a reply to:
FlyInTheOintment
When Jesus was on earth and they were going to make him king he withdrew so as to avoid it:
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Then Jesus, knowing that they were about to come and seize him to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain all alone."-John 6:15.
When before Governor Pontius Pilate Jesus told that ruler that Jesus' kingdom was no part of the world:
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My Kingdom is no part of this world. If my Kingdom were part of this world, my attendants would have fought that I should not be handed over to
the Jews. But as it is, my Kingdom is not from this source.”-John 18:36.
Does that mean Jesus wasn't a king? In the very next verse Jesus says this in reply to Pilate:
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So Pilate said to him: “Well, then, are you a king?” Jesus answered: “You yourself are saying that I am a king."-John 18:36.
Jesus did not involve himself with the political squabbles and disputes of the day, nor did he allow himself to crowned king of Judea at that time.
But he did preach the good news of the kingdom, and even told Pilate that he was a king, but if you notice he said his kingdom was not earthly.
Jesus taught us that Satan is the ruler of the world:
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I will not speak with you much more, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has no hold on me."-John 14:30.
One of Jesus' temptations after he was baptized was the offer of rulership over all the kingdoms of the earth by Satan the Devil:
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Again the Devil took him along to an unusually high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. And he said to him:
“All these things I will give you if you fall down and do an act of worship to me.”-Matthew 4:8-9.
So Satan the Devil is the rule ruler of the world. And Jesus' kingdom is not part of the world. And Jesus said his followers would be no part of the
world just as he is no part of the world:
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Now because you are no part of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you."-John 15:19.
Jesus told his followers to be in subjection to the superior authorities, to pay back Caesar's things to Caesar and God's things to God. But he
clearly showed us that his followers were to be not part of the world which is ruled and controlled by Satan the Devil.
Nowhere did I say he should not respect authority. Now the Bible says to hold those in positions of power in esteem, and to respect them, in fact
Jesus said:
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If someone in authority compels you into service for a mile, go with him two miles."-Matthew 5:41.
Jesus said his followers would be known by their love they have among each other:
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By this all will know that you are my disciples—if you have love among yourselves.”-John 13:35.
I believe the reason you reject what the Bible is teaching you is because you are very embroiled in Satan's system of things and take sides in the
political world that Satan controls. To acknowledge the truth from the Bible would acknowledge that the Churches of Christendom are a part of Satan's
world, and are indeed controlled by Satan the Devil. That would take honesty, humility, and honor.
Christendom has rejected Jesus Christ as king in heaven. They do not teach that he is going to rule the world. Rather they teach that Jesus' kingdom
is on earth and controlled by Satan's political system of things, and that it is okay to go to war and kill each other and get involved with the
world.
That is what the word Christendom means, Christ's kingdom. The Churches of Christendom reject Jesus' kingdom in heaven, and turn to the political
system of things controlled by and ruled by Satan the Devil.
Jesus is ruler in heaven. And he will soon fulfill the prayer he taught us to pray: "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in
heaven."
At that time when Jesus' kingdom rule comes to earth it will clash with and war and destroy all the kingdoms on earth, and all those who are a part of
it.
Revelation chapters 17 and 18 show us the religions of the world that get involved with politics as a prostitute. She commits spiritual immorality
with the political rulers of the world.
And in Revelation 13 the number of the wild beast which is a man's number is 666. Everyone who gets involved with the political system of things on
earth receives that symbolic mark. They do not have their names written in the book of life. So if you get involved with politics, take political
office, vote, approve of, and support any political party, and any war effort, any social movement, any rebellion, any protest on earth you have the
mark of the beat, 666, you are part of Satan's system of things. Jesus followers are no part of the world.
“In the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed. And this kingdom will not be passed on to any
other people. It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it alone will stand forever."-Daniel 2:44.
Jesus kingdom government established in heaven will crush and put an end to all human governments. During the battle of Armageddon all the rulers of
the earth will be gathered together to wage war against Jesus Christ:
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They are, in fact, expressions inspired by demons and they perform signs, and they go out to the kings of the entire inhabited earth, to gather
them together to the war of the great day of God the Almighty...And they gathered them together to the place that is called in Hebrew
Armageddon."-Revelation 16:14, 16.
The Bible tells us at that time that all the kings of the earth, all the high officials, all the military leaders, and everyone else will cower in
fear when they see Jesus appear in heaven to war against this wicked world:
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Then the kings of the earth, the high officials, the military commanders, the rich, the strong, every slave, and every free person hid in the
caves and among the rocks of the mountains. And they keep saying to the mountains and to the rocks: “Fall over us and hide us from the face of the
One seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, because the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?”-Revelation
6:15-17.
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