Psalm 72 - The Coming New World Order

Jesus has brought the reign of the heavens to earth already.
The Kingdom has begun....and spreads day by day as Jesus reigns from heaven.

 

I agree as John The Baptist stated... Repent ye!... For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!... To my understanding and not to belittle the OP didn't the Kingdom Of Heaven start over 2,000 years ago?... That being said I'm still waiting for that Eternal Kingdom in my resurrected immortal body when I can lay this sinful mortal body down!... Aren't we all?... Brother Glen

 

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The reign of Jesus comforted the early church as it went into persecution....that is why Revelation and Hebrews are written...

 

The ETERNAL Kingdom of God upon the earth is still in the future.

The "saints reigned with Christ on his throne ... until the thousand years would be finished : THIS : the First Resurrection." ['achri ta chilea eteh auteh heh anastasis heh prohteh'] Revelation 20:5.

"The thousand years" must be understood for a Singular -- an aphorism or simile setting the metaphoric limits to a figurative time period in this case the reign of Christ and the saints defined as the Kingdom (of heaven) The First Resurrection.

 

All of it happens after the 1000 years - when the New Jerusalem comes down out of heaven.

Not before.

 

I'm no escatological theologian, so I'll leave the various speculations about what's going to happen in the future up to the rest of you people out here in BB Land to let me know the "what's and when's and why's" that the Bible states is going to occur some day.

I'll only add this to what this thread's title made me recall that occurred some 25 years ago.

That's when Pres. George H.W. Bush, in a joint session of our Congress that was aired on all the major broadcast networks for the whole world to see, said that he was about to establish a NEW WORLD ORDER of various military forces to push the late Iraqi dictator out of oil-rich Kuwait.

Those were his exact words!

This military-style NEW WORLD ORDER that he went on to create did what exactly the then Commander-in-Chief of our nation's military--and all its allies from various parts of the world--ordered them to do, and with the acclamation and praise of most all of the UN's membership.

Most of the allied military powers that fought by our military's side are still nominally our allies after a quarter century's time, and with three different White House administrations having succeeded the first Bush administration.

What does all this mean for us right now or in the immediate future?

I don't exactly know, but IMHO, it doesn't look very promising. Why?

Well, you've got 2 permanent UN Security Council members--Russia and China--rattling their respective military sabers with little or nothing being done about it. [Russia in the Ukraine and buzzing our aircraft in the Pacific Ocean area, and China enlarging its already massive land and sea military forces.]

All this while the rest of the world is kept wondering where the next terrorist attacks will occur and the US giving a free pass to arm Iran to the teeth so that they can launch who knows how many nuclear missiles to "you know where."

And, to make matters worse, our nation's current Commander-in-Chief not only applauds this sell-out to Iran, but also he's bound and determined to drastically cut our nation's military forces to the extent that, should they be needed to come to our defense--or that of our treaty-bound allies, they won't be capable of doing what they need to do because there just isn't enough men and women on duty to perform in such an overwhelming presence to keep those who seek to do us (or those dependent on us) such that they may think twice before they seek to destroy whoever they want to.

Moreover, our military already has to depend on equipment that very soon will be woefully outdated and/or obsolete due to lack of parts to keep vital equipment functioning the way they need to.

Most of us civilians have at some time been confronted with the problem that our aging clunkers on which we depend to get us to wherever we want to go no longer have parts to keep our vehicles running in good order. Either that, or nobody knows how to fix our vehicles because their technology is so far outdated that the new mechanics have little or no idea how to fix them.

Fortunately, most of us don't have vehicles that will have to be placed, on immediate notice, into intense front-line military combat situations. But our military forces have to, and have to do it quickly and decisively and in such numbers that will discourage whatever enemies they're ordered to fight will not be prone to do what they so dearly want to do to us--or our allies.

Not a really cheerful prospect, is it?

I'm not saying that we need every last little thing that the DOD and its hoards of industrial contractors demand we give them. We probably don't. OTOH, very soon we'll face a dilemma of having to re-arrange our budgetary priorities to possibly spending less on domestic items that every federal legislator wants to reward his/her voting constituents and some more on defense spending.

How much and where I can't tell you right now, but I know that down our roads that need to be repaired or replaced yesterday, we're going to face the possibility of either higher taxes or an even worse national infrastructure than we have today.

And who's the federal candidate willing to run on a platform of higher taxes and less to show for them if he/she is elected? I don't hear any one of them--regardless of party affiliation--saying, "If you vote for me, I'll guarantee that's the first thing I plan to do for you! Trust me on this!"

So what should we Christians do?

Well, humanly speaking, about all we can do is look to the One Who already knows what this world's future will be!

He's the One Who told us to, "Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank Him for all He has done. If you do this, you will experience God's peace, which is far more wonderful than the human mind can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 4:6-7, NLT).

Now, back to the speculations of BB's escatological experts who know everything you'll ever want to know about the end times!

 

"This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: Great is Thy faithfulness." ---Lamentations 3:21-23