Featured The nature of God's Kingdom

Just cool it Mr. Icon.
1. You just have accused me of being "spiritually discerned," inferring that I am unsaved.
2. You state, unashamedly that Rahab the harlot understands more theology than I do.
3. Your post is entirely carnal and sarcastic.
Are you unable to intelligently discuss anything?
Why not simply give an answer to the original post that I gave you??

 

She definitely got converted! Are people really looking for a red heifer still, or was that just for fun?

 

Well I believe the the saints are translated into the kingdom now, but it is not in its consummated fullness, but nonetheless we have Col. 1:13, 14. I see the similarities of subjects of the kingdom illustrated in the parables of Matthew 13. Both the wheat and tares are both growing together now, then comes the harvest. Also the parable of the sower, how the sheep react to the Gospel, and those false converts as well. We see this taking place today, and many are guaranteeing the ones who were of the representation of the seed sown among the path, of rocky ground, of that sown among thorns as converted but such is not the case.

 

Isn't this the same one who says relentlessly that 'you (we/Calvinists/Reformed/DoG folks) don't understand the gospel, Scripture, truth' and all that? I believe it is the same accusation, but I don't see it as questioning salvation. Hopefully he will set an example from here on.

Scripture says that He has all power and authority given to Him in heaven and on earth. I happen to believe that. Other passages concerning Satan need to be interpreted in light of this and His Sovereignty.

 

Jack Van Impe, haven't heard him in years since back in my dispy days! Gotta say one thing he and Rexella were zealous of their belief system.

 

That's the postmillenial view. Which book is that from?

 

That is not your call to make. You are not God. Or do you put yourself in God's place--Mr. Pope Icon, I presume?? To decide who is "spiritually discerned" and who is not is not your decision oh almighty one!

The topic of your thread:
The nature of God's Kingdom
What is the kingdom? I defined three kingdoms, according to the context of the passage that each is used. They all belong or belonged to God. I can offer you some more--those that belong to Satan and those that belong to man. But your topic says God's Kingdom so I offered three separate definitions that the Bible gives of God's Kingdom, and asked you to be specific. There was no mockery.

Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

You are simply making unfounded assumptions that cannot be proved. God's Kingdom is yet to come. Man's duty is to spread the gospel, and when he comes he will set up his kingdom.

He said very plainly that he was not setting up his kingdom when he was alive, and in Acts one, that the disciples shouldn't be concerned about it then. In Mark 8 he says:

Mar 8:38 Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
--That hasn't happened yet. He has yet to come in the glory of the Father with the holy angels, and when he does he will set up his Kingdom.

 

Seriously? Why minimize the Scriptures bearing her testimony of God and who He is? She's glorifying the LORD and you're abating the whole thing. It is obvious she is speaking of His reign, as it is the LORD YHWH, Preincarnate Christ she is speaking of here!

 

Your presumptuous boast seems to be a bit silly. Have you even studied the verse.
Here is what Keil and Deilitzsch have said concerning her testimony in this verse:

“For Jehovah your God is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath.” To this confession of faith, to which the Israelites were to be brought through the miraculous help of the Lord (Deu_4:39), Rahab also attained; although her confession of faith remained so far behind the faith which Moses at that time demanded of Israel, that she only discerned in Jehovah a Deity (Elohim) in heaven and upon earth, and therefore had not yet got rid of her polytheism altogether, however close she had come to a true and full confession of the Lord. But these miracles of divine omnipotence which led the heart of this sinner with its susceptibility for religious truth to true faith, and thus became to her a savour of life unto life, produced nothing but hardness in the unbelieving hearts of the rest of the Canaanites, so that they could not escape the judgment of death.

 

And it did. But they rejected it. That Kingdom that was offered to the Jews will still come. The Jewish nation will still turn to Christ as their Messiah. It isn't over yet.

The only kingdom that is reigning on this earth is Satan's kingdom. Even Jesus did not refute that fact when he was being tempted or tested by Satan.

 

I love how the argument has changed from Satan offered his kingdom to Jesus in the Temptation to Jesus didn't refute Satan's right to give Him the kingdom, totally missing that Jesus did refute Satan by telling him to Worship God alone. Jesus was not going to get Himself side tracked on arguing semantics with the Devil. He got to the heart of the issue which was who is owed worship, and that belongs to God alone.