BIBLE TOPICS
"Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path". Ps 119:105
Subjects
WHAT WILL GOD'S KINGDOM BE LIKE?
Religion
| The Millennium |
| Law and order |
| War and strife |
| Agriculture and nature |
| Old age and sickness |
| Religion |
| The end of the Millennium |
Now as we look around us at the spiritual state of the world, we see many cultures, beliefs, and many churches. They can't all be right. We read that God's word is truth, there can only ever be one truth. It is a case of back to Bible teaching, sound doctrine as Paul calls it, nothing else will do!
To further the great purpose of God, the confounding of language at the time of Babel will be undone for God promises:
" I will turn the people to a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord and serve him with one consent". Zephaniah 3v9
The earth now is full of spiritual darkness, the peoples do not want to know, nor serve the Lord their God and Creator. Yet the time will come when as Isaiah says:
"On this mountain he (God) will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations; he will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces." Isaiah 25v7
That shroud of spiritual darkness that envelops all nations will be lifted, the peoples of the earth will then serve the Lord their God with one accord:
" Then the survivors of all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the feast of tabernacles. If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, they will have no rain." Zechariah 14v16.
It may be said the peoples will have no choice but to serve God under threat of punishment. However the justice of God's law will be undeniable and men will want to serve him. The spiritual darkness of the world will be lifted by the work of Christ and his people to the extent as we read:
"No longer will a man teach his neighbour or a man his brother saying, know the Lord. Because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord." Hebrews 8V11
Truly then shall at last as all true Christians pray, the Lord's will shall be done on earth as it is done in heaven. The prophet Ezekiel spoke of a great temple to be built, and at last it shall be built, to be a "House of prayer for all nations". All nations will go to that temple and indeed will desire to go. We read:
"This is what the Lord Almighty says. In those days ten men from all languages and nations will take firm hold of one Jew by the hem of his robe and say. Let us go with you, because we have heard that God is with you" Zechariah 8v23.
May that day soon come when the long absent Lord Jesus will at last return. The day when faith shall become reality, all the things God has promised springing into existence. Then those privileged to have a place in God's Kingdom, shall echo the words of the Psalms saying to the Lord God "A day in your courts is worth a thousand elsewhere".
Well we have only briefly looked at some area's of life. But maybe we have been able to demonstrate how things will change. For those who truly love God and believe his word, they have every incentive to maintain hope bright and alive. The opening words of Hebrews 11 should make us stop and think about the faith we can have, the things we can hope for, the things we can believe in by faith. Even though they will not be a reality until Christ returns, they are so certain, God's word cannot fail. We read:
"As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it." Isaiah 55v10-11
All God has spoken of in his word cannot fail, it will accomplish all he intends, it is as certain as the cycle of creation. Having faith in God's word is not impossible and what all the great men of old such as Abraham and David were commended for:
"Now Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for." Hebrews 11v1
So
"Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon. "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts." Isaiah 55v7-9.