an explosion of creativity, invention and development that the past six thousand years of human achievements look like kindergarden. Imagine what life will be like when Satan is bound and man is able to develop the right education system that unlock one hundred percent of his potential instead of just a meagre ten percent. The Apostle Paul understood what it means when he quoted Isaiah, 'Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered the heart of man - the things which God has prepared for those who love Him' (I Cor 2:9; Isaiah 64:4). What this verse means is that man has yet to discover many wonderful things even the mightest microscope and telescope have been unable to do so and human ears have yet to hear of music far superior than what is being offered even through Mozart, Beethoven and Bach. What God has offered is a mind patterned like His with unlimited creative potential that is literally out of this world!
Sin has robbed the human race of all the riches that God has planned for us. But all these will change when the spirit of man will be unleashed to experience that which no man has ever seen or experience before in all of human history. Even the animal kingdom will be transformed as prophesied in Isaiah thus, 'The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and the little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall play by the cobra's hole, and the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper's den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain' (Isaiah 11:6-9). For the Word of God shall go forth in all the earth as the waters cover the sea.
God has a plan to destroy all forms of evil and death with Satan restrained, during the times of restoration of all things (Acts 3:21). A new form of government with a new standard of moral law to govern all human behaviour that will be administered by Christ with the assistance of His saints, who will be resurrected to become spirit beings born of God (born again). All peoples and nations that conform to the new order of worship and obedience will be blessed. Although the Millennium Age will be earth's brightest period, the short years preceding it will be the darkest the world will ever know. For darkness will precede dawn with the Great Tribulation looming as Satan unleashed his wrath just before yielding his earthly throne to the Lord Jesus Christ upon His imminent return (Rev 11:15)!
The prophet Isaiah posed the question, 'Who would receive our report?- Isaiah 53:1 - meaning who would believe what was written about the coming utopia (the kingdom of God) in the prophetic book that bears his name. Sadly, the same is true even today. Jeremiah is spot on when he asked, 'can a leopard change its spot?' - Jeremiah 13:23 - the rebellious naysayers simply will not believe God. Only when the spirit of man is changed through the power of Christ and his saints will hope of lasting peace and prosperity engulf the whole world and turn it into a paradise!
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